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Sightings that someone later explained — a visibility marker on power lines, a balloon, a Starlink train, a plane — shown next to the post that explains them. An explanation isn’t always the final word: open both and judge for yourself.

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🛸 The sightingNew Close Up Silver Sphere UAP Sighting in Yumbo, Colombia🔍 The explanationYumbo sphere is fake, unfortunately
🛸 The sightingPosted on drone sighting fb group. Says they were taken with a 300 mm and cropped. (re-post)🔍 The explanationA non-professional guide on the basics of how taking pics with a camera works, why taking pics of UFOs is so difficult and how bokeh can be mistaken for "orbs"
🛸 The sightingPosted on drone sighting fb group. Says they were taken with a 300 mm and cropped. (re-post)🔍 The explanationThe New Jersey Bubble Orbs are just out of focus (bokeh)
🛸 The sightingThe UFO from sunday in Brazil returned! Mayk Leão's UFO is live right now on his instagram!!!🔍 The explanationTHE "UFO" IN BRAZIL WAS FAKE!
🛸 The sighting"Drone" captured with my Telephoto just now in Hunterdon County NJ [Dec 4, 2024] [RAW DL]🔍 The explanationI found a flight that matches the exact flight path that corresponds with OP's image. WUP900. Flew over the area around the same time he describes. It was a plane. Feel free to check flight radar…
🛸 The sightingSanta Cruz, 4/20, 6:20 PM SW facing video 2 of 3🔍 The explanationI have a debunk request for Mick West
🛸 The sighting[SERIOUS] - Discussion Needed: Large Analysis of the Apparently Leaked UAP Photos + Artist Renditions & Observations - Should we really be turning a completely blind eye to this???🔍 The explanationAnalysis of the Forgotten Vietnam Black Triangle UAP - Research & Recreation
🛸 The sightingMH370 FLIR Visual Analysis: Rotoscope Tracing🔍 The explanationThe science behind visual effects: VFX shockwave patterns can accurately mimic real-world explosions. Recent video analysis based on Taylor-Sedov blastwave theories debunks the infamous 'VFX debunk'
🛸 The sightingBlue Plasma UAP submerges into Delaware River🔍 The explanationBlue Plasma UAP debunked (it's a light attached to a kite string)
🛸 The sightingThe CIA files used in proof of MJ-12 substack post were not declassified in 2022🔍 The explanationRecently posted "proof" of MJ-12 docs is actually disproof - new analysis
🛸 The sightingSighting near Wright Patterson🔍 The explanationMy response to the Metabunk debunk of the wPAFB "drone" videos
🛸 The sightingEyesOnCinema added a video that corroborates Bob Lazars story🔍 The explanationThe Billy Meier UFO and Bob Lazar's UFO are almost identical in appearance. Lazar addresses this by saying Meier must have captured a real UFO in his first photos and then faked photos after that to…
🛸 The sightingUFO under the bridge in Kyiv, Ukraine 2015🔍 The explanationKiev Bridge UFO shadow analysis (possibly debunked)
🛸 The sightingRecently posted "proof" of MJ-12 docs is actually disproof - new analysis🔍 The explanationNew evidence against legitimacy of questioned MJ-12 UFO docs - incorrect stamp used, further anachronisms, and more duplicated control numbers

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Confirming the cross-shaped ufo is indeed a visibility marker on power linesDebunking the image going around last week.Lue's photo is 100% debunked.This “Debunked” video from a Russian crash looks eerily similar to what the Mexican Gov’t just showed.The "Orbs" on OBA1 beach cam are satellites. (mostly starlink)This is a kite…Proof of how easy it is to produce a fake uap / drone videoTurns out it was a just 2 moons projected on a netMitch McConnell and his staffer Terry Carmack identified as main culprits blocking UFO transparency for the American people. Stopped the UAP Disclosure Act from being included in NDAA 2026 - "Mitch…The MH370 video is CGICLARIFICATION: that video about "15.03.20 UFO during thunderstorm captured in Barcelona" is a fake video by CG artist ALIEN PLANETCaptured tonight. Thought they were meteors until they paused'One from the briefing' from the deleted user is fake. Here's the original, from searching 'fighter jet cockpit view'. Look at the clouds bottom left.Ross Coulthart says what we all already know - The MH370 video, promoted constantly by an account "Ashton Forbes", is not credible and the video is a hoax. Source From National Geospatial…The lights in New York are planes landing at JFK. 25x Speed.Brazilian Farmer Mayk Leão's UFO confirmed as misidentification of camping siteSkeptic Mick West tried and failed to debunk the recently released UFO video showing instantaneous acceleration, new analysis by "The Hill" Journalist MarikVR confirms that the video legitimately…Real photograph from Roswell 1947 of the US military trying to convince everybody that a flying saucer is a weather balloon.Shuttle mission STS-48 footage. From 1991. Looks like a UFO is shot at then switches direction on a dime and zooms off. I don't think it's been debunked. WildThe VFX effect used to "debunk" MH370 was likely edited. The actual unedited VFX frame is this one (by u/goreblaster)Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains to Chris Cuomo why he decided to become a participant in the UAP conversation instead of a debunker - Says he was influenced by many credible UAP whistleblowers…New beach picture of NJ UFO is fakeRemember looking this up on Google Earth as a kid. Was this ever debunked? WA Australia January 2008.Journalist MarikVR gets popular debunker Mick West to admit that the "Camera Glass Glare" argument he has been using in the mainstream media for the last 7 years against the authenticity of the…This is all the Starlinks in the sky right now.Mick West outed in interview for getting paid to debunkSlow down the video to 0.25 and check out sec 28. There was fault editing proving its fake.Info about "PASSENGER PHOTOGRAPHER UFO DURING FLIGHT IN CHINA 2012": that's a fake made with Android App "Camera360"Linda Moulton-Howe promoting false informationSince there’s an apparent major uptick in debunking posts today, I’m going to repost a video from the NY/NJ area that needs to be seen again. This is not an airplane, nor a conventional drone. Nor a…This video (from Chris Bledsoe) of an "orb" passing in front of the Moon is actually the ISS. When recreated in Stellarium with NORAD TLE data, and Bledsoe's location, everything lines up perfectly.I got punked by a fake Lue Elizondo book on AmazonThe drone video is a balloon. The movement is created with parallax. Here’s how it worksResearcher Richard Dolan replaces Ross Coulthart as new co-host of "Need to Know" podcast! Dolan says the ridiculous WSJ "UFOs are hazing rituals" debunk articles from a few months ago were meant to…Old video from Peru (approx 8years ago) blue bio/tech octopus like flying being, don't think it's ever been debunked, what are your thoughtsComparing the debunker fingers and what was actually presented during Mexico UFO HearingI believe the Toledo UFO is lens flareFor years, Steven Greenstreet has said AATIP never existed, but cites Sean Kirckpatrics Op-Ed where Sean confirms AATIP was real. Debunking Greenstreet's claimsThis post is a liar. Link in comments. Debunked AfCosta Rica UFO 2007 - captured from a close distance. I don't think this was ever debunked. Imho, the best "up close" footage of a probe & movement.Another fraud, the Yumbo sphere. It's CGIAlleged February UFO shotdown video is fake, made by brazilian 3D ArtistCuriosity Rover - 2014 - Left & Right Images in 3D Stereoscopic - Debunked, dead pixelsLong Beach, CA 11/03/2020 the green light that looks like a laser is a lens flareIf the 7/31 UFO in Mexico was not a hoax, could it have been an old Soviet probe like Sputnik? (Pictured)Getting ahead of a fake 3I Atlas photo before it hits here as fact.Found on Aliexpress. I could totally see someone trying to use this for a hoax. Just an FYI for the community here.Humanoid UFO is a BalloonFake images are getting harder to spot thanks to AI. any tips on how to spot a fake, I’ll start: faces are sometimes a garbled mess.This Jellyfish video with instantaneous acceleration that is being hyped right now is fake the original uploader admitted to creating it in Adobe After Effects in the description of this video in 2009Weird V shaped formation, don’t think that this is starlinkDEBUNKED: "I found some odd photos of UFOs on my external HD." | Photo analysis shows variations in noise level and pixel density contained in a perfect square.Las Vegas UAP DebunkMick West accused of doctoring his video debunking the triangle videoKiyv astronomer Boris Zhilyaev responds to claims from debunker Mick West and astrophysicist Avi Loeb that his UFO captures are birds, insects, and artillery. Boris argues his case in two new papers…Been chasing shadows since 1979. Now I'm only interested in photo's & video's of this clarity (yes, I know this pic is a hoax)The "drones" over the capital debunked :DHigh Speed Fly-By UFO SolvedMick West FLIR rotation debunk counter debunked by FLIR technicianThis is Jupiter."Shooting at drone" video was fake. Here's the original clip from 9 days ago:Sighting yesterday in Villarica, Chile (the beige things on the right are kites)Drone UFO video by Thirdphaseofmoon, Mr.MBB333 & Alien Planet is a hoaxTriangle UFO (Twitter) light occlusion is compression artifactYet to be debunked 2003 - ITALY - Montereale ( Val Cellina PD ) - UFO sighting. Raw footage at the end.A case for a debunk, unfortunatelySOLVED: After 11 years, I FINALLY found the answer to my UAP Photograph!AARO Publishes New (Solved) UAP Cases 🛸I just grabbed some NJ Beach Cam images this night. Many were regular planes...but a lot of them stood still/hovered in formation and/or came *really* close to the ground/sea and to the cameras.…Solved. My 2 year long UFO sighting. 9-11-22Holloman airforce base still quite debunked - great video. Hope whyfiles will correct it in their vids.After watching the press conference, it seems like the astronauts saw something that radically changed them more than the idea it was all fakedDebunker destroys hoaxer Secureteam 10 using SCIENCE, has to admit fakeMystery Solved. I posted a compilation of four videos yesterday for blinking object in the west. Well after being supported by half the community and railroaded by others accusing that the video was…Founder of UAPBrasil.com now thinks the lights above Porto Alegre were Starlink satellites...Falcon Lake, Manitoba, 1967: an investigation into the photographic evidence reveals Steven Michalak faked his burns from a UFO exhaustThe object from the Jamie Maussan video appears to come from behind the ridgeline. People debunking as a bug need to look closer. (See Submission Statement)A-10 Warthog UFO video: "Small bird theory" debunked with video! Same FLIR model used. (Details in oldest comment)I need this debunked ASAP.Jalisco UAP Analysis - It is STARLINKLet's Just Put To Rest The Theory That The Gimbal UFO Is A Jet Glare, This Guy Is A Flir ExpertI don't think this one is starlink.Saw this in December thought it was ISSAzcapatzalco, Mexico. Alfredo Corillo Romero-May 2009.(Debunked?)Guys this is a helicopter. It also has no transponder. We need to know the difference.The Crop Circle Enigma - short documentary. A collection of all the best data debunking the idea that people with rope and boards are behind them.Debunking the UFO Debunkers - Stanton FriedmanI made a video explaining why the MH370 video is fake.Alleged Danish drone demonstrated to be a misidentified Boeing 737Saw this outside my house earlier today. northeast Iowa. I am unsure if this is simply a helium balloon or not because it looks like a disk kind of.Louisville bike racing UFO (debunked)My guess is the video and slides Corbell released showed objects INITIALLY designated UAP but then identified as Aircraft, balloons, photo Anomalies.That 'green vortex' is not 'lightning in the clouds,' it is lens flare. If you are unable to comprehend this, you are what is wrong with this subreddit and ufology in general.Amazing flying octopus video debunked.Brazil UFO Flap Solved...Flying saucer flies by commercial airplane. Looks pretty good if it's CGI. Source? 🛸

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