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Time: May 8, 2026, approximately 9:30 PM local time

Location: Arctic region; exact location and coordinates unknown

This is a follow-up to my earlier post about the long, dark object photographed over the sea during an Arctic trip.

The original image was an Apple Live Photo. Reddit only displayed the still frame, so the motion component was not visible in my previous post.

I have now converted the Live Photo into a standard video and uploaded it here for closer analysis.

This is not an AI animation or reconstruction. It is the short motion sequence embedded in the original Live Photo, although conversion and Reddit compression may affect image quality and remove metadata.

I am still not claiming that the object is extraterrestrial or even airborne. Possible explanations include a distant vessel, iceberg, coastal feature, atmospheric refraction, or an optical effect caused by filming through binoculars.

I am not the original witness. The original Chinese social-media post has since been deleted, and I do not have the exact location or original metadata.