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Time: September 17, 2025 at 7:40 p.m

Location: Marseille, France

Sorry if there are some errors, my english is not perfect.

Context : My parents were on the balcony, they called me, I came and looked, then I ran to get my phone (because I don't take it with me often but that changes today lol), I had the time to take two photos and a video. There are 3 of us who saw it with our own eyes. I didn't post it the day I filmed it because I was afraid and I also wanted to make a 0.25x version of the video so we can analyse better. I filmed this video with a simple phone, for lack of better equipment. I apologize for not being able to take a better quality video.

I saw it with my own eyes but I hurried to photograph and film it, while I was filming, I was looking through the screen of my phone. Already with the zoom of my phone, the movements were very sensitive, I did not even want to try to film AND watch with my own eyes at the same time, the video being the only proof I would have of what I saw.

I looked at the wiki and it doesn't seem to match to something identified or made by man. It looks more like a "tic-tac" UFO without visible means of propulsion. I have never seen something like this and moving like that. The movements didn't look natural, it seems to be fast. A drone can probably do it, but visually it doesn't look like that. I think it doesn't look like a plane, a helicopter, nor a drone, nor a airship, nor a weather balloon or whatever.

What I saw seems to be a solid, without visible windows, no visible engines, no fins, no propellers, without emission of combustion smoke or condensation trail and completely smooth. On the photos, I have the impression that the sunlight is reflecting on this object.

I have already seen some drones near where I live but they don't look the same at all, they just seem to move pretty much the same, but I doubt that this is a drone. The ones I saw are black, not the same shape and you can clearly see that they have propellers.

The altitude seemed much higher to me than that of a airliner, that's why i zoomed in and out. (Maybe I shouldn't have, but you need to make decisions fast when this kind of things happen lol)

It didn't make any noise, but that doesn't prove anything, because most planes don't make any noise either.

In addition, there is an airport near (14 miles or 23 km) and we see planes every day, but the UFO goes in a south to north direction and that is not at all the direction of the planes.

There were almost no clouds that day and at that time, and no wind either (< 5 km/h).

With the zoom, the camera movement is noticeable, but after watching several times (and in 0.25x also) I have the impression that it changes direction and its movements are clearly not possible. It's difficult to stabilize the camera at 10x zoom, but there are moments where the camera is stable and yet the UFO seems to change direction.

After this event, I also took some photos of planes, and they were all heading West, not South to North. (The planes I see every day are either heading east or west, I've never seen one coming from the South and heading North here)

I would like to point out that a little further south (maybe he comes from the South), there is the Mediterranean Sea. I specify this because the declassified videos often shows the UFOs above the sea, and some people say that some UFOs can go underwater.

Then I edited the video to make it slow motion and uploaded the footage to YouTube at 0.25x (I forgot, but you can also put the video in normal speed)

Here is the link : https://youtu.be/VwU2c4qufMI (https://youtu.be/VwU2c4qufMI)

I cannot estimate the size of this object, nor its altitude, but I recommend that you inform yourself about the Nimitz incident in 2004. It is the observation made by professionals that is the most faithful to what I saw, photographed and filmed.

"The story of the Tic Tac begins around November 10, 2004, when radar operator Kevin Day first reported seeing odd and slow-moving objects flying in groups of five to ten off of San Clemente Island, west of the San Diego coast. At an elevation of 28,000 feet, moving at a speed of approximately 120 knots (about 138 miles per hour), the clusters were too high to be birds, too slow to be conventional aircraft, and were not traveling on any established flight path, at least according to Day."

In 2023, David Fravor, the pilot who reported the USS Nimitz sighting from the FLIR video, gave testimony under oath regarding the incident in a United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing.

They had identified a flying object measuring 40 feet long (12 meters), oblong in shape (tic tac), hovering somewhere between 15,000 (4572 meters) and 24,000 feet (7315 meters) in midair. It was recorded by Lt. Commander Chad Underwood of the USS Nimitz off the coast of southern California. Dave Fravor was the boss of Chad Underwood. There's also Dave Fravor's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, as well as on Lex Fridman's YouTube channel. He talks about the "Tic Tac" UFO and analyzes the footage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon\_UFO\_videos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos) (The "FLIR" video)

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