#misidentification UFO sightings

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NASA Reveals 300 meter disk shaped object at 18.5M km — are asteroids that round?

Brazilian Farmer Mayk Leão's UFO confirmed as misidentification of camping site

Saw this at Sundown today (03/13/26) over the Arizona Sky Part 2

Hellfire Missile: If you look at the trajectory of the missile, are we witnessing an effect of gravitational lensing?

"Pictures of beings and UFOs Brazil". No! The image has been on iStock since 2013.

Could it have been an arrow?

The supposed UFO at Harriman State Park, NY

The trending Japanese UFO story posted earlier is simply an electrical fire

Its hard to believe that we dont have more high-quality evidence like this photo taken by an amateur photographer on Reddit 🤦‍♂️😭

Four Corners UFO is likely just 2 irrigation circles.

So it's 2025 and people still can't be bothered to check for rocket starts before posting..

If Ukraine, with a cold-war era helicopter, can chase down a modern Shahed-136 drone at night, that doesn't even have blinking lights all over it, surely the United States can track down a hobbyist…

Please use apps like SkyView

UFO shapes sighted over the years

New beach picture of NJ UFO is fake

Lebanon, New Jersey report: That's how New Jersey people should report here instead of posting literal planes

the Arizona UFO turns out to be just mundane lights, what do you think about this?

The Baptism of Christ painting has a UFO shining lights

I believe the Toledo UFO is lens flare

Lockheed "Hopeless Diamond" craft concept looks EXACTLY like the Jonathan Reed UFO and the Calvine UFO. Thanks to u/SnoFlipper for pointing this out.

This is just a mylar unicorn (200x Speed)

B-2 Bomber flew right over my house on New Years…you’re telling me we don’t have alien technology?

UAP drone parallax visualisation I made (to clear up any confusion)

Identifying between possible UFO and a modern aircraft.

A plane 10 miles away at 10,000 feet with an iPhone 13. Going to need better equipment to capture UAPs.

Cedarville mass sighting in 1984 of angular, V-shaped craft

Previous UFO images that fit the "metallic balloon" with tether descriptions

Just to make it as clear as can be

Slow-mo of the "bird" in the snowboarding lesson video

Shedding light on the nighttime Pendleton UFO - It's reversed video of CRAMs

Leaked navy ufo photo was a batman balloon? If you look closely, you can see batmans arms on it

For the “reflection in a pond” theory of the Calvine photo to work, the plane we see would have to be upside-down (which it is clearly not).

I let a balloon loose to see how my camera would interpret it

Clarification about the real source of that "photo taken by a mom that ran out when kids stared to yell there's a UFO flying"

Boeing Starliner Spacecraft UAP / UFO Anomaly is a Bird

The Russians thought UFOs were American and vice versa.

Taken over north idaho today….a jet escort or? Flight tracker said it was Boeing BOEOO3 Flight from Moses lake, Wa to Moses lake Wa

This is what a chinese lantern looks like with a zoom and underneath—just so you know, since it’s NYE.

Dorchester and Vancouver Island UFOs most likely seagull or sea bird

USO in LA? No. Happy Flappy Blurry Birdy? Yes! (Sunset Point, Los Angeles, 8/18/21 6:25 AM)

Reminder how easy it is to mistake vessels/oil rigs in the ocean for UFOs (details in comments)

What a plane looks like from a plane with an iPhone X

This is what a drone looks like with an LED Strip around the prop guards. (For Reference.) • I’ve seen some photos pop up that look similar recently.

'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.

If anyone wants to see what a video of an *Actual* balloon (star shaped) looks like at roughly 150ft in the air.

Example of airplanes actually travel

Drone made to look like a UFO, yes they're real.

Turns out it was a just 2 moons projected on a net

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