WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.960 I really want you to put yourself in this scenario 2 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.400 for a second. You are an astronomer, right, and you know, 3 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.679 not just some hobbyist in a backyard with a telescope 4 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.000 you bought online. You are a trained professional at a 5 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:13.160 national observator. 6 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.280 You've got the high end optics, the serious hardware, exactly. 7 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.039 You've got this incredible gear pointed squarely at the Moon, 8 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:23.239 and you're just staring at that stark, beautiful, cratered surface, 9 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:25.359 collecting baseline. 10 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:26.920 Data, just a normal Tuesday night, right. 11 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:32.759 But then something completely shatters your sense of reality, because 12 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:36.079 gliding across the lunar mare casting a faint shadow is 13 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.000 a massive, dark donut shaped. 14 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:40.600 Spacecraft, a literal donut. 15 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:44.880 Yes. And when I say massive, I mean forty kilometers across. Wow. 16 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.159 I mean that is like taking the entire city of London, 17 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:49.759 ripping it out of the ground and just throwing it 18 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:50.679 into space. 19 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:52.200 Which is a terrifying visual by the way. 20 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:54.880 It is, And it gets worse. It's cruising across the 21 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.719 lunar surface at twenty kilometers per second. And to make 22 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:01.240 it even wilder, your data says it is rotating, yeah, 23 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:04.519 spinning fast enough to generate its own artificial gravity. Now, 24 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.079 if I told you this was a pitch for like 25 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.400 a sci fi blockbuster, you'd probably say it sounds a 26 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:11.599 bit derivative. 27 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:12.040 A little to Hollywood. 28 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.439 Yeah right. But here's the thing that literally kept me 29 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.959 up late last night. This wasn't a movie pitch. This 30 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.439 was an actual, formal published report issued by researchers at 31 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:26.280 a national government astronomical observatory in August twenty twenty six. 32 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.239 It's just it creates this immediate cognitive dissonance. I mean, 33 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.599 when a claim of that magnitude a forty kilometer gravity 34 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:37.760 generating megastructure comes from an anonymous forum post, you just 35 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:40.599 scroll past it, you don't even register it exactly. But 36 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.840 when it comes from an institution equipped with serious hardware, 37 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.959 an institution with a century long pedigree in the sciences, 38 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.000 your brain is just forced to halt. 39 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:51.799 You have to pay attention, you do. 40 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.439 You have to ask what they are actually seeing because 41 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:57.519 the data is real. The photons hit the camera sensor. 42 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.400 So what is the actual physical reality causing that specific 43 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:02.680 pattern of light and shadow? 44 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.840 Well, welcome to thrilling Threads. This is the place where 45 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.479 we take a massive stack of your sources and unravel 46 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.319 the most fascinating stories hidden inside. And today, I mean, 47 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:14.639 my desk is absolutely buried. 48 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:16.759 You have an absurd amount of paper over there. 49 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.280 I really do. I've been sifting through articles from space 50 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:23.000 dot Com, the IC, the Jerusalem Post, the Skeptical Inquirer, 51 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:26.439 and the Key of Post. But beyond the mainstream media, 52 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:30.240 we are diving deep into dense astrophysical preprints. 53 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:31.159 I heavy stuff. 54 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:34.680 Yeah, raw data reports from the Ukrainian National Academy of 55 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:39.599 Sciences and incredibly detailed analytical essays by Harvard astronomers. I 56 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:41.919 had to read some of these physics papers three times 57 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:43.599 just to wrap my head around the math. 58 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.919 It is a genuinely staggering collection of information. You have 59 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.639 this wild collision of mainstream news hysteria, frontline military intelligence reporting, 60 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:54.759 and highly technical, peer reviewed astrophysics, and. 61 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:57.560 It's all swirling around the exact same patches guy, exactly. 62 00:02:57.599 --> 00:02:59.840 So the mission today is to tear into these wild 63 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:04.120 August twenty twenty six reports from this Ukrainian observatory claiming 64 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.680 giant UAP's unidentified aerial phenomena. We're just swarm in the moon. 65 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:10.840 But we aren't just going to look at the headlines. 66 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.240 Yeah, not at all. We are going to trace the 67 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:16.599 history of these specific claims backward. We have to look 68 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:21.400 at the ongoing war in the region, the psychological pressure 69 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.680 cooker these scientists were operating, which is huge, it's everything. 70 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.840 And then we are going to use rigorous, step by 71 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:31.439 step optical physics to figure out what was actually happening 72 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:32.560 in sicilunar space. 73 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:35.599 And for you listening, the reason this specific case study 74 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.759 is so vital is that we live in a hyper 75 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:42.560 connected era. A headline about a forty kilometer lunar spaceship 76 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.199 will travel around the globe ten times before the scientific 77 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:47.719 method can even get out of bed. 78 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:49.159 That is so true. 79 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.960 The story we are dissecting today is an absolute masterclass 80 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.360 in critical thinking. It demonstrates in brutal real time just 81 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:01.439 how easily advanced technology, raw data, and brilliant minds can 82 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:04.080 be utterly compromised when the world around you is in 83 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:05.159 a state of chaos. 84 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.439 So let's start peeling back the layers. If frontline troops 85 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.919 and astronomers were suddenly seeing massive anomalies on the Moon 86 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.360 in twenty twenty six, we have to figure out how 87 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:14.680 that paranoia got started. 88 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.199 We can't just jump straight to the forty kilometer donut exactly. 89 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.079 We have to rewind the clock to September twenty twenty 90 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:25.600 two because this was part of an ongoing, highly documented saga. 91 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.000 There was a paper published on the pre print server 92 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:33.160 ARKIV by a researcher named Boris Ziliev and his team 93 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:34.199 working out. 94 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.040 Of the main astronomical observatory of the National Academy of 95 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.519 Sciences of Ukraine, the MAO NASU. 96 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:43.920 Right, and we should probably establish what that is, right, Yeah. 97 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.600 To give some crucial context, the MAO NASHUE is not 98 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.600 a fringe organization. It was founded in nineteen forty. 99 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.160 Four, so they've been around long time. 100 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:54.360 It is a highly respected body that has contributed significantly 101 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.720 to our understanding of the cosmos, from planetary physics to 102 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.560 stellar dynamics. The global science tific community pays attention to 103 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:02.240 their publication. 104 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:03.800 They are amateurs, not at all. 105 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.839 In this particular twenty twenty two paper, Ziv and his 106 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.839 team were utilizing specially calibrated meteor cameras at two distinct 107 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:11.759 weather stations. 108 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:13.600 One was located in the capital. 109 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.519 Kiev, right, yes, and the other was in a village 110 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.839 called Vinnerifka, which sits about one hundred and twenty kilometers 111 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:19.959 to the south Okay. 112 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.839 So they published this paper claiming that the daytime sky 113 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:27.360 over Ukraine was practically swarming with unidentified craft and they 114 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.720 broke these objects down into two very specific categories. 115 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.560 The first one was the cosmics, right. 116 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:36.800 They described these as luminous objects, meaning they were visibly 117 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.199 brighter than the background of the bright daytime sky, and 118 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.959 they gave him these majestic bird names like swift, falcon, eagle. 119 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:46.000 Very poetic. 120 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.879 Yeah. They claimed these cosmics were flying solo but also 121 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:53.399 in coordinated squadrons. But the second category they documented was well, 122 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.800 far more perplexing from a physics standpoint. 123 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.399 They labeled them phantoms. Phantoms according to their censor data, 124 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:03.279 phantoms were completely dark objects. They described them as having 125 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:07.079 a contrast of practically zero, meaning they were entirely. 126 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:09.319 Black, just absorbing every single photon of light that hit 127 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:10.279 them exactly. 128 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.879 And based on the dual camera setup they were using 129 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:16.560 between Key and Venerifka, the team calculated that these phantoms 130 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.639 were between ten to forty feet wide, so roughly three 131 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:20.920 to twelve meters across. 132 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:25.040 And the kicker was the speed they clocked these pitch 133 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:29.319 black objects traveling through the lower atmosphere at speeds to 134 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:33.600 fifteen kilometers per second. That is roughly thirty three thousand 135 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:34.240 miles per hour. 136 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:35.959 Yeah, that number is wild. 137 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:38.399 I remember reading that in the source material and just 138 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.680 stopping cold. Thirty three thousand miles per hour. Let's ground 139 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.199 that in reality for a second for everyone listening. An 140 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.959 intercontinental ballistic missile re entering the atmosphere tops out of 141 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:50.759 what maybe fifteen thousand miles. 142 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:51.519 Per hour around there. 143 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:56.839 Yes, and those things are designed specifically to survive massive 144 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.680 thermal friction. They still look like blazing meteors when they come. 145 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.279 Down, literal fireballs. 146 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.439 Right, So the Ukrainian team is cleaning objects twice as 147 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.480 fast as our fastest nuclear delivery systems are flying around. 148 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:10.480 My immediate thought is, if a completely black object the 149 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:12.920 size of a school bus is moving at thirty three 150 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.759 thousand miles per hour through the thickest part of its atmosphere, 151 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:17.199 how does it stay black? 152 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:17.879 It wouldn't. 153 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.879 Wouldn't the sheer friction ignite the air around it. I mean, 154 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:22.439 if you've ever seen a shooting star, that's just a 155 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:24.879 pebble hitting the atmosphere and it creates a streak of 156 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:26.879 fire visible for hundreds of miles. 157 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:28.920 A tiny pebble exactly. 158 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:33.040 So how could something massive move that fast, completely silently 159 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:34.959 and not look like a miniature sun. 160 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:38.879 That intuition you have is the exact physical paradox that 161 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:40.040 caught the attention. 162 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:41.839 Of Auvi Lobe, the Harvard guy. 163 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.079 Yes, he's a former chair of the astronomy department at 164 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.600 Harvard University and the head of the Galileo project, which 165 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:52.040 specifically looks for evidence of extraterrestrial technological signatures. 166 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.759 So he's not a skeptic who just dismisses UFOs out 167 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:55.120 of hand. 168 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.879 The furthest thing from it. Loba is highly receptive to 169 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.720 the idea of non human technology. He wrote a whole 170 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.360 book arguing that the interstellar object Umorimua might have been 171 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:08.199 an artificial solar sale. Oh wow, right, so he is 172 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.920 not a rigid dismiss a skeptic. But when he read 173 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.120 this twenty twenty two paper from the Ukrainian Observatory, he 174 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.519 immediately identified a fundamental breakdown in the basic laws of 175 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.040 thermodynamics and optics. 176 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.959 Because physics is physics, right, It doesn't matter if the 177 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.639 craft was built in a secret underground base or in 178 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.920 another star system. Precisely, if it is flying through our air, 179 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.879 it has to interact with the nitrogen and oxibure molecules 180 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:31.399 in our air. 181 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.840 That is the cornerstone of lobes rebettal. It relies on 182 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:41.039 an elegant, unbreakable chain of logic. The Ukrainian astronomers only 183 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:45.200 detected these phantoms because they appeared dark against a bright sky. Okay, 184 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:48.879 tracking For any physical object to appear dark against a 185 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.399 bright daytime background, it must be blocking the background light 186 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.000 from reaching the camera lens makes sense. Light itself is 187 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.879 an electromagnetic wave. Therefore, if the object is successful blocking light, 188 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.240 it is interacting electromagnetically with matter. And if it interacts 189 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:08.960 with light, there is absolutely no physical loophole that allows 190 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.919 it to pass through a dense soup of atmospheric gases 191 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.679 without also interacting with those air molecules. 192 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.879 It's like it's like walking through a crowded room. You 193 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:19.600 can't say I'm only going to bump into the people 194 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.200 wearing red shirts, but I'll magically pass right through the 195 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:23.320 people wearing blue shirts. 196 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:24.480 That's a great analogy. 197 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.480 If the object is solid enough to block photons of light, 198 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.080 it is solid enough to smash into a wall. 199 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:32.559 Of oxygen that is a perfect way to visualize it. 200 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:34.320 In physics, we talk about this in terms of a 201 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:34.879 cross section. 202 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:35.639 A cross section. 203 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.720 Yeah, think of a cross section as the effective target 204 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.840 area an object presents for a specific type of collision. 205 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.639 The cross section for the electromagnetic interaction of air molecules 206 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.840 with solid matter is actually substantially larger than it is 207 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:49.840 for light with matter. 208 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:53.000 Okay, so it hits more air than it does light exactly. 209 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:56.240 So if this phantom is plowing through the troposphere, pushing 210 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.039 trillions of air molecules out of the way at fifteen 211 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:02.799 kilometers per secon the kinetic energy being converted into heat 212 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.159 would be catastrophic. 213 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:05.200 It would just be a bomb. 214 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:08.639 Lobe actually sat down and did the math. He calculated 215 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:11.399 that an object three to twelve meters wide, moving at 216 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:15.320 fifteen kilometers per second in the lower atmosphere would release 217 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.639 a tarowat of optical power a terrawat. 218 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:20.919 I mean, I know that's a massive number, but what 219 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.480 does a tarowat actually look like in the real world. 220 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:27.399 To put a tarowat of continuous power into perspective, it 221 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:30.879 is roughly equivalent to the total electrical power consumption of 222 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.480 the entire human race at any given moment. 223 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.559 Wait, the entire human race at once. 224 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:39.080 Every city, every factory, every light bulb on Earth combined, right, 225 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.240 all of that energy released by a single object in 226 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:46.919 the sky over Kiev. It wouldn't be a dark, stealthy phantom. 227 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:51.399 It would be a blindingly bright, world shaking fireball that 228 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:55.320 would likely blind anyone looking at it and shatter windows 229 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:56.440 for miles. 230 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:57.919 Just from the heat of it pushing the air. 231 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:02.320 Yes, and because the astronomers explicitly stated in their data 232 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.320 that these objects were completely dark, and because you know, 233 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:09.320 Kiev was not vaporized by a tarot watt firebug, right. 234 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:10.200 Which we would have noticed. 235 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.840 Lobe concluded that their fundamental kinematic measurements had to be 236 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:14.840 deeply flawed. 237 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:17.840 So if the laws of physics aren't broken, then the 238 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.440 math on the paper is broken. Exactly If they got 239 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.000 the speed and the size that drastically wrong, there is 240 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.440 only one variable in their equation that could be throwing 241 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.799 everything else off. They must have messed at the distance. 242 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:29.679 The distance is the key. 243 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.360 They thought they were looking at massive objects very high up, 244 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.960 but they were actually looking at small things much closer 245 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:35.519 to the camera. 246 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.360 That is the exact deduction Lowe made He reasoned that 247 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.159 the Ukrainian team had overestimated the distance to these objects 248 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:44.159 by a factor of ten. 249 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:45.039 A factor of ten. 250 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:49.279 Yes, in optics, angular velocity, which is how fast something 251 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.679 appears to move across your field of vision, is entirely 252 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.759 dependent on distance. If you take their data and assume 253 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.360 the objects were ten times closer to the camera lenses 254 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.440 than the astronomers calculated, everything snaps back into physical reality. 255 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.919 Okay, so if we fix the math, would we get. 256 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.799 Their angular motion across the sky now translates to a 257 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.919 physical speed that is ten times slower, so about one 258 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:12.919 point five kilometers per second, which. 259 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.120 Is still fast, but not thirty three thousand miles an hour, right. 260 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.919 And the physical size of the objects becomes ten times smaller, 261 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.360 roughly zero point three to one point two meters. 262 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:24.320 Let me process that one point five kilometers per second 263 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:25.799 and about three feet long. 264 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:27.080 Does that ring any bells? 265 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:31.240 That sounds terrifyingly familiar, especially considering where this observatory is located. 266 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.279 They were looking up at the sky over Kievan twenty 267 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.159 twenty two. That isn't an alien spacecraft. That is the 268 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.639 exact size and speed profile of an artillery shell. 269 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:43.600 It is a sobering tragic realization. The researchers were utilizing 270 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:47.519 incredibly sensitive equipment to observe the skies over an active, 271 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.360 brutal war zone. They were capturing the ballistic arc of 272 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:56.440 heavy artillery and misinterpreting the data as hypersonic, extraterrestrial or 273 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.000 advanced classified craft. 274 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:00.000 I do want to bring up another perspective on this 275 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.240 twenty twenty two paper, though, Okay sure, because our sources 276 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:07.480 mentioned Mick West, the researcher who runs the metabunk form. 277 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:12.440 He spends his life analyzing and debunking UAP footage. He 278 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.039 looked at the same data from the Ukrainian team, but 279 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:17.879 came with a slightly different conclusion than Lobe about what 280 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:18.639 the phantoms were. 281 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.799 Right, Mick West proposed a biological explanation bugs basic exactly. 282 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:26.039 He argued that the dark phantoms were likely insects like 283 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.360 flies or beetles, flying extremely close to the camera lens. 284 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.720 His argument hinged on the frame by frame data provided 285 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.120 by the observatory so well. In the sequential photographs, the 286 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:40.039 objects appeared to change their speed erratically. In one fraction 287 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:42.480 of a second, the object covered a certain number of pixels, 288 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.240 and in the next rame it covered twice as many, so. 289 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:47.639 It looked like it was speeding up and slowing down right. 290 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.320 West argued that an artillery shell follows a very predictable, 291 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:55.519 smooth ballistic trajectory. It doesn't radically hit the gas mid air. 292 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.039 But an insect darting around a few feet from a 293 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.200 lens absolutely. 294 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.559 Does the classic out of focus bug tricking a security camera. 295 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:06.120 We've all seen those videos of ghosts that turn out 296 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:07.399 to be a b off exactly. 297 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:10.759 But Lobe pushed back on the insect theory, didn't he 298 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:11.159 He did. 299 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.600 He pointed out that Mick West was falling into a 300 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:14.639 common optical trap. 301 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:18.240 He did, and it highlights a brilliant nuance in optical geometry. 302 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:21.559 Lobe countered by explaining that an object moving at a 303 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:25.559 perfectly constant speed can create the visual illusion of changing 304 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:29.240 speed if its distance relative to the observer is changing. 305 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:30.759 Wait, explain that a bit more. 306 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.360 Think about standing on a sidewalk as a car drives 307 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.559 past you. When the car is a mile down the 308 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.840 road coming toward you, it looks like it's barely moving. 309 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:39.960 As it gets right in front of you, it zips 310 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.559 past in a blur. Then as it drives away, it 311 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:44.919 seems to slow down again. Oh, I see the car 312 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:48.279 didn't suddenly hit the brakes and then accelerate. Its angular 313 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:53.320 velocity across your field of vision changed based on its proximity. 314 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:55.559 To you, because the closer it is, the more your 315 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:57.759 field of view it crosses in the same amount of time. 316 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.279 Precisely, Lobe argued that the the erratic pixel jumps in 317 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.320 the Ukrainian data, we're perfectly consistent with constant speed artillery 318 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.159 shells moving on an angle either toward or away from 319 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:11.200 the cameras, rather than perfectly parallel to them. 320 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.200 It's incredible to think about highly educated astronomers looking at 321 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.919 their own skies and coming away with such a massive misinterpretations. 322 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:19.519 It really is. 323 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:23.360 But to really grasp how a century old institution could 324 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.720 make these errors, we can't just look at the math. 325 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.080 We have to look at the psychology of the environment. 326 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.159 The context is everything we need. 327 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:34.000 To transition from the quiet academic observatories to the muddy, 328 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.360 chaotic front lines of the military. Because this isn't just 329 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:40.759 a story about miscalibrated telescopes. It's a story about the 330 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:45.960 devastating fog of war and how prolonged anxiety literally rewires 331 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:46.799 human perception. 332 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:51.080 The historical context here is vital for understanding that psychological shift. 333 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:53.960 If we look back to nineteen sixty seven, during the 334 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:58.039 Soviet era, planetary scientists working at this very same main 335 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.320 astronomical observatory. 336 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.559 In people like ikkovel. 337 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:06.960 Yes prominent figures like him, regularly observed strange anomalies. They 338 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.919 saw flashing, reddish objects and strange streaks in the sky. 339 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.879 But their institutional culture at the time was intensely conservative 340 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:14.519 and grounded. 341 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:16.600 So what did they do with those reports? 342 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:19.559 They collectively dismissed all of it. They attributed it to 343 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.799 satellite orbital decay, rocket booster stages, re entering the atmosphere, 344 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:28.320 or just weird atmospheric phenomena. They had absolutely zero interest 345 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.679 in entertaining the extraterrestrial hypothesis. 346 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.159 So what changed? Why did the same institution go from 347 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.919 rolling their eyes and flashing lights in nineteen sixty seven 348 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.279 to publishing papers about alien armadas in twenty twenty two. 349 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:42.759 It's because the sky itself weaponized. 350 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.080 Right post independence and severely post twenty twenty two, monitoring 351 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:50.600 the airspace over Ukraine was no longer an esoteric academic 352 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.320 pursuit of charting stars or tracking meteor showers. 353 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.120 It became a desperate, high stakes requirement for national survival. 354 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.480 The national security apparatus was forced to heavily militarize every 355 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.519 aspect of airspace monitoring. When your cities and power grids 356 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.720 are under constant daily threat from ballistic missiles, hypersonic lide bombs, 357 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:09.839 and autonomous drone swarms. 358 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.400 The luxury of academic skepticism evaporates. 359 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:16.119 Exactly every single anomalous blip on a radar screen, every 360 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:18.599 flash of light in the sky is a potential mass 361 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.640 casualty event. You have thousands of soldiers and defense personnel 362 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.440 looking up, and they are tasked with instantly differentiating between 363 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.960 a domestic reconnaissance drone, a foreign loitering munition and incoming 364 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:35.079 cruise missile, a harmless weather balloon or a starlink satellite. 365 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.200 The pressure is unimaginable, and. 366 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.640 When your brain is subjected to that kind of unrelenting, 367 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.640 high stake stress, it starts seeing threats everywhere. You are 368 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.000 actively primed to find the monster. 369 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.039 In the dark, which brings us to a crucial incident. 370 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.640 In our source material from May twenty twenty. 371 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:52.920 Five, Yes, the flash video right which. 372 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:55.519 The military didn't declassify and make public until a year 373 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.519 later in May twenty twenty six. This came directly from 374 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:02.839 a senior Ukrainian drone warfare and electronic intelligence advisor named 375 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:04.680 Serhi Biskresnov. 376 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.839 Who goes by the call sign flash. Yes. 377 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:09.559 The flash video sent shockwaves through the defense intelligence community. 378 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:12.319 The footage was captured by a pilot from the Ukrainian 379 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.240 Unmanned System's Forces. 380 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.880 And they were just using a regular drone, right yeah. 381 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:20.359 The pilot was operating a standard commercially available DJI Mavic 382 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:24.480 three T drone. It's heavily utilized in the conflict because 383 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:28.039 it is equipped with a high resolution thermal imaging camera. 384 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:30.000 Very useful for spotting things at night. 385 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:34.319 Absolutely during active combat operations. At an altitude of roughly 386 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:38.599 eight hundred meters, this drone pilot captured a crystal clear 387 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:43.519 infrared video of a highly anomalous object hovering over the battlefield. 388 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.359 The visual description of this object from the thermal feed 389 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:48.640 is pure nightmare fuel for a. 390 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:50.160 Soldier, it really is. 391 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:54.119 It was described as a flattened spherical central body, but 392 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:58.440 protruding from it were six very distinct, sharply pointed cones 393 00:18:58.519 --> 00:18:59.519 or spikes. 394 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:01.039 Like a sea orch and almost. 395 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.279 Yes or bizarre mine and on the thermal camera which 396 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:08.200 reads heat signatures. It had a pronounced highly active thermal 397 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:09.640 plume trailing behind it, so. 398 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:11.680 It was generating heat, lots of it. 399 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.240 But the detail that really got under my skin when 400 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:16.920 reading the report was its behavior. It was just hovering there, 401 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:20.240