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This 2 minute 55 second recording documents a reported UAP sighting on 4 October 2026 at 8:49 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, along Interstate 5 in Everett, Washington, United States. The footage was reportedly captured using an iPhone 14 by one of two witnesses travelling together in a vehicle. The recording presented here is the highest-quality original-file version recovered during our investigation, preserving the complete recording, its original resolution, audio and higher-bitrate encoding without additional community editing or recompression.

The original public submission was published on 5 October 2026 at 04:34:47 UTC, corresponding to 4 October at 9:34:47 p.m. PDT. This places the initial publication less than an hour after the reported sighting. The associated automated comment containing the witness's structured report was published four seconds later. These timestamps establish a documented and closely timed publication history connecting the witness's report, associated media and original public discussion.

According to the sighting report, the witness reported one object, classified as triangular, with an apparent size comparable to a basketball held at arm's length. The closest-distance field was completed as "above the trees", which represents the witness's qualitative estimate rather than a measured distance or altitude. The object's reported movement was described as "floating around". The observer indicated a southerly viewing direction, two witnesses were present, and the reported observation lasted three minutes.

The original report identifies a capture timestamp of 5 October 2026 at 03:48:54 UTC, corresponding to 4 October at 8:48:54 p.m. PDT. This agrees closely with the reported observation time of 8:49 p.m. The recording runs for 2 minutes 55 seconds, consistent with the witness's reported three-minute observation.

Our subsequent technical investigation included nine available copies associated with this sighting, including three additional recordings submitted for final quality comparison. SHA-256 checksum verification established that seven of these files were byte-for-byte identical copies of the same higher-bitrate recording, while the remaining two were identical copies of a more heavily compressed version. Examination of their video streams, frame counts and corresponding frames confirmed that the files contained the same recorded sequence rather than additional independently captured footage.

The original-quality recording selected for this community submission has a resolution of 1080 × 1920, H.264 Main Profile encoding, approximately 30 frames per second, an average video bitrate of 7,484 Kbps and AAC mono audio sampled at 44.1 kHz. It contains 5,279 video frames, runs for 2 minutes 55 seconds and has a measured file size of 166.08 MB. These specifications identify it as the highest-bitrate available version recovered during the investigation.

The original-quality version has been selected to preserve the best available source material for examination.

The proposed observation location lies within the wider Everett aviation environment, with Paine Field situated southwest of the estimated recording position and additional commercial aircraft movements occurring throughout the greater Seattle region.

Historical aircraft tracking was also investigated through a replay centred on the reported Everett location for 5 October 2026 at 03:54 UTC, corresponding to 4 October at 8:54 p.m. PDT. However, this timestamp falls after the expected end of the witness recording, which would have concluded at approximately 03:51:49 UTC if the archived capture time is accurate. Although the replay interface returned an aircraft count of zero during attempts to access the historical data, no independently verifiable aircraft identifiers, positions, altitudes or flight trajectories were successfully retrieved. Consequently, this result does not establish an absence of aircraft during the sighting. The proposed aviation explanations remain interpretations requiring a more precise comparison between historical flight movements and the original recording.

The witness's personal identity, precise geographical position and independently verified circumstances of the observation remain unconfirmed. No earlier public publication of this particular recording, or demonstrably higher-quality source, has been established through the investigation.

Witness Testimony:

"My girlfriend and I were on our way to go visit a friend, when I had made a joke about how the 3 dots looked like a UFO and right after I realized that there were no mountain lights or buildings and how close it was threw me off, so I started recording and this is what I captured."

"Too fast to be a balloon and too close down to be an aircraft nor was there any tall buildings around had 3 lights in a triangle, triangle shaped body and moved to other parts of the freeway"

Witness/Camera Operator: Unidentified
Source: (Reddit)

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This video was recorded in January 2022 in Brazil. According to the Immaculate Constellation report, spheres/orbs are the most common UAP morphology recorded.

This community-exclusive compilation presents all three original witness-captured recordings of a reported metallic spherical object observed over Delgosha Garden in Shiraz, Iran, on 10 January 2025, at approximately 11:00 a.m. local time.

The three original recordings, with a combined duration of 1 minute 15 seconds, are presented in the precise chronological order described by the witness/camera operator. They are followed by three stabilised and digitally zoomed versions, which Reddit user u/R2robot took the time to create and share, stating: "I stabilized them and zoomed in a bit."

For this community-exclusive presentation, we have additionally resized the three stabilised versions to provide an enlarged viewing perspective, allowing for closer observation and examination of the recorded object.

The sighting was publicly reported on 22 September 2026, approximately 20 months after the reported event. The original submission included three witness-captured video recordings and an accompanying annotated location image identifying the reported observation area within Delgosha Garden.

According to the submitted report, the observation lasted approximately five minutes and involved four witnesses. The witness described a single spherical object, with an estimated closest distance of less than 50 feet and an apparent size comparable to a basketball viewed at arm's length. The witness reported facing north-east during the observation. The recordings were captured using a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, model SM-G935F.

The three witness-submitted video files were archived at 1920 × 1080 resolution, with frame rates of approximately 30 frames per second.

Recording 1: 17 seconds, approximately 17,067 Kbps. The archived file contains no audio and is identified as having been re-encoded.

Recording 2: 22 seconds, approximately 17,401 Kbps, with AAC stereo audio.

Recording 3: 35 seconds, approximately 17,303 Kbps, with AAC stereo audio.

The second and third recordings retain Samsung device metadata identifying capture timestamps of 07:33:04 UTC and 07:34:41 UTC respectively, corresponding to 11:03:04 a.m. and 11:04:41 a.m. Iranian local time on 10 January 2025.

These timestamps are consistent with the observation period stated in the original sighting report, although the metadata alone does not independently verify the event's date or location.

The source archive identifies the second and third videos as original device recordings. The first is the witness-submitted, audio-removed recording, which the archive identifies as re-encoded.

Witness Testimony:

"The first video has my own voice in it because I was talking during a video call with my family, so I removed the audio for privacy reasons. The video itself was not edited."

"I was on a video call with my family while visiting Delgosha Garden in Shiraz, Iran, when a strange object in the sky caught my attention. It was coming toward me and passed close by before moving across the garden.

The first thing I noticed was that it was completely silent and moved so smoothly that I felt like I had never seen anything move that smoothly before. Its surface reflected the sunlight, and I believe it had some kind of texture on its surface. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a completely smooth, featureless orb.

I have three videos of it, but they were recorded with my old Samsung S7 Edge, so the quality isn't very good, especially with the zoom and camera shake.

In the first video, I was still talking to my family on the phone, so I removed the audio. The second video starts after I finished the call and continues until I could no longer see the object because of the trees.

The third video starts from behind one of the garden buildings. The turn to the right is obvious in this video. For a few seconds, the object appears to stop moving, which scared me, and that's why I didn't record anything after that. I didn't actually watch it disappear myself because I was scared, but it started moving upward into the sky, which can be seen in the third video.

I showed the videos to my family and friends, and they thought it was probably a balloon or a drone. That's why I never published them before. I'm still not sure what it was, but I wanted to put the videos out there anyway, even if it turns out to be just a balloon."

Additional Witness Statement:

In the original submission, the witness provided the following additional explanation concerning the reported object's unusual characteristics:

"I don't know for sure what it was, but what made it strange to me was how it moved. It was completely silent and moved extremely smoothly, especially when it came close to me and then changed direction across the garden. It also seemed to stop for a few seconds and then move upward. The way it reflected sunlight and the details on its surface also didn't look like a normal balloon to me. It could still be a balloon or a drone, but that's why I don't think it was an ordinary object."

In a subsequent response to the original report, the witness described an additional feature resembling a ring attached around the object. The witness believed this feature made its reported right-hand turn more apparent, particularly in the third recording, but acknowledged that the recording's limited image quality made the finer surface details difficult to distinguish.

Witness/Camera Operator: u/OrbAbsorber (Reddit)
Source: u/OrbAbsorber (Reddit), u/R2robot (Reddit)

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This 1 minute 28 second recording is attributed to Quebec, Canada, on 31 March 2021. It was recirculated on 12 September 2026. The original filming date, precise location and identity of the camera operator remain unverified.

The available recording is a portrait-format MP4 measuring 640 × 1136 pixels. It contains original Quebec French dialogue involving two speakers. This is a social-media distribution copy, not an authenticated original camera export. Its resolution and compression characteristics cannot be assumed to represent the original quality. It is unknown whether the circulating recording represents the complete original footage.

No verified copy exceeding 640 × 1136 pixels has been recovered.

The original recording device, frame rate, capture settings and any processing applied before the footage was circulated remain undocumented. No reliable measurements of the objects' altitude, distance, dimensions or velocity are available.

The recording was republished on 12 September 2026 at 04:02 UTC with the caption:

"Massive luminous ORBs appear in the sky over Quebec, Canada. March 31, 2021."

No original smartphone export, authenticated camera metadata or independently verified first-generation upload has been recovered. It is therefore unknown whether the circulating recording represents the complete original footage.

Research identified potentially related reports published during the first week of April 2021.

An article reproduced on 3 April 2021, attributed to the Italian publication Segni dal Cielo, describes a family recording multiple luminous spheres with a smartphone in Saint-Raymond, Quebec. The account gives the observation date as 30 March 2021.

A separate French-language article published on 4 April 2021, drawing upon earlier reporting by Vérité Ailleurs, also attributes an observation involving multiple luminous spheres to Saint-Raymond. This account identifies the filming date as 31 March 2021.

Both historical reports describe an observation involving an increasing number of luminous objects, reaching four.

The similarities make these reports potentially relevant to the recording presented here. However, the original videos accompanying the historical articles have not been conclusively matched to this particular footage.

The reports may also derive from overlapping sources rather than independent investigations.

Consequently, Saint-Raymond cannot presently be confirmed as the filming location, and the discrepancy between 30 and 31 March remains unresolved.

Neither historical account has provided a verifiable identification of the camera operator.

The recording contains a conversation between at least two individuals speaking Quebec French. No independently verifiable personal names, street addresses or specific municipalities have been established from the available recording and accompanying information.

The wider Quebec attribution is therefore retained without assigning the footage to a particular city or municipality.

Witness Testimony:

The following is the complete supplied English translation of the original Quebec French dialogue, reproduced verbatim.

"We've got two more new ones. What's that going to do, we don't know, and they're closer."

"now. They are"

"closer."

"Yeah, they"

"are"

"evenly spaced as well."

"Well, maybe we'll go and see them ourselves."

"They're going to eat my chocolate chickens."

"It's coming this way, pretty much, I think, yeah."

"Yeah, look closely."

"No, but now they're close"

"now. Yeah."

"Look at that."

"Right now, those other people don't see what we're seeing."

"You know,"

"anyway, we can say that we're going to…"

"Yeah,"

"we're going to hear about some of this. I don't know, I can't say. I can't make them any bigger than this, but I know that it's getting closer,"

"because the lights are brighter. You can't see it on the video, but the lights are brighter, yeah."

"It's not moving at all."

"Yeah."

"Yeah."

"Ah"

"okay. The fourth one, earlier it"

"there was,"

"[unintelligible]."

The reported March 2021 filming date predates the widespread availability of modern consumer generative-video systems.

A separate fabricated recording circulated in Quebec during the same period, depicting alleged UFO activity at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport. That production was subsequently identified as a student-created exercise associated with Polytechnique Montréal. The airport production is an entirely different recording.

AI Assessment:
AI-generated: no positive evidence established.
Obvious CGI/compositing: no positive evidence established.
Consistent with an ordinary camera recording: yes, based on the available information.

Witness/camera operator: Unidentified (original platform unknown)

Source: UAPWixy (X)

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This 1 minute 6 second recording is presented here as a community-exclusive resized edit, created specifically to bring the object substantially closer within the frame and permit a more detailed close-up examination while retaining sufficient surrounding sky for contextual reference. The enlargement is intended as an examination aid, allowing the object's appearance and behaviour to be assessed more readily than in the much wider circulating presentation; it does not create detail that was not present in the source material.

The underlying recording began circulating on 4 October 2026 and is attributed only to Baja California, Mexico. No municipality, exact filming date, camera operator, capture time or independently verified point of origin has been established. Although the orange and grey sky has been described as a sunset, no independently sourced time accompanies the recording, so the colour of the sky should not itself be used to establish the time of capture.

The circulating claim, verbatim, is:

"This cameraman captures this UFO against his scenic orange sky. You can see the reflection off the metallic surface!! Baja California Mexico. Oct 2026."

This wording should be treated as an aggregator caption rather than a first-hand witness statement. No camera operator, original account or direct witness attribution was supplied with the circulating copy, and the available provenance does not establish that the account responsible for circulating it was in direct contact with the person who filmed it.

The available source trail is therefore incomplete. The earliest currently established circulation point for this exact file is 4 October 2026. Analysis of the media and post identifiers places the media upload at approximately 21:08 UTC, followed by the associated post approximately two and a half minutes later. Those timestamps establish when the file entered the social-media infrastructure through which it circulated, not when the underlying footage was originally recorded.

The supplied circulating source is not a native phone-camera file. It is a social-media re-encode measuring 720 x 900 pixels, encoded in H.264 at approximately 245 Kbps and 30 frames per second, containing 2,040 video frames. Its audio is AAC stereo at 44.1 kHz and approximately 128 Kbps.

The container records a creation time of 4 October 2026 at 21:11:01 UTC and carries a platform-generated muxing signature consistent with social-media processing. This should not be interpreted as the original phone's recording timestamp. Original device information, phone make and model, GPS coordinates and native capture metadata are not present.

A later 1280 x 720 copy has also circulated, but examination indicates that it is a stabilised and upscaled derivative of the same lower-resolution material rather than an independently recovered higher-quality original. It does not contain additional resolved detail. No confirmed native-resolution or earlier-generation version of this exact recording has been located.

The audio heard in this community-exclusive resized edit is carried directly over from the original circulating upload and has not been added or replaced for this presentation. The atmospheric music was already embedded in the version supplied by the uploader and therefore forms part of the circulated source file rather than an alteration made during the community resize.

The available provenance search has also produced several other Baja California UAP recordings from 2026, but these must not be conflated with this case. They include separate material from the Ensenada and Los Olivares area in late June, sphere recordings associated with San Quintín in July, a different elongated-object recording near a commercial aircraft at Tijuana in August, and other Baja-region material from September. The present recording has a separate source trail and, on the evidence currently available, cannot be connected to those events. It is likewise unrelated to early-October fireball footage from Acapulco or the previously identified Falcon 9 trail recorded over Baja California Sur.

AI Assessment:
AI-generated: no positive evidence found.
Obvious CGI/compositing: no positive evidence found.
Consistent with an ordinary camera recording: yes.

Witness/camera operator: Unidentified
Source: UAPWixy (@UAPWixy) (X)

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This footage was posted 15 years ago, before the official Pentagon disclosures regarding UAP, and was promptly forgotten/lost to time. The original video upload still exists.

This UAP matches the description of this in the irregular-organic category. If anybody has any additional context regarding this sighting, please share!