Time: August 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Filmed this strange light formation in the early morning sky, followed by a very unusual cloud structure right after. Looking to see if anyone else in the area witnessed this or has an explanation for the light patterns.
Been going through the war.gov/ufo release this week and then saw Beskrestnov's post drop on Monday.
Quick context if you don't know him - Serhii Beskrestnov, callsign Flash, senior advisor to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense on drone and electronic warfare. Not a random guy. His house was destroyed in a Russian drone strike in April, which tells you what kind of target he is.
He published footage filmed in May 2025 over an active combat zone. The object is spherical with what looks like six symmetrical projections. That part alone is interesting. But what got my attention is the telemetry data embedded in the footage.
Flight time: 8 minutes and 5 seconds. Battery voltage at end: 12.14 volts - critically low. Current spike: 95 amps. Then the drone went down.
Beskrestnov's read is that the object has an active jamming system that killed the drone's electronics when it got close enough. I'm not saying that's confirmed. But the numbers are in the footage if you want to check them yourself.
The other thing I keep coming back to: there's a specific frame where the object rotates and you see the full lateral profile. Six projections from a central mass. I went through the known Russian drone inventory - Orlan-10, Zala, every FPV variant documented in this conflict. Nothing matches that morphology.
Now here's where it gets interesting relative to this week's Pentagon release.
File DOW-UAP-PR38 in the war.gov/ufo archive is a 1:46 infrared video from US Central Command, Middle East, 2013. The object in it is described as star-shaped with multiple projections from a central mass. Not identical to the Ukrainian object - different number of points. But the same basic structure.
Two militaries. Two continents. 12 years apart.
I'm not connecting dots that aren't there. Could be coincidence. Could be two different things that happen to look similar on infrared. But given the timing of Beskrestnov's post - four days after the Pentagon release - I don't think he posted it by accident.
The DOW-UAP-PR38 file is public at war.gov/ufo if anyone wants to compare directly.
What's your read on the telemetry? The 95 amp spike specifically - that's not a normal failure mode for an FPV drone.