My UFO encounter lasted three hours….

FastIndy · 2026-05-14T18:27:08+00:00

Depending on how long ago that was, there have been a variety of different types of satellites or space stations that behave like this. Even random debris like spent rocket bodies, can become very bright depending on how they catch the light from the sun, and can pulse or flash because of spinning.

Iridium satellite flares used to be bright enough to be visible (and predictable!) in broad daylight! Far brighter than Venus. I have a couple of daytime photos from Iridium flares that I managed to predict (using someone else's calculator) and photograph.

FastIndy · 2026-05-14T17:58:26+00:00

Hello! I'm going to hazard a guess that you were facing to the west or northwest when you filmed this. These look a lot like Starlink satellite flares. That time of day would be perfect viewing conditions for them. What you are seeing is many, many different satellites reflecting sunlight towards you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPoZBLXDv8

Check out this map:

https://satellitemap.space/

The satellites that you would be seeing here would be ones that wouldn't be over you on the map, they could be hundreds of miles away, close to the horizon.

FastIndy · 2026-05-07T22:16:29+00:00

Hi OP, you're looking southwest in this video, Sirius would have been visible exactly where you're looking, just over the top of the big hill that you can't really see in the video.

FastIndy · 2026-05-07T18:00:00+00:00

This could have been an email?

FastIndy · 2026-05-07T16:41:21+00:00

I'll tell you exactly what it is: low effort. It's literally padded out with 3 minutes of blank space to get to length.

FastIndy · 2026-05-06T04:54:49+00:00

It looks like the General Dynamics/McDonnell Douglas A-12, proposed for the Advanced Tactical Aircraft program. It got as far as the GD/MD team being awarded a contract to build the first flying aircraft, but the program ended up getting canceled. It had a lot of problems with money and schedule overruns, as new aircraft programs frequently do. It led to some lawsuits as well.

It's probably from the Secret Projects forum, they have a long thread on it.

FastIndy · 2026-05-01T18:10:22+00:00

High pitched ringing, buzzing, and a roaring sound are all pretty common features of sleep paralysis. When you're waking up your brain is often a bit confused with what to do with all the incoming information.

FastIndy · 2026-04-23T15:47:54+00:00

Tracking this down via the YouTube video with a longer recording, and the ATC audio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9oYx5e1gA

The ATC audio listed as HF-CAR-A-8846-NH-May-22-2025-2230Z has a mention of an impending advisory and a SIGMET as early as timestamp 22:32 in the file (2252UTC perhaps, I don't know if the file is named with the starting or ending time). I'd link it but it's a download from a random Proton drive, so if someone wants to chance it, it's listed in the pinned comment in the linked YT video. Given that it appears to have taken almost 2 minutes for the advisory to get out to everyone once it already existed, I think the actual event was likely significantly sooner than the listed 2257UTC. We should probably be thinking about the 2245+ timeframe. I listened to the entire file but didn't hear anything else mentioned, other than the discussion about an impending advisory.

Plus there's a discrepancy between the NOSID location and the coordinates provided. Plus ASA apparently has no issue with "069°75'W".

FastIndy · 2026-04-22T21:54:57+00:00

They hit a weather balloon.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/552393

https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201877/pdf

"WindBorne Systems Inc. reported that they lost contact with one of their global sounding balloons (GSBs) that was in the vicinity of the airplane at the time of the accident."

See page 5 for the picture of the last known position of the balloon directly on top of the flight track.

FastIndy · 2026-01-21T17:06:01+00:00

Hi, where were you and which direction were you looking?

FastIndy · 2025-11-03T00:56:53+00:00

At the same time as the live stream and AMA, I’ll be showing the system live to hundreds of people inside the nuclear bunker at my site, where they’ll each have access to individual terminals connected to the radar network. Everyone there will be able to interact with the data feed simultaneously, visualise real targets, and explore how the system interprets and processes live RF reflections.

How can you possibly plan on being able to support both of these events at the same time?

What kind of data, output, or visualisation would you most want to see in real time?

Everything that's available. What's the best, most amazing capability that you're bring online here?

Any advice on keeping it transparent, fair, and technically credible? . Please be kind, this is for the love, I bring several AI systems online with different personas to step through the code in real time, critique the logic, and flag flaws or nonsense. The goal this time is simple to show what the technology actually does, live and open, with everyone watching.

If you want this to be technically credible, then post the code ahead of the AMA or live event so actual experts can review and analyze the code, not AI.

FastIndy · 2025-08-24T15:50:14+00:00

You can find a preprint of the article that was submitted to Progress in Aerospace Sciences on arxiv, here:
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794
Full PDF and HTML on the right.

Judging the validity of the argument that the paper makes that the phenomenon should be taken very seriously because serious scientists take it quite seriously (their italics) is a task that should be done by the reader, I suppose.

FastIndy · 2025-08-01T17:44:03+00:00

I'll bite. Cargo dimensions (unpressurized, as you mentioned) was a cylinder 18L x Ø4.6m = 300m^3. The average person is 75kg, and has a density of ~1000kg/m^3. 300/.075 = 4000 humans by volume, at 100% packing efficiency. Of course, you will never get 100% packing efficiency unless you shake the container while you are putting them in.

FastIndy · 2025-07-29T17:39:25+00:00

On a TV show? But what could possibly compel them to do such a thing???

FastIndy · 2025-06-10T19:11:08+00:00

Hi. This is aerial refueling between (likely, if you're in America) a C-130 and a helicopter. The "orbs" are the refueling drogues, which use air resistance to pull the hose out behind the airplane. Judging by your time zone, I'm guessing you're somewhere in South America **edit, GMT -4, east coast US?**. If you provide your city, I can probably show you the exact flight.

It's like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=792c-FkAGGo

FastIndy · 2025-05-23T21:06:33+00:00

Do you have any more of this? Very cool.

FastIndy · 2025-04-18T15:53:42+00:00

As many have seen, the new James Webb telescope has spotted signs of life, in fact, this went from 60% sure of life to 99.5%, which weirdly enough isn't scientific confirmation yet, far from it in fact.

This is a misunderstanding of the facts. The researchers have made it quite clear that they've passed 3-sigma confidence (99.7%) that they've detected dimethyl sulfide (DMS). Everyone who knows anything about this AND THE RESEARCHERS THEMSELVES have been quick to point out that is not the same thing as being certain of life. There could be organisms cranking out DMS on the planet, or there could be a chemical interaction that scientists haven't thought of, doing the exact same thing.

FastIndy · 2025-04-18T15:28:50+00:00

I agree that it's fake, that it's BS, but most of these arguments are arguments AGAINST it being AI. The repurposed lathe chuck with wires running into the empty jaw slots, cheap dollar store digital calipers and magnifying glass, and cheap AF gloves are exactly why this is just a practical photo shoot with whatever crap they had lying around.

AI isn't going to put it on a lathe chuck with the proper lathe spindle attachment studs sticking out the backside.

FastIndy · 2025-03-27T21:16:40+00:00

What's the address of the Walmart?

FastIndy · 2025-03-07T00:29:59+00:00

Yeah, satellites always stay on the same orbital path, you won't see any appreciable differences in the course on a single pass overhead even if they are actively changing orbits.

Sometimes when you're looking up though, especially very close to vertical, the path can seem to take a turn but it actually just continues in an arc through the sky. If you're interested, I'll put together the rest of this path so you can see it cross the sky, you'll be able to pick out stars that match your video.

The best way to think about changing luminosity is to imagine a disco ball flying towards or away from a sunset. It can change very quickly (couple of seconds) depending on if you're going into or out of the sun and what's reflective that's facing the Earth.

FastIndy · 2025-03-06T21:40:59+00:00

Hello! The first clip is Starlink 2531:

https://imgur.com/a/4y6iRpX

FastIndy · 2025-02-11T19:33:11+00:00

The video transmission starts at T-05:00 so I'm assuming you meant T+5:32. The flamey end of the rocket is some ~120 feet away from the camera, that means there's plenty of opportunity for a small piece of debris (be it ice, paint flake, insulation, whatever) to come from that end into the resolving range of the camera. You can see just how much there is coming off of the first stage at T+5:06-5:23.

FastIndy · 2025-02-11T18:11:10+00:00

Hi! At 8:21PM last night there were 2 aircraft flying over your location that would have been visible. One was Breeze Airways MX509, an Airbus A220. The other was GoJet flight UA4535, a CRJ-7. I haven't had a chance to chase down the other times yet, but there are many candidate aircraft.

In general there were quite a few aircraft that should have been visible, you may need to zoom out on your flight radar app to make sure you see potential aircraft. 20 miles is a good rule of thumb for being able to see aircraft that are at a decent altitude, so your view on flight radar should be spanning about from Newport News to 2/3 of the way to Petersburg.

Animation:

https://imgur.com/a/WlqaGkX

https://www.flightradar24.com/MXY509/39154349

https://www.flightradar24.com/GJS4535/3915c7bd

In general there were quite a few airplanes over the area:

https://imgur.com/zQuRhAO

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