Newly Released Thermal Footage Captures Jellyfish-shaped UFO Intrusion at U.S. Joint Operations Base
Written by Christopher Sharp - 9 January 2024
New thermal video footage has been released, revealing an incursion of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) into a United States Joint Operations base.
The UAP was tracked by the U.S. and allied nations as part of an intelligence operation over Iraq in 2017.
Obtained by investigative journalists George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell and released in the first episode of a new TMZ docuseries named ‘UFO Revolution,’ the UAP resembles a jellyfish and reportedly demonstrated transmedium capabilities.
The footage captures the object travelling over land, through the sensitive base. The video shows the UAP frequently changing from hot (black) to cold (white) as it moves over buildings and animals.
Speaking to Liberation Times, Corbell commented:
“I am happy to be able to share publicly this type of bizarre morphology associated with the UAP problem. This military filmed UAP footage represents an important reality often experienced and discussed in relation to military UAP encounters - an incursion within a critical defense installation.”
According to sources who spoke to Jeremy Corbell and Liberation Times, the UAP, filmed using an optical platform and considered potentially hostile due to a potential payload, could not be locked onto, and the platform appeared to have been jammed.
Commenting on this alarming aspect of the incident, Corbell told Liberation Times:
“If UAP are able to penetrate our sensitive military installation with impunity - disabling our primary targeting and defense platforms - we must consider the role stigma and secrecy have played in corroding our ability to acknowledge and respond to such threats.”
According to witnesses who spoke to Corbell, during the incident, access to the footage was restricted from two U.S. allies, though the specific reason remains unknown.
Corbell told Liberation Times that sources familiar with the incident told him that the UAP descended into a body of water for 17 minutes before swiftly emerging and accelerating at an extraordinary speed, maintaining a 45-degree angle departing beyond the capabilities of the optical platform.
Liberation Times understands that the exact location of the incident cannot be confirmed due to the sensitivity of the base involved, although the body of water described appears to be a lake.
Corbell informed Liberation Times that the U.S. intelligence community designated the ‘jellyfish’ object as UAP, emphasizing that its origin, intent, and full capability remain unknown. Furthermore, according to witnesses who spoke to Corbell, the UAP, which was tracked at night, displayed low observability and was invisible when viewed through night vision infrared.
Additionally, the footage appears to show that signatures typically associated with propulsion manoeuvres were absent, something even more odd when accounting for the lack of aerodynamics incorporated into the shape and reported transmedium and high speed capabilities.
Liberation Times has contacted the Department of Defense (DoD) for comment regarding the incident.
Dr Matthew Szydagis, a physicist and University of Albany professor suggested in an interview with Newsnation that the UAP may be using a form of signature management, due to its apparent changes in temperature and because two people seen in the video appear not to notice the object.
The U.S. government’s UAP Task Force preliminary assessment from 2021 stated:
“The UAPTF holds a small amount of data that appear to show UAP demonstrating acceleration or a degree of signature management.”
Referencing the assessment for Liberation Times in 2021, former Intelligence Analyst in the Marine Corps and Practicing Attorney, Sean Munger wrote:
‘When UAP become aware of our detection, they attempt to mitigate our efforts and or leave the area.’
Munger added:
‘Simply put: They are here, they are doing something, they do not want to be detected or seen and are taking efforts to continue to do what they are doing while avoiding our methods of detection.’
The jellyfish-shaped UAP has a historical record, with documented cases such as a reported sighting over East Kilbride, Scotland in 2003. In 2021, a video presentation was uploaded onto YouTube, of cruise ship captain Kate McCue referencing an encounter with a “giant black jellyfish” which was caught on film and floated down the length of the ship before descending.
Despite historical reports of the jellyfish shape, a UAP reporting trends release from the DoD’s UAP All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) does not reference this specific shape. It is noteworthy, however, that the Iraq and Syria region is prominently featured in the UAP reporting heatmap, where U.S. and coalition allied forces have been combating terrorist Daesh forces since 2014.
The jellyfish UAP constitutes the fourth piece of footage provided by Corbell and Knapp, showcasing objects of unknown origin captured by military platforms in Syria and Iraq. Other instances include the Baghdad Phantom, the Mosul Orb, and the Syria ‘Dome’ UAP.
Corbell has told Liberation Times that a Five Eyes intelligence report dedicated to the UAP issue indicates that the United States Air Force, UK RAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, and the militaries of Russia and Syria are increasingly encountering UAPs in the skies over Syria and Iraq.
Corbell informed Liberation Times that the Five Eyes report arose from concerns about the rising frequency of UAP intrusions in areas where troops are stationed, prompting the need for a mandate to address these incidents.
Highlighting that United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has grappled with this issue for over 15 years, Corbell pointed out a troubling surge in sightings since 2021, causing frustration among DoD insiders due to a lack of authority to address intrusions near coalition forces.
Sources familiar with the report, as noted by Corbell, shared that U.S. forces tracked UAPs travelling over coalition force bases in the region. UAP sightings were reported through various means, including ground radars, cameras, and military aircraft utilizing visual contact, radar, infrared, and electro-optical sensors.
Corbell also revealed in the TMZ episode an additional incident involving a jellyfish UAP inside and above the Pantex nuclear facility in Texas. The 18,000 acre Pantex site has been described as the ‘cornerstone of the nation’s Nuclear Security Enterprise’ and is ‘one of six production facilities in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nuclear Security Enterprise.’
The facility’s airspace is strictly controlled and in 2017 the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Energy agreed to restrict drone flights up to 400 feet within the lateral boundaries of the site.
In 2022, Pantex announced that it was deploying a system to minimize the threat of unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Liberation Times has contacted the National Nuclear Security Administration for comment about the incident reported by Corbell.
The release of UAP jellyfish footage over Iraq precedes a classified briefing scheduled for 12 January in Washington D.C., where Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas Monheim will brief the House Oversight Committee regarding serious allegations made by former intelligence official David Grusch.
Grusch's allegations, deemed ‘credible and urgent’ by Monheim relate to secretive retrieval and reverse engineering programs hidden from Congress and involving craft and biologics of non-human origin.
Speaking about the UAP topic before the upcoming briefing, House Oversight Committee member Representative Stephen Lynch told a Boston News station that a previous briefing on the topic was “notable”, adding:
“I thought that the navy officials who came in and described the technology that they identified.
“These were navy fighters operating off, I think, Pensacola, Florida…. they said the movement and the tracking that these new navigation systems picked up was something that no country, including the United States, on this Earth, has.
“And so, they were questioning about the ability of these aircraft to travel at these speeds and turn, change direction and then go off of the radar screen so quickly - they had real concerns that they brought to Congress. So there’s tangible evidence that something is going on.”
Liberation Times understands that, after the dilution of UAP language as initially put forth by the Senate in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, a growing number of intelligence and defense officials have apprehensions that an adversarial nation may exploit this weakened language to divulge information of potential non-human intelligence visiting Earth, undermining U.S. efforts to show global leadership and transparency.
Corbell told Liberation Times that it is time to approach the UAP issue head-on, whatever its origin:
“The UFO reality is an uncomfortable truth - and it’s time to bring this issue fully into the light. The public has an inherent right and need to know - the truth about what UFOs represent to humanity and we must approach it head-on.”
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With special thanks to Rob Sheridan for providing reference to cruise ship encounter.