2024 · Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq
The 'Jellyfish' over Iraq
WhenJanuary 2024
WhereAl Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq
Backing1 independent
Witnesses1 named
Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp released a military infrared video filmed in 2018. A pulsing object with dangling tendrils drifts over the base, appears to change temperature, and then drops into a lake or river before shooting off. Corbell said a whistleblower inside the military gave him the footage, and that the object was tracked for an extended period.
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 2024U.S. Marinewitnessconfirms he saw the Jellyfish video in Iraq Marine confirms he saw the 'Jellyfish' video in Iraq
How plausible · Moderate
Military infrared video leaked through a journalist and confirmed by a Marine who saw it in Iraq.
- ●●Access Recorded by U.S. forces at Al Taqaddum.
- ●●Physical traces or official reaction The video itself.
- ●○No gain sought Released free, by filmmakers.
- ●○Character record Military sensor footage.
- ●○Independent convergence A Marine confirms seeing it in Iraq.
- ●○Checkable details check out Base and date are specific.
Against
- −Commercial motive Corbell sells films.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- The video itself, released on the Weaponized podcast.
Claims
A trans-medium object with no known propulsion, watched by U.S. forces.analysisSourced, unconfirmedJeremy Corbell
The object floated silently across the base, which holds a CIA base inside it, unseen by people walking under it; it went into a body of water, stayed there while the camera held on it for 18 minutes, then came out and 'shot off into the sky'.Ask George: the Jellyfish under water, the Lockheed-Bigelow deal and why the secret is keptsecondhandLeadGeorge Knapp
After the recording, the base commander came in with armed security and took the master recorder; someone had copied part of it, and that part is what Knapp and Corbell released. The underwater segment is 'probably at CIA'.Central Intelligence AgencyAsk George: the Jellyfish under water, the Lockheed-Bigelow deal and why the secret is keptsecondhandLeadGeorge Knapp
The UAP Task Force never analysed the Jellyfish video: Knapp and Corbell showed it to Jay Stratton and to chief scientist Travis Taylor, the first time either had seen it. 'They still don't know what it was.'Jay StrattonTravis S. TaylorJeremy CorbellUAPTFAsk George: the Jellyfish under water, the Lockheed-Bigelow deal and why the secret is keptfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedGeorge Knapp
The government 'has flat out lied' about the video, implying the whole video is 18 minutes long to blur the 18 minutes the object spent under water; the balloon explanations are weak, and slowed down the object moves.Ask George: the Jellyfish under water, the Lockheed-Bigelow deal and why the secret is keptanalysisSourced, unconfirmedGeorge Knapp
Where
Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq
33.3°N 43.6°E
In The picture
They use the waterThe Tic Tac hovered over churning water before it shot away. A Navy chief told Congress he saw glowing objects rise out of the ocean near the USS Jackson, and the ship's thermal sensor then caught four tic-tac shapes that left together 'two steps behind instantaneous'. Four years earlier the USS Omaha tracked a spher…
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Sources
- Weaponized podcast
- New video shows 'jellyfish' object over a U.S. base in Iraq
- The 'Jellyfish' UFO: how it happened (Weaponized #47)
- Marine confirms he saw the 'Jellyfish' video in Iraq
- Mystery Wire, 'Mail bag: UFO questions and government secrets' (Ask George), 25 Oct 2026 (YouTube)