YouTube video · UAP Gerb · 5 February 2024
Incredible UFO Footage - FLYBY
Gerb analyses an anonymous 20-second clip of a disc beside a jet wing that surfaced online in 2008. He argues it was filmed off a screen from a two-seat F/A-18 and sets it beside Elizondo's GQ remark about an unreleased video of an object 50 ft from a cockpit. He also walks through an alleged UAPTF appendix page leaked on 4chan, which he could not verify. The db takes this forward as an episode only, not as a case.
On the record
- Elizondo told GQ in 2021 that unreleased government footage shows an object about 50 ft from a cockpit.
Open questions
- Who filmed the clip, and from what aircraft?
- Is the 4chan appendix page genuine?
Leads to follow
- Frame-rate and compositing analysis of the clip.
Timeline
On the recordWitness testimonyAlleged / one person's word
Apr 2008
Clip first posted (UFO Chronicles)Titled 'Flying saucer UFO filmed from jet window'.
14 May 2008
Clip on YouTubeUploaded by a channel named Danny Lampkin.
The claims, checked
On the record (2)
A 20-second clip of a disc flying beside a jet wing first appeared online in April 2008 and on YouTube on 14 May 2008; nothing earlier has been found.Anonymous footage of unknown origin.analysis
The clip is a second-generation recording of a screen, below 240p, with reflections of equipment on the glass.analysis
Witness testimony (3)
'There's another one where this thing is 50 ft away from the cockpit... it ain't ours.'GQ interview, 2021; he called the three Navy videos among the least compelling.firsthandLuis Elizondo
Christopher Mellon told Joe Rogan he had seen footage of a UAP right beside a pilot.Gerb is sure this is not the FLYBY clip.firsthandChristopher Mellon
Real UAP have flown within 15 m of military aircraft.Drawn from the Elizondo and Mellon statements.analysisLuis ElizondoChristopher Mellon
Alleged / one person's word (7)
The footage was taken from a two-seat F/A-18, such as NASA's chase F-18 with a camcorder behind the pilot; the wing angle and empty wingtip pylons match.Gerb's reading of the frames.speculation
The audio may be the ambient noise of a ship where the screen was filmed, since the waveform does not break at the cut; a faint female voice can be heard.Following a Reddit user's audio work.analysis
The disc resembles the craft Robert Jacobs described in the 1964 warhead footage and the McMinnville photographs, including the domed top and tilted flight.speculationRobert Jacobs
A page posted to 4chan in 2021-22, said to be from a classified UAPTF appendix, logs fighter 'Club 11' under AWACS 'Brigham' with an object 10-15 ft off the starboard wing and the order 'open your blue envelopes'.Unverified; Gerb could not authenticate it.anonymousanonymous poster → 4chan → UAP Gerb → told itThe UAP Task Force
A second alleged page, 'behavioural data analysis', covers 1,292 cases and concludes some UAP are drones or a form of mechanical life deployed by an organic species.Names on it (M. Harmon, S. McCarron, K. Shakoya) and the 'Blackout Flower' report could not be traced.anonymousanonymous poster → UAP Gerb → told itThe UAP Task Force
The comms log may describe the FLYBY encounter, which would make it a 'high value witness' case.Gerb's hypothesis.speculation
Whether the clip is CGI or a model on a string remains open; Gerb asks for frame-rate analysis.Commentary, not a finding.analysis