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    UFO or hoax? Aerial video over South Korea stirs speculation

    A new video has surfaced that some claim shows a saucer-shaped UFO zooming past the window of a passenger airplane flying over Seoul, South Korea.

    In the video, the unidentified passenger is filming the otherwise uneventful view from the plane's window. Suddenly he makes a startled sound as the white saucer-like image comes into view.

    Later in the video, the purported UFO image is magnified. Ultimately, it looks more like an ivory colored bowler hat than a piece of futuristic flying technology. Is this just bad computer-generated imagery (CGI) and a cheap hoax from a prankster or a genuine unidentified object caught on film?

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    The same writer who speculates on the origin of this object also recently wrote about video taken from one of NASA's live video feeds. In that video, three objects in a triangle formation appear on screen about five minutes into the video. Someone from NASA chimes in to say the object is actually a piece of foil, aka space junk, and that its reflection is giving the appearance of three objects in a triangle formation.

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    • Dustin  •  1 mth 7 days ago
      UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, it does not necessarily means Alien Space Ship. Besides, all of you saying it's a balloon are actually wrong. It moves too fast to be a balloon. But the ones who say it's a military drone, it's very possible. But for now, it remains an UFO.
      • Bradley D 1 mth 7 days ago
        Thanks for you expertise Dustin, we've all been waiting for your validation
      • christopher 1 mth 7 days ago
        Dustin you have to remember the plane is moving, that's why the object appears to move so fast
      • Adam 1 mth 7 days ago
        At a perpendicular angle to the plane? At least I'm assuming this was taken from the side-window of the aircraft as opposed to- oh wait...
    • Maxitae  •  Mt Laurel, New Jersey  •  7 days ago
      Too many people are associating this simple happening with a UFO to; POLITICS, MORALITY, RELIGION, OTHER THINGS, I see o reason to apply those things to this. They have no effect whatsoever on this happening.
    • Dennis  •  El Segundo, California  •  8 days ago
      To bad obama has to draw his kids into the gay parade of life for a vote.He just proved he is a worthless dumb phony low life and his wife is a tax money user. The muslims if smart will most likely dump him too. Send him with his passport back to Indonesia. Let's get back to building America up now, not down! God Bless America
      The Constitution Party is more than capable and ready. Better than a democrat or republican fiasco. Again.
    • heatman64  •  22 days ago
      Its North Korea spying on the South as usual.
    • Jorge  •  Centro, Mexico  •  26 days ago
      this video is fake, fake like the mustache of santa claus.
    • Maximo  •  Managua, Nicaragua  •  1 mth 8 days ago
      I can make this with a screenshot of Korea on Google map and Adobe After Effect!
      • Your God and creator 1 mth 8 days ago
        It can also be taken apart just like Obama's birth certificate.
      • christophe 1 mth 8 days ago
        how did you get adobe after effect ?
      • Maximo 18 days ago
        I work as a Senior Animator (motion graphics on channel 2...
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Manila, Philippines  •  28 days ago
      Conrado Alfaro de Guzman - If there is life on earth, there could be life on other planets and I am sure whatever they are, they must be exploring the universe, too
    • Princess  •  Monrovia, Liberia  •  29 days ago
      All i can do is to pray for the passenger on that plane
    • Alan Borky  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      "Someone from NASA chimes in to say the object is actually a piece of foil".

      And someone else chimes in no it's actually three separate objects.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Norfolk, Virginia  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      Actually, to me it looks like a reflection of the coffee cup top of the person probably seated in the middle or aisle positiont. If the light catches it just right it will reflect from the double-paned window. The person who took the video might - or might not - have known this in advance.
      • EL ZORRO 1 mth 3 days ago
        Good call, I see the same.
      • Q 1 mth 2 days ago
        and the fact that the cameraman zoomed IN when the speed changed- I'm in total agreement.
      • Maxitae 4 days ago
        I never would have thought of it that way. :o
    • ELLIOTT  •  Ventura, California  •  1 mth 1 day ago
      I personally served in the United States Navy on the USS Ticonderoga Aircraft Carrier! Our Ship was heading home to the United States after serving off the Coast of North Vietnam in the year 1968. It was a foggy evening, and I was the Quartermaster on duty at the time keeping the Ship’s Log! The Ship’s Captain was in his cabin sleeping at the time. The Officer on Deck reported three strange lights in the sky on the Ship’s right port front side, and I personally also saw these three strange lights in the sky just hovering there! The Officer on the Deck requested a Radar Confirmation, which turned out negative! These three strange lights glowed very brightly, even though it was very foggy – and these lights were definitely not coming from our Ship! I ask the Officer of the Deck if I should report it in the USS Ticonderoga Ship’s Log as an unidentified UFO sighting, with Radar Confirmation negative, and the Officer of the Deck informed me to do so! Therefore, an Official Sighting of a UFO was reported in the USS Ticonderoga’s Ship’s Official Log in the year 1968 (Sorry, but I do not remember the exact date of entry). P.S.: The next day the Captain was very mad, and wanted to know why he was not awakened immediately when this sighting took place, but I do not remember what answer was give to him by the Officer of the Deck!
      • EJ4mNJ 28 days ago
        Captain but you were drunk and we did try to awaken you.
      • R 27 days ago
        yeah right. good story. sounds like the only one sober was the captain
      • Steve 24 days ago
        My dad was on the USS Ticonderoga from 1952-56. R.I.P. miss ya,love you.
    • Christine  •  West Chicago, Illinois  •  1 mth 1 day ago
      More likely the Mother Ship coming to take that new North Korean leader back home.
    • Christine  •  West Chicago, Illinois  •  1 mth 1 day ago
      Seriously! It looks like a reflection. Like when I play with my cat with a light. Why would the white dot, aka UFO, go down into and between buildings like the light in carpet design?
    • Dweller on Two Planets  •  Wilmington, North Carolina  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      I might suspect it as a hoax, except it looks just like the thing I saw drifting over a field near my home in California back in 2002.
      • Lee 1 mth 3 days ago
        They call it dope for a reason....
    • eagleonehws  •  Sierra Vista, Arizona  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      I just love that so many posters can take crap and make so much more crap out of it ... LOL
    • Country First!  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      Secret American weapon, used to knock out NK rocket. Nothing to see here folks, move along, tend to your business.
    • Douglas  •  Charlotte, North Carolina  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      Nothing to worry about.It's just the normal response of the North Korean Air Force when they see a foreign plane.They launch Frisbees in a threatening manner.
    • Kirk Pyburn  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      Amen! I know they know a lot more than they tell us, The pure fact is, they are polititions, and they are trained to LIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • William  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      UFOs aren't real.....the American government says so along with the White House....LOL LOL LOL........once they do land and make themselves known, the President and Congress will be THE FIRST TO RUN AND HIDE....LOL LOL LOL
    • Wayne Farley  •  1 mth 3 days ago
      some one lost there hat.
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