A woman on vacation with her husband in Alaska filmed a strange, jellyfish-shaped UFO hovering next to a U.S. military base. The object appeared to have several long tentacles dangling below it, then suddenly vanished.
The mysterious UFO sighting occurred near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, home to F-22 Raptor fighter jets. Sara Jane Osborn and her husband, Pete, had stopped to take pictures of a rainbow when she saw something strange in the sky.
“I was annoyed, because I was like, is that a mosquito?” Osborn recalled, according to the International Business Times.
What she was looking at turned out to be much more interesting than a mosquito, so she took more photos and recorded a video. Her husband estimated the object was about three miles away, but the UFO’s actual size and distance are only guesses.
“It was gone almost as soon as it had appeared,” she said.
Was The Mysterious Jellyfish UFO Just A Kite?
According to NDTV, some viewers said the object looked like a commercially available jellyfish-shaped kite. One person even reported seeing someone holding the string of a similar kite.
However, Sara Jane Osborn said, “It was very clearly not a kite in its movements.”
The couple reportedly spent about 30 minutes searching the area for someone who might have been flying a kite, but found no one.
She also wondered whether a kite so big could even be flown in the nearby park. “It’s a very small park. You can’t operate a large kite from that park,” she remarked.
She also said she is familiar with the vibrant kites flown over the city’s parks because she has lived in Anchorage for many years. This wasn’t one of those.
Osborn proposed that “only God and the government” might know what the UFO actually was. “Because it was there, and then it wasn’t. I can’t deny that it happened,” she said.
As one person on X pointed out, “There’s a VERY easy way to prove this ‘UFO Jellyfish’ is actually just a kite… The kite flyer can chime in… If a person had this intricate, expensive and huge kite…and just happened to fly it through a gorgeous rainbow… They surely took a pic or video from their pov. So…let’s see it and put this whole thing to rest.”
This Isn’t The First Jellyfish UFO To Make Headlines
In January 2024, investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell released video of another jellyfish-shaped UFO reportedly recorded over a U.S. military base in Iraq in 2018.
Corbell claimed the object was not visible to standard night-vision equipment. He also said witnesses saw it plunge into a body of water before shooting back up in the sky.
The Pentagon later responded to questions about the footage, declining to comment on the legitimacy of the purported leaked Defense Department material.
More recently, a downed American fighter pilot described Iranian drones flying in a formation that looked like a jellyfish. That sighting, however, involved suspected military drones, not a mysterious flying object. Or a kite.