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A man who spent 14 years with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has shared a never-before-seen video of a UFO that was spotted in the Arizona sky. In his duties with the CBP, Army veteran Bob Thompson was part of the Tucson, Arizona sector’s special operations detachment mobile response team and was tasked with coordinating airspace along the border. During those 14 years, he reports witnessing numerous objects in the sky that he could not explain.
“I’ve seen orbs that were off in the distance. I’ve seen crafts that were cigar-shaped, I’ve seen triangles,” Thompson told Reality Check with Ross Coulthart on NewsNation. He added that he had personally spoken to “at least 100” border agents who had witnessed anomalous objects.
He gave one example where “small triangles that were flying over agents” that showed no visible means of propulsion. He also discussed “a very large triangle” that an agent who was near Yuma, Arizona out on patrol saw fly over him. “The way he described it was at least 100 feet maybe 50 to 100 feet wide, silent, flying right over him,” said Thompson.
One video Thompson and Coulthart discussed was taken in November 2019 by an infrared camera on a RC-26B surveillance aircraft that was tracking a group of people who had crossed the border illegally in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Area. Thompson says that it appeared to show a UFO he says was almost shaped like a rubber duck. That UFO’s thermal signature also didn’t match known planes or drones.
“They seemed to think it was searching for something,” Thompson said.
In another video shot in May of 2021 and known as “La Bruja,” Bob Thompson says shows a shape that almost appeared humanoid in the Tohono O’odham Nation reservation.
The new never-before-seen UFO video that Thompson shared reveals a short, cylindrical object moving quickly without any visible wings or propellers, nicknamed “The Cigar.” That video was shot by a Customs and Border Patrol reconnaissance plane in the same vicinity where the rubber duck video was taken.
“There’s obviously something going on in Arizona along the border areas, more than just illegal immigration,” said Thompson. “No one likes to talk about it freely. I think it’s just still a taboo subject.”
Are all of these UFO sightings made by Bob Thompson and other U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents part of the ongoing mystery known as the “Phoenix Lights?” That’s what he and others are trying to find out.