UFO enthusiasts are trying to draw parallels between an old video that appears to show a flying plane zooming through the clouds and the recently released image of the UFO that was shot down near Alaska last year.
The photo shows an apparently glowing horseshoe-shaped object with poorly defined edges over the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada on February 11, 2023.
An internal email obtained by CTVNews A Canadian brigadier general had described it this way: ‘The upper quarter is metallic, the rest white. There’s a six-metre wire hanging underneath it, with some package hanging from it.’
It was shot down by a US Air Force F-22 stealth fighter during a joint mission with the Canadian Forces following the now infamous Chinese spy balloon drama that made international news that month.
A former Royal Canadian Air Force officer told DailyMail.com that based on his conversations with three active-duty personnel involved in the shooting, the object was a balloon similar to the Chinese plane shot down days earlier.
Nevertheless, a user to Reddit said they were able to stabilize another UFO video from more than a dozen years ago, claiming it was similar to the shot object.
The released image of the UFO that was shot down by US fighter jets in the Yukon territory on February 11, 2023. Canadian authorities suspect it was a balloon similar to the Chinese spy craft that was shot down in US airspace days earlier
This is a photo of an alleged UFO that some on social media say resembles the horseshoe-shaped spacecraft that was shot down in the Yukon Territory. This photo is from an alleged UFO sighting video that is 12 years old
“I recently stabilized this footage, which has provided some interesting comparisons to the ‘horseshoe’ object reportedly shot over the Yukon in 2023,” the poster wrote. ‘After the video is stabilized, the crescent or horseshoe shape of the object becomes much clearer, along with its peculiar flight dynamics.’
They said the stabilization was done using Adobe After Effects and Premiere, software packages for motion graphics and video editing.
The video was originally posted by a YouTube channel called ‘xxxdonutzxxx’, which claimed the footage was shot over Busan, South Korea.
The reactions to the stabilized footage were all over the place, with some people showing excitement and others showing skepticism.
“A better way to avoid confusion would be to publish a high-resolution color photo or video, like they did with that beam interceptor and the Chinese spy balloon. Amazing how transparency actually works,” one user wrote.
A photo taken on February 1, 2023 shows the suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over Billings, Montana
The suspected Chinese spy balloon floats towards the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina on February 4, 2023
Another objected to the very idea of aliens flying around in spacecraft that always look different in every UFO video.
They wrote: ‘Serious question; Why does every UFO look different? Do aliens hate mass production? Have they never heard of cost reduction through standardization? What does that say about their economy? Are they idiots?’
Those more inclined to believe aliens have offered a number of explanations for this. Some said there could be many different alien races with different vehicles. Others thought their spacecraft could probably effect a change.
Elsewhere on social media, people are claiming that all the videos on the now-abandoned ‘xxxdonutzxxx’ are fake and were created by two CG artists named Nico and Marco Kaschuba.
One person posted an alleged UFO sighting in Monument Valley, Arizona, from the ‘xxxdonutzxxx’ channel on a UFO forum on April 5, 2012.
At the bottom of the post is a copyright belonging to ‘Kaschuba Ufology.’
DailyMail.com approached Marco Kaschuba for comment but he did not immediately respond.