President Joe Biden's December visit to Tinseltown for a campaign fundraiser had caused such a stir that even aliens might have wanted to see what all the fuss was about!
Airplane spotters caught a UFO on camera hovering over Air Force 1 in Los Angeles during Biden's December 10 trip, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The spherical white or silver object was filmed several times above LAX airport and spotted by multiple witnesses.
Explanations range from a mere balloon to an alien probe searching for intelligent life. Whatever the case, it looked like it would give up on the president's entourage after less than an hour.
The object caused a stir on social media due to its similarity to 'metallic sphere' UFOs captured on camera by Reaper drones in the Middle East and studied by the government's official UFO agency – while skeptics dismissed the case as a everyday statement.
Airplane enthusiasts Joshua and Peter Solorzano were filming at LAX airport on Sunday, December 10, hoping to catch Air Force 1.
They were pleased to see two F-35 fighter jets on camera patrolling the skies, enforcing a temporary flight restriction for the commander-in-chief, and even filmed them being refueled in mid-air by a KC-10 tanker.
Last week, a UFO was captured on CCTV hovering in the sky above Air Force 1. It was captured by aircraft enthusiasts Joshua and Peter Solorzano on their YouTube channel LA Flights
The white or silver orb was compared to that seen by Reaper drones in the Middle East, appearing three times in just under an hour
But at 10:18 a.m., while running their livestream for their popular YouTube channel LA Flights, they saw a white sphere zoom across the screen.
Three minutes later, the object reappeared in the upper right corner of the camera view while training on the KC-10.
The object appeared a third time at 11:08 a.m., directly above cameraman Joshua Solorzano.
He can be heard on the livestream: 'It's directly above us. It's moving, it's not a star. I'm telling you they're flying in from the ocean. Very strange at the moment.'
Joshua said he thought it was a balloon, but Peter called it a “UAP” – the government's preferred term for unidentified anomalous phenomenon.
The two joked that the Secret Service would soon urge them to confiscate the creepy footage.
Chris Cullari, a 37-year-old screenwriter from the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles, saw what appeared to be the same object around 12:30 that day while walking through Culver City to catch a train.
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At approximately 10:28 a.m. a white sphere was spotted across the screen, minutes later the object reappeared in the upper right of the camera view while training on the KC-10.
'I didn't see it move. “I looked at it for about 15 minutes to see if it would tear loose or something, and it just kept floating,” he said.
Cullari, who hosts a podcast called Afraid all the timeadded that he also saw an LAPD helicopter circling near the object, and shared photos of the UFO with DailyMail.com, with a time stamp of 12:36 that day.
'It just looked like a distant white ball. The fact that it was standing still caught my attention,” he said. “And the fact that there was an LAPD helicopter circling caught my attention. But from where I was I couldn't tell if the helicopter was circling because of the object or something on the ground.”
Film director Robert Wood, 44, said he was walking his dog in North Hollywood between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. when he saw a white orb move through the air and disappear from view behind some buildings.
“It was a solid white spherical object traveling north towards Burbank Airport,” he told DailyMail.com.
'It caught my attention because it was quite large and white against the blue of the sky. It was moving quite quickly, not shooting, but moving as fast as an airplane seemed to move through the air.
'It could have been a balloon or something else. I'm really not sure.'
The silver orb, filmed by the Solorzanos, resembles UFOs captured by Reaper drone cameras in the Middle East, published this year by government UFO research agency AARO.
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Other witnesses stated that the object appeared to be heading north toward Burbank Airport
Eyewitness Chris Cullari said he also saw an LAPD helicopter circling near the object
The existence of the Reaper footage was first revealed by DailyMail.com last October.
In testimony before the Senate in April, then-AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick saw some images of the 'metal sphere' and revealed statistics showing that 34% of 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' (the government's term for UFOs) are spherical or spherical. formed.
Since the release of the footage, filmed by an MQ-9 Reaper drone on July 12, 2022, researchers have tried to explain this.
A research group called Bellingcat used satellite data to match AARO's UFO video to a location northeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria.
The group then used the satellite data to estimate the object's diameter, likely less than five feet.
They concluded that it may have been a balloon covered in a silvery, reflective material called mylar, released during 'Eid al-Adha', the second and largest religious holiday celebrated in the Muslim world.
Author Mick West, who has become known as a UFO debunker, looked at the Los Angeles orb images for DailyMail.com and said his best guess was a balloon.
“That's what AARO would call a 'balloon-like entity,'” he said. 'He looks like a balloon and moves like a balloon, but like he is in the LIZ [low information zone]you can't prove it's a balloon.'
The object was filmed in the sky above LAX airport and experts say they cannot say for certain that it was a balloon due to its position within the low information zone.
West said the apparent motion of the object in the video is likely an illusion because it is closer to the camera than the fast-moving plane in the background.
“It appears to be a white object not moving through the air, just moving with the wind, so no airspeed,” he said. “There's nothing to indicate it's not a balloon; you just can't prove it.'
Weather data from Los Angeles for December 10 showed a wind speed measured at about 30 feet, between 8 and 10 miles per hour in the morning and early afternoon.
The wind direction was northerly between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., according to data from weatherpark.com.
Balloons flying in sensitive airspace became a national concern in February of this year when suspected Chinese spy balloons were shot down over the United States.
One balloon entered U.S. airspace on Jan. 28 and was shot down by an F-22 Raptor off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4 after passing over U.S. nuclear missile sites, including Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
Top secret intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, revealed that US intelligence agencies were aware of four more Chinese spy balloons.