DailyMail.com has obtained stunningly clear video of a dark orb UFO hovering outside an airport used by the creator of the infamous Reaper drone.
Contractor Andy Segobia, 52, was driving to work at El Mirage Airport near Adelanto, California, in August 2020 when he saw a 10-foot sphere hanging in the air.
He grabbed his iPhone 7 and started filming the object no more than 50 feet in the air, recording surprisingly clear video compared to many grainy or blurry UFO images.
Segobia told DailyMail.com that the object looked like dark tinted glass to the naked eye, was the size of the top of a palm tree, about 6 to 12 feet in diameter, and was completely silent.
‘I thought it was a balloon at first. As I got closer I saw it wasn’t attached to anything,” he said.
“There was no sign of propulsion, there was no sound, he just sat there.”
Andy Segobia, 52, shared images of what appeared to be a dark orb UFO hovering outside El Mirage Airport near Adelanto, California in August 2020.
Segobia told DailyMail.com that the spherical object looked like dark tinted glass, had a diameter of about 6 to 10 feet and was completely silent.
At the time, he was doing building maintenance work for General Atomics, a military contractor that makes the MQ-9 Reaper drone.
After filming the 90-second video of the stationary object, he said he had to go into a building to take some measurements, and came out less than a minute later to find it gone.
‘We entered this building 5 meters away, took one measurement, walked out the door and it was gone. It lasted maybe 30 seconds,” he said.
‘I looked everywhere, it was a clear day, I would have seen it floating away. It disappeared or just shot out of there. I was disappointed that I didn’t have those images.’
Segobia’s foreman, Juan Valdez, was with him that day. Valdez confirmed to DailyMail.com that he also saw the object, but made no further comment.
“I looked around, I even walked over to see if it fell to the ground,” Segobia said.
‘It was gone, nowhere to be seen. If I had stayed there another minute, I would have seen it zoom away or disappear.”
Segobia said he would regularly see airplane-shaped unmanned drones taking off and landing on the El Mirage runway, and that General Atomics was working there to build and repair drones.
But he said the orb was unlike anything he had ever seen.
“It came out silver when I shot the video. But it was a black tinted ball. It gave off some kind of heat or something, a kind of wave that prevented me from seeing the ball.
Segobia, a contractor, was doing building maintenance work for General Atomics, a military contractor that makes the MQ-9 Reaper drone, when he spotted the unusual object
Metadata from the video shows that the video was filmed on August 4, 2020 at 7:08 AM with an iPhone 7 Plus, with coordinates at El Mirage Field near Adelanto, northeast of Los Angeles. Weather data for Adelanto at that time shows wind speeds of about 7 mph from the south
“If you drive to Vegas and it looks like there’s water on the street, that’s kind of what it was like. It gave off some kind of wave, I assume it was some kind of heat.
‘I’ve seen it up close. There was only a fence and a small patch of earth separating us. It was outside their property in the middle of the desert. I don’t know what it was doing there.
‘It seemed strange to me because it was floating there outside the area.
‘It’s very quiet there, in the middle of nowhere. It was a clear day.’
Metadata from the video shows that the video was filmed on August 4, 2020 at 7:08 AM with an iPhone 7 Plus, with coordinates at El Mirage Field near Adelanto, northeast of Los Angeles.
According to WeatherSpark.comWeather data for Adelanto at that time shows wind speeds of about 7 miles per hour from the south.
The object Segobia filmed in 2020 resembles silver orbs captured on camera by Reaper drones in the Middle East and published by the government’s UFO research agency, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
The existence of the Reaper footage was first revealed by DailyMail.com in October 2022.
In testimony before the Senate in April last year, 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) were spherical or spherical.
The object Segobia filmed in 2020 resembles silver orbs captured on camera by Reaper drones in the Middle East (shown during a Senate hearing on the Pentagon’s Anomaly Resolution Office in April)
Then AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick showed a video of an ‘unsolved’ case in the Middle East where a drone picked up a ‘metal sphere’
El Mirage Field is located about 25 miles southeast of Edwards Air Force Base, where special UFO stories have appeared since 1957.
Decorated Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper claimed that in 1957 he captured on camera a flying saucer hovering above the ground and landing in a dry lakebed near Edwards.
The late Air Force veteran said the object took off on approach, retracted its landing gear and flew away at high speed.
Cooper said he gave the images to his commanding officers and never saw them again.
On declassified 1965 audio tapes from the base, you can hear radar operators following along seven and twelve unidentified objects traveling tens of thousands of feet over Edwards at high speed.
The tapes revealed that the base had a “UFO officer” to whom the case was referred, with “lots of live data and footage.”
An F-106 aircraft was deployed to investigate the objects, but was unable to capture them as they shot up above 40,000 feet.
Radarman Chuck Sorrels said in the 1996 documentary “UFO Sightings” that he knew they were not helicopters or planes, but could not identify what they were.