{
  "reviewed": "2026-09-06",
  "thread": "https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/1fotv09/the_ufo_shot_down_over_the_yukon_shows/",
  "scope": "Post, accessible comments and three expanded reply threads reviewed. Linked records checked separately; video review used sampled playback frames.",
  "leads": [
    {
      "name": "Mount Vernon, Missouri",
      "date": "20 February 2024",
      "kind": "Witness report",
      "source": "https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=180548",
      "finding": "One observer, using 12× binoculars for 3–4 seconds, described an irregular round object: either a missing piece or a protrusion. The report predates the Yukon comparison thread.",
      "next": "Resolve the witness's distinction between a recess and a protrusion. No image accompanies this record."
    },
    {
      "name": "Newton Abbot, England",
      "date": "Claimed 4 November 2016; article 14 September 2022",
      "kind": "Photographer's account",
      "source": "https://medium.com/@johnmooner-chief/horseshoe-ufo-captured-6c22cd84ace1",
      "finding": "John Mooner describes a greenish horseshoe photographed with a Nikon P900.",
      "next": "Obtain the original photographs and sequence. The narrative was read; the photographs were not accessible for inspection."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saint Petersburg, Russia",
      "date": "Claimed 14 September 2020; upload 17 September",
      "kind": "44-second video",
      "source": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmI6dxLqYo",
      "finding": "Sampled views show a small object changing apparent profile against the sky. Its edge is too small in the inspected video to resolve a C-shaped opening.",
      "reviewed_seconds": [
        6.96,
        13.06,
        38.95
      ],
      "next": "Trace the camera-original recording and inspect the full sequence."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pernambuco, Brazil",
      "date": "Claimed 11 July 2020; upload 12 July",
      "kind": "183-second video",
      "source": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twAG1fzod4c",
      "finding": "A sampled later view shows a dark double arc above several lights, rather than the isolated bright C seen in the Busan image.",
      "reviewed_seconds": [
        6.97,
        13.11,
        100.93
      ],
      "next": "Identify the recorder, location and unedited sequence before comparing geometry."
    },
    {
      "name": "North Phoenix, Arizona",
      "date": "Sighting date unresolved",
      "kind": "Linked personal account",
      "source": "https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/2bixsz/weird_shit_happens/",
      "finding": "A commenter links an older description of a doughnut-like object with a bite-shaped opening. The phrase appears in both posts.",
      "next": "Establish the date and continuity of the account. The two posts do not constitute two observations."
    }
  ],
  "control": {
    "name": "Known balloon and payload, Billings",
    "date": "1 February 2023",
    "source": "https://abc30.com/chinese-spy-balloon-china-surveillance/12763290/",
    "finding": "A dark payload can overlap a bright envelope in a photograph and create an apparent inlet. This is a projection control, not the Yukon object."
  },
  "yukon_later_record": {
    "source": "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/science/sites/default/files/documents/sky-canada-report.pdf",
    "finding": "The June 2025 Sky Canada report calls the Yukon object a smaller balloon. It does not explain the detailed appearance of the released image."
  }
}