Footage · infrared-video
"Jellyfish" UAP thermal video (Iraq)
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Al Taqaddum / Jellyfish
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US military / DVIDS ↗Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms applyLicence terms ↗Resized and WebP-converted for display; content unchanged.American Alchemy · 0:03:57
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 3:12:04
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA thermal video published by journalist Jeremy Corbell in January 2024, said to be recorded at a US base in Iraq in 2017 or 2018, showing a dark object with hanging appendages drifting over the base and later over water. The corpus records a guest saying it was debunked and a skeptic proposing coordinated drones.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | Military thermal camera at a US base in Iraq (operator unnamed) US military (leaked) |
| Released | 9 January 2024 — Jeremy Corbell (Weaponized podcast) |
| Official status | The Department of Defense has not commented on the recording; the House Oversight members who saw it did not identify it, and analysts have proposed a smeared thermal image of a balloon cluster or drones. |
| Kind | infrared-video |
| Where | 33.300, 44.300 approximate |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
Did Oppenheimer Work on UFOs? 19 October 2024
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026
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"Jellyfish" UAP thermal video (Iraq). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:03:57 Did Oppenheimer Work on UFOs? ▶
regarding the jellyfish UAP in your opinion it was Birds migrating or you're just you were just making an analogy it ended up being debunked it it wasn't any it was not a a u UAP
- 3:12:04 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) ▶
the jellyfish UAP looks to be a group of drones. The drones are interconnected, you know, Bluetooth or whatever, and they're coordinated. Well, why
- Jeremy Corbell releases "jellyfish" UAP video