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Mysterious UFO Spotted Near Air Force One Over LAX

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 22, 2023 15 Comments

a plane flying in the sky

Ahead of President Joe Biden’s fundraising trip to Southern California earlier this month, a mysterious spherical metallic UFO was sighted in the air as Air Force One approached Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). What could this thing have been?

UFO Spotted Three Times Over LAX As Air Force One Approached

Captured by the aviation enthusiast YouTube channel LA Flights, video shows a spherical metallic-colored orb which appears to zoom past a KC-10 Extender. There were fighter jets over LAX along with the KC-10, an aerial refueling craft modeled on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, to enforce a Temporary Flight Restriction for the approaching Air Force One, carrying President Biden.

At 10:18 am Pacific Time, the object was sighted for the first time. It disappeared but reappeared at 10:21 am and again at 11:08 am. The commentary of Peter and Joshua, who run the LA Flights YouTube channel, is rather painful to listen to, but the UFO is unmistakable:

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAPs in the military, often resemble spherical objects. A US Senate hearing earlier this year disclosed that 34% of UFOs are spherical or orb-shaped.

There is a decent chance this was simply a balloon. A similar object was recently sighted over Syria and investigators determined it was indeed a balloon coated in mylar (a silvery, reflective material) and released to celebrate Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the Quranic tale of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God.

But you do have to wonder how the balloon kept appearing, disappearing, and reappearing. Apparently a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter “investigated” the UFO, but no statement, photos, or video have been released.

CONCLUSION

A UFO flew past military jets over Los Angeles just ahead of Air Force One landing at LAX. While the object might be a ballon, I do wonder if what something else, like a drone or other remote-controlled device. While I have seen no evidence to suggest that extraterrestrial life exists, it is big universe out there…

Did you watch the video? What do you think the object over LAX was?


image: L.A Flights / YouTube

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15 Comments

  1. Derek Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    probably one of our aircraft that officially does not exist

    The military tech is usually decades ahead of the civilian tech. The fact that we are bragging about the B-21 means it is already obsolete crap

  2. Alert Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    Obviously a small round cloud .

  3. derek Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 2:59 pm

    I am derek, not Derek.

    That object is an Air Force drone. I cannot say more in public.

  4. JoeMart Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 3:10 pm

    This is a nothing burger. To know what goes on inside a UFO all one has to do is watch Alien and its sequels.

  5. Matthew Klint Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 3:22 pm

    We all joke, but this is really something – what could this thing be. It doesn’t look like a balloon…

  6. Santastico Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    Totally off topic but for all those who hammered Kyle’s post about CLEAR, just travelled today from MSP. Regular lines were 40 minutes long (per airport’s monitor signs). CLEAR took my family 3 minutes. Not worthy?

    • GUWonder Reply
      December 23, 2023 at 12:30 am

      Last week PreCheck out of MSP was much faster while I was around than Clear with PreCheck. And that is even as Clear had like 2-4 times as many workers standing around than passengers using it.

  7. Chi Hsuan Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    If only they were hostile aliens. They could have used their death ray on our illegitimate “president” and then taken Kamala off to be featured in their intergalactic zoo under the exhibit name “Empty-skulled Earth blabbermouth”

  8. Tony N. Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 4:42 pm

    Obviously part of the US government…drone operations….

  9. Mike Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    Speechless. Not about the u.f.o., but the comments.

  10. JorgeGeorge Paez Reply
    December 22, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    Horrible camera work.
    They call that zooming in?

  11. GUWonder Reply
    December 23, 2023 at 12:27 am

    Metallic color balloons can naturally appear to flash on and and off based on the movement of light and obstructions in the sky and atmosphere and play such visibility games.

    Eid al-Adha was in summer 2023, so I don’t exactly get the Syrian balloon reference as being recent unless summer 2023 is to be taken as recent when we are in winter 2023. Did the Syrian balloon stay aloft across the seasons?

  12. GUWonder Reply
    December 23, 2023 at 12:34 am

    One of those images looks like a small drone to me.

    The era of UFO = operated by non-humans is for now a relic of a bygone era.

  13. Mr. Bill Reply
    December 23, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    I just walked off the Grassy Knoll to check this out. As you can see the US Government flew its most classified drone ever over LAX in the middle of the day as no one would be looking up around a busy airport. Evil Genesises in Black Drone Land. Damn….

    • GUWonder Reply
      December 23, 2023 at 10:47 pm

      It was on a routine super top secret time-traveling mission between Area 51 and Area 88 when the UFO got commandeered by a rival group of space aliens to take out Kennedy and replace him with a body-snatched LBJ. The National Enquirer told me so at a Texas Stop N Go.

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