WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp - Instantaneous Acceleration - Military-Filmed UFO Footage

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

In 2021, an MQ-9 Reaper drone, while patrolling the skies over the Jordanian-Syrian border, caught a glimpse of an unknown object. The controller of the sensor platform eventually managed to get a lock on the object, but when they did, the UAP seemingly mocked the high-tech Reaper and displayed astonishing speed - akin to instantaneous acceleration - one of the “Five Observables” used by our military to identify genuine UAP. Military aviators have described similar acceleration they’ve seen with their own eyes. Now, for the first time, video recorded by U.S. intelligence operatives of a genuine UAP displaying mind-boggling acceleration is being made public. In this episode of WEAPONIZED, Jeremy and George invite friend and colleague Marik von Rennenkampff back to the program to review the unique UAP video made public last week and to meticulously analyze a new, never-before-seen piece of footage of a mystery object designated by the military as a UAP. See the footage for yourselves and hear Marik’s point-by-point evaluation of how the UAP displays evidence of the very first official “observable” - unlike any video ever obtained from government servers. TRIANGLE FORMATION UAP / FULL REPORT : ⁠https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/news-1/syria-uap⁠ 🤖 MERCH : https://Weaponized-Shop.Fourthwall.com 👽 MAIN : https://YouTube.com/@JeremyCorbell 🛸 CLIPS : https://YouTube.com/@WEAPONIZEDclips 🕵️ MORE : https://WeaponizedPodcast.com GOT A TIP? Reach out to us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ••• Watch Corbell's six-part UFO docuseries titled UFO REVOLUTION on TUBI here : ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tubitv.com/series/300002259/tmz-presents-ufo-revolution/season-2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch Knapp’s six-part UFO docuseries titled INVESTIGATION ALIEN on NETFLIX here : ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://netflix.com/title/81674441⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ••• You can now watch all of Corbell's movies for free on YouTube here : BOB LAZAR : AREA 51 & FLYING SAUCERS ⁠https://youtu.be/sZaE5rIavVA⁠ HUNT FOR THE SKINWALKER ⁠https://youtu.be/TczkJ6UAQ8A⁠ PATIENT SEVENTEEN ⁠https://youtu.be/gDVX0kRqXxE⁠ ••• For breaking news, follow Corbell & Knapp on all social media. Extras and bonuses from the episode can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WeaponizedPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I've ever seen. And I've spent a lot of time looking at infrared videos and done a lot of geometrical analysis of these videos. Those five, six observables, you know, there's one that just, it's in your face in this footage. It's moseying along at whatever speed it is. We get a lock on it. Oh boy, we got a lock on it.

And it realizes, oh, you got a lock on me. Here, follow this, dude. See you. This is weaponized. This is weaponized. I'm George Knapp here in sunny post-winter. Already feels like we're on the edge of summer, Las Vegas. Joined by my friend and colleague Jeremy Corbell.

Man, Jeremy, it was one tough winter here, a long, tough winter we just had. Brutely cold. I mean, it got down into the 40s sometimes, mostly in the 60s, though. And gosh, I'm so glad that's over with. I didn't have to use my motorized snowplow at all. The entire East Coast is belly aching. There's some, you know, once in every 10-year snowstorm. And, you know, friends are saying they're digging out their cars.

I don't know if they're exaggerating, but they're telling me it's pretty gnarly on the East Coast with snow. Yeah, my regrets go out to them. I miss winter. I mean, I'd like to see at least some kind of winter here in Las Vegas. But we basically didn't have one at all. And now the sun is shining. It could go out in bag rays today. I wanted to mention something.

I do want to wish a happy birthday to Mr. Fournames himself, Jeremy, and I think in honor of your birthday, Jeremy, we should probably award you another name. I mean, you could be Mr. Five Name. And I nominate the name Duke because I've always liked that name. I had an uncle named Duke, and I hereby bequeathed to you, or maybe you can just think about it for a day or two. Duke, Mr. Five Names. Happy birthday. All the nicknames I've ever had had been like, shithead and stuff like that.

Duke, I'll take it. That's a great one. So last week on this program, we uncorked a new UAP video, designated UAP by the Department of War and its analysts, not by us. It was video acquired from official Department of War, vaults and collections. And although I've been mostly off of social media for the past week or so, I was pretty sure that people would be happy about this video, glad to see some new footage, never before released, images that would be embraced by UFO World.

which is always what happens, you know, so how'd that play out? I mean, no one could possibly say that objects in those video, that video were birds or balloons, could they? Right. I mean, we predicted that, you know, and it's a difficult balance and dance. You know, it's very hard to get new data for people to look at at all. That is a heroic feat if new data gets out to the public and not just by us. I mean, it's a heroic feat in general. So I'm really great. grateful to be able to see these things. And, you know, I think and you think the public needs to see them too as far as our reporting goes. But we do know that there's going to be easy dismissals of things. Look, we told people the actual reality that this is part of an analysis of UAP that's

designated UAP, even the term orb in documentation, triangle formation UAP, you know, so obviously and clearly people have been studying the footage. You put it out and the easy things that you say is, well, you know, looks like a bird, looks like a balloon, you know, here's another example. Okay, fine, but those are people filming birds and balloons. And typically when you're looking through that data and that sensor system, you'd hope to have more data. And that's always the key is that if you don't have enough data inside of a piece of

footage, then people can dismiss things and try to say, nothing to see here, move on. And you don't really have a rebuttal because you know, and we're reporting correctly, the information, but you know, you can't disprove the disprovers. So it really comes down to the best fidelity is going to be when there's a lot of numbers on the screen. There's a lot of data where you can see range and speed and all that. I think ultimately, George, you and I, when we've been exposed to stuff, and if we can obtain and release, then the point is we'd love to show the observables. You know, we all talk about the observables with UAP and, you know, there's five or six observables, but they are significant when you're looking at the way that these machines, these hard physical machines, the way that they prepare.

and traverse. So that's really the kind of the golden ring, as they say, is if you can have a piece of footage that truly shows one of the observables we've all heard about in UFO land. You know, I laugh at some of the comments that have been sent to me by other people. It's like they can't get over the fact that these sensor systems way up in the sky do not have IMAX movie quality cameras attach to them, that the images that are recorded by sensor systems, classified sensor systems, are not suitable for showing in a movie theater. They're picked up on thermal sensors, things like that. So they're not really cinematic in their presentation.

And to those who think it's easy and that there's got to be better video, go get it. Let's knock yourself out. If it's so easy, go ahead and go get it. If it really exists out there, we try really hard to get the best images we can. We spend a lot of time vetting them. And we present them and people can take him or leave them, whatever they want. Well, let me correct you once again. We don't try that, you know, that's, we've never solicited anything.

People know that we're trustworthy. I saw some comments online, like this big conspiracy, like, oh, they released something again, like, you know, some mystery, like we're part of some conspiracy, some grand conspiracy, where we get this footage and then we put it out and we must be seating. the population with some lie, you know, I take umbrage to that, and I rarely do, because we never asked for this. We never solicit. People trust us, and that's what it comes down to. I've talked to numerous people that have come forward to you and me, and why did you choose, you know, us? Why did you, there's a ton of people you could go to. Why did you choose us? Because I trust you.

I trust you to not handle this poorly. I trust you to not twist anything. And I really, I'm grateful that people do. So I just wanted to kind of say that was a response that I saw. Is it part of some grand conspiracy? No, it's like really hard work in just allowing people to know they're safe to trust you. And then if it is something that is acceptable to put out. And there's times that it's not. A lot of the stuff.

Most of the stuff, I'd say, that comes our way, we never use it. Never. Right. So I do want to get somebody to weigh in, somebody who knows what they're talking about. in analyzing videos like that and what else we might be sharing today and in future episodes. And he's become a good friend of ours, somebody we trust, to take a fair look at these videos that come our way, one way or another. His name is Merrick von Renencamp. He's a contributor to the Hill, an opinion writer for the Hill.

But before that, he was an analyst for the Department of State's Bureau of International Security. He was a presidential appointee to the Department of Defense, now called the Department of War, and he really has helped us understand what is and is not in videos like this. Merrick, welcome back to Weaponized. George, Jeremy, thanks so much for having me. I'm really, really excited to be here to talk about this new footage that we are about to be releasing here. Wait, wait, are we releasing? You're blue-le-secret. It's Blue the Secret.

Okay, look. So, Merrick. There is, you know, new footage, and we've shown you some. I just want to tell our audience, you know, George and I go through this extensive process. And when we get to the, to kind of towards the end of that process, I mean, you can attest to it, Merrick. We're really careful. Sometimes we have things that we think are really good, but we don't have the technical knowledge. And you've actually helped us assess things that we're like, okay, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

We're not sure on that one. So we're not going to put that out. So you've really been helpful to us unweaponized with just some of the technical stuff that we are not capable of doing. So you're kind of the last step for us sometimes is, you know, is this going to increase value into the conversation about true UAP? And so we did. We shared with you kind of, you know, some really interesting footage that we were certain was interesting. And I think you concur. But I would like you to educate people, professor, you know, I'd like.

you to educate people about kind of what we're seeing before we look at the video so we can really understand what's going on unless you want to tell me a little bit about what's going on in your personal life right now because I'd like to know that too. We can put pause on that for maybe for a future discussion. But I will, I'll preface this in all seriousness and I've spent quite a bit of time looking at these videos. Right. We all know the gimbal video and the tick-tack video, the Omaha, the Jackson, you go up and down the list, all of which are extraordinary and they cannot, believe it or not, they cannot be explained away very easily. And the armchair debunkers have hidden behind very convoluted explanations or, frankly,

have not offered any explanations at all for some of these videos, which I think, you know, is indicative of the truly anomalous nature of what we're seeing in some of these videos. but I am, I mean this sincerely, and I don't mean to be hyperbolic, but the footage, Jeremy, that you sent to me to review is on its face, simply on its face, the most extraordinary footage I've ever seen. And I've spent a lot of time looking at infrared videos and done a lot of geometrical analysis of these videos. So I will, I'll preface the discussion by saying, and you alluded to it, Jeremy, but those those, those, Those five, six observables, you know, there's one that just, it's in your face in this footage and a preliminary analysis, which we'll get into, but on my end, and I'm just giving folks the bottom line up front here, preliminary analysis does not suggest that it's an artifact of some kind of weird camera movement, and that first observable is instantaneous acceleration. And it, I'm sure to, you know, to, again, at a very first kind of run preliminary analysis does appear. appear to be what we see in this footage. And secondarily, we see an object, and again, we'll dive into the details, but we see an object

lacking wings, flaps, control surfaces, a discernible or obvious means of propulsion. There's no jet exhaust, and it makes direction change. And that's another observable potentially. That's positive lift, colloquially known as anti-gravity, but that is another observable. appears to be demonstrated and there's potentially a third and that is hypersonic velocity because the speed with which this thing appears to zip out of frame is quite extraordinary. So I'm prefacing all of that kind of with my high level takeaways. I invite obviously further analysis, but this is this is quite an extraordinary piece of footage and kudos to you guys for getting it out. Well, we're going to do it

together. Yeah. So are we going to let it fly here now? Maybe I did it here, but I wanted to see if Merrick was going to address the last week's video as well. Yeah, it's interesting. Right? We had those, those three, three objects that were, they're recorded from an MQ1 predator drone. This is over the Persian Gulf. Looks like off the coast of Iran. Certainly interesting. I think what we really need to do and our good friend Mick West has built a 3D simulation to for precisely these kinds of these kinds of cases and videos. He seems to say it's a bird. Well then we then we say okay prove it. You have camera elevation angle. You have the line of sight, the bearing that the line of sight is you have that the actual location over the ocean where that that camera is pointed.

So you have a lot of metrics. Okay, let's put let's put it in. Let's do that let's do the science. He hasn't done that yet. The day, I think the day before or two days before that video came out, Mick was on social media saying, oh, I'm not posting, I'm not active, I'm just bored, I'm paraphrasing, because there haven't been any good UFO videos. Well, here are two, Mick, you know, let's go ahead and let's do the analysis and, you know, let's have the discussion. Yeah, absolutely.

When we saw that video, the three objects, it looks like a triangle, like maybe it's a fixed structure and then the points of light changed position relative to each other didn't look like it's a singular object. But it's still, as far as you're concerned, it's not that strong compared to other things that you've seen. You know, the challenge with most of these videos is that we don't know the range. We don't know how far that object is from the camera. We know how far the ocean or the ground is. We have a very good sense of what that is, but we don't have the range. And that is the key element that, you know, that will make or break in a, it'll separate, you know, an interesting video from an extraordinary video. Unless,

unless it's something that's plainly obvious or very much in your face, like the video we, we might be watching in a few minutes here. And that, that is the key. But I, you know, look, I encourage folks to do the geometrical analyses that there is a, there's a lot of data in that in that video, George, and the one that was just released. And, you know, it's interesting, you know, Mick West, the debunker, the world's most prominent debunker has openly admitted that he was paid to develop code to do these 3D simulations, to do this kind of, this kind of work. And he hasn't put it into his simulator.

So look, I look forward to seeing how that develops, because that will learn more once we have that full geometric 3D visualization of what we'll. we're looking at. Jeremy, you sometimes we have to make compromises with what information we can share, right? Security program on spreadsheets, new regulations piling up, and audit dread? It's time for Vanta. Vanta automates security and compliance, brings evidence into one place, and cuts audit prep by 82%. Less manual work, clear visibility, faster deals, zero chaos. Call it compliance, or call it compliance. Get it? Join the 15,000 companies using Vanta to prove trust. Go to VANTA.com slash com.

Yeah, and that's the point. It's a very difficult dance. We do give as much as we can. So, for example, we didn't make up these title names, right? This is designated UAP within intelligence agencies. These are part of analysis a lot of the time. But yeah, I can't go further than that. But yes, we have to protect certain elements of information, you know, wish we didn't have to do that. Best we can do is put it out. And you're calling out one individual, you know, who does analysis. Man, there are so many bright people on the interwebs that can all contribute and really show us their findings.

So I think, you know, with each video that we've been able to, you know, release to the public, it's another data point. So I kind of look at it like a bigger picture. Like some videos, they just teach the public. Like this is not grainy. Even Neil DeKrasse Tyson said, wow, grainy black and white videos. Grainy? These are thermal.

These are weapons, platforms and systems. They can see in the dark. There's no grain in it. So it's like I think even the general public needs to be educated. So every piece helps us understand more. When you saw the gimbal, you saw the TikTok video. I mean, that was huge. People were like, oh my gosh.

When you see some of these UAPs, getting locked. I mean, target lock, solid lock. You know, you get hopefully more information. And I think that's also what we're going to see today. So, yeah, look, give us a breakdown, Merrick, so that people really appreciate the visual they're about. Yeah.

Because it's long. Now, let me tell you, I, you know, I created title cards to replicate the exact title cards that would have been there. This shows a bunch of sections of footage. and then repeats certain elements of footage. Now, I didn't do that. That was part of an internal examination

done by our intelligence agencies. So, you know, that's what you're seeing in these chunks. But we're going to play it in one piece. And what I'd like to do, just because I find this footage so intriguing, it's in your face, it's compelling, to me, at least. I think it's so important that I think it's worthwhile, just doing a very, very high-level kind of,

scene setter, just a little bit of context and background so folks can understand what we're actually looking at. And so what we are looking at is footage from an MQ9 Reaper drone. And we're looking at footage from the camera that is right up here in the front. And this is a, this is a, this is not precise. It's very general. It's very high level overview. There's enough data in the video that allows us to see where this this Reaper drone is flying. It's actually circling in Jordanian airspace. And it's looking, the camera's looking almost exactly due north, maybe just a couple degrees to the east, but basically due north at a very remote area in Syria. And this black line here is the Jordanian-Syrian border. And you'll see the footage that that will show shortly is divided into two. clips and and there's a bit of a separator there and the drone actually flies about two miles north,

northeast in that in that brief period of time. We don't have a timestamp so we don't know how long how long in between that the two clips. But we do know that the drone is circling. So it's, you can tell and I'll get into this in a second, but it is conducting. If you're looking at the drone from a bird's eye view just like this, it's flying in a counterclockwise. circle while keeping an eye on on this area in Syria with its with this sensor with this infrared sensor just some background this this area of Syria is a sway to province which has seen a lot of ISIS and jihadist activity so it's not surprising and I say this intentionally it's not surprising that we had surveillance assets looking at you know villages and and surveying this area and I'll get

that I'll expand on that in a bit Now, here is, I'm cutting to the chase slightly because I'm giving folks a look at the actual, the object. It's the closest I can describe this is something akin to a mushroom, perhaps. But I'll just give folks a very, very quick overview of what we see on this display. And this is a very standard MQ9 display. I want to emphasize that nothing I'm saying here is classified. There's plenty, plenty of footage. open source available out on the internet. There's videos pulled out by the military with all of this

symbology. There's nothing classified here. The fact that we were, that the United States was flying surveillance assets in Syria should not be classified. And I say all that for a reason, which I'll get into in a bit. But up here we see the heading, the aircraft heading. So this is in the second portion of the video. So this is roughly flying roughly west. It's going to be more west-southwest. So two seven-zero's due. west. This thing is pointed. The nose is pointed west-southwest. This is the azimuth angle. That is the direction that the camera is pointed. So it's pointed 100 degrees to the right. So think of directly to your right perpendicularly to your right is 90 degrees. So it's basically your 4 o'clock position.

The camera's pointed to the 4 o'clock position looking behind and to the right of the actual, the nose of the aircraft. This is the aircraft position and altitude. I did a pretty darn close check, and all the numbers check out. It's flying in a circular kind of an orbit, and I think I came out to about 120 knots, which matches up with a reaper's kind of cruising, loitering speed. But folks, if they're interested, they can input these values into Google Earth or Google Maps, and they can see exactly where this object was over time. Down here is the military coordinates is called MGRS.

It's basically a specialized. It's basically the military's version of latitude and longitude. It's a very precise down to a couple feet. It's kind of the military's own lat long system. So that tells us where the camera is pointed, where on the ground, what position over the earth, right? What ground position that camera is looking at? And people, if folks are interested,

They can go online. They're MGRS converters. So you just plug these numbers into the converter, and then you can convert to latitude, longitude, and map it. I'm not going to spend too much time on these numbers. This is elevation above sea level for that ground location. This is the bearing, so the direction the camera is looking relative to the target. Slant range, ground range, field of view height, field of view width, not relevant really to the discussion here. The laser is not firing. The laser will designate and also get ranging, really precise ranging, but it is, to the best of my understanding, not firing at this point. So we're not getting a precise range off of this to this object.

And this is just like this is the left-right kind of metric of where the camera's pointing. The elevation angle shows where relative to the cameras knows how far down. In this case, it's eight degrees down below the aircraft snow. So it's looking, as you can see from the footage, we're looking down at the ground. This right here is an indicator of whether the object is locked. That'll change over the course of the video. This is incredibly important because this tells us we are in black hot. That means objects that are warmer, hotter, are going to appear darker.

They're going to appear black. And objects that are colder, and that is very important. Cold objects appear lighter. And throughout the course of this video, this object, intriguingly enough, despite maneuvering and doing this apparent instantaneous acceleration, is colder, colder than its surroundings, which is interesting. Aircraft are generally going to be warm. Friction on the skin of the aircraft will make them appear warm. And we've seen that, we've seen that before, and that is something that is indicative of UAP, is that the propulsion itself, it doesn't give the same heat signatures that you'd anticipate. I'm just curious when you're looking at the, you said like a mushroom shape, it is like lenticular on the top and it's got a little bit of a bottom. Is this, are we seeing, we're seeing the thermal

signature, but oftentimes we see the shape too. Like you would see wings on this if it was a plane or something at this. That's right. And I have, that's absolutely right, Jeremy. You have a couple examples of that that I can show maybe after we show the video. You're absolutely right. And we'll, we'll get into kind of theories of what it could be, maybe after we show the clip. This little indicator right here shows where north is. And as I mentioned, the camera's pointed basically due north. So that means that once, if the camera, if this indicator is up at the top here, that means we are indeed looking north. If it were down here, that means we are looking south. It's kind of that simple. It's very intuitive. And this over here is the zoom and the field of view, which basically means

the lens. And we'll see that the operator cycle through. And I believe this, is four times digital zoom. So I think this is about as close as we can get. This is zoomed in as far as we can. I'll just very quickly note there are two minor little oddities that I noted that I don't think are a major deal, but but I did notice, we'll see, we'll see on the other footage in the video that there are brackets around the corners of the screen. The bracket in the bottom left that is usually there is not there. So that could be a quirk of that particular system. I'm not sure what that is.

And the other quirk that I noticed was the elevation above sea level does not change over the course of the video. So that could be a setting that the operators do. But I think I braise that because this video, again, on its face is so profound that I think we need to be very, very meticulous about everything about it. I think if we're going to come out and say that this shows what we think it does, we need to be very, again, very meticulous about every, every little. detail. Well, all I ever say is it's short, they think it is that that was the whole thing. There was a full, you know, examination done and it was their words, this is instantaneous acceleration UAP. But yes, when people look at it, then, you know, we have to, you know, decide it. Is that correct? Exactly. But I will say everything else, everything tracks. I mean,

this is, you can, again, look at plenty of examples online of an MQ9 display. Again, nothing classified, it's a perfect match with all this data. So I have very little doubt that this is legit, but I did want to flag all those little caveats. That said, the other, once I watched a video a few times, Jeremy, I remember seeing this office and director of National Intelligence Source was quoted in a daily mail article from back from October of 2022. I believe this is from Josh Boswell. And the operator describes quite literally what we are about to see. He describes an MQ9.

So we have the platform, an MQ9 Reaper drone. The source describes the exact scenario that we see in this video, a town, basically a rural area of Syria. And again, you can check that with the coordinates. And then the source describes what we appear to see in the video. an orb, the operator chases this orb, and then, and I'm going to quote here, the source says, then it will do something remarkable, like suddenly bolt off the screen. So again, we have platform, location, and observed behavior. So that gives me even more confidence that this is, this is something

this video, I suspect, has done the rounds within the intelligence community, within, within the, you know, the military and has certainly potentially garnered some, some inquisitive of folks. And so I think that's, that's fascinating to have this, this description matched precisely what, what we appear to see in, in the video. That's amazing. You found that I had never remembered that. I'm going to hear it from, you know, people that control reapers and, you know, people that are pilots that they'll see these, you know, sharp angle turns or these incredible speeds like commander david favor talks about that just boom it was there and then it wasn't you could just barely see that it moved you know but you could tell

so you we've heard about it a bunch now you bring up that article that's what that appears we're seeing it's actually that that article so the the the date jeremy that you had for this uh for this incident i believe was 2021 that article came out in october of 2022 and here we are what three three and a half years later looking at the literal quite literally the you know what appears to be the video that was described there if not you know there maybe there are others and if there's a there's a lot of others describing a general thing but i mean yeah down to the point of syria so it could it could be i don't know yeah well let's play it um so the the video we're going to play is uh three minutes long it's almost three minutes long and that's because it it shows these

two parts. There's a little flash of black between the first two clips. And you kind of watch it and you're like, huh. And within our intelligence agencies, they were like, huh. And so you'll see these title cards in between. Those are not my words is what I'm going to say. Those are not my words. And then you can see the analysis that was done. And so it'll repeat a few times. Okay. Let's play it. The following UAP video has no audio. We recommend our audio listeners to watch the full video version of this episode. The following UAP video has no audio. We recommend our audio listeners to watch the full video version of this episode.

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He's in the narrow field of view. He can zoom in further, and the operator will. We're in black hot. This object appears to be moving left. That is almost certainly parallax. So if you can see at the top, the plane is flying east. Something is moving perpendicularly to it. So that's almost certainly parallax.

Operator tries to lock it up here. And you can see that the operator is attempting to do it manually, not working. Then we had that break. And now this is the second part of the clip. And at that box, you'll see, that's the operator trying to get a lock. And here we have a successful lock on this object. And then the operator will do a digital zoom. He's currently an ultra-narrow field of view, which is about as zoomed in as you can get

without going into the digital zoom. And he zoomed in. And this is as far as you can get. And here we see this odd mushroom shape. Let's call it a mushroom, no lenticular, right? There's no wings. no exhaust plume. I still locked on.

And here it breaks the lock. So it appears and then it just zips off. That is quite extraordinary on its face. So let's slow it down here. I think we're going to go down to 50% speed. And again, we have basically two movements. That initial, it kind of zips off to the left, direction change, and then it shoots off.

Wow. Yeah, that's, wow is, that's all I've been able to say for the last few days. So it's clearly going away in this first part, but then you think that to the right is an actual movement of the object. I do. And I think this, as you get down to 25%, 5% speed, it becomes quite apparent. And I, you know, I'll run through a couple hypotheses for what could explain it. And then I think we can, I think we can rule those out. But we'll let this video finish playing. This was their examination of shape.

They were doing kind of sharpening techniques to try to define the shape of the object. At times, it's almost vaguely gimbal-like. But, yeah, that's pretty remarkable. But the movement is here. Let's watch this last one. Yeah, to highlight UAP shape. They're wording. Right.

Right. And if we're seeing this visually, not on the thermal sensor, what might it look like? Would it just be round that we'd see in the sky? That's a gold. George, that's a really good question. I think there's enough. I'm venturing in a speculation territory, but the shape, and I'll show you just in a second here, I'll show you kind of what, that's actually kind of a great jumping off points.

So let me, let me kind of, to you, to answer. answer your question, George. We'll look at, for example, some footage of drones, known drones, right? These are, we've identified these as drones. We know their drones from the footage that they came from. So here's our, here's our friend. And these are all known drones. And you'll notice that even in lower, from further away and lower fidelity infrared video, you can still see the body, basically of an aircraft and the wing structure, right? Even here, you can see the wing structure and the body of the aircraft, clearly visible here. And then a quadcopter, of course, you know, has a very distinct shape and outline and infrared.

And it looks absolutely nothing like this. No wings, no tail, no rotors, no exhaust, no plumes of heat. Exactly. And just to my point about this kind of footage not being classified, this is all out there. This is actually footage from the exact same sensor. platform, an MQ9. These are all, believe it or not, this is what we're looking at is an MQ9 taking video of other MQ9s on a runway. And you can see we're in white hot, WHT. The engines in the back are hot, and they are, believe it or not, they're white. You see that, you see the exhausts, right, from these F-16s. Now, George, to your question, these look like F-C, these look like

fighter jets. These look like drones. That most certainly does not look like any kind of conventional aircraft that I could think of. Yeah. Remember, George, we put out a UAP that we had documentation. We knew for sure it had been fired on. And people kind of laughed at me at first when I said we fire upon UAP on a regular basis. Well, it's because I'm getting reports from within commands.

People reach out to me. They tell me when events happen. And this one, we ended up obtaining an image of. And I was kind of embarrassed to put it out. Kind of looked like Kermit the Frog. but we called it Syria dome UAP because of the best way we could describe it was a dome shape. And that's kind of what I'm seeing in this image, Merrick, is, you know, it appears to be domed shaped with, you know, man, it looks like one of those weird ass, like, what's it, Gulf Breeze images. Remember there's bizarre, Jeremy, guys, it is, it is truly bizarre.

And I want to quickly, if I may, because I want to address, I think, the first thought that I had, hey, man, maybe this is the sensor operator jerking the camera. around and that this is, you know, this is, because that could, that could. And we saw that in the, the famous Tick-Tac video. There's one moment, I think about midway through the video where the, where the operator changes the field of view, basically changes the lens system and it looks like it shoots off. And we can actually, we can, we can investigate that hypothesis. And so if you guys don't mind, I'll kind of, I'll pull up what I. And let me clear for the average person, because you're so technical, it takes me a second to understand. Man, when I first saw it, right? I mean, of course, I have some background on it,

but I thought the instantaneous motion was when it started going away, what looked like away from the camera, and that was so impressive. And then that little thing to the right, I was like, no way. They had to move the camera, just being all that thing moved away. But the idea you're having is that they were examining the instantaneous motion, not just the incredible shootaway, but then that move to the right was the actual instantaneous motion. That's what that's what is really, I'm struggling to understand here. And it does seem to indicate that that was indeed a very anomalous maneuver and an example, again, of that instantaneous acceleration observable. So I will, I'll quickly, I'll share, let's see if this works here.

I do want to investigate this, this theory potentially that this, could be the sensor operator rapidly, inadvertently moving the camera to the side. And I don't think that that's the case because we actually see the operator, once it shoots off to the right or appears to shoot off to the right, the operator actually does precisely that. The operator moves the camera because operator wants to find this thing and where did it go. So we do have an example. There it goes off to the right. And then here I'm going to go frame by frame. The operator, rapidly moves that camera to the right. You can see the whole background, everything, the entire scene shifts from right to left. So this is what we would be seeing if the operator

had indeed moved that camera. And that could have been the, right, if folks want to say that that's what explains that instantaneous acceleration, we don't see that when that object shoots off to the right. And there's another way, I think, and even just another way to analyze this and and give us even more confidence that this is not some camera artifact. And that is that the object moves left to right. So it has this apparent rightward motion. First of all, it moves kind of left. And it appears to really make a course change.

And then it shoots off to the right. But we see that the background actually, if we look very, very closely, the background is actually moving perpendicularly as a result of parallax, kind of just the way the plane is moving, the background appears to move from, from basically downwards, from top to bottom. And we'll show that here. So here, the object zips off, and you can see the background moving

downwards, but we can do it even more slowly. We'll go frame by frame here. There goes the object. It shoots off to the right, and we're going to stop here, and we'll go frame by frame, and we'll see there's a couple of features, darker features, that move straight down, even while the object is still visible moving right. The background is moving downwards. And that, to me, is a very strong indicator that this object

did what it appears to do. And as remarkable as it is, despite any observable propulsion just zips off. And no technology that I know of can do anything

remotely, remotely close to that. And people will say, okay, maybe it's China. Okay. If China has this kind of technology, we're all screwed. I'll just be out, be honest with you. We're totally screwed. You can just drop a nuke anywhere in the world instantaneously. And beyond that, what would what would China be doing flying ultra advanced technology over the Syrian desert? They haven't, there's absolutely no reason for them to be doing that. Man, this is just blowing my mind just that, you know, as like a, I understand everything you said and I had an idea but I thought at first just that first movement was so

impressive that was the instantaneous motion but the way you're showing how the ground movement keeps going in the same direction as the thing does this instantaneous shot to the right I am convinced more than ever now that that is correct I mean this reminds me of you know exactly what Commander Fravor talked about. Yeah. How he can't describe it even. It's inhuman. It breaks the, our ideas of physics,

that something can do that. It's interesting on many levels. Jeremy, to your point about that, first, it literally breaks, it appears, I'll just caveat all this, it appears to break the lock, like you said, it does that kind of up and it's like a, if you're looking at the video, right?

It's kind of like a counterclockwise movement. It appears to maneuver, no wings. That, that'll, that'll, that alone is extraordinary. That alone is positive lift. That is, right, that's maneuvers without wings, control surfaces, flaps, right, engines, exhaust, plumes, props. So it breaks that lock and then it just shoots off. And that is, I don't have a good answer. Again, having looked at the most obvious in her apparent hypothesis that this is a camera movement, this is an error by the operator, or a field of view change. If you can see it,

top the field of view does not change and it doesn't matter because either way the background would move with the object if that were the case and we can quite clearly see um that that is not the case so i this is this is this is truly extraordinary in in my opinion and george one one thing that like really stuck out to me just from like a a weapons platform you know standpoint and this is a thing i know a little bit about you know i've looked at a lot of these videos over time and i always look at the, it's rate G, it first says. And that's the first thing you see when something is beginning to kind of track. It's the systems like starting to compute, I think, relative motion. So it's like basically computing relative motion. Then when the target gets like centered, you see that next and

stable enough. The software then displays this thing called point, P-O-I-N-T, and you see it on, on the left. And that's, you know, kind of making the aim point from how I understand it. But then finally, when it has a solid lock on the target to where a system like it computes that it it can fire like a control they call it a control solution you know launch a hellfire

or whatever it needs to do that's when you finally see our point and that's what it says our point on the left displayed on the screen that motherfucker was rock solid locked by the Reaper's weapon system when it when it decided to shoot the fuck

off. Yeah, just from my uneducated viewpoint, it's moseying along at whatever speed it is. We get a lock on it. Oh, boy, we got a lock on it. And it realizes, oh, you got a lock on me. Here, follow this, dude. See you. And it's fascinating. I'm engaging purely in speculation here, but gentlemen, to your both your points, it's almost like it's showing off, right? It's like, oh, look what I can do. I can break your lock and then shoot off, right? It's pretty extraordinary on its face. I think, look, the bottom wise, I want, I want the release of this video to spur some serious attention. Like, we have the age of disclosure. Great. Phenomenal. Did incredibly well, right? But this is, this is what we're talking to. This is what we want. We want this critical mass to form, we want more interest. I want

this, I want this video to blow the minds of every scientist that looks at it, right? I want them to be so perplexed that they actually become interested, fascinated, almost, maybe obsessed with this topic, because that right there, there's no easy explanation for that, for that video. This may be video evidence and proof of one of the observables for the first time in the public history. This could be. It's quite extraordinary. Can I add maybe, sorry, go ahead, George. Yeah.

I was just going to just dumb question. Do we know how fast that thing is traveling when we first see it? And then can you guess about the speed when it? I have a hunch. I did a very, very basic back of the envelope calculation. It all depends on range. That's the key. We don't have the range, just like the other.

video and this kind of comes back to that. But the beauty of this video is we don't need the range to know that it's doing something pretty extraordinary, right? Again, breaking that lock without wings or propulsion or flaps, right? And then shooting off. Range is irrelevant at that point when you see something do that. And, you know, look, the only other thing I could potentially think of, which it kind of fails immediately as a balloon, a balloon wouldn't change direction, It could. Maybe if it's punctured right, it could shoot off like at a party. But again, a balloon is not going to change direction. And the only balloons that would look anything like that are latex balloons. And from my understanding, they don't, they wouldn't shoot off. They just kind of, they kind of shred. And they deflate slowly. So I'm trying to think of any, any possible prosaic explanation for this. And I'm still coming up short. Would our sensor systems keep a lock on a balloon, even if it popped a hole in it? I think, again, you know, I would hope so.

I don't know. These systems are designed to track ground targets. So it's not designed to track the fast movements of a fighter jet, for example. That's not the primary kind of role of these camera systems. But again, that instantaneous acceleration departure off to the right is not something that, you know, that I've ever seen in any other footage. I mean, can I just, I'll add maybe one more, one more item. And I think this is, this is important, but I do want to raise this. And that is, you guys remember the, the, the, the, the, the office of the director of national intelligence source that was quoted, describing basically exactly this video. That individual was quoted further in this article. And the individual basically says, you know, the Pentagon and the intelligence community are, they're self-congratulatory, they're patting themselves on the back because, oh, gee whiz, they solved half of the, you know, half of the UAP

reports that have been, been filed and sent to them. But I'm going to quote the source here. We don't give a crap about the ones they've resolved. Yeah, there are balloons up there and balloons are sometimes mistaken for UAP, but there are shitloads of classified videos that are pretty profound and pretty clear. They don't want to talk about this stuff because they really, really don't know what the hell they are. And that's the truth. And I raise this and I bring this quote up because, again, that source now has more credibility because that source described pretty much exactly what we saw on that video. And this, this is where I, my blood kind of begins to boil because there's absolutely no reason for that footage to have been classified. There's,

it's not surprising that we were surveilling rural, that part of rural Syria, what, four or five years ago now. There's nothing class. I don't, I'm not qualified to know any of that. I, you know, I don't, I don't know, never ask. I'm, this is my personal opinion. There's absolutely no reason for that stuff to be classified. Again, that that symbology is all over in the public domain. That is pretty profound footage. And there is a, there is, the public has a right to see that kind of footage. And, and they've clearly been hiding it. And in, this is what really makes me, uh, sorry to go on a rant here, gentlemen. But this has been going on for 80 years. This is a letter from the chief of intelligence at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to the Air Force Chief of Staff in November of 1948. And he basically says the exact same thing as this source. Yeah, if the press or the public asks, tell them it's all balloons. We've resolved a whole bunch of it. And there's really nothing to see here.

And it's quite literally, this is the playbook that 80 years has been followed, that there is profound. compelling, highly anomalous stuff out there, and it is being hidden away. And that really, that is unconscionable. And again, I don't see any reason for this stuff to be classified. I think, I think Arrow needs to step up. And look, Dr. Kozlowski, the director of the All-Demain anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon's UAP Analysis Office, he seemed to be fairly open. If he's been blocked, Stonewalled, then he needs to resign, right? This is, this is outrageous that this kind of footage is being withheld from

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I'm racking my brain here, right, George. So again, I'm thinking of any potential harm to national security here. And classification is, that's how classification systems are designed. It's what is the harm to national security? It's a grave, significant, severe, whatever, you know, whatever. And that's what determines the various levels of classification. Again, not surprising that we had Reaper drones looking at that particular portion of the desert in Syria. Not surprising at all.

Zero. there's been a change in government since that video has been recorded. The security situation has changed dramatically in Syria. So again, it generally, the reasons for classification are capability, so sensor platform or location. And again, I don't see any plausible reason why, again, there's public imagery of this type of footage out there in the wild, put out by the military, and I just don't see any logical reason why the location, again, what was this, five years ago now, why that should be classified. All right. Arrow, you have access to everything. That's what to tell us. You want to be transparent. Go get the rest of this data and let us take a look at it. Let the public analyze it if you're not going to do it.

And Arrow, frankly, where are taxpayers, taxpayer dollars going? They were silent after that Yemen hellfire video that was released during a congressional hearing last year. Not a peep, nothing. after and you know they're there literally can see the metrics tens of millions of views that video has received across various news and media platforms not a peep so what are what is our government what is our pentagon where are our tax dollars going we have an office specifically specifically tasked congressionally tasked to um to investigate this kind of stuff not a peep out of them so they better look at a bare minimum they should confirm whether they have this this footage in their Holdings. Does Arrow even have this footage? I don't know they answer that question, but we can start there. Yeah. I mean, I'll say this is it's really a dance as a journalist, George and I, trying to figure out,

you know, can we put something out? You know, we're trying to follow all the rules here with journalism. There's so much that comes, I'll say, in front of our eyes, that we can't. We just can't. And there's a lot of reasons embedded within some of the things you just said that would be those reasons that journalists don't report on certain things. But this one doesn't have any of that. There's no indication to me that we had zero indication that this is not something that is acceptable to the public. So the public has always been asking for more data. And, you know, good or bad, that's what we're trying to do is put our best foot forward and just enrich the data set that's out there on UAP with videos. So this is not like a trust me bro situation.

You see it now. You analyze it. We don't usually do this, Merrick. We don't usually do a whole analysis. Because we're not experts at it, me and George. Usually we put it out. We say, okay, here's another piece of data. You know, take out your knives and dissect it.

But it was really fun and neat and interesting for you to give us some background. It allows me to kind of understand and see what I'm looking at kind of better now. I think we should play the footage again or something like. like that, you know, in the episode. But just thank you so much for breaking that down for everybody. Let's bottom line it here. I am very impressed with this footage and believe it to be showing something at this point, I believe it to be showing something truly extraordinary that we have heard throughout history and from pilots, but I had never seen footage of it until now. And Jeremy and George, thank you, first of all, for.

bringing me in. It's truly an honor to break this stuff down for you. But congratulations on getting this out. This is, again, in my book, this is extraordinary footage after an initial analysis at least. And thank you. Thank you for driving the conversation forward, because this is the kind of stuff. Again, you know, with when you add all the congressional hearings and the age of disclosure and all that we've seen over the last several years, you guys are driving the conversation forward. So thank you for everything that you're doing. Thanks, Merrick. By the way, I'm always the optimist of our duo. Jeremy is the pessimist, and we might have a reason to have you come back real soon as possible.

Interesting. I've intrigued. Is it a threat or a promise when he says to- Hey, Merrick, thanks so much, man. We'll see you. We'll see you soon. Jeremy, I'm trying to remember when we sat down in the hotel room and recorded a little session about this particular video clip. And how long ago that was, six months ago, me or something like that? I wouldn't know time, George. Anticipating that someday we hope to release it. And we're, you know, given our best shot at trying to figure out what we're seeing on the screen. And then you hear someone as bright and as knowledgeable as Merrick. And I can't help but

feel like an idiot compared to him. But that was very welcome analysis. And now the rest of the world can take a look at it and make up their own minds about it. Absolutely. It's about enriching the data set and putting it out. Now, I will say, though, this is not just like some, you know, video that just could be anything. We have to stress this. This is labeled UAP by your intelligence agencies and government. It was part of an extensive analysis done because it's a UAP on specifically the apparent instantaneous acceleration. So when you see those cards between that's what, so I created those cards based on my knowledge set, right? Word for word. I mean, So if you think about it, this is their investigation into instantaneous acceleration.

Man, can you imagine how much more there is that show extraordinary capabilities like this? It's conversation stoppers. You're like, okay, there is stuff that can move in ways that everybody has told us UAP can do, you know, for decades and decades, if not centuries now. It's really fascinating. You know, we're told over and over, month after month, this is a new era of transparency. We want to be transparent. We want to get to the bottom of this. Analyze these videos and cases, photos, and evidence, and figure out what it is.

If it's something we don't know, then we'll say it. Well, time to get off the pot, I'd say. There's no reason, as Merrick says, there's no reason why the public can't see that kind of video. That there have to be extraordinary steps taken to share it with the public, both in the U.S. and around the world. And there's so much more similar kinds of clips that exist in servers. And there's no reason to hold it back. If not just from us, what about Congress? There's a task force at Congress that is seeking this information. Why can't you share it with them as a first step? You know, time to live up to the ideals that are supposedly the reason

that era was created in the first place. We'll do our best. We'll, we'll, We'll stick to the way we've been doing things, which is very carefully and slowly. But I think, you know, we'll keep going. Yeah, there are reasons to be suspicious, as we know. And those reasons, I think, will eventually come out. Some of the subterfuge that's going on right now, right now. Right. But in the meantime, it's birthday time.

It's time for you to have some fun. Hope you enjoy your birthday. Hope people don't rash you too much on social media now that they know about it. And I'll talk to you soon.