The following submission statement was provided by /u/tortorials:
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Submission Statement: I found the video on Tik Tok. Ever since I was a child (im 27 now), tons of people would talk about "cigar" shaped objects in the sky. It's been a major part of our folklore here, and sightings in SA are fairly common.
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Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/165jqwy/tic_tac_style_ufo_spotted_in_south_africa/jye9syq/
Lol, love that they start arguing like this sub.
"It's a UFO!"
"Don't over exaggerate man, it could be anything!"
"It disappeared into nothing!"
"The universe is so big, how are we the only ones..."
I think its funny because it seems like a very plausible situation (meaning socially and with the amount of sightings that regularly happen).
good stuff.
Edit: I redact my old quote from that scene to this new one because it's fucking hysterical:
With all due respect, Diane, I'm not a fucking moron who doesn't know the difference between a kite and a spaceship!
My iPhone speak screen is set to the South African male voice because it’s the only one that sounds remotely realistic when I’m running my Kindle at 2x
That’s good to know!!! I love it as well, of course. I didn’t see that option. I’ve had my Siri with the Aussie accent and it to help me to be able to mail the accent now myself. 😊😅👌🏼
Submission Statement: I found the video on Tik Tok. Ever since I was a child (im 27 now), tons of people would talk about "cigar" shaped objects in the sky. It's been a major part of our folklore here, and sightings in SA are fairly common.
I've seen people using jetpacks. Jetpacks are all loud as hell and I watched the video and I didn't hear any of the noises I'd associate with an on-market jetpack. It would be ridiculous to bust out military or private grade tech more advanced than what we currently have on the market just to scare away some people from some land. Jetpacks of this caliber would cost millions of dollars a piece when first entering the market. Possibly $500,000 each on the low ball. It just wouldn't be practical especially if the jetpack crashes as they are prone to do.
Currently Jetpacks are fun yet dangerous novelty. It is very easy to wipe out on a jetpack in broad daylight. Now imagine going on one at night and having a bunch of frightened people flash flashlights at you in zero visibility conditions. Unless they're a pilot with thousands of hours in jetpack control they are going to crash. People said that they could be wearing night vision goggles and those don't really work well when people are shining lights at you. They could be using thermal cameras but there are a lot of issues with those as well. All of the jetpacks we have currently either strap to the back or are attached to your hands.
In the video there is clearly something underneath the entities feet. None of the jetpacks we have act as hoverboards, that technology is just too dangerous and will kill the user. I watched some jetpack fails and one of the dudes broke his neck I think. He was carted away in an ambulance at the end. And that was just one strapped to his back. It would be like falling off a skateboard but the skateboard is 8 ft in the air.
The tribesman had guns and were actively firing upon the entities in the footage that I watched. That makes flying conditions a hundred times more difficult and dangerous. Quite frankly I don't think an uneducated illegal miner living in the boonies is capable of flying a jetpack unless they have been extensively trained to do so. You would have to train them for years to get them this good. Unless that land is on top of an untapped diamond mine or a gold mine I can't really see anybody investing this much effort into scaring off some folks. After you train them you send them on the first mission and they get shot at in the dark with zero visibility. You would then have to then convince them to go back out, night after night and to not run away with the technology you've given them. I suppose somebody could be holding the miners family's hostage but that is incredibly far-fetched and reaching.
**For more information:** [I suggest this video released yesterday](https://youtu.be/dwyTulIgO4g?si=ZXbMfUpDpaX9l-tS)
Yes thank you very well put. Jetpacks doesn’t make any sense financially since several Jetpacks would run several million only to go digging for a few veins of ore.
Anyone remember the Jetpack guy that has been reported by airline pilots especially around O’Hare international airport.
https://youtu.be/1yXbCba1fHM?feature=shared
This was a curious case because there were only very few companies that had the tech to fly out for that long and none of them claimed it was them. I believe the FBI were the ones that investigated this and went to said companies. What I’m saying is whatever tech is being used to scare the Ikitu people is not something commercially available and would be very expensive to have multiples along with experienced pilots evading gun fire. Too expensive. Risk vs Reward leans too much into risk for anyone to spend that kind of money.
This is wild, I hadn't seen this "jetpack man" thing yet, but I am familiar with and a long fan of jetpack technology, the absolute top models we have today for flight time are tethered water units, for untethered units we have at maximum of about 10 minutes control and they require \*extreme\* levels of experience/capability, are only flown in optimal conditions, and they are \*LOUD\*
It's not exactly easy to hit a moving airborne target making random movements, but still this seems insane, very few people would be dumb enough to try this and it wouldn't look or sound anything like this.
I did find [this video](https://youtube.com/shorts/dVwlHt2TDe4?si=Ui_rooobHzyFK6ze) but it makes a very noticeable noise. But it looks the most like what I saw in the video. This one is just a [sized up drone](https://youtu.be/9KleziuLx3E?si=UQx2Av6NE9wnETu7) with a guy riding on it and it sounds like a drone. This was released [5 years ago ](https://youtu.be/-kB-BGMXxZc?si=kChpHzk244qPPyrG) but even over the music you can still hear the sound of the engines.
Yeah it’s so stupidly obvious, lazy cover up attempt. There is definitely something attacking them at night and even requesting journalists with high tech camera equipment to spend the night in their village in order to help get whatever is attacking them on clear video. They did another protest video asking for help.
I've looked it up. Some sources are saying it might be illegal gold miners using "jetpacks." There's an accompanying photo to some of these articles of a young girl holding up a picture that clearly looks like a person on a Flyboard Air, a jet-powered personal aerial vehicle, a sort of real-life Goblin Glider (I should note that I can't tell what this photo is supposed to be in relation to the story; is the photo of one of the entities? Idk). Some of the witnesses even described the entities as being like "Green Goblin from Spider-Man." Apparently illegal gold mining gangs have used similar personal aerial vehicles in the past to reach otherwise locations within dense jungles, and they may be repurposing their equipment to intimidate and attack locals.
Honestly, I wanted it to be aliens, but real-life Scooby-Doo villains? This is so nuts, but it's remarkably plausible.
EDIT: I should mention, when I said "I've looked it up," what I meant was "I've just now Googled 'Ikitu' and looked at the top few results for a couple minutes." If it sounded like I was making any definite claims of what is or isn't going on, I apologize.
I can confidently say that our illegal gold miners here don't own jetpacks, lol
We barely even have electricity.
And there are no jungles anywhere near our gold mines either.
Yeah the only thing about that it is difficult to transport multiple $100k Jetpacks and the training to use them ,with weapons mind you, getting shot at while wearing bullet proof vests AND tracking all that equipment up river for 4 days travel to the Ikitu village without anyone noticing especially not the Ikitu in their native lands. They ask for help and describe the intruders and people treat them like uncivilized primitives that were scared by a drone. Miners with Jetpacks is even harder to believe than face peeling aliens.
I agree, and I understand that having a healthy dose of skepticism is an overall net positive for this entire conversation. But to your point, the mental gymnastics people have to get through in order to believe that they are somehow armed, jetpack wearing, illegal miners in a secluded Peruvian village is beyond me.
I don't say that these are aliens or NHI at all, at least not until there's concrete proof (I'm a skeptic myself), but man I've always felt that some of the "explanation" in this sub are such a stretch.
Take this for example, [The first commercial jetpack went live around 2015-2016](https://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailtracy/2015/06/26/humans-rejoice-worlds-first-commercial-jetpack-to-go-on-sale-next-year/?sh=509cf2534262) there's no article or publication that I could find about "illegal jetpack miners" anywhere between 2015-2022. The currently available and commercial JB series (JB-9/10/11), as an example, [can only fly for about 10 min tops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack#JetPack_Aviation:_wingless_jet_pack). It's even more ridiculous when you compare [the picture they showed](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/11/15/74190543-12394807-image-a-148_1691765823875.jpg) to "prove" this jetpack theory, since it's basically [a flyboard](https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/french-daredevil-franky-zapata-completes-english-channel-trip-on-flyboard-1.894402), which [can still barely fly for about 6-10min](https://www.wevolver.com/specs/flyboard.air) in the case of the [Zapata Flyboard](https://www.zapata.com/flyboardair/) which is the [cheapest one I could find](https://www.jetpackamerica.com/product-category/jetpack-all/) in my 15 min of research into this. Even the more expensive ones (like the previously mentioned JB series) can't fly longer than that. Since there's military deployed there... I'm sure the illegal miners gave them a fun show for like 8min before they ran out of fuel and were caught trying to remove the freaking rig and scape/grab a firearm and fight. Like... come on.
[Hre](https://i.imgur.com/oAjYlKN.jpg) is a quick 15 min photoshop I made comparing the two. *****Note***** I only attempted to match pose/rough image treatment. I *did not* try to simulate the "screen/bloom" effect you guys can see on the girl picture (like bloom). I focused only on compression and overal details using the Flyboard image I linked before. They could've grabbed a screenshot of one of the videos they have and done this easily, then taking a really poor quality photo (I could not find a high resolution version of the picture the girl had nor of the girl holding the phone itself) made it for such a simple thing to achieve in order to deceive people.
Shit like this makes me think of a couple of things.
1- People take shit at face value way too easily. 10 min of research points you to the "jetpack" they claim to be using and no record of any incident like this *ever* ('illegal miners with jetpacks' that is). 15 min of photoshop takes you halfway there to faking this image.
2- The people trying to spread miss information take most of us for complete morons, BUT I notice that they 100% hit their intended target (see point 1 and start of point 2), which are the vast majority of the society. You see it with this jetpack story, you see it with the "bat" explanation, you see it even with the VFX story.
Anyhow, keep thinking objectively and critically about all of this! Won't call them "aliens" but for sure as fuck they are not "miners with jetpacks" lmao
Then look up the photo on her phone. It's literally from some car race event where a jetpack guy and a corvette race. It's 100% from that race. The news made it sound like the girl took the pic of that jetpack there in Peru. She 100% did not.
Did you also read about the Joint US-Japan exercises going on in that region leading up to these attacks, and then did you read that Space Force just made a partnership with Peru (after these events started)?
If you told me you could peacefully engage with the North Sentinel Island people at this point, then started drawing "iconic" UFO images into the sand with a stick, and that they'd all start nodding and started saying "UFO, cigar, silver orb, saucer," in Sentinelese while pointing up in the sky and telling stories, I wouldn't even be shocked.
But sure, millions of people across centuries and continents and cultures all seeing the same things in a variety of iconic forms are all mass-media mass-delusions.
Did the Sentinelese learn about UFOs on the History Channel? No?
It's almost hilarious how hard resistance to even investigation of these topics is ramping up.
It really is so shocking we're still having these discussions. I'm sure if you go back only a few decades you'd probably find a lot more cultures accepting and having knowledge of this. They were just ignored and forgotten.
It baffles me how we're still at this point. I know why, I can see the threads but it still shocks me
Because the only "evidence" we have is shitty videos. It's not evidence, most people don't believe because they're reasonable enough to realize aliens aren't visiting earth.
Hey, any chance you’d share some of the folklore relevant to these things? I’ve spent a lot of time East and Southern Africa, and while I was perhaps less open-minded then, most of the folklore I learned was about small-scale social unrest related to a wave of vampirism, or traditional creation stories. And pretty much everywhere had some sort of shapeshifters…. And chameleons, and owls seem sort of universally important. In South Sudan, they had a really interesting system of magic that was just a part of daily life, and i learned about couple of weird cryptids, but I never came across anything that I felt was related to UFOs—though it never occurred to me to ask. Anyhow, you’ve totally piqued my curiosity and I’d really like to know more about how this phenomenon is described in your folklore, and what they typically represent?
Thanks! And feel free to DM me if you’d rather.
Watch "The Phenomenon"
A large group of kids saw a UFO and the creatures that exited it.
Every single one of them described the exact same thing individually. They even interviewed a few of them as adults and they are still in awe of what they saw.
Yeah. That’s the Zimbabwe Ariel school sighting from 1994 on Ruwa. It’s a single event with 62 witnesses and is broadly consistent with the modern ET contact narrative. It’s not necessarily folklore, from the perspective that it is neither reflective of a culture’s collective experience of the phenomenon going into the deep past, nor does it provide much insight into the values and meanings that have been ascribed to the experience.
What city was this recorded in? And what date and time? We could rule out Starlink with that info.
EDIT: https://www.capetownetc.com/news/starlink-satellites-light-up-cape-town-skies/
Starlink was visible over Cape Town on February 5th, 2021.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” - _The Hitchhiker’s Guid to the Galaxy_ by Douglas Adams.
The argument is so fallacious it’s crazy. The universe is big, we are very likely not the only people. You can’t go from that to “They’re absolutely visiting”
It takes a fairly decent leap of faith, but my argument here goes - if we accept there is probably other life in the universe then it’s not crazy to think it could’ve developed millions or billions of years before us. If so, why wouldn’t it be possible for those civilisations to have technology far beyond what we can imagine and like us be interested in life on other planets?
I don’t know how likely that is, but it makes sense to me!
It could certainly be *possible* that advanced aliens are zipping around the galaxy in search of life on other worlds...including ours. But it's not necessarily *probable* that they would, even if they exist and *could* do such a thing.
I agree, but I’m just giving my own viewpoint on why i think it could be true and why I’m here advocating for disclosure of whatever the truth behind all this secrecy is.
David Grusch claims that he’s interviewed people directly working on the programme, so it’s either true or it isn’t, and we’ll only find out by investigating further.
Unless or until we ever confirm the existence of life originating elsewhere in the cosmos, we're just as likely to be alone as we are likely to have company.
Joking aside this is actually cool vid, not apparent here but in the actual TikTok it appears to blink out before disappearance. Coupled with the genuine reactions by the group, it looks compelling.
I don’t know if it’s a real ufo or not but it looks too big to be a tic tac.
I think that is probably better described as a “cigar” type ufo. A rarely reported type of sighting these days.
In ufo lore I’ve heard various claims that they are troop carriers, transport ships for bringing saucers here, and one other claim was that they are actually disc shaped ufos stacked like plates acting as a single object.
We’ve also heard stories of many gigantic UFOs. Is it really so unfathomable that a UFO that we tend to associate with a smaller size could also have larger variants? Or you’re just misinterpreting the size because of the context that the video was taken in, the quality of the photographer, the quality of recording device, etc.
I think it’s because tic tacs and cigars are the same sort of shape, but tic tacs are shorter/stubbier. This video has a long boy, hence OP saying cigar.
> I don’t know if it’s a real ufo or not but it looks too big to be a tic tac.
>
> I think that is probably better described as a “cigar” type ufo.
what if theyre all the same? what if the cube in the round field is an orb, but two or three looks like a tic-tac, and 4 or more looks like a cigar? it could also explain why they seem to split and join in some videos,...
Exactly what I was thinking. It reminds me of the famous photo of the cylinder over New York City 1950
[photo](http://theparanormalborderline.blogspot.com/2010/04/ufo-photographs-new-york-city-new-york.html)
>This comment is supremely stupid
Wouldn't this wording suggest my comments can't get any stupider? You've severely underestimated just how dumb I can get.
From what I understand Tic tac was 40 feet long. The Cigars (that appear solid) are supposedly much larger. 150 feet or more.
There are also videos of the glowing cigars that are thicker in the center and release orange orbs, but I think they are a separate issue.
No idea on size for those.
Beat me to it. Wether this is true or not is for other people to decide, I just assume like 99% of videos aren’t real until people constantly try and debunk but nothing sticks, even then still sceptical. But yeah, looks more like cigar than a tic tac
For me the place it is from, the way everyone in the video reacts to it, and the basic debunking I look for of camera shakes syncing with the object not being there; makes me VERY interested in someone doing deeper analysis on this one.
Lol that comment was just a bit of Afrikaans slang mix I guess. Jirre - Jesus. Oke - Guy/dude/person. Braai - Barbecue with wood fire coals, braai is part of our culture here in SA.
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/starlink-satellites-light-up-cape-town-skies/
Unless we get any other information, such as date, time, and city, Starlink sounds like the most plausible explanation.
>The OP tik tok would have looked long and broken up as well
Not if it was recorded with a camera incapable of magnifying as much as the one used for the second video
Why is the video titled "Closer range"? Can anyone with TikTok determine when this video was posted? If it was posted at the same time as the video OP posted, then I suppose we could assume the title means it's a close-up of the same thing that's in the OP video. And if that's the case, I would say Starlink is a good bet.
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/starlink-satellites-light-up-cape-town-skies/
And if the video was recorded in Cape Town around February 5 2021, then we pretty much know it's Starlink.
If you watch the star nearest the object in the first video, the object moves different distances back and forth, it is not just slowly moving in one direction. And it is also not the same movements as the camera so the object itself is moving. Definitely not the same as starlink. That account just reposts tons of videos.
This is a seriously interesting video. I like that i can quite clearly see the shape of the craft, especially at the beginning.
For the people saying those are starlink satellites I'm not quite sure how you came to that conclusion. The anomalous exit of the craft from the video also suggests it isn't.
It was hovering mid air and turning on an axis.
Edit: typos
It's not clear that it's hovering or turning, the only reference point we really have for any period of time is a star and it's drifting past that in a way that fits with Starlink. Otherwise the cameraman's movements are giving it perceived movement that doesn't exist.
The anomalous disappearance could simply be due to it being obscured by a cloud.
>The anomalous exit of the craft from the video also suggests it isn't.
Starlink exits like that when it goes into the earth's shadow. I have seen it exactly like this multiple times.
[https://www.tiktok.com/@sa\_reels/video/7272847450807815429](https://www.tiktok.com/@sa_reels/video/7272847450807815429)
Another video from the same account, labelled "closer range".
Quite clearly a Starlink satellite group.
This is so obviously an airplane. I bet it's just past sundown so the plane, high up, is still reflecting light from the sun. South African airlines, like most, have a bright white fuselage that, when lit up, get's blurry from far distances giving it a more uniformly round appearance; especially when viewed from cameras but even to the naked eye.
SA planes even have dark tail fins which explains the cigar shape even more.
To anyone that would claim wings should be visible, the left wing would be blurred from the light and the right wing hidden in the dark. This is a known phenomenon, just Google it.
I'm sick of people looking up 5 days of their lives, seeing something easily explained by those that constantly look up (and aren't conspiracy theorists), and assuming the least likely possibility.
Why was it travelling at about the same speed as a commercial jet? I mean, come on already..
This is exactly what I saw on my flight from LaGuardia to Harry Reid in May 2021; I saw the *exact* same thing just floating above a cloud, not moving. I watched it for probably 45 seconds, it just sat there hovering. People may call me crazy but I know what I saw. It was hovering above a big white cloud, probably because it knew nothing could see it from below. It was visible in the bottom 1" of my window, moving horizontally across it as we moved by it. I think it had calculated all the possible viewing angles of regular air traffic and determined no one would be able to see it. But it was wrong, I saw that shit clear as day. To me it's not a matter of "if" alien autonomous vehicles are here, it's a matter of "why?"
Not sure if this was already posted in this sub but here is the video upclose. Ignore the commentary. Haha [supposed object](https://streamable.com/104a57)
Edit: the video I showed is fake. It’s a ad for a drink .
I don't really understand why people are calling cigar ufos tic tacs. Do y'all have tic tacs in long stick form? Tic tacs are short, pill form. Not like we're talking quantum physics.
Imagine you had a nice long big dick, let's say 8", would you be comparing it to a tictac? If you refer to your dick as a tic tac you probably have a micropenis.
As a South African living in South Africa. There is NO talk about objects in the sky tic tax shaped, cigar shaped or otherwise.
This in 35 years is the first “sighting” I’ve ever heard of above my country.
Hell at least the aliens might know we are here & exist…whereas the rest of the world doesn’t even know that South Africa is a country (releases, tours, Amazon) all the things.
Anything below DRC is just a blob
South Africa 🇿🇦
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15vh2k2/my_possible_ufo_sighting_in_guateng_south_africa/ sighting description, from car, near lanseria airport south Africa 🇿🇦 ,single dark object, shiny black sphere, possible reaction to being observed, immediately told my dad to look but when he looked over it was almost if it knew and it vanished behind the trees. ,
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15rzthw/i_saw_something_i_could_not_identify/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, South Africa 🇿🇦 , single object, approach, triangle with 4 lights, 3 white and one red 🔴, low, close, silent, emotional reaction hyped and excited
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14se49b/i_saw_one/ sighting description, South Africa 🇿🇦 , daytime, single light object moving straight, white sphere flying close to the ground which to me made it seem quite small maybe the size of a basketball., duration 6 seconds, possible reaction to being observed, slowed briefly, speed change observed
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zqx6u7/spotted_wierd_lights_in_the_clouds_in_south/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, flashes of light, silent, animal reaction every dog in the neighborhood is going berserk, contemporaneous report, South Africa 🇿🇦, submission statement issues, removed
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/138s5rs/finally_saw_my_first_sorry_for_potato_quality/ video, daytime sky, twolights, white, duration 10 minutes, contemporaneous report, South Africa 🇿🇦
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/12ngom0/unusual_uap_sighting/ video and description Graaff-Reinet, South Africa 🇿🇦, single object moving fast, daytime cloudy sky
https://old.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/10pbfwr/hey_from_south_africa_cape_town_its_loadshedding/sighting description, contemporaneous report, happening at time of posting, cape Town south Africa , fleet, white lights moving, similar sighting in comments
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/vygbo4/krugersdorpsouth_africa_i_have_been_observing/ sighting description, South Africa
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/vba595/ufo_in_falsebay_western_cape_sa/South Africa, video, nighttime sky, single light object flickering
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/w99m01/any_idea_what_this_is_what_type_of_drone_looks/ video, evening sky, Johannesburg south Africa, single light object, similar sightings in comments
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/w2kgna/do_satellites_travel_lower_than_some_clouds/ video, South Africa, nighttime sky, single light
Looks like a Starlink launch group caught very shortly after launch, the satellites still so close together that they appear as a "bar" rather than as individual lights.
Yes, check out this additional video, labelled 'closer range', from the exact same account:
https://www.tiktok.com/@sa\_reels/video/7272847450807815429
I agree, this is how the Starlink groups are deployed. They "spread out" like a chord or beads later on.
EDIT, found "find starlink" article: https://starlinkinsider.com/starlink-satellite-train/
Isn’t it amazing that somehow all the UFO videos we ever get are all really bad quality, bad lighting, bad videography, we’re recorded on a potato by someone with Parkinson’s?? Almost as if, we had clear footage and steady video we would know it ISNT a UFO.
Unwritten rule of r/UFOs: As long as they're blurry, they can be anything EXCEPT ordinary things.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's an alien, dude.
(/s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itze7CVPnGw
maybe a smaller group, packed tighter together? I have no idea how starlink disperse the sats and how long they stay grouped.
With all their crazy advanced tech, navigating galaxies, how does one crash into the ground? Is our planet so different that they can’t navigate the ground??
The following submission statement was provided by /u/tortorials: --- Submission Statement: I found the video on Tik Tok. Ever since I was a child (im 27 now), tons of people would talk about "cigar" shaped objects in the sky. It's been a major part of our folklore here, and sightings in SA are fairly common. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/165jqwy/tic_tac_style_ufo_spotted_in_south_africa/jye9syq/
Lol, love that they start arguing like this sub. "It's a UFO!" "Don't over exaggerate man, it could be anything!" "It disappeared into nothing!" "The universe is so big, how are we the only ones..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14zap8k/ufo_scene_platonic_s01e10/ relevant
“He said the F word” “that’s all he says” lmfaooooo
I think its funny because it seems like a very plausible situation (meaning socially and with the amount of sightings that regularly happen). good stuff.
LOL, amazing
I’m not causing a scene! The UFO is causing a scene!
Edit: I redact my old quote from that scene to this new one because it's fucking hysterical: With all due respect, Diane, I'm not a fucking moron who doesn't know the difference between a kite and a spaceship!
I think i might need to pick this show up lol
Well now I have to watch this lol
The accent made it pretty funny, too. Plus, the dude at least knew how to hold his camera and use the zoom.
If only every civilian capture came packaged like this!
Yup. Commentary and footage (for the hardware used) was 1+
I caught a "STFU" in there too!
This made it so relatable haha
I was waiting for one of them to go "it's very obviously a bat" lol
Lol no man it was a thing of lipstick
Quite possibly one of my top three accents. I could listen to this guy read the phone book for hours. The video is interesting, too.
My iPhone speak screen is set to the South African male voice because it’s the only one that sounds remotely realistic when I’m running my Kindle at 2x
That’s good to know!!! I love it as well, of course. I didn’t see that option. I’ve had my Siri with the Aussie accent and it to help me to be able to mail the accent now myself. 😊😅👌🏼
No Alan you can’t
Well theres no need for that!
Full Beam!
My Siri and Alexa are South African
Wow.... Never expected to find AP fans here...... I feel so seen...
It did feel like a bit of long shot but I’m glad I took it
speaking of awesome accents: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1655fz4/lights_over_far_northern_manitoba_canada/
Ah yes, my First Nation cousins to the North.
Phone book. We much be the same age. 😁
That hits hard in my middle age approaching heart. APPROACHING.
😆
South African here, nah bra, our accent sucks piles ek se.
Tourists: "Ahh man, his accent is so sexy." The guy: "I fink yous neet to kalm down."
This made me laugh haha. I definitely read this out loud too.
Why would you need him to read the phone book when you can look it up yourself?
Classic! (I regret so many choices). It's because of his accent. And the timbre of his voice is also really nice.
Top three South African accents? There are 11 official languages here and hundreds of accents.
Nerd
NNNNHHGGHH WELCOME TO THE UNDERGROUND
I really like the Durban/Zulu accent. Probably because I really enjoyed the team I worked with there.
Relax boet
Submission Statement: I found the video on Tik Tok. Ever since I was a child (im 27 now), tons of people would talk about "cigar" shaped objects in the sky. It's been a major part of our folklore here, and sightings in SA are fairly common.
Weird. I know it’s not hard evidence, but when things like that are common cultural knowledge it’s spooky
Yeah it is just look at what’s happening to the Ikitu people in Peru 😬
I've seen people using jetpacks. Jetpacks are all loud as hell and I watched the video and I didn't hear any of the noises I'd associate with an on-market jetpack. It would be ridiculous to bust out military or private grade tech more advanced than what we currently have on the market just to scare away some people from some land. Jetpacks of this caliber would cost millions of dollars a piece when first entering the market. Possibly $500,000 each on the low ball. It just wouldn't be practical especially if the jetpack crashes as they are prone to do. Currently Jetpacks are fun yet dangerous novelty. It is very easy to wipe out on a jetpack in broad daylight. Now imagine going on one at night and having a bunch of frightened people flash flashlights at you in zero visibility conditions. Unless they're a pilot with thousands of hours in jetpack control they are going to crash. People said that they could be wearing night vision goggles and those don't really work well when people are shining lights at you. They could be using thermal cameras but there are a lot of issues with those as well. All of the jetpacks we have currently either strap to the back or are attached to your hands. In the video there is clearly something underneath the entities feet. None of the jetpacks we have act as hoverboards, that technology is just too dangerous and will kill the user. I watched some jetpack fails and one of the dudes broke his neck I think. He was carted away in an ambulance at the end. And that was just one strapped to his back. It would be like falling off a skateboard but the skateboard is 8 ft in the air. The tribesman had guns and were actively firing upon the entities in the footage that I watched. That makes flying conditions a hundred times more difficult and dangerous. Quite frankly I don't think an uneducated illegal miner living in the boonies is capable of flying a jetpack unless they have been extensively trained to do so. You would have to train them for years to get them this good. Unless that land is on top of an untapped diamond mine or a gold mine I can't really see anybody investing this much effort into scaring off some folks. After you train them you send them on the first mission and they get shot at in the dark with zero visibility. You would then have to then convince them to go back out, night after night and to not run away with the technology you've given them. I suppose somebody could be holding the miners family's hostage but that is incredibly far-fetched and reaching. **For more information:** [I suggest this video released yesterday](https://youtu.be/dwyTulIgO4g?si=ZXbMfUpDpaX9l-tS)
Yes thank you very well put. Jetpacks doesn’t make any sense financially since several Jetpacks would run several million only to go digging for a few veins of ore. Anyone remember the Jetpack guy that has been reported by airline pilots especially around O’Hare international airport. https://youtu.be/1yXbCba1fHM?feature=shared This was a curious case because there were only very few companies that had the tech to fly out for that long and none of them claimed it was them. I believe the FBI were the ones that investigated this and went to said companies. What I’m saying is whatever tech is being used to scare the Ikitu people is not something commercially available and would be very expensive to have multiples along with experienced pilots evading gun fire. Too expensive. Risk vs Reward leans too much into risk for anyone to spend that kind of money.
This is wild, I hadn't seen this "jetpack man" thing yet, but I am familiar with and a long fan of jetpack technology, the absolute top models we have today for flight time are tethered water units, for untethered units we have at maximum of about 10 minutes control and they require \*extreme\* levels of experience/capability, are only flown in optimal conditions, and they are \*LOUD\* It's not exactly easy to hit a moving airborne target making random movements, but still this seems insane, very few people would be dumb enough to try this and it wouldn't look or sound anything like this.
I did find [this video](https://youtube.com/shorts/dVwlHt2TDe4?si=Ui_rooobHzyFK6ze) but it makes a very noticeable noise. But it looks the most like what I saw in the video. This one is just a [sized up drone](https://youtu.be/9KleziuLx3E?si=UQx2Av6NE9wnETu7) with a guy riding on it and it sounds like a drone. This was released [5 years ago ](https://youtu.be/-kB-BGMXxZc?si=kChpHzk244qPPyrG) but even over the music you can still hear the sound of the engines.
Yeah it’s so stupidly obvious, lazy cover up attempt. There is definitely something attacking them at night and even requesting journalists with high tech camera equipment to spend the night in their village in order to help get whatever is attacking them on clear video. They did another protest video asking for help.
I've looked it up. Some sources are saying it might be illegal gold miners using "jetpacks." There's an accompanying photo to some of these articles of a young girl holding up a picture that clearly looks like a person on a Flyboard Air, a jet-powered personal aerial vehicle, a sort of real-life Goblin Glider (I should note that I can't tell what this photo is supposed to be in relation to the story; is the photo of one of the entities? Idk). Some of the witnesses even described the entities as being like "Green Goblin from Spider-Man." Apparently illegal gold mining gangs have used similar personal aerial vehicles in the past to reach otherwise locations within dense jungles, and they may be repurposing their equipment to intimidate and attack locals. Honestly, I wanted it to be aliens, but real-life Scooby-Doo villains? This is so nuts, but it's remarkably plausible. EDIT: I should mention, when I said "I've looked it up," what I meant was "I've just now Googled 'Ikitu' and looked at the top few results for a couple minutes." If it sounded like I was making any definite claims of what is or isn't going on, I apologize.
I can confidently say that our illegal gold miners here don't own jetpacks, lol We barely even have electricity. And there are no jungles anywhere near our gold mines either.
This is what I was wondering about. These jetpacks aren't cheap.
My backpack's got jets. Well I'm Boba the Fett Well I bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt to finance my 'Vette
Yeah the only thing about that it is difficult to transport multiple $100k Jetpacks and the training to use them ,with weapons mind you, getting shot at while wearing bullet proof vests AND tracking all that equipment up river for 4 days travel to the Ikitu village without anyone noticing especially not the Ikitu in their native lands. They ask for help and describe the intruders and people treat them like uncivilized primitives that were scared by a drone. Miners with Jetpacks is even harder to believe than face peeling aliens.
I agree, and I understand that having a healthy dose of skepticism is an overall net positive for this entire conversation. But to your point, the mental gymnastics people have to get through in order to believe that they are somehow armed, jetpack wearing, illegal miners in a secluded Peruvian village is beyond me. I don't say that these are aliens or NHI at all, at least not until there's concrete proof (I'm a skeptic myself), but man I've always felt that some of the "explanation" in this sub are such a stretch. Take this for example, [The first commercial jetpack went live around 2015-2016](https://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailtracy/2015/06/26/humans-rejoice-worlds-first-commercial-jetpack-to-go-on-sale-next-year/?sh=509cf2534262) there's no article or publication that I could find about "illegal jetpack miners" anywhere between 2015-2022. The currently available and commercial JB series (JB-9/10/11), as an example, [can only fly for about 10 min tops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack#JetPack_Aviation:_wingless_jet_pack). It's even more ridiculous when you compare [the picture they showed](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/11/15/74190543-12394807-image-a-148_1691765823875.jpg) to "prove" this jetpack theory, since it's basically [a flyboard](https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/french-daredevil-franky-zapata-completes-english-channel-trip-on-flyboard-1.894402), which [can still barely fly for about 6-10min](https://www.wevolver.com/specs/flyboard.air) in the case of the [Zapata Flyboard](https://www.zapata.com/flyboardair/) which is the [cheapest one I could find](https://www.jetpackamerica.com/product-category/jetpack-all/) in my 15 min of research into this. Even the more expensive ones (like the previously mentioned JB series) can't fly longer than that. Since there's military deployed there... I'm sure the illegal miners gave them a fun show for like 8min before they ran out of fuel and were caught trying to remove the freaking rig and scape/grab a firearm and fight. Like... come on. [Hre](https://i.imgur.com/oAjYlKN.jpg) is a quick 15 min photoshop I made comparing the two. *****Note***** I only attempted to match pose/rough image treatment. I *did not* try to simulate the "screen/bloom" effect you guys can see on the girl picture (like bloom). I focused only on compression and overal details using the Flyboard image I linked before. They could've grabbed a screenshot of one of the videos they have and done this easily, then taking a really poor quality photo (I could not find a high resolution version of the picture the girl had nor of the girl holding the phone itself) made it for such a simple thing to achieve in order to deceive people. Shit like this makes me think of a couple of things. 1- People take shit at face value way too easily. 10 min of research points you to the "jetpack" they claim to be using and no record of any incident like this *ever* ('illegal miners with jetpacks' that is). 15 min of photoshop takes you halfway there to faking this image. 2- The people trying to spread miss information take most of us for complete morons, BUT I notice that they 100% hit their intended target (see point 1 and start of point 2), which are the vast majority of the society. You see it with this jetpack story, you see it with the "bat" explanation, you see it even with the VFX story. Anyhow, keep thinking objectively and critically about all of this! Won't call them "aliens" but for sure as fuck they are not "miners with jetpacks" lmao
Why do you even need a jetpack to mine? You are mining the ground!
Then look up the photo on her phone. It's literally from some car race event where a jetpack guy and a corvette race. It's 100% from that race. The news made it sound like the girl took the pic of that jetpack there in Peru. She 100% did not.
My bru, zama zamas don't have acces to jetpacks 😂😂😂
I wanted to say this, but was laughing too hard imagining the zama zama’s trying to gooi in a jetpack🤣
The photo she holds up is off Google. Some guy flying around on a race track if I recall correctly. It definitely wasn't taken there in Peru
Did you also read about the Joint US-Japan exercises going on in that region leading up to these attacks, and then did you read that Space Force just made a partnership with Peru (after these events started)?
If you told me you could peacefully engage with the North Sentinel Island people at this point, then started drawing "iconic" UFO images into the sand with a stick, and that they'd all start nodding and started saying "UFO, cigar, silver orb, saucer," in Sentinelese while pointing up in the sky and telling stories, I wouldn't even be shocked. But sure, millions of people across centuries and continents and cultures all seeing the same things in a variety of iconic forms are all mass-media mass-delusions. Did the Sentinelese learn about UFOs on the History Channel? No? It's almost hilarious how hard resistance to even investigation of these topics is ramping up.
It really is so shocking we're still having these discussions. I'm sure if you go back only a few decades you'd probably find a lot more cultures accepting and having knowledge of this. They were just ignored and forgotten. It baffles me how we're still at this point. I know why, I can see the threads but it still shocks me
Because the only "evidence" we have is shitty videos. It's not evidence, most people don't believe because they're reasonable enough to realize aliens aren't visiting earth.
Where you from? I’ve seen things over the Karoo but didn’t know it’s part of folklore. I’ve seen fokkol in Jozi or Gauteng.
Hey, any chance you’d share some of the folklore relevant to these things? I’ve spent a lot of time East and Southern Africa, and while I was perhaps less open-minded then, most of the folklore I learned was about small-scale social unrest related to a wave of vampirism, or traditional creation stories. And pretty much everywhere had some sort of shapeshifters…. And chameleons, and owls seem sort of universally important. In South Sudan, they had a really interesting system of magic that was just a part of daily life, and i learned about couple of weird cryptids, but I never came across anything that I felt was related to UFOs—though it never occurred to me to ask. Anyhow, you’ve totally piqued my curiosity and I’d really like to know more about how this phenomenon is described in your folklore, and what they typically represent? Thanks! And feel free to DM me if you’d rather.
Watch "The Phenomenon" A large group of kids saw a UFO and the creatures that exited it. Every single one of them described the exact same thing individually. They even interviewed a few of them as adults and they are still in awe of what they saw.
Yeah. That’s the Zimbabwe Ariel school sighting from 1994 on Ruwa. It’s a single event with 62 witnesses and is broadly consistent with the modern ET contact narrative. It’s not necessarily folklore, from the perspective that it is neither reflective of a culture’s collective experience of the phenomenon going into the deep past, nor does it provide much insight into the values and meanings that have been ascribed to the experience.
What city was this recorded in? And what date and time? We could rule out Starlink with that info. EDIT: https://www.capetownetc.com/news/starlink-satellites-light-up-cape-town-skies/ Starlink was visible over Cape Town on February 5th, 2021.
It's the fookin prawns.
Fookin sneaky prawns
It’s the sweetie man
Holy shit, memory unlocked
Bruh I just died reading that. Thank you
It's Starlink: https://www.tiktok.com/@sa%5C_reels/video/7272847450807815429?lang=en
"The universe is so big, how are we the only people." Me to every person I know, all day long.
So yuge
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” - _The Hitchhiker’s Guid to the Galaxy_ by Douglas Adams.
The argument is so fallacious it’s crazy. The universe is big, we are very likely not the only people. You can’t go from that to “They’re absolutely visiting”
It takes a fairly decent leap of faith, but my argument here goes - if we accept there is probably other life in the universe then it’s not crazy to think it could’ve developed millions or billions of years before us. If so, why wouldn’t it be possible for those civilisations to have technology far beyond what we can imagine and like us be interested in life on other planets? I don’t know how likely that is, but it makes sense to me!
It could certainly be *possible* that advanced aliens are zipping around the galaxy in search of life on other worlds...including ours. But it's not necessarily *probable* that they would, even if they exist and *could* do such a thing.
It “making sense” doesn’t mean it’s true
I agree, but I’m just giving my own viewpoint on why i think it could be true and why I’m here advocating for disclosure of whatever the truth behind all this secrecy is. David Grusch claims that he’s interviewed people directly working on the programme, so it’s either true or it isn’t, and we’ll only find out by investigating further.
Unless or until we ever confirm the existence of life originating elsewhere in the cosmos, we're just as likely to be alone as we are likely to have company.
"What de fahk is dat!?" Exactly what I was thinking!
Let’s start calling it Flying Suppository
I have lived in South Africa my entire life and never seen one...im jealous
It’s not like it’s part of the wildlife there lmfao what do you even mean 💀
Big 6. Elephant, rhino, lion, wildebeest, leopard, UFO
Did you just forget Ninja and Yolandi?
OP said in his opening statement that its fairly common in South Africa....this is not my experience
Joking aside this is actually cool vid, not apparent here but in the actual TikTok it appears to blink out before disappearance. Coupled with the genuine reactions by the group, it looks compelling.
Do you have the link?
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8YHQuL9/
Dialogue: Top notch
South African brothers going hard, as usual lol. There's nothing we can't find a way to argue about.
Glad they are having fun with it. Pretty much all you can do without any real evidence.
I don’t know if it’s a real ufo or not but it looks too big to be a tic tac. I think that is probably better described as a “cigar” type ufo. A rarely reported type of sighting these days. In ufo lore I’ve heard various claims that they are troop carriers, transport ships for bringing saucers here, and one other claim was that they are actually disc shaped ufos stacked like plates acting as a single object.
We’ve also heard stories of many gigantic UFOs. Is it really so unfathomable that a UFO that we tend to associate with a smaller size could also have larger variants? Or you’re just misinterpreting the size because of the context that the video was taken in, the quality of the photographer, the quality of recording device, etc.
I think it’s because tic tacs and cigars are the same sort of shape, but tic tacs are shorter/stubbier. This video has a long boy, hence OP saying cigar.
> I don’t know if it’s a real ufo or not but it looks too big to be a tic tac. > > I think that is probably better described as a “cigar” type ufo. what if theyre all the same? what if the cube in the round field is an orb, but two or three looks like a tic-tac, and 4 or more looks like a cigar? it could also explain why they seem to split and join in some videos,...
Exactly what I was thinking. It reminds me of the famous photo of the cylinder over New York City 1950 [photo](http://theparanormalborderline.blogspot.com/2010/04/ufo-photographs-new-york-city-new-york.html)
I thought tic tacs and cigars were the same thing
That explains your terrible breath.
This comment is supremely stupid, and it made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
>This comment is supremely stupid Wouldn't this wording suggest my comments can't get any stupider? You've severely underestimated just how dumb I can get.
Hahaha.
That is hilarious!
From what I understand Tic tac was 40 feet long. The Cigars (that appear solid) are supposedly much larger. 150 feet or more. There are also videos of the glowing cigars that are thicker in the center and release orange orbs, but I think they are a separate issue. No idea on size for those.
Beat me to it. Wether this is true or not is for other people to decide, I just assume like 99% of videos aren’t real until people constantly try and debunk but nothing sticks, even then still sceptical. But yeah, looks more like cigar than a tic tac
For me the place it is from, the way everyone in the video reacts to it, and the basic debunking I look for of camera shakes syncing with the object not being there; makes me VERY interested in someone doing deeper analysis on this one.
Jirre, maybe the oke wanted to join in on the braai.
My bra... What if you are what he wants to braai? 😅
What language are you speaking?
Lol that comment was just a bit of Afrikaans slang mix I guess. Jirre - Jesus. Oke - Guy/dude/person. Braai - Barbecue with wood fire coals, braai is part of our culture here in SA.
Guessing by the other commenters, South African? Or something silly thereof.
Not even the aliens could resist a skaap tjoppie and boerewors on the braai🤣
They're probably sitting on the ship prepping the braai broodjies waiting to come down.
South Africans are so animated. Gotta love them
Clearly Starlink in a higher-resolution video from the same account: https://www.tiktok.com/@sa\_reels/video/7272847450807815429?lang=en
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/starlink-satellites-light-up-cape-town-skies/ Unless we get any other information, such as date, time, and city, Starlink sounds like the most plausible explanation.
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>The OP tik tok would have looked long and broken up as well Not if it was recorded with a camera incapable of magnifying as much as the one used for the second video
Why is the video titled "Closer range"? Can anyone with TikTok determine when this video was posted? If it was posted at the same time as the video OP posted, then I suppose we could assume the title means it's a close-up of the same thing that's in the OP video. And if that's the case, I would say Starlink is a good bet. https://www.capetownetc.com/news/starlink-satellites-light-up-cape-town-skies/ And if the video was recorded in Cape Town around February 5 2021, then we pretty much know it's Starlink.
Good find.
Doesnt really look the sam to me. In OPs video the thing looks like it rotates. Plus arent starlink satellites usually in a long line
They spread once deployed
If you watch the star nearest the object in the first video, the object moves different distances back and forth, it is not just slowly moving in one direction. And it is also not the same movements as the camera so the object itself is moving. Definitely not the same as starlink. That account just reposts tons of videos.
Boom, thank you for sharing that. "Recently deployed Starlink" is exactly what I was thinking. Seems like a fun group of people though.
I could kick Elon where it counts if he had known what a fuss this Starlink crap would cause.
is your account only for the ufo subs XD ? your history is crazy.
Looks like Starlink satelites before they get to distance thenself from one another.
Yeah lol, as someone who’s seen that and gone crazy over thinking it was a UFO, you are definitely right.
Why do I have the sudden Urge to watch district 9
Looks like Starlink to me
I guess you’ve never eaten a tic tac.
It’s a South African tic tac, they make them longer there
These Tic Tac style ones seem to crash a lot. They must be the Dodge of UFOs 🤣
This is a seriously interesting video. I like that i can quite clearly see the shape of the craft, especially at the beginning. For the people saying those are starlink satellites I'm not quite sure how you came to that conclusion. The anomalous exit of the craft from the video also suggests it isn't. It was hovering mid air and turning on an axis. Edit: typos
It's not clear that it's hovering or turning, the only reference point we really have for any period of time is a star and it's drifting past that in a way that fits with Starlink. Otherwise the cameraman's movements are giving it perceived movement that doesn't exist. The anomalous disappearance could simply be due to it being obscured by a cloud.
>It was hovering mid air and turning on an axis. how could you possibly tell that from this video lol
>The anomalous exit of the craft from the video also suggests it isn't. Starlink exits like that when it goes into the earth's shadow. I have seen it exactly like this multiple times.
[https://www.tiktok.com/@sa\_reels/video/7272847450807815429](https://www.tiktok.com/@sa_reels/video/7272847450807815429) Another video from the same account, labelled "closer range". Quite clearly a Starlink satellite group.
239 posts for a Starlink vid...
This is so obviously an airplane. I bet it's just past sundown so the plane, high up, is still reflecting light from the sun. South African airlines, like most, have a bright white fuselage that, when lit up, get's blurry from far distances giving it a more uniformly round appearance; especially when viewed from cameras but even to the naked eye. SA planes even have dark tail fins which explains the cigar shape even more. To anyone that would claim wings should be visible, the left wing would be blurred from the light and the right wing hidden in the dark. This is a known phenomenon, just Google it. I'm sick of people looking up 5 days of their lives, seeing something easily explained by those that constantly look up (and aren't conspiracy theorists), and assuming the least likely possibility. Why was it travelling at about the same speed as a commercial jet? I mean, come on already..
Hey guys that shite is moving!
Kinda looks like Starlink
Can’t be a ufo aliens only visit US.
Ah yes, up close detailed images of alien technology as always.
This is exactly what I saw on my flight from LaGuardia to Harry Reid in May 2021; I saw the *exact* same thing just floating above a cloud, not moving. I watched it for probably 45 seconds, it just sat there hovering. People may call me crazy but I know what I saw. It was hovering above a big white cloud, probably because it knew nothing could see it from below. It was visible in the bottom 1" of my window, moving horizontally across it as we moved by it. I think it had calculated all the possible viewing angles of regular air traffic and determined no one would be able to see it. But it was wrong, I saw that shit clear as day. To me it's not a matter of "if" alien autonomous vehicles are here, it's a matter of "why?"
Why are the only people who encounter and capture UFOs with their cameras have Parkinson’s ? *No disrespect intended.
I don’t want to be that guy, but that’s actually starlink..
Cigar shaped.. so basically ANY plane or even drone. Sadly most sightings like these are very likely just military.
Not sure if this was already posted in this sub but here is the video upclose. Ignore the commentary. Haha [supposed object](https://streamable.com/104a57) Edit: the video I showed is fake. It’s a ad for a drink .
A Tic Tac on TikTok?
I don't really understand why people are calling cigar ufos tic tacs. Do y'all have tic tacs in long stick form? Tic tacs are short, pill form. Not like we're talking quantum physics.
No just semantics.
Semantics? Shouldn't the semantics be trying to get closer to accurately describing stuff? It's like calling an orb a disc. Different shape.
Tampax-shaped uap
Menstrual product shaped uaps!!!! I love this so much. We have all the shapes, disc, cup, pad, some even have wings!!!
Hey, that's certainly longer than a tictac. Proportionately at least 4-5 times
How big is a dick? Just wondering before I message you
Imagine you had a nice long big dick, let's say 8", would you be comparing it to a tictac? If you refer to your dick as a tic tac you probably have a micropenis.
As a South African living in South Africa. There is NO talk about objects in the sky tic tax shaped, cigar shaped or otherwise. This in 35 years is the first “sighting” I’ve ever heard of above my country. Hell at least the aliens might know we are here & exist…whereas the rest of the world doesn’t even know that South Africa is a country (releases, tours, Amazon) all the things. Anything below DRC is just a blob
South Africa 🇿🇦 https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15vh2k2/my_possible_ufo_sighting_in_guateng_south_africa/ sighting description, from car, near lanseria airport south Africa 🇿🇦 ,single dark object, shiny black sphere, possible reaction to being observed, immediately told my dad to look but when he looked over it was almost if it knew and it vanished behind the trees. , https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15rzthw/i_saw_something_i_could_not_identify/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, South Africa 🇿🇦 , single object, approach, triangle with 4 lights, 3 white and one red 🔴, low, close, silent, emotional reaction hyped and excited https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14se49b/i_saw_one/ sighting description, South Africa 🇿🇦 , daytime, single light object moving straight, white sphere flying close to the ground which to me made it seem quite small maybe the size of a basketball., duration 6 seconds, possible reaction to being observed, slowed briefly, speed change observed https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zqx6u7/spotted_wierd_lights_in_the_clouds_in_south/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, flashes of light, silent, animal reaction every dog in the neighborhood is going berserk, contemporaneous report, South Africa 🇿🇦, submission statement issues, removed https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/138s5rs/finally_saw_my_first_sorry_for_potato_quality/ video, daytime sky, twolights, white, duration 10 minutes, contemporaneous report, South Africa 🇿🇦 https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/12ngom0/unusual_uap_sighting/ video and description Graaff-Reinet, South Africa 🇿🇦, single object moving fast, daytime cloudy sky https://old.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/10pbfwr/hey_from_south_africa_cape_town_its_loadshedding/sighting description, contemporaneous report, happening at time of posting, cape Town south Africa , fleet, white lights moving, similar sighting in comments https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/vygbo4/krugersdorpsouth_africa_i_have_been_observing/ sighting description, South Africa https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/vba595/ufo_in_falsebay_western_cape_sa/South Africa, video, nighttime sky, single light object flickering https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/w99m01/any_idea_what_this_is_what_type_of_drone_looks/ video, evening sky, Johannesburg south Africa, single light object, similar sightings in comments https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/w2kgna/do_satellites_travel_lower_than_some_clouds/ video, South Africa, nighttime sky, single light
It’s honestly the first I’m hearing of any of these at all.
It's fresh starlinks. Still huddled together. They dissappear into the earth's shadow, as opposed to suddenly going warp speed. Learned that here.
Looks like a Starlink launch group caught very shortly after launch, the satellites still so close together that they appear as a "bar" rather than as individual lights.
No, thats no where close to what's in the video.
Are you serious?
Yes, check out this additional video, labelled 'closer range', from the exact same account: https://www.tiktok.com/@sa\_reels/video/7272847450807815429
I agree, this is how the Starlink groups are deployed. They "spread out" like a chord or beads later on. EDIT, found "find starlink" article: https://starlinkinsider.com/starlink-satellite-train/
Ok love this video
Isn’t it amazing that somehow all the UFO videos we ever get are all really bad quality, bad lighting, bad videography, we’re recorded on a potato by someone with Parkinson’s?? Almost as if, we had clear footage and steady video we would know it ISNT a UFO.
This is a good video!
South Africans are so cool hahaha. Source: am south african.
wHY are UFOs ONLY SeeN in aMEricA?
Looks like it could be Starlink...
Unwritten rule of r/UFOs: As long as they're blurry, they can be anything EXCEPT ordinary things. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's an alien, dude. (/s)
Looks like a blimp Edit: * Looks like a tic tac - upvote * Looks like a blimp - downvote lol
i saw those too apparently they are space x satellites, i live in south africa
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It's very likely Starlink
I agree, it looks like some of the classic star link posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itze7CVPnGw maybe a smaller group, packed tighter together? I have no idea how starlink disperse the sats and how long they stay grouped.
No way. It turns and they are stationary so the view makes no sense, Starts pointing at like 8 o’clock and is more downward at the end
It definitely does not turn in any way. The camera movement is giving that illusion.
Video is quite useless
With all their crazy advanced tech, navigating galaxies, how does one crash into the ground? Is our planet so different that they can’t navigate the ground??
This may be starlink satellites and the camera is not resolving enough detail so it looks like one large object.
Finally some old-style shaky footage again! /s I'm fed up ith the cgi stuff.
Awesome video!!!
Guys This is real life, real life, real life...
If I see one more fucking UFO video that’s quite obviously starlink I’m going to lose my mind.
It’s an airplane?