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What was reported
Thermal-camera video from the combat ship USS Omaha shows a warm round object moving over the sea at night and then descending to the horizon and vanishing; a sailor says it 'splashed'. The Pentagon confirmed the footage, which documentary maker Jeremy Corbell released in 2021 with a video of the ship's radar display showing up to 14 contacts around the ship; the destroyer USS Paul Hamilton logged a similar swarm the next night. Mick West argues the camera had lost the radar-designated target and the 'splash' is an object passing below the horizon line, and an analysis of the pixel horizon finds it ambiguous within about a pixel. No range data or recovered object exist.
What officials concluded
Unresolved
DoD: footage authentic; no explanation published
Strongest ordinary reading
A drone or aircraft going behind the horizon in a thermal camera; not established
USS Omaha, July 2019 off San Diego: a shipboard thermal video shows a heat-source object descending very slowly and shrinking to a point near the horizon before disappearing; the crew's audio references a 'splash' mark, bearing, and range, implying the object entered the water.
They say splash down mark, splash mark bearing and range. So they think that it's actually gone into the water.
Radar footage from the same night as the Omaha incident reportedly showed the ship 'swarmed,' with up to 10-14 self-illuminated spherical objects roughly 6 feet in diameter observed simultaneously.
I counted 10, 12, up to 14 objects were observed simultaneously. The objects were described as self-illuminated spheres approximately 6 feet in diameter.
The USS Omaha thermal camera's tracking symbology showed 'slaved to radar' status, but West argues the operator likely lost the actual radar-designated target and manually joysticked onto a different, more distant object.
We know the symbology. So again this is like the gimbal... it's been done by joysticks and was manually moving the camera around.
Dr. Phil Metzger published analysis (on Twitter/X) arguing the exact pixel position of the horizon line in the USS Omaha video is ambiguous, within about one pixel either side of the object.
Dr. Phil Meta Mets... said it was very ambiguous as to where the actual horizon was.
Roughly 24 hours after the Omaha incident, USS Paul Hamilton reported a similar swarm, with one object logged as 'splashing,' and the swarm reportedly departed on a heading toward Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
24 hours later the USS Paul Hamilton... reports the same thing. One of the objects splashes.
Crew watch-standers on the USS Omaha, off Southern California within the last decade, observed a UAP with no observable exhaust or control surfaces that entered the water, exhibiting trans-medium travel.
What the watch standers on the bridge observed was a UAP... that had no observable exhaust or control surfaces... and then they saw it enter the water from the atmosphere.
