A family hiking in Southern California has revealed stunning images of a mysterious craft flying overhead during a solar eclipse.
The four hikers spotted a large dumbbell or H-shaped UFO flying slowly and erratically near Ryan Mountain in Joshua Tree National Park on October 14, 2023.
According to the witnesses, they followed the object for about 45 minutes, watching it disappear and reappear several times before it vanished completely.
Images of the craft, shared with safeaerospace.org, a nonprofit group focused on aerospace safety and national security, captured a clear view of the UFO, which was made of a highly reflective material described as silver.
It was described as looking like a ‘capital I’ or ‘sideways H’, and its two large panels on each end gave it a shape reminiscent of a TIE fighter from the Star Wars films.
Skeptics sharing the sighting online have suggested that the craft may have been a box kite or an escaped letter H party balloon.
However, the hikers estimated that the craft was the size of a car or small plane, which would make the object significantly larger than the typical kite and balloon.
While the Pentagon has maintained that physical evidence of UFOs or extraterrestrials has never been found, the sighting took place near several US military bases, including one that has tested experimental aircraft for decades.
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