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Original excerpt
Your browser is not able to display this video. I'm not sure this will be useful, but good quality ATFLIR footage is very rare. Here the F-18 is maneuvering more dramatically than in the other videos, but we see a similar set of passive track acquisition and lock. I think this one is a balloon.
Key claims
A Metabunk contributor analyzed rare ATFLIR infrared footage showing an F-18 maneuvering and suggested the tracked object was likely a balloon.
Alternative explanation
The tracked object was attributed to a balloon rather than an unidentified anomalous phenomenon.
Analysis by Claude · may contain errors
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