AI-enhanced Pentagon ‘floating brain’ UFO video goes viral, sparks conspiracy theories

The Pentagon released a fourth tranche of UFO files on Friday, disclosing the batch of 40 new files, of which 19 are videos.

The recent tranche includes the data coming from various agencies, including FBI, NASA, CIA, Energy Department and Pentagon.

Among all the videos, one video released by the Pentagon caught the attention of netizens and the scientific community and went viral on social media platforms.

In 2020, an experienced aviator with 28 years of service across the Air Force and Navy encountered an unidentified object while flying over the eastern United States. Accompanied by four other crew members, the pilot observed an object moving at a high rate of speed in a straight line below their aircraft. According to the aviator, the flight characteristics were like anything they had previously seen.

Although the object was not clear enough in the video, according to some users, it looked like an alien-related spaceship.

However, An X user applied AI to enhance the Pentagon’s previously released UFO footage designated DOW-UAP-PR030, also called the “floating brain” UAP. The enhanced image depicts an image that shape shifts and performs a sharp high-speed maneuver before it accelerates away. Surprisingly, Pentagon’s analysts also failed to figure out this object.

The AI-enhanced image took the internet by storm, sparking a fresh wave of speculation, with viewers drawing very different conclusions about what they're seeing.

One user wrote, “It's just a bunch of mylar balloons tied together. Probably escaped a fair. They can ascend for thousands of feet without popping like latex balloons.”

Another one also presented its own theory, stating, “Yeah, that thing flew here from Alpha Centauri, or from the Andromeda Galaxy. Makes perfect sense. Look at its mystifyingly perfect symmetry. It can't possibly be a distorted balloon or a random piece of garbage. Our lives are changed forever.”

“Holy jeez, it’s a bunch of balloons. The shiny parts are not engines. It’s glare,” the third one commented. Some users even called the original video “deepfake.