Is it really out of this world?
A new photo claiming to be a 1,000-foot-wide UFO near the Four Corners is sending the internet into a frenzy over whether it’s the real deal — or just an optical illusion.
Internet sleuths claim the photo posted by controversial former Department of Defense employee Luis “Lue” Elizondo — claiming to show a “1,000-foot”-wide silver, disc-shaped flying saucer — is really just two crop circles common in desert climates.
A comparison with Google Maps in the same region shows two irrigation circles, with one darker than the other to make it appear as its shadow, posts showed.
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“As this is evidently a crop circle, it’s not a UAP [unidentified flying object],” User Dr. Disclosure commented.
“Misidentifying well-known earthly events damages public confidence and hampers genuine transparency initiatives. Kindly rectify this error — your credibility is at stake,” they stated.
In various responses, the mysterious image was juxtaposed with pictures of crop circles, appearing almost indistinguishable from the described UFO sighting.
Seriously, are you all joking? Haven’t any of you been on an airplane? These crop circles are actually very typical,
said user Jeff Knox.
“The second one appears as though they recently conducted a controlled burn in the area. JFC, this is cringe-worthy, and highlights why there’s such a stigma surrounding this issue,” Knox stated.
The image spread rapidly across the internet following Elizonda’s presentation of it.
UAP Disclosure Fund
-organized panel.
“Discovered close to Four Corners at Flight Level 20—estimated between 600 to 1,000 feet in size, silvery, disk-like,” according to the UAP Disclosure Fund
posted on X
.
The blurry photograph, supposedly taken by a commercial airline pilot in 2021 at an altitude of 21,000 feet close to the Four Corners area where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado meet, was mentioned by Elizondo.
Elizonda indicated the supposed shadow cast by the sizable “lens-shaped” object as proof of an actual craft being present in the photograph.
However, as UAP skeptic Mick West highlighted, the presence of shadows cast by the hills contradicts the assertion that the object itself is generating the shadow.
based on a blog entry
.
Elizondo has previously faced criticism for showcasing evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) or unexplained flying objects (UFOs) that were
later debunked
— with the
Pentagon pushing back
in response to assertions that extraterrestrial life exists on Earth.
The UAP Disclosure Fund panel featured US Representatives Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), along with Harvard astrophysicist Professor Avi Loeb, who engaged in a conversation on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
During the event, astrophysicist and nuclear engineer Eric Davis, who was part of the panel, stated that there are four kinds of extraterrestrial beings that have come to Earth. He referred to them as “grays,” “Nordics,” “reptilians,” and “insectoids.”