AARO Releases Puerto Rico Video

A video, filmed by a Customs and Border Patrol aircraft in 2013 near an airport in Puerto Rico, was thought to depict a “transmedium” object moving from the air into the water and then back into the air.

Dr Kosloski said the effect was actually a trick of the infra-red camera “where the temperature of the water is equal to the temperature of the object and the camera can no longer distinguish between the two”.

“We assess that it was actually flying over the airport the entire time,” he said.

“We assess that the object, likely a pair of balloons or sky lanterns, was floating at about seven knots over the airport and descending to about 200 meters.”

Balloons accounted for three quarters of resolved UAP cases since 1996, 16 per cent were found to be unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and 6 per cent were birds, according to AARO data.