Viewing a UFO over Aguadilla

This document summarizes my frame-by-frame analysis of a possibly-authentic UFO video shown in the document, Leaked UFO recorded by Department of Homeland Security. I've used open-source software to:

1. Select interesting frames from the UFO video.
2. Extract (crop and interpolate) UFO closeups (enlargements) from the frames.
3. Create an online slideshow of UFO closeups.
4. Examine the UFO's features, including its components and activities.

Note: To view this video in slow motion or frame-by-frame, you can use RowVid. For more information, please see How to analyze UFO videos.

UFO video

At 9:20 PM on April 25, 2013, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft crew made an infrared video recording of a UFO as it approached from the Atlantic ocean, flew at low altitude across land, split into two objects, and then submerged into the ocean. Fortunately, an infrared video camera was available because the unlighted UFO was flying at night.

UFO closeups
I've extracted two sets of interpolated closeups from various frames of the Aguadilla UFO video:

• Sequential closeups for my slideshow, Closeups of a UFO over Aguadilla.
• Separate closeups that I present in this document.

Note: Each uninterpolated UFO closeup has relatively few pixels, typically between 200 and 2500. Therefore, we cannot see details as clearly as we prefer because each pixel appears as a relatively-large square. However, graphics software uses interpolation to calculate many new pixels among the uninterpolated pixels, which smooths out the squares. While not perfect, an interpolated closeup helps us see general shapes more clearly than would the patchwork of pixels in an uninterpolated closeup.

Sequential UFO closeups - For the slideshow, I've extracted 28 sequential closeups from near the beginning of the Aguadilla video, at time 0:44. The infrared video camera recorded at approximately 30 frames per second (0.033-second intervals). Therefore, the slideshow presents images recorded for a total of 0.93 seconds (28 X 0.033 = 0.93).

Separate UFO closeups - For this document, I've extracted the five closeups below from the Aguadilla video within times 2:02 through 2:46.  After splitting into two equal objects, each as large as the original, one object submerges, and then the other. Neither UFO resurfaces.

Figure 1 - Time 2:02 - The UFO is flying 
above the surface of the Atlantic ocean.

Figure 2 - Time 2:04 - At 90 mph, the UFO skims the surface and
submerges partially. It disturbs the water only slightly, if at all, and
doesn't leave a wake. Likewise, hitting the water doesn't slow the UFO.  

Figure 3 - Time 2:36 - After running fully submerged several times
(not shown in these closeups), the UFO splits into two objects,
each as large as the original. Both objects run partially submerged.

Figure 4 - Time 2:43 -  Both objects are still running partially submerged.

Figure 5 - Time 2:46 - Only one UFO
appears briefly before disappearing.

UFO characteristics
In my opinion, if the Aguadilla UFO video is authentic, its object is almost certainly an object of unknown origin. In the video, the UFO appears to be tumbling, and occasionally changing shape. It was a small object, approximately 3 to 5 feet long, and flying at speeds varying between 40 to 120 mph. Its physical construction, composite materials, source of power, and method of propulsion are unknown. Without lights, it avoided obstacles while flying in nighttime darkness. Thanks to the infrared video recording, researchers estimate that its exterior temperature was at least 105º Fahrenheit.

For more information, please see the 161-page detailed report about this UFO in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, provided by the Scientific Coalition of UFOlogy (SCU). Thanks to the SCU, this Aguadilla UFO might be one of the most thoroughly-documented UFO incidents in history. Their report is a PDF file that you can view online, and download to view offline if you wish.