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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Unique_Driver4434 on 2025-07-04 10:55:50+00:00.
There are two things I've noticed around the recent Mosul orb release that I want to point out if someone hasn't already:
Point #1 - Kirkpatrick Likely Lied
Two years ago the Mosul Orb video generated my interest in UFOs (and I've now went from skeptic then to full-on believer now.)
The video was first shown during the April 2023 Senate/AARO hearing with Kirsten Gillibrand chairing, where Kirkpatrick presented the video and stated:
"This is essentially all of the data we have associated with this event."
https://youtu.be/ZoSZA7Meneg?t=1140
The video was recirculated by many news outlets, like the NY Post below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN22jK34usA
Now, thanks to Dustin Slaughter and his successful FOIA lawsuit, we get a closer look of the object, seemingly from another type of equipment (the original was from an MQ-9 Reaper UAV, though it could be from a second camera from the same MQ-9), even if it's a much shorter clip than the original video released two years ago.
CLEARLY, the video Kirkpatrick showed was not all of the data associated with this event, as we now have more data with Slaughter's video.
So Kirkpatrick likely lied, but I can't say that for sure. Other possibilities are:
- He only had that footage and didn't yet have access to the other more close-up footage (I find this unlikely since the original footage is much longer and even Slaughter was able to get his hands on it now)
- He was simply generalizing and felt that this additional footage added no extra data, so he wasn't being careful enough with his wording and felt it wasn't worth mentioning (I find this unlikely, since we only have this very short clip, meaning a longer clip with this type of better fidelity would be worth mentioning to the senators).
edit:
Ignore everything I said below. I'll save you some reading. I was wrong. Apologies to Slaughter, Corbell, Knapp, and Sharpe. SabineRitter below elaborated on why. I wasn't aware Corbell had put out the still image in January 2023 on his podcast, months before Kirkpatrick released the video in April 2023. Corbell's video shows the orb flying over some houses that are in the new video released by Slaughter, which are not in the Kirkpatrick video.
https://www.unilad.com/news/ufo-sighting-iraq-investigated-us-military-421209-20230125
Sabine and others mentioned it's a different event, which I wasn't aware of. reallycooldude69 pointed out that the dates are different for the two (Corbell's image and Slaughter's FOIA video are 2016 while the video above Kirkpatrick shows is from 2022) , so this was my ignorance and not noticing the differences in dates and background.
Wow, two Mosul orb events. Anyway, I was wrong.
And while Kirkpatrick said "This is all we have for THIS event." Now I fully believe Kirkpatrick was being dishonest, because he should have mentioned they had this other 2016 footage. Someone on the UAP Task Force gave Corbell the still image.
Clearly Kirkpatrick would then have that footage of the earlier 2016 since AARO was advised by the UAPTF when taking over. How could he not mention that they had these orbs in two different events while briefing senators? He only mentions the one. Clearly dishonest behavior.
Point #2 - Weird Claims Being Made About the Mosul Orb's History
However, some weird things are now also happening around the history of the Mosul orb timeline. Dustin said in his post "This follows a still image of the Orb first published by u /g_knapp JeremyCorbell & reported by ChrisUKSharp."
https://x.com/DustinSlaughter/status/1940128566617743490
No mention that the video ever existed in that post. I see Jeremy commented under that tweet, and no mention from him that the screenshot was taken from the video already published.
So what's going on here? Dustin got us this new video, so maybe simply an oversight on his part and he wasn't aware that there was a video and not just a screenshot.
Jeremy and George Knapp, in my opinion, have both done more for this topic than many others with their passionate advocacy on news outlets over the years. But they had to have known there was a video with how involved they are in this topic.
Maybe they said elsewhere that the screenshot came from the Pentagon's video after they released it, but if not, people need to know that they are not the original source of how we know about the Mosul orb. I'm seeing so many people repeating this revisionist history of "All we had was the image before this."
The Pentagon was the original source when they released that video first 2 years ago. Any screenshots taken of it came after that.
Opinions?
