Freshly free footage show the moment a US Army Apache attack helicopter encountered three unnamed ethereal phenomena ( UAP ) near the Mexican border .

The video was film as midnight draw near on November 6 , 2018 , around 64 kilometers ( 40 mile ) northwest of the Arizonan urban center of Tucson during a education flight , as first reported byThe Debrief .

Captured through specialized military night sight sensors , three small dots can be seen moving promptly through the air in an unusual and erratic fashion .

“ Wow ! Are those three really fast - move jets up there ? ” the Apache helicopter ’s co - original can be listen saying .

“ credibly . credibly some A10s or some F-16s , but I ’m not looking up there , ” responds the Apache ’s pilot .

The video was part of a gravid clause explain how agents from the US Customs and Border Patrol are ofttimes spotting UAPs around the southerly border , but they lack the means to account the encounters to their higher - ups .

talk to The Debrief , former US Air Force fighter pilot program Chris Lehto say the movement of the three physical object “ does n’t make sentiency ” and is n’t like anything he ’s ever seen in his career as a military pilot .

“ The trailing rate is exceptionally libertine , ” Lehto said . “ Even if they are only a mile away , I calculate they go or so 1.28M. Well past the speed of phone . ”

However , not everyone is convert that the footage shows a secret aircraft , withsome commentatorsspeculating that the objects are , in fact , just birds or squash racquet . They believe that the object are actually a lot snug to the tv camera and are glide nowhere near the speed of sound .

“ A , sadly , much - hype Modern UFO video turns out to look just like three hiss just doing bird things . You do n’t even call for analysis here . Just look at the original video . It simply await like birds,”tweetedMick West , an executive at Metabunk .

“ Do n’t y' all require to be take badly ? ”

Beyond this TV , news report of UAPs are being taken more seriously compare to previous years . Earlier this calendar month , the US politics had itsfirst public Congressional hearingon UFOs since 1966 , highlighting how the US Department of Defense ( DoD ) has gathered at least 400 sighting in recent times , including 11 skinny - collisions .

The sense of hearing did n’t reveal any bombshell declaration , but it did featuretwo newly unblock UAP videosfilmed by the US military .