LONDON: A ‘jellyfish’ UFO sighted flying over a US military base in Iraq has “haunted” forces for years, a former Marine has revealed.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell released footage of the UFO, also known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, earlier this month.
The UAP seemed to float above the base, changing colors from black to gray to white, with three appendages or “legs” dangling beneath.
Following the revelations, former Marine Michael Cincoski broke his silence in an interview with NewsNation, admitting there had been several sightings of the “jellyfish” UAP.
Cincoski, who served at the Iraq base in January 2018, said: “It kind of just ended up being like the ghost story of the base. It didn’t seem to be posturing to threaten us at all.
“I believe some Marines were tasked to find it, and they kept an eye on it, but it wasn’t like we were scrambling to defensive positions.”
When asked if he thought it could be non-human, he said: “It crossed my mind because the theories we had didn’t fully explain it.”
However, he refuted one part of Corbell’s video, which claimed that the object, also known as the “Spaghetti Monster” by some on base, dived into nearby Lake Hibernia in Anbar Province before blasting back into the sky at a 45-degree angle.
Cincoski said: “It seemingly continued into the distance and got smaller and smaller. Whether that was because the sensor was zooming out or it was getting further away (I don’t know).
“But at no point could you see it drop into the water and shoot off into the sky, as has been claimed.”
Nick Pope, who used to run the British government’s UFO project, said identifying what the object was would be difficult — but if it could dive into the lake and re-emerge, it would eliminate more skeptical explanations like balloons or dirt on the lens.
“We’ll have to wait and see if this further footage emerges, if it’s verifiably part of the same incident, and if the Pentagon confirms the authenticity of the footage,” he told Metro.
