/r/UFOs is having another MH370 moment.

Context: Jeremy Corbell is a disgraced A*stralian journo who entered the UFO/UAP celebrity circuit by breaking the news about whistleblower David Grusch. Since rising to fame, he's been making his way around youtube channels and sharing questionable claims from "inside sources". In his most recent story, he dropped alleged classified footage of a "jellyfish" UFO hanging around a military base in Iraq.

Discussion of the story is following a similar trajectory to that of the MH370 "footage"- a video of a commercial airplane getting kidnapped into another realm by some orbs . This definitely not an obvious fake video captured the UFO community for weeks, as they alternated between debunks and counter-debunks, until it was finally definitively debunked.

Right now, the jellyfish debunker narrative rests on the idea that the alium is birdshit, a splattered bug, or a crack on the glass of a protective cover surrounding the camera, whilst believers are posting analyses and footage of vaguely similar objects. Literally every thread with a decent amount of traction is full of slapfights between skeptics and believers.

And of course, there's some bonghit takes like so and so. You'll find many more of those on the smaller UFO/alien-related subs (e.g. /r/aliens, /r/UFOB, /r/strangeearth, /r/AliensandUFOs), where people don't keep up the pretense that they sound sane.

Choice Links:

• /r/UFOs megathread

• It's real I tell you! lots of analyses like these in the sub.

• More analysis

• Debunker

• Counter-debunker

Edit: Now's a good time to earn an alien badge by jumping on the jellyfish hype!