A senior adviser to Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has released extraordinary footage of a mysterious unidentified object filmed by Ukrainian military drones during combat operations, amid fears it could represent an undisclosed Russian weapons system.
Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov, one of Ukraine’s leading specialists in drone warfare and electronic combat systems, published infrared footage and photographs showing what appeared to be a strange multi-pronged airborne object hovering above the battlefield.
The black-and-white thermal video, reportedly recorded by a Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces pilot in May 2025, shows a spherical or flattened object emitting heat from its centre while surrounded by sharply protruding cone-like structures.
A visible thermal plume trails behind the object as it appears to hover or move slowly at an altitude of around 800 metres.
The drone operator can be seen rotating the observation camera vertically and horizontally after spotting the anomaly, suggesting the pilot was attempting to confirm the object’s shape and movement.
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Additional photographs released alongside the footage showed a cigar-shaped heat-emitting object suspended over farmland.
Beskrestnov stressed there was no evidence of extraterrestrial activity and said Ukrainian authorities were treating the sightings primarily as a military and intelligence matter.
“With the beginning of the war, the study of UFOs in our space became more of a military task than a civilian one,” he wrote on Telegram.
He added that Ukraine’s armed forces already maintain a formal reporting framework for unidentified aerial phenomena observed by troops.
According to Ukrainian media outlets, officials believe the sightings could potentially involve experimental Russian technologies, surveillance platforms or unconventional weapons systems rather than anything supernatural.
The mainstream Ukrainian outlet UNIAN reported that the military increasingly views unidentified objects through the lens of battlefield threat assessment due to the scale of Russia’s evolving drone and missile campaigns.
Mysterious footage from the Pentagon’s UFO files shows a bizarre object streaking across the sky in 2013.
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Beskrestnov urged both soldiers and civilians to report unusual aerial objects immediately, warning that what initially appears inexplicable could ultimately prove to be a previously unseen Russian capability.
The footage has drawn comparisons with recently declassified US military recordings released by the United States Department of Defense and other American agencies.
Among the material published by the Pentagon last week was an infrared recording designated DOW-UAP-PR38, filmed over the Middle East in 2013, showing a star-shaped thermal object with protruding points bearing some resemblance to the Ukrainian footage.
The US recording showed an eight-pointed object viewed through infrared imaging equipment, though analysts noted key differences in shape, thermal signature and movement patterns compared with the Ukrainian sighting.
The timing of the Ukrainian footage comes as the war increasingly revolves around drone technology, electronic warfare and experimental battlefield systems.
Since late 2022, Russia has launched thousands of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons and Iranian-designed Shahed drones against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
In response, Ukraine has developed one of the world’s most complex layered air-defence and drone interception systems, combining interceptor drones, acoustic tracking networks, fighter aircraft and Western-supplied air defence platforms.
Reports of unidentified aerial objects are not uncommon inside Ukraine’s heavily militarised airspace, though they are almost always later identified as incoming Russian weapons, reconnaissance systems or electronic warfare platforms.
The suggestion that an object might not be Russian in origin remains highly unusual within Ukraine, where virtually all aerial threats are viewed through the prism of the war with Moscow.
Still, the release of the footage highlights how rapidly the boundaries between conventional warfare, drone combat, electronic warfare and intelligence gathering are blurring as the conflict evolves.
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