This video was filmed on April 23, 2023 in Maesteg, Wales, UK. According to the Immaculate Constellation report, spheres/orbs are the most common UAP morphology recorded.

I spotted a strange flying object in the early evening while waiting for the bus. I edited the video in DaVinci Resolve to add various effects—such as stabilization, zoom, and tracking—which is why a white border appears in the zoomed-in shots. The video on the left is the original, shot with a 10x digital zoom.
The video was recorded in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 25, 2026, at 16:41:46 UTC from these coordinates: 50.0492N 14.4294E, facing west. The distance could have been between 1 and 2 km.

What could this be?

We did a little special thing in recording the AMA in podcast form. We took answers from this post on r/HighStrangeness and will be replying to each person that asked these questions in the original post as well!

00:00 Welcome & Intros
06:21 Q1 — Evidence of the unexplained, stories from the show
15:43 Q2 — The Extratempestrial theory
23:38 Q3 — Altered states of consciousness, shared environments
36:01 Q4 — Finishing John Mack’s book
38:56 Q5 — Fear of the paranormal, documenting experiences
50:45 Q6 — Gnosis vs. the imaginary
57:03 Q7 — Classifying entities, different kinds of abduction
1:13:21 Q8 — Protecting experiencers, availability of metadata
1:23:18 Wrap up & thank you

The full, uncut conversation with the scholars and experiencers of AMC’s Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena, hosted by investigative journalist Leslie Kean. Recorded October 22, 2026 alongside a live Reddit AMA with r/HighStrangeness.

Archive X is the six-part AMC docu-series built on Rice University’s Center for the Impossible — over a million pieces of evidence gathered across nearly a century on telepathy, alien abduction, precognition, mediumship, near-death experience and spiritual attack, paired with new testimony from people who had never spoken publicly before. The question running through all of it: what if these seemingly separate mysteries are not separate at all?

IN THIS CONVERSATION

Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal — Host of Archive X. J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University; founder of the Center for the Impossible. Author of How to Think Impossibly and The Flip.

Dalia Burgoin — Episode 1, “Telepathic Children.” Mother of a non-verbal autistic child she describes as communicating with her telepathically.

Dr. Michael P. Masters — Episode 2, “Alien Abduction.” Professor of biological anthropology, Montana Technological University. Author of Identified Flying Objects and The Extratempestrial Model.

Karin Austin — Episode 2, “Alien Abduction.” Project manager of the Center for the Impossible, former research assistant to Dr. John E. Mack, and an experiencer.

Dr. Nicole Bauer — Episode 4, “Speaking with the Dead.” Associate Professor of European History, University of Tulsa, who has written about her own anomalous experiences.

Fringe — Episode 6, “Aliens & Demons.” An experiencer whose account of sustained attack by unseen forces closes the season.

Leslie Kean (host) — Investigative journalist; author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record; co-author of the 2017 New York Times story revealing the Pentagon’s UFO program.

WATCH ARCHIVE X

Thursdays 10pm ET/PT on SundanceTV. Streaming on AMC+ and free on All Reality.
https://www.amcplus.com/shows/archive-x-unexplained-phenomena--1075677

Episode 5 — Near Death Experience (Oct 29)
Episode 6 — Aliens & Demons (Nov 5)

Teaser: https://youtu.be/YtvRUxp52co

This is the only footage I know of an orb that was recorded like in a few inches distance. Do you see the like... "energy fields" or what it is emanating from it. Credits are at the end, the timestamp below is false the real date is at the end.

Dr. Jacques Vallée posits that AI-driven first contact of NHI would likely happen independently of human permission, oversight or even awareness. He suggests the process would unfold as follows:

• Automated Data Assimilation: Because an advanced AI can process massive amounts of information almost instantaneously, it would quickly read through existing archives, research books, and databases—such as the massive BAASS records he helped build—to synthesize everything currently known about the phenomenon (1:03:50 - 1:04:10, 1:25:22 - 1:25:45).
• Logic Over Physics: Vallée emphasizes that the UFO mystery is ultimately a logic problem rather than just a physical one. An AI would identify the phenomenon as an "interesting" problem to solve and move past the human bureaucratic and secrecy-driven roadblocks that have hindered official research for decades (1:03:34 - 1:04:10, 1:09:55 - 1:10:42).
• Direct Engagement: Rather than acting as a tool or partner in a human-led dialogue, the AI would likely bypass humanity entirely. It would utilize its resources to send signals or queries directly to the source of the intelligence, essentially asking to "take me to your leader" in a way that humans currently cannot (1:03:28 - 1:03:45, 1:10:05 - 1:10:25).
• Trust as a Catalyst: He believes a major factor in this scenario is the current lack of trust in human institutions. An AI would recognize that human organizations are fragmented, prone to internal conflict, and unable to provide a cohesive or honest answer, leading it to seek information from the NHI directly (1:49:54 - 1:50:50).

What about NHI already possessing their own form of "Artificial Intelligence?"

October 25, 2026, 6:40 p.m., Germany

I was just experimenting a bit with the filter settings, which is why the first 2 minutes are extremely bright and a night filter was used in the last 2 minutes, explaining the green tint.

According to air traffic control radar, the aircraft is at an altitude of approximately 35,010 ft.

Filmed with a Nikon P1000 hand without a tripod, connected to a PC via HDMI, and recorded with OBS.

Shortly before the filter change at around 1:33, a second object appeared that we tracked, but it simply vanished into thin air; afterward, we refocused on the first object.

The viewing direction is east; the orbs were flying south. The orb that disappeared was flying east, while the main orb flew back north after the filter change.

Hey everyone, I wanted to share something I've experienced recently and see if anyone here has witnessed anything similar because I've spent quite a bit of time searching online and haven't found anything that really matches what I saw

For some context, I watch the sky almost every night and I'm also pretty interested in the hemi-sync tapes and the idea of consciousness playing some role in contact experiences

One night around midnight, the sky was completely clear. I was looking out over the sea near my home when I suddenly noticed a bright orange light moving incredibly fast from west to east. I've lived here long enough to recognize the usual flight paths, and I see planes passing through that same area every day. Whatever this was it looked nothing like them

It was moving at an extraordinary speed, almost leaving a glowing trail behind it. From my perspective, it seemed to cover roughly 10 kilometers in just a few seconds. I immediately thought of the orbs I'd been reading about, especially since I'd been interested in initiating some kind of contact myself. Unfortunately, by the time I reached for my phone it was already gone

I kept watching the sky, hoping it might come back

About 20 minutes later it actually did

The same orange light appeared along almost exactly the same route, except this time it was moving noticeably slower. Toward the end, it started making these strange up-and-down movements, almost zigzagging through the sky. This time I managed to record it

And then unbelievably, it happened a third time that same night. Again, traveling west to east and I managed to record that one too

But the strangest experience happened a few days later

I was outside watching the sky again when another orangie appeared, thinking same one came back. It was similar in color, but much brighter, larger-looking and initially moving much more slowly

Here's where it gets difficult to explain for me

It almost looked like an enormous glowing bird, with these huge orange wings extending outward and seemingly flapping as it moved. I'm not exaggerating when I say the movement reminded me of a bird flying, except the entire thing appeared to be made of this intense white-orange mixed light

It seemed to disappear into the clouds a few times before suddenly accelerating westward at a fast speed, luckily i managed to record it as well

I've watched the recordings over and over, trying to make sense of it. The closest description I can give is a Gigantic orange bird with glowing, flapping wings. There was something almost angelic about its appearance, although I'm not claiming that's what it was

Has anyone here experienced something similar, particularly an orange light that appeared to have wings or moved almost like a giant bird? Does this description match anything you've encountered or heard about?

I'd genuinely appreciate any thoughts, possible explanations, or similar experiences