Is the UFO crash in Arizona video real or fake? Viral video debunked

On Monday, January 6, a video of an alleged UFO Crash in Arizona went viral on social media. The video was first posted on Instagram by user sybervisions_ and has since spread to other platforms like X.

In the 1 minute 18 seconds clip, people in hazmat suits, who seemingly worked for the USA government, could be seen analyzing the object, talking among themselves and taking pictures. The whole area was guarded by yellow tape. The video appears to have been shot by one of the spectators who was standing outside the tape. The alleged object seems to have a circular form and is jade black in colour.

The Instagram video has already amassed 2,411,000 likes, with a number of people debating its legitimacy. However, the video is not real as artificial intelligence was used to create it.

Further, this isn't the only time a clip of an alleged UFO sighting has gone viral, but all of them, too, have turned out to be fake and many were AI generated as well.

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The alleged UFO sightings in Arizona and other states of the USA are fake

Complaints about UFO sightings are not new (Representative image via Getty Images)

This isn’t the first time an alleged UFO was sighted in Arizona. As per Irish Star's August 8 2024, according to alleged leaked documents, an unidentified object reportedly crashed in Arizona a day before. In May 1953, a UFO landed outside Kingman, close to Route 66, and the US captured it, according to government sources.

As per the report, the same object fled from the government, but eventually crashed. Additionally, the news has long featured reports of alleged UFO sightings in the USA. A video of the sighting of a similar alleged object from an United Airlines flight from Tampa to Newark went viral on social media on Sunday, December 22, 2024 and sparked theories.

The six-second video appears to have been taken from the window of the flight by a passenger. It showed a flying body that seemed like a UFO close to the aircraft. The alleged aliens' ship had an aerodynamic triangle-like appearance and emitted green light from the back.

The clip has millions of views online. The video, however, turned out to be fake and was created by artificial intelligence. Further, according to X's Community Notes, the video's maker (@fiendcore) has identified it as TikTok AI-generated.

Moreover, a year and a half ago from this incident, US officials reported that an alleged unidentified object was shot down 10 miles off the icy shore of Alaska on Friday afternoon, February 10. However, as per a CNN report from the same day, there are few facts available concerning the object.

According to a person briefed on the intelligence, the Pentagon has been cautious in describing what the item was, mostly because US military pilots who were sent up to examine it gave contradictory versions of what they observed. However, none mentioned the nature of the object itself. Later that week, The New York Times reported that an octagonal, unexplained flying object was once more spotted above northern Montana on February 11, 2023, a day later. It vanished until the following day, when it was seen above the Upper Peninsula of Michigan at 20,000 feet in Wisconsin.

According to a statement from Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, at the instruction of President Biden and in accordance with the advice of military leadership, an F-16 fighter jet carrying a missile shot down the airborne item on Sunday afternoon, February 12.

As per the NPR's February 12, 2023 story, after an aircraft investigation failed to find the object, the North American Aerospace Defense Command reported on Saturday that it had discovered a "radar anomaly" over Havre, Montana. Its flight route and data, however, allowed officials to "reasonably" connect the item that was spotted that afternoon.

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However, it must be noted that none of these allegations or clips are actually proof of the UFO sightings.