All jokes and aside, realistically, what can this star-shaped UAP be?

[Polybius]

It was released the other day. Let's talk realistic, possibilities. What we do know is that the video is real, it's from the military, and there are clearly redactions all over the screen. Also, any guess as to what the redactions are?

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Infrared imagery really is tricky.

The star is real, but it’s the heat signature of the object creating it.

So the star represents higher heat than its surrounding space.

Perhaps whatever is generating the heat creates a heat form, a silhouette or outline shaped like a star.

Would love for the Pentagon to release the corresponding visual light imagery, too.

[LearnedHand]

2. It resembles a head-on view of a stealth fighter TBH

Could that star actually be the “bow wave” of air pressure? Also, it’s leaving a contrail so it’s some sort of current flight technology.

[hlthe2b]

3. It is always a relief when something is so far afield from my area(s) of expertise...

that I can just simply and emphatically say: I HAVE NO IDEA. I will be interested and will read the other comments.

[tymfinity46]

4. obviously

it's a snowflake

[mike_c]

5. a distraction

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. It looks like a compass rose, or a target, to me

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It is remarkably symmetrical, all the way through, which, if it were a 3 dimensional object, would imply it's exactly head or tail on, all the time. Also, its axes are always precisely horizontal and vertical, which indicates it's an artifact of the imaging process - either it is a pointer superimposed on it, or it's a distortion of something else, produced by the scanning process.

Important point: it does not "resemble a star". It resembles a compass rose, with outward-pointing arrows.

[BradBo]

7. It sure aint the Epstein Files.

[doc03]

8. Chris Cuomo on Newsnation is the only "news network" that is hung up

on this story. My opinion it's just something else the right wing is throwing against the wall
to see if it sticks. It looks like a Christmas ornament to me, got to admit those Martians have a great sense of humor.

[sl8]

9. It looks like *all* the networks are covering this release:

AP, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, Scripps, etc..

Just the video results:

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=788bcdf44a37e07b&udm=7&q=pentagon+ufo+video&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3iKfAo6yUAxXyMmIAHfn7GycQ8ccDKAJ6BAgiEAQ&biw=800&bih=1334&dpr=1.5#ip=1

[doc03]

10. Cuomo has been pushing the UAP story for weeks on Facebook but

I have heard very little on other networks until now. So far, all I have seen are a bunch of grainy out of focus
videos. I can't believe the planes we spend $100s of millions per copy on have such low-resolution cameras.
The Christmas Tree ornament is leaving a trail, maybe it is a map of where the "Trump Epstein Files" are hidden.

[sl8]

12. Ah, I didn't know that about his Facebook coverage.. nt

[Polybius]

13. Good that they are all covering it now

It's really interesting to a lot of us. I enjoy reading about stuff like this.

[Disaffected]

11. What can it be?

I'd say a UAP. Also, an imaging artifact (looks like diffraction similar to "star spikes" seem in astronomical images containing bright stars).

And where are the "clearly redactions all over the screen"??

[Polybius]

14. The redactions are the rectangular, black spots on the screen

I count 13 of them. They were mentioned in another news story. My guess (at least for one of them) is the exact location.

[Disaffected]

16. D'oh!

Yeah, a lot like the Epstein files.

[3Hotdogs]

15. What? Yiz an't never seen a Jewish space laser before?

Marjorie explained it to ya but ya laughed at her,

[LiberalLovinLug]

17. lol