by Charles Lear
Because of all the media coverage regarding the Pentagon UFO videos, an extraordinary video reportedly captured by Department of Homeland Security personnel has fallen into the background. It has become known as the “Aguadilla” video and the identity of the object caught on video remains a mystery.
The case was investigated by the Scientific Coalition for UFOlogy (now the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies) and a report was written that is available on the group’s website. According to the report, at around 9:30 p.m. on April 25, 2013, the departure of a commercial aircraft was delayed due to an unknown object flying at low altitude across the runway at Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aquadilla, Puerto Rico. In the area at the time was an airborne U.S. Customs and Border Patrol aircraft and the crew managed to capture infrared video of the object
The SCU investigators describe having obtained a copy of the video from an official source who insisted on remaining anonymous. The authors state that the individual’s identity, background, and employment were all verified and that “extensive efforts were made to ensure that this video did not contain any classified information.”
The source was interviewed and the information came out that the crew was flying in a DHC-8 Turboprop on a routine mission. As they headed to the northwest, they saw a “reddish to pinkish light over the ocean” heading towards them moving south. They contacted the tower and the controller confirmed that they had a visual on the object but that it was unidentified.
The object got close to shore and the light went out. It was then that the thermal imaging system (Forward Looking InfraRed or FLIR) was turned on in order to follow the object. The object was captured for 2 minutes and 56 seconds coming over the ocean, flying over land crossing the runway, crossing over the runway again in the opposite direction, and then returning to the ocean. Travelling at over 100 mph, it enters the water without slowing down, splits into two and then eventually disappears from sight, presumably under water.
Analysis by the team at SCU indicated that the object’s size was between approximately 3 and 5 feet. They determined that its speed in the air varied from 40 mph to 120 mph, and from 80 mph to 95 mph in the water. They were unable to determine a source of propulsion.
In addition to the video, the team acquired radar data via FOIA requests. The data confirmed there was a plane in the air at the same time and location reported for the DHS aircraft, and that it made a search pattern over the airport. There was also an unknown target (having no transponder signal) that appeared on radar for 16 minutes. It displayed unusual flight characteristics with its speed variation and sudden changes of direction, and was at the right location at the right time to have possibly been the object caught on video.
While the video footage, radar data, and their analyses by SCU make a compelling argument for technology not of this earth, the witness testimony is lacking. The source of the video is described in the report as a “secondary witness” whose direct testimony was not included or discussed due to the witness’s request for anonymity. Furthermore, the primary witness, the pilot, would not speak directly to the investigators and used the secondary witness as an intermediary.
In the course of their investigation, the SCU team received an “anonymous email” from someone who corroborated the testimony of the other two witnesses and identified the specific model of the FLIR. The writer provided the additional information that the object appeared horseshoe-shaped before becoming spherical just before it entered the water, and that it did not split, but rather, met up with a second object that entered the water with it.
The video footage is certainly dramatic and the report prepared by SCU is extensive and detailed. Were it not for the fact that the witnesses all insist on remaining anonymous, this video would probably be as prominent as the Pentagon videos still making the rounds in the media.