US intelligence is investigating a "flying object" that flew over an Arab city

The US military (the Pentagon) and the CIA are secretly investigating an unidentified flying object resembling a metal ball that flew over the Iraqi city of Mosul.

According to the New York Post, the photo is taken from a 4-second video clip taken on April 16, 2016 by an American reconnaissance plane in northern Iraq, while the photos were shared by documentary film director and researcher specializing in UFOs, Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbel, and journalist George Knapp. , in the first episode of the new podcast, "Armed", which aired today, Tuesday.

"It is a picture taken by the army, and a picture taken by the intelligence agency, and it is called the Orb of Mosul," Corbel said, noting that the object was named after the Iraqi city in which it was spotted.

Corbel said in the video that the metallic-colored ball appears to be moving alongside the spy plane, which captured the image of the flying object.

The US Department of Defense did not respond to a request from the New York Post to comment on the authenticity of the photo, which was published by the "armed" website.

The flying of a UFO around the place where the US military was operating, at the time, raised security and safety concerns in the Department of Defense, with military officials concerned that it could endanger pilots and ground forces.

Although the photo itself is unclassified, the footage from which the photo was taken was part of a classified briefing prepared by the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), a unit tasked with investigating UFO incidents, which has now been replaced by another office. in the Ministry of Defense.

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