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Nellis UFO Footage (2026) — Real Craft or Next-Level AI?”

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UFO Footage Over Nellis Air Force Base (April 19, 2026) — Real or AI?In this video, I break down one of the most viral UFO clips currently circulating online — allegedly filmed over Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada and shared by UAPWixy on X.At first glance, this could be:👉 The clearest UFO footage ever recordedOR👉 One of the most convincing AI-generated hoaxes we’ve ever seenSo I decided to investigate it in real time.What You’ll See in This Video:🎥 Full breakdown of the original UFO footage🛸 Shape analysis (including comparisons to historical sightings & Bob Lazar claims)🔍 Reverse image search results (is this older footage?)🤖 AI detection test (Image Detect + SightEngine results)🎚️ Image enhancement & zoom analysis⚠️ Community Notes controversy — and why you should NOT blindly trust themKey Findings:No confirmed evidence the footage is older than April 2026AI detection result: 41% probability (inconclusive)Footage shows realistic camera artifacts (zoom blur, focus shifts) — difficult for AI to replicate❗ No confirmed original source or witness (biggest red flag)My Take:This one sits right in the middle.It’s:Not debunked ❌Not confirmed ✅But definitely worth serious attentionWhat Do YOU Think?Support the UAP Files / Podcast with a coffee 🙏 https://buymeacoffee.com/uapfilesFollow / SourcesOriginal post via UAPWixy (X): https://x.com/UAPWixyUAP Files Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/uap_files?igsh=enRvNG5reGowd2w%3D&utm_source=qr

Accompanying Substack article: https://open.substack.com/pub/uapf/p/the-nellis-ufo-footage-april-2026?r=3avcjy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true


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Nellis UFO Footage (2026) — Real Craft or Next-Level AI?”

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UAP Files PodcastNellis UFO Footage (2026) — Real Craft or Next-Level AI?”. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Okay, hi guys, it's Jimmy here from the UEP files. There's some new footage. It appears to be incredible footage that's either the best UFO footage that we've ever seen or some of the best AI-generated footage that we've ever seen. So this is supposedly from the 19th of April, 2026, Nellis Air Force Base Nevada, USA. Let's first of all jump into the footage. Now this was posted on X by UAP Wixi. I've seen a few of their things, they're pretty good, pretty interesting stuff, posting a lot of stuff, go check them out on X. Let's jump into the footage first and then we will get some context around it, some issues with it, we'll look at image detection, we'll look at AI generation detectors and we'll see if we can find any of this stuff previously and then I'll try and clean up the image for you, so stick with me.

Now my first impression of this, it reminded me a little bit, I don't know if any of you have seen the new Bob Lazar film, the Luigi Vendetelli directed and produced it. In that film they sort of render some of the nine UFO craft that Bob alleges to have seen and one of them was like a hat on its side, it reminded me a little bit of just looking at some of the old photos and pictures of different shapes throughout the years. This one from 1947 kind of looks a bit like it and there's this other guy down here, I mean quite a few of them, this guy down here sort of 1967, let's have a look at this one here, yeah there's quite a few, this guy here, interesting, okay so I mean it's an unusual shape, I can't say there's one we've seen frequently and from here we're looking

at like the 40's, 50's, 60's, nothing like that really more recently that I can see. So, UAP Wixie is saying that this was from the 19th of April 2026 and I can see that there's a community note that's been added and someone's asked Groc as well, Groc is saying the video claims a luminous object in the Nellis Air Force Base surfaced online around April 21st, well that's not true because it's from earlier than that at least. UFO researchers including Portuguese channel, I'm not going to try and pronounce that with the exact those exact overlays, well that's interesting, we'll check that out, no official Nellis military confirmation obviously. So there's a community note on this guy here which is also quite interesting, the community note says, so it's been linked to this video was not captured over Nellis Air Force Base, this was captured over 13 years ago

in North Carolina by a man named Ed to exclusively gave third phase of the moon, the footage here is the original post, please give credit or credit is due if you have any journalistic credibility, that's the source. So if we click on the source, it takes us to this footage by third phase of the moon which is from the 16th of April 2026, well that's not 13 years ago, is it, that's this month. So don't trust community notes guys, always cross reference and check and check again, is the problem with community notes like I am a contributor to community notes because I'm worried that we're going to go back to the Wikipedia days and guerrilla skeptics where they've just got access to just muddy the waters and make a couple sorts of things, stick a link in and hope that nobody else bothers to check them and write it as good or bad. Okay, so let's do some reverse search on Google Lens, let's have a look and see how far back

we can find it going. Yeah, now see from what I can see here, we're looking at a couple of weeks, so this is no more than a couple of weeks, maybe three weeks at most, old. So if I'm wrong about this, if you guys have found anywhere else, if you've got any links drop it in the description, please help me out with this a little bit, I'm doing this in real time. We'll run it through image detect and cross reference with site engine, which is an AI image detector and it kind of checks some of the bigger platforms, Dali, GPT, stable fusion, seed dream, clean that sort of thing. It also does face and manipulating apps as well, so pretty much anything as AI generated, it will try and detect for you and this is giving us a 41% confidence that it is AI, which is interesting, that's quite low confidence, isn't it? So AI generator is telling us that it's probably not AI, which is 41%, though, it's not zero, present is it, and it's 41%.

I mean, come on guys, this is pretty impressive stuff. So I'm just changing the contrast a little bit. There does seem to be some weird filter on this footage. I haven't seen it. I mean, myself, I've been out with Sony cameras, mirrorless, I've been out with night vision cameras. I've got a couple of Sony's mobile phone footage, don't really get that sort of almost like a purple haze. Very strange, but that doesn't mean anything, it could just be the way the phone's set up to try and get better image, but yeah, that's unusual. So I know if that's some sort of filter to then remove some of the traceable elements to it, which is a thing that people do to try and cheat the AI generators. But look at that. I mean, this is either the clearest UFO footage that we've ever seen, and I mean, that's more clear than the Canberra case. You know, that's, I mean, that's something else. Or it's a really, really good fake because AI finds it's so difficult to get this zoom in,

and then there's that sort of blur when you're zooming in, and then you zoom back out, and it sort of tries to pick the picture up again and focus, and it's really hard for AI to get that right. And to get it right convincingly, and I've seen a lot of AI generated footage, and a lot of what I believe to be genuine footage, certainly with really credible sources. So it's impressive. I'll give it, I'll give them that. If this is AI generated, they've done a really good job. Okay, well, look, that's it. I'm not going to label the point who knows. If you've got an interesting take on this, or you've got some evidence, or you've got some links, please let me know. Again, this is a sort of real-time investigation to this one, a little bit of analysis, just because it's popping up on the internet, and everyone's talking about it, and this speculation as to how old it is, and where it came from. Yeah, really cool. Well, look, if you enjoyed this video, please drop a like, a subscribe, comment in the description, and hit that bell button, because that really helps to support the channel. Cool. Well, that was fun. I'll see you guys on the next one.

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