The six-pointed object over Ukraine: military footage held for a year
A Ukrainian military camera recorded a bright, star-like source in May 2025. The clip reached electronic-warfare specialist and Defense Ministry adviser Serhii 'Flash' Beskrestnov, who published it on May 11, 2026 and cited an altitude of 800 metres. The upload is real, but the available copy lacks the raw sensor file, location and telemetry needed to identify what the camera recorded.
The object recorded over Ukraine in May 2025
This is the complete copy supplied to Alien News. Its low resolution does not establish the object's shape or origin.
Beskrestnov's original Telegram post says military personnel sent him the video, identifies May 2025 and gives an altitude of 800 metres. The fuller copy runs for about one minute and 28 seconds and shows a bright, star-like source while the observation system scans the ground. In a separate post he said Ukraine's armed forces have a detailed document on unidentified objects approved by the Commander-in-Chief.
The raw recording, sensor and platform model, time, location, range, radar data and an identified operator account have not been released. The claimed military document is also not public. The stated altitude cannot be independently checked, and it is unclear whether it describes the camera platform or the target. A balloon, infrared decoy, optical or sensor artefact, ordinary object and manipulation remain among the open possibilities.
The camera turns, the star stays aligned
The clip is dominated by noise and rapid camera movement. A bright source appears with a dark centre and six prominent points, followed by a diffuse bright area that can resemble a thermal plume. The points remain broadly aligned with the display as the view changes. That is interesting, but it is also a warning: a pattern tied to the sensor axes can be created by optics, processing or a camera cover rather than by the geometry of an object outside.
What Flash actually wrote
Beskrestnov uploaded the footage to Telegram on May 11, 2026, saying that military personnel had begun sending him videos after an earlier post. His short caption gave May 2025 and 800 metres. It did not specify whether the number was the drone's altitude, the object's altitude or another estimate. Ukrainian reporting placed the clip at the front, but the unit, operator, location and chain of custody were not disclosed.
Beskrestnov is known in Ukraine as Flash, a specialist in communications, drones and electronic warfare. In airspace crowded with drones, missiles, balloons and decoys, UFO is not a conclusion about aliens. It is an operational label for something not yet identified. An unfamiliar Russian platform, electronic interference or a new sensor signature can all enter that category until analysts resolve them.
In the preceding Telegram post, Flash said he had published another frontline video in 2023 showing aerial reconnaissance observing an unidentified object. He claimed representatives of a government body that had handled the subject since Soviet times contacted him about an hour later. No agency name, call record or independent documentation has been released, so this remains his account of the exchange.
Beskrestnov also said wartime UFO study had become a military rather than civilian task and that Ukraine's armed forces had a special, extensive document approved by the Commander-in-Chief. Such a document could govern reporting, sensor-data preservation and comparison with Russian threats. Until a redacted copy or official confirmation appears, however, its existence and content rest on the adviser's public statement.
The publicly available copy is a compressed 608 by 480-pixel video. It is better than the shortened clip circulated elsewhere, but it is still not the sensor's direct source file. Compression, enlargement and video noise can reshape edges and invent detail. Technical discussion has proposed an infrared balloon or decoy, a diffraction pattern around a bright source, damage to a camera dome and fabrication. None has been demonstrated. The operator's decision to continue scanning instead of tracking the source might mean it was familiar, but there is no operator testimony to establish that.
Progress requires the pre-compression recording, the sensor model and settings, reliable range and location data, and a second sensor observing the same target. Radar or another camera angle would help separate an object in space from an effect inside the imaging chain. For now, the careful description is unidentified footage with a claimed military origin. The larger question is whether Ukraine will release the data and the reported document that could make the case testable.