Senior Ukrainian Official Reports Armed Forces Sighted UFO, Publishes Video

A senior Ukrainian defense advisor, Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov, released drone footage showing a spherical UFO with six pointed cones and a heat plume. It was spotted in May 2025 at 800 meters during combat operations. The object hovered slowly without reacting to the drone. The object resembled a star-shaped UFO observed by US forces in 2013. Make us preferred on Google Flip Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Bluesky Email Copy Copied (Screenshot from the video) Content Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Bluesky Email Copy Copied Flip Make us preferred on Google A senior tech and drone war advisor to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense on Monday published photographs and video of UFOs spotted by Ukrainian military forces, and some similar – but not identical – to UFO-related content published by the Pentagon last week. Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov, a leading Ukrainian drone and electronic warfare specialist, said the sighting took place in May 2025, and that the government was aware of the incident. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . The one-minute black-and-white infrared video recording shows a rounded object with a visible heat source in the middle, and six sharply pointed cones projecting from a main body in the shape of a flattened sphere. A plume, or cloud warmer than the night air, is visible behind the object. The drone video was recorded by an Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) pilot during combat operations at an altitude of 800 meters, Beskrestnov said. The object is hovering or moving slowly during the video, without visibly reacting to the drone. The pilot rotates an observation camera laterally and vertically after spotting the UFO. Photographs from other claimed UFO sightings showed a heat-emitting cigar-shaped object above open farmland. “With the beginning of the war, the study of UFOs in our space became more of a military task than a civilian one. The [Armed Forces of Ukraine] AFU even have a special, detailed document on this topic [UFO sightings by Ukrainian troops] that has been cleared by the Supreme Commander,” Beskrestnov wrote in Telegram comment. Other Topics of Interest Russia Ends Brief Lull With 200+ Drone Strike, Zelensky Warns of ‘Mirror Response’ Russia launched over 200 drones and multiple airstrikes across Ukraine following a brief truce, damaging infrastructure and killing civilians. Zelensky vowed a “symmetrical” response and urged stronger sanctions. Major Ukrainian media and some official platforms confirmed the video and photo content to be real battle drone footage, but none suggested extraterrestrial objects or life had been detected. Ukraine is studying UFOs because the term may be a cover for a new Russian weapon, the mainstream UNIAN news agency reported on Wednesday. Beskrestnov called on civilians and individual solders to report UFO sightings to authorities immediately because it might be a clandestine Kremlin system not yet known the AFU. “It therefore is not only the USA that deals with such issues, because what might look like a UFO might well be a hidden new weapons of our enemy [Russian Federation forces],” he said. The Beskrestnov video of the UFO spotted in combat airspace over Ukraine followed the May 8 publication by the Pentagon of newly declassified video and photographs, some dating back to the 1940s, of UFOs observed by US military and government agencies worldwide. The partial release of UFO-related archives included PDFs, photos, and videos from FBI, NASA and the DoD, among others. Among the most-discussed new content, among UFO enthusiasts, was Apollo astronaut recordings of lights and objects resembling orbs or saucers during lunar missions. A 1:46 minute-long infrared video designated DOW-UAP-PR38 described by the Pentagon as recorded by a US Central Command infrared platform operating in the Middle East in 2013 shows a star-shaped object that, in some respects, resembles the spherical object with six projecting cones spotted by Ukrainian forces in May 2023. The US-observed object is shown to have four large and four small projecting spikes or cones, and unlike the Ukrainian UFO its main body appears to be perfectly spherical and to contain cold spots. During the observation/encounter the operator zooms in and out on the UFO. The Official Video Description from the release said: “This video depicts an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length.” Fox News said of the sighting: “Mysterious footage from the Pentagon’s UFO files shows a bizarre object streaking across the sky in 2013. The nearly two-minute infrared clip, submitted by US Central Command personnel, shows a strangely shaped object floating over the Middle East.” Mysterious footage from the Pentagon’s UFO files shows a bizarre object streaking across the sky in 2013. The nearly two-minute infrared clip, submitted by U.S. Central Command personnel, shows a strangely shaped object floating over the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/BKFB1W8xSF The cloud-like heat signature trailing the object shown in the Ukrainian video is thicker and seemingly more billowing than in the US video, in which the heat signature is thin and does not visibly dissipate. The Russian Federation since the fall of 2022 has systematically bombarded Ukraine with cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, glide bombs and mass-produced Shahed drones, with major attacks numbering 800-plus strike weapons launched in a single night. Denied sufficient quantities of US-manufactured interceptor missiles to defend itself, Ukraine’s air defense command over the next three years built a homegrown air defense network meshing homegrown acoustic sensors and interceptor drones, modern fighter aircraft and shotgun armed crop duster aircraft, and small numbers of conventional air protection systems from European allies. Since mid-2025 in a typical attack 80-90 percent of all Russian weapons are shot down by that combined defense. Ukraine’s national air watch network is likewise highly developed. Reports of unidentified flying objects are common but they almost always are subsequently identified as Russian weapons heading toward a Ukrainian home or business. Conjecture that a flying object in Ukraine’s skies might be extraterrestrial and not Russian in origin is unheard of. Following US/Israeli wartime strikes against Iran in May, Gulf states hit by Iranian retaliatory strikes hired Ukrainian interceptor drone teams to defend themselves. Stefan Korshak is the Kyiv Post Senior Defense Correspondent. He is from Houston Texas, is a Yalie and since the mid-1990s has worked as correspondent/photographer for newswire, newspapers, television and radio. He has reported from five wars but most enjoys doing articles on wildlife and nature. You can read his weekly blog on the Russo-Ukraine War on Facebook, Substack and Medium. His new book on the 2022 Siege of Mariupol is available on Amazon UK and Amazon US .