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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/inquisitivesojourner on 2024-12-06 07:42:29+00:00.
Details:
- Date: June 23, 2023
- Time: Between 5:30pm and 5:45pm
- POV Location: Via car from the parking space of the KCC Mall of General Santos City, South Cotabato, Philippines.
- UFO Location: Possibly hovering over the Sarangani Bay
Incident Narrative (Full details, apology for the length)
My partner and I were rushing to the mall in the late afternoon to quickly buy formal attire. As in, in a hurry. I had a wedding to attend to the next day in a nearby city. We chose to check the departments stores of the KCC and Veranza Malls here in General Santos City. My partner decided that she'll park our car on the KCC rooftop.
We went up the spiral road and entered the rooftop, then turned right towards the mall entrance. I was looking out of her window (I'm in the passenger's seat), leftwards, towards the middle of the parking lot to see if we can find a space. It was so full. I turned my head forward as we were coming up towards the entrance. While I turned my head, I saw something (within the act of turning my head) over the horizon...
From way up in the sky (upper atmosphere? space?) a bright ball of burning white light fell in a moderate pace downward. Fast but not impossibly fast. My initial split millisecond thought was "Oh no, is this a missile about to hit? From China?" (Context: Territorial dispute between PH & CH). I was turning my head in that moment, so it was bad timing in my sight. Suddenly, the object stopped mid-sky, as I stopped my head and faced my eyes towards it, it then zipped in an impossible speed leftwards. When I tried to focus on that area of the sky to see more, we were about to turn left fronting the KCC Mall entrance, and there was a portion of the building blocking the horizon view.
I was skeptical if I really saw something, as it was in the moment of turning my head. However, I reasoned to 100% sureness that this wasn't from my peripheral. It was within my view before going peripheral (as it fell), and eventually back to my view when I stopped turning (as it stopped and zipped). As we turned left, I waited for us to turn left again so that I could look outside of my window rightwards. If there was really anything, I reasoned, there may be something still there. And then I saw it. A dark oval object hovering mid-sky within the same line of direction the thing zipped to. It was black, with some shimmer from the afternoon sun. Probably over the ocean, as it was kind of far, and possibly the size of a car or larger.
My first thought was: I have never seen something so still in the sky. Then I thought over it more while watching it in the sky: Drones come the closest to this stillness, but still have a wobble, especially if they were that high. Though I'm unsure if I've ever seen a drone go that high. Nor have I seen a drone as big as a car, unless it were pics of UAV military drones, which definitely aren't oval in shape. What if it's just a helicopter? But why is it stuck hanging in one place? While I thought over this, my partner started complaining about not yet finding a spot. We then made another left turn, circling back around towards the spiral entrance. I decided to check again when we circle back to that area.
We came back around, and it was still there, same place, completely still. Can't be a helicopter, I thought. I decided to take photos. Zoomed in, I noticed it definitely wasn't a helicopter. Surface seemed smooth and nothing else. I then took a video. Unfortunately, the photo & video session was cut short. My partner was irked, saying that I wasn't helping her find a parking space. I tried mentioning to look up, but she started yelling, so it was the end of capturing footage. Hahaha. We parked right after that somewhere in the middle. When we got out, I saw what looked like college students flying a small drone from the opposite end of the entrance. In my mind, I was hoping that if they had a camera, maybe they'd have footage (I tried searching social media later that night for any student drone posts from KCC, but found nothing).
As we walked towards the entrance of KCC, I looked towards the horizon on my left. Saw it still up there. It kinda glowed orange-ish pink, though I'm not sure if it were coming from its surface as a part of it, or if it were from the lighting on the sun setting. Again, I wanted to take a video and some pics, but my partner was not in the mood, rushing me.
I noticed in Veranza Mall (connected to KCC, there was a graduation event). Additionally when we returned to the car that night, there were spotlights in the clouds, possibly from an even to the opposite end of the sighting. Like the drone thing, I tried keyword searches via social media to see if any grads or event goers had strange photos, but found nothing. It's just me. Anyway, I'm hoping this information can provide any Redditors with details needed to identify the object (if possible). I tried asking a friend in the Philippine Airforce, but he brushed it off and didn't care to see the photos or videos. To me, it is a bit of a concern considering geopolitical tensions, otherworldly hypotheses aside (ie. aliens, etc.).
Visuals:
*Here are the photos. I've put out the four pics that I took, a collage of close-ups of the object, screenshots of the pic and vid metadata, an aerial satellite reconstruction of the incident (rooftop shown), a map of the location, and an on-the-ground reconstruction via visual sequence of events. Video footage too, with a close-up from an in-phone edit. (***Note: Took these from my partners phone. She happened to delete everything and I had all of this saved in an online account, so I dunno if it messed up the quality).*
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
Photo 4
Collage of close-ups from all 4 photos
The video
Close-up of the video, from phone zoom editing. Objects not moving, that's the phone.
Metadata of the photo
Metadata of the video
Incident location
Incident reconstruction via map of KCC Mall rooftop parking
Full on the ground reconstruction
