By Tim Binnall
An Oklahoma City man captured mystifying footage and photos of a bizarre UFO that he likened to a jellybean filled with plasma. According to a local media report, the odd sighting occurred on January 25th as Chris Frederick and his wife were about to head out for dinner. Their Saturday evening excursion came to a sudden stop when they reached their driveway and received a call from a concerned neighbor who had spotted something unusual in the sky. A buzz soon swept through the neighborhood, recounted Frederick, "before long, we were all standing out in the street and had our phones out."
What captivated the witnesses was a peculiar glowing object behaving strangely in the sky. In footage captured by Frederick, he can be heard describing the UFO as the sighting unfolded. "I don’t hear anything, and something is moving in erratic ways," he marveled, "it's in the shape of a jellybean, but the interior was like plasma." The couple's dinner plans were now decidedly delayed as a curious Frederick decided to deploy his drone to get a better look at the aerial anomaly. However, adding another layer of mystery to the case, his UAV immediately experienced a series of weird issues.
"My controller talks to me," he recalled, "and it said, ‘unable to take off, electromagnetic interference.'" After several subsequent attempts to launch the drone, he finally managed to get the craft airborne to about 1,000 feet beneath the UFO. From there, the UAV snapped three tantalizing photos, because the device's video capability was inexplicably disabled, before almost immediately running out of power. "It had a fresh battery in it, it has a 35-minute flight life," Frederick said, "and as soon as I took those three pictures, my controller said, ‘low battery, return to home.'"
Enlisted to examine Frederick's video and photos of the UFO, University of Oklahoma physics professor Mukremin Kilic mused "what it is, I don't know, but I would approach the question as what is it likely to be?" To that end, he ultimately posited that the object was probably a drone. While that very well may be the case, such a prosaic possibility does not explain why Frederick's drone was seemingly sabotaged when it tried to capture it on film. What do you make of his perplexing sighting? Weigh in with your thoughts at the C2C Facebook page.