The white round object was spotted above Seoul in South Korea

If it's an April Fool's joke, it's a few days too late.

A mysterious round white object was filmed whizzing around a passenger plane above Seoul, the capital of South Korea, on April 7.

The clip, which has been uploaded to YouTube, begins with the 'craft' at the bottom of the screen, keeping pace with the passenger plane.

But then it speeds up and rises in altitude before zipping off out of shot, just as the startled person filming it tries to zoom in for a closer look.

When the UFO accelerates he can be heard making some sort of exclamation, as if trying to draw someone's attention to it.

The video was uploaded by YouTube user 'Crazybreakingnews', who commented: 'It looks a little bit strange and not really similar to the other videos. If it's really real and not a fake, it looks like a kind of military drone.'

Several YouTube users are convinced it's a UFO of some sort, but others remain sceptical.

Psued0Name said: 'When stabilised, it is easy to see what is going on with the video.

'The edges of the UFO are not blurred like all of the other background objects, it seems like a separate effect from the background, and in fact you can see edge noise on the shape of the UFO indicating it's a fake.

'It doesn't even look right if you start to look at it hard, especially slowed down frame by frame.'

User vicariousjojoe agreed, writing: 'People, you should know by now what is fake and what's not. You can always tell by the way the camera moves and zooms.'

Possible UFO activity has recently been sighted much closer to home, with a star-gazer filming intriguing footage of a glowing UFO, which he says he spotted hovering over the Thames Estuary in February.

The man, identified only as Space999dude, recorded the phenomenon as he drove past the river at night, he said.

The mysterious, oval aircraft can be seen suspended in the air displaying several amber-gold lights of varying sizes.


video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8qx23sJfiLs

When I read 'whizzing around', I imagined that it maintained a presence near the aircraft for some time, while moving and repeatedly changing relative to the aircraft.

The video just shows it drifting past that floating upwards.




That's not what I see. It looks like the plane flies past it and the cameraperson keeps it in the viewfinder.




I only watched it once, but it looked to me like the act of zooming made it *appear* to accelerate out of frame. Though its possible that the balloon just caught an updraft.



Oh, people and their imaginations. In what way does this balloon-looking-object look more like a military drone than a balloon?




This is a comment on the community of youtube posters, more than a comment on the balloon.

damn that swamp gas...

lol... and those damn weather balloons...

I don't even think it was a weather balloon - it looked like one of those coated mylar balloons you can get for like $3.

Maybe the pilot threw his Gilligan hat out the window...

cosmic rays for sure...

Looks fake from the moment it comes on the screen - did someone say this actually made the news!! Never fails to amaze

Ed Wood would be proud.

Sorry but I UFO doesn't fly over a city as populous as Seoul during the day with no one else seeing it. FYI my gf is from Seoul and is currently there. If there was a UFO there a few days ago I would know about it.

Plan 9 ?

it's definitely not a military drone...a balloon??? maybe but with the altitude that jets fly at,,,not yery likely... more likely,, it's a poorly editted hoax...

just saw this on youtube, what do you guys think of this?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7UtPLCw3A

These days, its just too easy for amateurs to create video footage like that. If this exact same video had surfaced 40 years ago, it would have raised some questions for me. I'm not saying that it is cgi, I'm saying its too easy for it to be CGI to take it seriously.

Whoever made it did a really good job.

Now that we have single pixel editing in cgi, it is possible to make a perfect picture of anything we can imagine.

Captain Kirk did NOT push the eject button during yellow alert!

i like the Chinese or Russian star on it... looked pretty real

It's too bad that there are so many fakes out there,
desensitizes us to the real ones and there ARE real ones.

All ya gotta do is go to the beach in the middle of the night,
have a fire and lay down and relax...we see stuff all the time

sounds like fun! i'm ready when you are!

Drone