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Two "star" UAPs, 12 years apart: 8 points vs 6 points. Object or optics?

File DOW-UAP-PR104

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Two Pentagon UAP videos. 12 years and thousands of km apart.

Both show a black "star": one with 8 points, one with 6 ⭐

DOW-UAP-PR038 vs DOW-UAP-PR104 🧵

Middle East, 2013. AARO: "an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length."

The crew filed no description at all.

Yellow Sea, 2025. AARO: "an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star."

Same black core, same sharp arms. Different count.

The tell: step through PR038 frame by frame. The star crosses the whole screen, but its arms never turn. Always + and ×, locked to the camera, not the object.

A spiky thing that drifts and turns would turn its spikes too.

That's diffraction: a very bright point of light bends around the edges and struts inside the camera, and the camera draws spikes. Hubble's stars have 4 spikes, Webb's have 8. Different optics → different star.

Bonus: watch PR038 fade. The star shrinks as it dims, because spikes grow with brightness.

The black core? In "black-hot" IR, black = HOT. Invert it and it glows white.

Both still officially unresolved.

Check it yourself, free:

• realufo.org/archive → search "pointed star" → Video

• open a file, press I to invert, , and . to step frames

• watch the spikes: do they ever turn?

RealUFO

Middle East, 2013: eight points, arms of alternating length

AARO's description: "an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length"; "the reporter did not provide any oral or written description". At 0:26, 0:50 and 1:14 the star is in three different places on screen with the arms at the same angles, and it gets smaller as it fades.

https://realufo.org/doc/DOW-UAP-PR038?t=25.5

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Yellow Sea, 2025: six points, same black core

AARO's description: "an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star", tracked for 15 seconds. The spike angles stay the same for the whole clip. Black-hot infrared: the black centre is the hottest spot; invert it and it shows white.

https://realufo.org/doc/DOW-UAP-PR104?t=6