UFO caught on camera hovering above Air Force 1 in Los Angeles

• Airplane enthusiasts filmed the UFO in the skies above LAX on October 10
• The object was described as a white or silver sphere seen hovering near the presidential jet
• Eyewitnesses spotted an LAPD helicopter circling the bizarre 'stationary' object

By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com[1]

Published: 19:26, 21 December 2023 | Updated: 19:45, 21 December 2023

President Joe Biden[2]'s December visit to Tinseltown for a campaign fundraiser had been caused such a hullaballoo even aliens may have wanted to see what all the fuss was about!

Planespotters caught a UFO[3] on camera hovering above Air Force 1 in Los Angeles[4] during Biden's December 10 trip, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The spherical white or silver object was filmed several times over LAX airport and spotted by multiple witnesses.

Explanations range from a mere balloon, to an alien[5] probe searching for intelligent life. Either way it appeared to give up on the President's entourage after less than an hour.

The object caused a stir on social media due to its resemblance to 'metallic orb' UFOs caught on camera by Reaper drones in the Middle East and studied by the government's official UFO office - while skeptics dismissed this case as having a mundane explanation.

Airplane enthusiasts Joshua and Peter Solorzano were filming at LAX airport on Sunday December 10, hoping to catch Air Force 1.

They were delighted to catch on camera two F-35 fighter jets patrolling the skies enforcing a Temporary Flight Restriction for the Commander-in-Chief, and even filmed them being refueled mid-air by a KC-10 tanker aircraft.

A UFO was caught on camera hovering in the sky above Air Force 1 last week. It was captured by airplane enthusiasts Joshua and Peter Solorzano on their Youtube channel LA Flights

The white or silver orb was likened to those seen by Reaper drones in the Middle East and appeared three times in just under an hour

But at 10.18am while running their livestream for their popular YouTube[6] channel LA Flights, they spotted a white sphere zooming across the screen.

Three minutes later the object appeared again flitting across the top right of the camera view as it trained on the KC-10.

The object appeared a third time at 11.08am directly over cameraman Joshua Solorzano.

He can be heard on the livestream saying: 'It's directly above us. It is moving, it's not a star.

I'm telling you they're flying in from the ocean. Very strange right now.'

Joshua said he thought it was a balloon, but Peter referred to it as a 'UAP' - the government's preferred term for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

The two joked that the Secret Service would soon be bearing down on them to confiscate the spooky footage.

Chris Cullari, a 37-year-old screenwriter from the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles, saw what appeared to be the same object at around 12.30pm that day, while he was walking through Culver City to catch a train.

Biden and the First Lady stepped off Air Force 1 following a funding blitz across L.A.

A white sphere was spotted zooming across the screen at around 10.28am, minutes later the object appeared again flitting across the top right of the camera view as it trained on the KC-10

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'I didn't see it move. I watched it for about 15 minutes to see if it zipped off or anything and it just floated,' he said.

Cullari, who hosts a podcast called Scared All the Time[7], added that he also saw an LAPD helicopter circling near the object, and shared photos of the UFO with DailyMail.com, timestamped 12.36pm that day.

'It just looked like a distant white orb.

The fact that it was stationary drew my attention,' he said. 'And the fact that there was an LAPD helicopter circling drew my attention. But from where I was, I couldn't tell if the chopper was circling because of the object or something on the ground.'

Movie director Robert Wood, 44, said he was walking his dog in North Hollywood between 12.30pm and 1pm when he saw a white sphere move across the sky and disappear out of sight behind some buildings.

'It was a solid white spherical object, traveling north towards Burbank Airport,' he told DailyMail.com.

'It caught my attention because it was quite large and white against the blue of the sky. It was moving quite rapidly, not darting, but moving as fast as a plane would appear to move across the sky.

'It could have been a balloon, or something else.

I'm really not sure.'

The silver orb filmed by the Solorzanos resembles UFOs caught on Reaper drone cameras[8] in the Middle East, published this year by the government's UFO investigation office AARO.

Biden travelled to LA in an attempt to give his reelection bid a boost

Other witnesses stated the object appeared to be headed north towards Burbank Airport

Eye witness Chris Cullari said he also saw an LAPD helicopter circling near the object

The existence of the Reaper footage was first revealed by DailyMail.com[9] in October last year.

In testimony to the Senate in April, then-AARO director Dr.

Sean Kirkpatrick showed some of the 'metallic orb' footage and revealed statistics showing that 34% of 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena' (the government's term for UFOs) are spherical or orb-shaped.

Since the release of the footage, filmed by an MQ-9 Reaper drone on July 12 2022, researchers have sought to explain it.

An investigation group called Bellingcat used satellite data to match AARO's UFO video[10] to a location northeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

The group then used the satellite data to estimate the object's diameter as likely less than one-and-a-half feet.

They concluded it was possibly a balloon coated in silvery, reflective material called mylar, released amid 'Eid al-Adha,' the second and largest religious holiday celebrated in the Muslim world.

Author Mick West, who has become renowned as a UFO debunker, reviewed the Los Angeles orb footage for DailyMail.com and said his best guess was a balloon.

'That's what AARO would call a "balloon-like entity",' he said. 'It looks like a balloon and moves like a balloon, but as it's in the LIZ [low information zone], you can't prove it's a balloon.'

The object was filmed in the skies above LAX airport and experts say they cannot definitively state it was a balloon due to its position within the low information zone

West said that the object's apparent motion in the video is likely an illusion, due to it being closer to the camera than the fast-moving plane in the background.

'It appears to be a white object, not moving in the air, just moving with the wind, so zero airspeed,' he said. 'There's nothing to suggest it's not a balloon - you just can't prove it.'

Los Angeles weather data for December 10 gave a wind speed measured at approximately 30ft elevation, of between 8mph and 10mph in the morning and early afternoon.

The wind direction was north between 10am and 1pm, according to the data from weatherspark.com[11].

Balloons flying in sensitive airspace became a national focus in February this year, when alleged Chinese spy balloons were shot down over the United States.

One balloon entered US airspace on 28 January and was shot down by an F-22 Raptor on 4 February off the coast of South Carolina after passing over US nuclear missile sites, including the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

Top-secret intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira revealed that U.S. intelligence agencies were aware of up to four more Chinese spy balloons.

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