A recent UFO sighting has managed to beguile both believers and skeptics alike. Last Saturday, police in South Wales flying in a helicopter detected something very unusual on their thermal cameras. Across the Bristol Channel at around 9:30 p.m. local time, the officers spotted a mysterious object flying hovering against the wind.

"It's difficult to judge the size but we filmed it for just over seven minutes," the South Wales police stated.

What was very unusual about the sighting, however, was the fact that the object only appeared on the thermal camera. When the officers looked into the sky, they spotted nothing. The police helicopter was flying at about 1,000 feet when the incident happened.

The police later asked air traffic control about any flying objects that were in the area at the time. Air traffic control stated that they were not able to detect anything from the sky, too.

Thus, with the mysterious flying object being invisible to the naked eye and air traffic controllers, UFO aficionados are speculating that the UFO captured by the police helicopter's thermal camera was equipped with a cloaking device, allowing the device to hover above the Earth practically undetected.

Skeptics initially tried to debunk the thermal image as something explainable, with some stating that the mysterious object was nothing more than a weather balloon. The police, however, were quick to debunk the theory, as the mysterious object was flying against the wind.

Weather balloons would also show up in the air traffic controller's records.

The same rebuttal was used when other skeptics suggested that the object was simply an airplane, since the machine would have easily showed up in the air traffic controller's sensors as well.

What is even more remarkable, however, is the fact that numerous commenters in YouTube videos about the incident state that similar thermal sightings have been happening in other places around the globe, as well.

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