The Jellyfish UAP: Thermal Footage, Transmedium Claims, and the Mystery Over Iraq

In 2017, at America’s Altus Air Force Base, a strange story began spreading from soldier to soldier.

The personnel reportedly gave the object a nickname: the “spaghetti monster.”

According to accounts connected to the case, soldiers who were stationed in the area became uneasy after seeing the footage. Some wondered whether the object could be watching them from somewhere nearby.

The footage was reportedly captured by a thermal sensor worth millions of dollars. It showed an irregular object moving across the area, yet the anomaly could not be seen with the naked eye or with a standard camera. According to Michael Sinkowski, who worked in intelligence and surveillance in the region, the video was shown to many personnel who came through the watch area. Everyone had a different theory, but no one offered a clear logical explanation.

The footage was brought to wider public attention by Jeremy Corbell in 2024.

What makes the object so unusual is not just its shape. It appears irregular, almost organic, with hanging appendage-like forms. It moves without any visible wings, rotors, exhaust, or conventional means of propulsion. It was reportedly seen over sensitive areas of a military base. And, most importantly, it was visible only through thermal-capable imaging.

Within seconds, the object also appears to shift from black to white, as if its apparent thermal signature is changing.

The case became even more controversial after claims emerged that the publicly released clip may not be the full recording. Some sources who reportedly contacted investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp claimed that a longer version exists.

According to that version of the story, the object allegedly passed over the military base, moved toward nearby Lake Habbaniyah, stopped above the water, entered the lake, remained underwater for around seventeen minutes, then emerged and shot into the sky at a forty-five-degree angle at a speed that tracking systems could not keep up with.

That claim is extraordinary.

But it is also important to be careful.

At the time of this writing, the public has not seen the alleged longer version showing the object entering the water, remaining underwater, or shooting into the sky. Without that footage, the claim remains unverified.

There is also another important point. Intelligence controller Michael Salla has stated that he personally watched three different clips of the incident, each about seventeen minutes long. According to him, the clips he saw did not show the object diving into the water, remaining underwater, or launching into the sky. Instead, he described the object moving toward the lake, becoming smaller on the horizon, and eventually disappearing from view as it moved too far away for the camera to track.

That distinction matters.

The publicly available footage is strange. The alleged transmedium sequence would make the case much more significant. But until that longer footage is released and independently examined, it cannot be treated as established evidence.

Still, the broader pattern is difficult to ignore.

In 2020, cruise ship captain Kate McCue described seeing a silent, black, jellyfish-shaped object drifting over her ship. According to her account, the object passed directly over the center line of the vessel and then descended into the ocean near sunset. She recorded part of the incident and later shared it on social media.

The similarity is striking: a dark, jellyfish-like object, moving silently, with no obvious conventional propulsion, reportedly descending into water.

This is where the issue becomes larger than a single video.

The idea of objects moving between air and water — often called transmedium travel in military and UAP discussions — has appeared in several major cases.

One of the most famous examples is the 2004 Nimitz encounter. Commander David Fravor and other Navy personnel reported the now-famous Tic Tac object operating near an area of disturbed white water on the ocean surface. According to Fravor’s testimony, the object had no visible wings, rotors, exhaust, or control surfaces, and moved with extreme acceleration. After it disappeared from visual range, it reportedly reappeared around sixty miles away in less than a minute.

The white water itself remains one of the most interesting parts of the case. Fravor described calm seas and clear weather, making the disturbance stand out. Some have speculated that a larger object may have been just beneath the surface.

There is also the USS Omaha case from 2019, in which a sphere-shaped UAP was reportedly tracked by Navy personnel before descending toward the ocean and disappearing into the water.

These reports raise a difficult question:

Are we looking in the wrong place?

For decades, UFO culture has focused primarily on the sky. But if some of these objects can move between air and water, then oceans, lakes, and underwater environments may be part of the larger mystery.

The Jellyfish UAP is especially unsettling because it does not resemble the classic saucer, triangle, sphere, or Tic Tac shape. It appears more organic, irregular, and ambiguous. This type of object was also described in the Immaculate Constellation report presented to the House of Representatives in 2024, where one reported category involved UAP resembling a jellyfish with rigid appendages hanging downward.

That does not prove the Iraq footage shows non-human technology.

It does not prove transmedium travel.

And it does not prove that a longer hidden video exists.

But it does suggest that the public conversation around UAP is expanding beyond simple lights in the sky.

The real issue now is evidence.

If a longer version of the Jellyfish UAP footage exists, it should be released. If it shows the object entering water and emerging again, that would be one of the most important UAP videos ever made public. If it does not, then the public deserves to know that as well.

What we should not accept is another case built on fragments, rumors, selective leaks, and secondhand claims.

We need the full record.

We need the original data.

We need the complete footage, the sensor context, the chain of custody, the location, the timestamps, and the testimony of people who handled or witnessed the event.

Until then, the Jellyfish UAP remains one of the strangest modern UAP cases: visually bizarre, difficult to classify, connected to serious military reporting, and surrounded by claims that may be even more extraordinary than the footage itself.

Whether it represents an unknown object, a sensor artifact, a misidentified object, a secret platform, or something truly anomalous remains open.

But one thing is clear: we should not settle for fragments.

If the full evidence exists, it should be seen.