An Analysis of the Yukon UFO Incident
Liberation Times Insight
Written by Condorman - 12 October 2024
Insight from a senior level aerospace engineer.
An image of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) shot down over Canada’s Yukon Territory by an American F-22 on February 11, 2023, was published on September 24, 2024, by Daniel Otis, a journalist with CTVNews.ca.
At the time of the incident, officials described the object as small, cylindrical, and metallic but no images were released.
Another report said the top quarter of the cylinder was metallic and the remainder white.
The object was also said to have a tethered payload. But no official descriptions of the object ever mentioned the unique horseshoe shape.
The image can be seen below.
The quality of the image above is downright atrocious, especially considering the recently released videos and images posted by NORAD from the F-16 intercept of the Bear bombers in the Alaska ADIZ on September 23, 2024.
You can see one of the high-quality images below. The quality is so good that you can zoom in on the cockpit and see the pilot.
There are two possible explanations for the poor quality images typically associated with UAP, if any are released at all.
One could legitimately be that UAP exhibit low observability characteristics as defined in Luis Elizondo’s five observables and are hard to capture with our current sensor technology.
The second is the more ominous answer that the powers that be do not want high quality images to get out, either because of a cover up, or because they don’t know what they are dealing with themselves, which is my assumption.
But, since this object was called a balloon, the five observables should not come into play and there should be clear images that definitely prove it was just an oddly shaped balloon. But, alas, this is the only image released.
For all those who will still hold on to the claim that this object is a balloon, think about how easy it would be to prove that the horseshoe shaped craft was indeed a balloon if we had a high quality picture like the Su-35 above - or even a couple of additional lower quality pictures from different angles.
And also remember that not a single image of the UAPs intercepted over Alaska and Lake Huron has been released.
I enhanced the image to make a simple model for analysis. The goal was to try to understand what type of vehicle could fit the horseshoe shape and be able to achieve anomalous flight characteristics such as hovering in winds, quick acceleration, perpendicular turns, and other tricky maneuvers.
After examining the image, the Aguadilla UAP came to mind.
This unknown object was filmed over Puerto Rico by a U.S. Borders and Customs DHC-8 aircraft's thermal imaging system on April 25, 2013. You can see a stabilized version of that video here.
Witnesses described the Aguadilla UAP as a “forward flying horseshoe” about three to five feet in length. You can easily see the horseshoe shape in the video when the vehicle banks to the side.
The object’s speed varied between 40-120 mph and was even filmed going into the ocean with barely a splash and resurfacing. The SCU did an extensive study of the vehicle and proved that it could not have been a balloon.
Assuming these two UAPs share similar design and technology, I can attempt to explain the technologies that enable these vehicles to stay aloft in winds, accelerate, and make quick trajectory changes without visible means of propulsion or aerodynamic surfaces.
Because both objects are small, I am going to stay away from the exotic propulsion methods I prescribed for Tic Tacs, triangles and discs.
Such exotic propulsion would not fit in a small frame, especially a horseshoe. But there are other less exotic but still extremely advanced methods of propulsion such as what I proposed for the Eglin UAP.
A forward flying horseshoe (meaning it flies in the direction of the opening) can ionize the air that enters the interior section of the horseshoe with an electric discharge between electrodes at both sides of the horseshoe entrance.
This ionized air or cold plasma can be held in the interior space using magnetic fields to trap it.
As more ionized air enters the section, the plasma will become pressurized. The pressurized plasma can then be ejected via fluctuations in the magnetic fields for fast acceleration and braking, as well as quick altitude changes.
In addition, some of the plasma can be ingested into the vehicle to power maneuvering jets located throughout the vehicle surface. See the figure below.
The jets powered by the ingested plasma would power the vehicle the majority of the time and can enable most maneuvers including hovering in winds, forward flight, and turning, including perpendicular turns. The mechanism is simple enough assuming a strong and light power source is available.
The plasma ingested into the intakes is accelerated into chambers inside the vehicle using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuators.
These actuators, which I described in the Eglin UAP article, will further ionize the air into what is called low-temperature plasma and accelerate the plasma from the upper electrode to the lower one, creating ionic wind. Here is an illustration.
The accelerated plasma will accumulate in the interior chamber and gain additional pressure.
It can then be ejected as jets for accelerating, hovering, and manoeuvring using thrusters located on the vehicle that are automatically opened and closed as needed to provide the necessary force.
The power applied to the plasma actuators can also be dialled up and down depending on the need for thrust. Here is a top view of how the chambers and thrusters would work.
And here is a cross view of a cylindrical section of the horseshoe showing the chambers and thrusters.
For the more anomalous manoeuvres such as high acceleration, breaking in mid-air, gaining or losing altitude rapidly, and quick perpendicular turns, the pressurized plasma contained in the horseshoe cavity could be partially ejected by fluctuating the magnetic field that holds it in place in the direction necessary to achieve the desired force.
The illustrations below show how it would work
A large release of pressurized plasma aided by further acceleration from the magnetic field would result in strong acceleration in any of the directions indicated above.
To an observer, this would look like truly anomalous performance. These oversized accelerations cannot be performed consecutively as the vehicle needs time to ionize more air and refill the reservoir.
So, as I said earlier, the manoeuvring jets would be the main source of propulsion for the vehicle, with the plasma ejections being used occasionally as a form of evasion, course correction, or even showing off.
The technologies described above have been demonstrated in several different applications.
Tokamak fusion reactors use magnetic fields to trap plasma. And plasma actuators have been used in aircraft prototypes.
But what makes building something like this beyond our current capability is the power source.
The power generation needed for the electrodes, magnetic fields, and plasma actuators is very large and both the Yukon and Aguadilla UAPs were very small vehicles.
We currently do not have a way to power such a vehicle unless we have discovered a source of power beyond our existing technology.
As for the tethered payload, I don’t have much to go on.
The vehicle may be dropping a sensor in a specific area, delivering a payload to another location, conducting a test with a special sensor, etc.
There is just no way to tell. The released image does have an interesting detail as seen below. Could that be the tethered object?
