USS Russell Pyramid UAP — Navy FLIR 2021

In April 2021, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell released night-vision FLIR footage taken from the USS Russell destroyer showing triangular blinking objects hovering near the ship at low altitude, appearing through the night-vision as pyramid shapes with three points of light. The footage had been taken during the same 2019 deployment that produced the USS Omaha transmedium sphere footage. The Pentagon confirmed the footage was shot by US Navy personnel and was under investigation by the UAP Task Force. Additional footage from the USS Kearsarge during the same deployment showed similar objects. The pyramid appearance in FLIR footage was later explained by some analysts as a camera aperture diffraction artifact — the camera's aperture creating three-pointed shapes from point sources of light. However, the primary significance was the pattern: the same naval deployment in 2019 off San Diego produced multiple separate types of UAP footage including the Omaha sphere, the Russell pyramid, and additional material. The density of documented events during a single deployment period made it the richest source of military-confirmed UAP footage in the post-2017 disclosure era. AARO subsequently received all the footage from the deployment for analysis.