Video shows mysterious ‘black glass’ UFO floating in sky near airfield used by military contractor…

DailyMail.com has obtained a stunning clear video of a dark orb UFO floating outside an airfield used by the maker of the infamous Reaper drone.

Contractor Andy Segobia, 52, was driving to work at El Mirage airfield near Adelanto, California, in August 2020 when he saw a 10ft sphere hanging in the air.

He took out his iPhone 7 and started filming the object that was no more than 50 ft in the air, shooting a surprisingly clear video compared to many grainy or blurry UFO footage.

Segobia told DailyMail.com that to the naked eye the object looked like dark tinted glass, was the size of the top of a palm tree, about six to 10 feet in diameter, and was completely silent.

‘I thought it was a balloon at first. As I got closer, I could see it wasn’t tethered to anything,’ he said. 

‘There was no sign of propulsion, there was no noise, it was just sitting there.’ 

At the time he was doing building maintenance work for General Atomics, a military contractor that makes the MQ-9 Reaper drone.

After filming the 90-second video of the stationary object, he said he had to go inside a building to take some measurements, and emerged less than a minute later to find it had disappeared.

‘We went into this building 15 feet away and took one measurement, walked back out the door and it was gone. It had been maybe 30 seconds,’ he said.

‘I looked everywhere, it was a clear day, I would have seen it float away. It either disappeared or just shot out of there. I was bummed I didn’t get that footage.’

Segobia’s foreman, Juan Valdez, was with him that day. Valdez confirmed to DailyMail.com that he saw the object too, but did not comment further.

‘I looked around, I even walked over to see if it came down to the ground,’ Segobia said. 

‘It was gone, nowhere to be seen. If I’d just stayed there another minute I would have seen it zoom away or disappear.’

Segobia said he would regularly see plane-shaped unmanned drones taking off and landing at the El Mirage airstrip, and that General Atomics worked on building and repairing drones there.

But he said the orb was unlike anything he’d ever seen.

‘It came out silver when I shot the video. But it was a black tinted ball. It was giving off some kind of heat or something, some kind of wave where I couldn’t see inside the ball.

‘When you’re driving to Vegas and it looks like there’s water in the street, it was kind of like that. It was giving off some kind of wave, I’m assuming it was a heat of some type.

‘I saw it up close. There was only a fence and a little piece of dirt dividing us. It was off their property in the middle of the desert. I don’t know what it was doing there.

‘It struck me as odd because it was floating there off the property.

‘It’s very quiet out there, in the middle of nowhere. It was a clear day.’

Metadata from the video shows it was filmed using an iPhone 7 Plus at 7:08am on August 4, 2020, with coordinates at El Mirage Field near Adelanto, north east of Los Angeles.

According to WeatherSpark.com, weather data for Adelanto at that time shows winds of around 7mph blowing south.

The object filmed by Segobia in 2020 appears similar to silver orbs caught on camera by Reaper drones in the Middle East, and published by the government’s UFO investigation office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

The existence of the Reaper footage was first revealed by DailyMail.com in October 2022.

In testimony to the Senate in April last year, 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.

El Mirage Field is about 25 miles southeast of Edwards Air Force Base, which has been a focus of extraordinary UFO stories dating back to 1957.

Decorated Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper claimed he caught on camera a flying saucer hovering above the ground and landing in a dry lake bed at Edwards in 1957.

The late Air Force veteran said when approached the object lifted off, retracted its landing gear, and shot off at high speed.

Cooper said he gave the footage to his commanding officers, and never saw it again.

In declassified 1965 audio tapes from the base, radar operators can be heard tracking between seven and 12 unidentified objects traveling at high speed tens of thousands of feet over Edwards.

The tapes revealed the base had a ‘UFO officer’ that the case was referred to, with ‘plenty of live data and visuals’.

An F-106 plane was scrambled to check out the objects, but it couldn’t catch them as they shot up above 40,000 feet.

Radar man Chuck Sorrels told 1996 documentary ‘UFO Sightings’ that he knew they were not helicopters or airplanes, but couldn’t identify what they were.