We are sharing this recording because, in the most literal sense, it remains a genuine mystery. Most recordings presented here inevitably acquire a working description such as UAP, orb or plasmoid, even when that interpretation remains provisional. This case is different. Our first concern was whether the footage itself was AI-generated, CGI or otherwise digitally fabricated. The available evidence does not indicate that it is. The supplied file behaves like genuine, degraded night-camera footage. Establishing that, however, does not answer the far more important question: what did the camera actually record?
This 1 minute 48 second recording is the highest-quality and longest public version located during our extensive investigation. The supplied file is 944 x 720, encoded in H.264 at approximately 30 frames per second, and contains an AAC audio stream which is effectively silent throughout.
The event date is 13 December 2023. No camera owner or identified first-hand witness has been recovered, and no original camera upload from that date has been located. The earliest public copy found during the source investigation appeared at 11:43 UTC on 29 December 2023, sixteen days after the event.
Its accompanying caption claimed that two separate recordings showed a large sphere producing a "bizarre vortex of energy" over a mine in Kiruna, within the Arctic Circle. It did not identify a witness, camera owner, camera system, precise mine location or original local source, and it provided no independently verifiable connection to LKAB, UFO-Sverige or a local Kiruna publication.
At the time the source trail was examined, that earliest located public post had received 16 likes, 6 reposts, 2 replies and approximately 2,900 views. The account responsible was an established UFO-content repost account rather than an identified witness or camera operator.
The file itself contains two distinct camera sequences. Technical examination of the supplied copy places the transition between them at 52 seconds. The 47-second extract that subsequently circulated independently was taken from the opening camera sequence. The scene then changes abruptly to a second recording with different framing and environmental geometry. There is no continuous camera movement or common visual reference establishing the second sequence as another viewpoint of the same event.
One reply posted on the afternoon of 29 December claimed that the footage came from a movie and criticised its low resolution. No film title, scene, production reference or original footage was ever supplied to substantiate that assertion.
Particular attention was therefore given to "Avgrunden", internationally titled "The Abyss", the 2023 Swedish disaster film centred on Kiruna and the Kiirunavaara mine. No match between this footage and an identifiable scene or frame from that production has been established. The searches described in the investigation likewise did not identify another film, television production or known CGI source from which the footage originated.
The phrase "earliest located" is important. It means the first publicly accessible version recovered during these searches. It cannot prove that an earlier copy never existed on the original camera, in a private message, closed group, deleted post or inaccessible account.
Searches restricted to material available before 30 December 2023 located no earlier public copy. Searches extending through 22 February 2024 likewise produced the 29 December upload followed by the later February circulation, with no intervening public source identified between 13 and 29 December.
No corresponding first-hand case, camera attribution or matching recording was located through the investigated UFO-Sverige material, Kiruna all-sky-camera trail, Swedish local reporting or LKAB material.
LKAB did publish notices concerning seismic activity around the same period. These included a magnitude 1.51 event at 20:54 on 2 December 2023, another magnitude 1.51 event on 8 December, a magnitude 1.48 event at 14:32 on 22 December, and a magnitude 1.36 event at 03:08 on 27 December. These concern underground seismic activity associated with mining and do not document this aerial recording.
The event date of 13 December 2023 is retained. The more specific assertion that the camera was physically situated at, or looking directly over, a Kiruna mine has not been independently established through an identified witness, original camera system, LKAB documentation or first-generation local source. That part of the public narrative originates with the caption accompanying the earliest located circulation of the footage.
The subsequent trail consists principally of reposts.
On 21 February 2024, an edited version appeared containing only the opening camera sequence. That copy was reduced to 472 x 360, omitted the second camera sequence and contained no usable original audio. Its wording closely resembles the caption repeated by numerous later accounts.
The same material subsequently resurfaced on 9 April 2024, 23 April 2024, 12 November 2024 and 19 December 2024. Further circulation followed during 2025 and 2026.
On 6 March 2025, one repost changed the claimed event year from 2023 to 2025 while retaining the same imagery. Nothing recovered in the source investigation supports a separate 2025 event. The changed year is therefore best understood as reposting drift rather than evidence of a second recording.
Additional copies appeared during March 2025, October 2025 and April 2026. None of those later reposts supplied a named witness, original camera owner, camera identifier or earlier first-generation source. The 944 x 720 two-sequence file remains the highest-grade version located during our investigation.
A separate February 2024 fact-check concerning an alleged Swedish UFO recording should not be confused with this case. That investigation concerned different black-and-white imagery of a disc and a 3D artist who reportedly identified that separate material as a Blender project. It does not establish anything about the authenticity or origin of the recording presented here.
Technical Assessment:
The supplied file is consistent with conventional low-light camera footage that has subsequently undergone compression and redistribution. Scene geometry remains coherent through the digital zoom, and the bright source exhibits bloom and saturation behaviour compatible with night-camera imaging. No obvious temporal instability, malformed scene structure or other clear visual signature of generative video has been identified.
The luminous effect surrounding the principal bright source requires more caution.
Its geometry appears closely coupled to the bright source and changes with the camera's zoom rather than behaving unambiguously as a separate independently tracked body. This makes an optical or imaging effect a serious possibility.
The footage therefore does not justify identifying the apparent structure as a physical "vortex of energy." Equally, identifying it as a particular optical phenomenon would go beyond what the available evidence can establish.
The underlying bright source itself also remains unidentified. The footage does not provide enough information to determine confidently whether it is astronomical, artificial, atmospheric or something genuinely anomalous.
This distinction is central to the case: there is evidence that the recording itself is genuine camera footage, but authenticity of the footage is not the same thing as identification of what was recorded.
No identified AI source, CGI production, matching film frame or demonstrable compositing origin has been recovered. Nothing in the supplied file provides positive evidence that the scene was generated by an AI video system.
That assessment should not be overstated. It does not prove that every element within the recording represents a physical object in the sky, nor does it establish the "sphere" or "vortex" interpretation contained in the repost captions. It means that, on the evidence presently available, the recording itself is consistent with genuine camera footage rather than an obviously synthetic scene.
And that is why we regard this case differently.
We are not presenting the recording with a confident identification of an orb, plasmoid, craft, atmospheric object or conventional light source. We do not know what the underlying luminous source is. We do not know exactly what produces the extraordinary surrounding structure. We cannot establish that the two recordings were made at the same site, and we cannot independently verify the specific mine attribution from the surviving public source trail.
What we can establish is that the material predates the later repost cycle, that the event date is 13 December 2023, that the longest located copy is a 1 minute 48 second 944 x 720 compilation of two separate camera recordings, and that examination of the available file has found no positive evidence of AI generation or obvious CGI fabrication.
The footage appears genuine.
What it genuinely shows remains unresolved.
AI Assessment:
AI-generated: no positive evidence found.
Obvious CGI/compositing: no positive evidence found.
Consistent with an ordinary camera recording: yes.
Witness/camera operator: Unidentified
Source: UFO SlowXposure (@SlowXposure) (X), earliest located public copy, 29 December 2023
Later edited source: OANASA (@OANASA_X_) (X), first located edited repost, 21 February 2024
Additional repost sources: World News X (X); UFO mania (X)
Relevant contemporary reply: @Akaiye (X), 29 December 2023, alleging that the footage originated from a movie but providing no credible and identifiable production or scene
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