A Colombian Family Films a Sun-Reflecting Sphere

Video: “UFO IN COLOMBIA”, uploaded to YouTube by the channel Historias Siniestras – CDY on 24 May 2026 at 12:51 PDT (15:51 ET); 53 seconds. A re-upload of the clip that circulated on X. Embedded, not rehosted.

Roadside landscape in Antioquia, Colombia (2006). Generic place image, not the video. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What happened

On Sunday 24 May 2026, a video began spreading on X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. It showed a group of people, described as a family, crowding at the window of what looks like a restaurant. They had left their table to watch something in a clear blue sky. The person filming zooms in on a small, bright object that seems to change shape and catch the sun. Someone can be heard saying “Gracias por su presencia” (“Thank you for your presence”).

Infobae Colombia covered it that evening and Occidente the next day. Coast to Coast AM picked it up on 26 May as “Curious UFO Mystifies Colombian Family”.

Timeline

• 24 May 2026 (Sunday), daytime: The family films the object, according to Colombian reports.
• 24 May 2026, 12:51 PDT (15:51 ET): The YouTube channel Historias Siniestras – CDY uploads the 53-second clip as “UFO IN COLOMBIA”.
• 24 May 2026, 21:09 EST: Infobae publishes “Video viral de un supuesto Ovni en Colombia divide opiniones”, crediting the clip to the X account @TTendenciaX.
• 25 May 2026: Occidente publishes “Supuesto Ovni en Antioquia se vuelve viral: ¿nave o globo solar?”
• 26 May 2026: Coast to Coast AM shares the video; the live Redacted Weekly post follows.

What believers claim

For believers the reaction is the story: a whole room of adults stopping a meal, some visibly moved, one thanking the object for its “presence”. Occidente reports that witnesses described “una esferita amarilla” (a little yellow sphere) that appeared to hover and move strangely. Some online commenters said it was “demasiado extraños” (“too strange”) to be anything conventional. One wrote, “Hay cosas que simplemente no tienen explicación” (“Some things simply have no explanation”).

What the research found

The clip is real and the date holds up. Infobae, Occidente and the YouTube upload all put it on 24 May 2026, and Occidente and Infobae both give the length as 53 seconds. Infobae’s report says the clip “dura 53 segundos”. It describes “un objeto pequeño y brillante en el cielo azul” (“a small, bright object in the blue sky”).