{"id":6541,"date":"2026-07-03T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:10:19","slug":"hikers-in-remote-areas-of-the-american-southwest-have-reported-something-that-shows-up-again-and-again-in-independent-accounts-an-object-that-simply-refuses-to-move-with-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/hikers-in-remote-areas-of-the-american-southwest-have-reported-something-that-shows-up-again-and-again-in-independent-accounts-an-object-that-simply-refuses-to-move-with-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikers in remote areas of the American Southwest have reported something that shows up again and again in independent accounts, an object that simply refuses to move with the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hikers in remote areas of the American Southwest have reported something that shows up again and again in independent accounts, an object that simply refuses to move with the wind\u00a0<span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/ta\/1\/16\/1f3dc.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfdc\ufe0f\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t90\/1\/16\/1f305.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf05\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span>\u00a0Witnesses describe strong gusts bending trees and kicking up dust around them, while the object overhead remains completely motionless, as if anchored to a fixed point in the sky.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6543\" src=\"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/35-1-245x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/35-1-245x300.png 245w, https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/35-1.png 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>That kind of stillness is part of what makes these reports stand out to researchers, since even large aircraft and weather balloons drift or sway under real wind conditions. Several hikers who filed reports independently, in different states and different years, described nearly identical scenes, isolated terrain, strong wind, and an object hanging perfectly still overhead for several minutes before simply disappearing.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Standing alone on a mesa at sunrise, watching something defy the wind itself, would test anyone&#8217;s sense of what&#8217;s actually possible up there\u00a0<span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf\/1\/16\/1f304.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf04\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf4\/1\/16\/2728.png\" alt=\"\u2728\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hikers in remote areas of the American Southwest have reported something that shows up again and again in independent accounts, an object that simply refuses to move with the wind\u00a0\u00a0Witnesses describe strong gusts bending trees and kicking up dust around them, while the object overhead remains completely motionless, as if anchored to a fixed point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[1832,1831],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aliens","category-ufo","tag-an-object-that-simply-refuses-to-move-with-the-wind","tag-hikers-in-remote-areas-of-the-american-southwest-have-reported-something-that-shows-up-again-and-again-in-independent-accounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}