Experts reach verdict on bizarre UFO videos over California desert

Panicked locals in two cities north of Los Angeles , California , piled onto Amazon 's Ring neighbors app to report UFOs that 'zig zagged' and hovered over the weekend .

Reports of a 'bright light' that looked like 'a shooting star' but acted more like a 'hovercraft' emerged alongside the emergence of eerie cell phone videos that purported to capture some of these six alleged craft.

But a wide community of experts, including UFO researchers with Harvard 's Galileo Project , told DailyMail.com that the videos were most likely 'an intentional hoax' Some of these UFO videos were paired with old and unrelated audio tracks passed off as the videos' own.

The footage appeared to have originated near the 2024 Pokémon World Championships in Honolulu , Hawaii — which capped off three nights of the international event with drone light shows.

The behavior of these UFO lights also matched patterns pre-programmed into commercial drone swarms — according to Preston Ward , who serves as chief pilot and general counsel for the Texas -based drone light show company Sky Elements .

Preston Ward's colleague, Kyle Pivnick , added that one of the videos' visible landmarks did not match the alleged location of the sighting: ' Palmdale and Lancaster both are very land-locked and the video looks like it is at a marina' The Tedesco brothers told DailyMail.com that.

Glimmers of sunlight reflecting off the International Space Station were expected to be visible on the ground for minutes at a time in the early morning all across the past weekend and beyond.

A skywatchers page run by the US space agency said sightings would be possible from August 14, 2024 through August 29, 2024 .