Does footage labeled "The Metal Sky Man Utah: 8/11/25" document the sighting of some unexplained thing in the clouds? No, that's not true: This is not a real video; it's a still image to which audio, camera shake, and zoom effects were added. The image was taken from a video that has been online since at least July 25, 2025. It was posted to Instagram by a UFO account with a different caption claiming the footage had been shot in Chiang Mai, Thailand days earlier.
The 'Metal Sky Man' video (archived here) was posted on X by @dom_lucre on August 14, 2025. The lengthy caption begins:
BREAKING NEWS: An unidentified metallic man has been spotted the skies of Utah hovering above the flute similar to the reports in Peru that I covered in 2024. This man has been captured by multiple witnesses uploading the strange footage online.
This is how the post appeared at the time of writing:
(Image source: Screenshot by Lead Stories of @dom_lucre post on X.)
The 1:03-minute long video has captioning which reads:
The Metal Sky Man Utah: 8/11/25
The video also bears the watermark of '@Dom Lucre Narratives' and at the 0:55 second mark a faint 'n-cog' watermark is also visible. This is a TikTok account @incognitogamingtv which also specializes in CGI and AI-generated UFO videos. The same 1:03 clip, without the Dom Lucre watermark was posted by @incognitogamingtv on August 12, 2025 (archived here).
Lead Stories used a screenshot and Google Lens reverse image search to trace the video's origins. An August 12, 2025 YouTube video (archived here) titled, "Elongated Ship In The Clouds - Вытянутый Корабль в Облаках" mentioned nothing of a metal man, or Utah. This 0:44-second long video contains repeats of the same eight seconds, but does include a more expansive view of the clouds in the sky (pictured below). The caption claims there is no filming location and no backstory information.
(Image source: Screenshot by Lead Stories of @exopedia post on YouTube.)
A search with a screenshot from this YouTube video, using Google Lens, turned up yet another video (archived here). This one showed a deck railing and a barbeque grill in the foreground, a hilly landscape with trees blowing in the breeze, and a powerline. This video was marked up with a red circle in the style of other videos posted by this Instagram account, @UFO5537. The video was posted on July 25, 2025, but the caption (translated from Spanish to English by Google) suggested it was filmed days earlier:
Object Suspended Over the Clouds of Chiang Mai, Thailand. (July 23, 2025).
Courtesy of Malee Saetang.
A strange and alleged object was seen suspended over the clouds of Chiang Mai, a town in Thailand known for having the most beautiful skies in the world.
The event, if real, could be one of the most impressive sightings of the year 2025.
#uap #ufni #ufo #fani #zabedrosky #ufocloud #ufo5537 #uaps #ufos #ovnis #ufology
This is how that post appeared at the time of writing:
(Image source: Screenshot by Lead Stories of @UFO5537 post on Instagram.)
Regardless how the earlier @UFO5537 version of the video was created (pictured below right), its existence disproves the claims made in subsequent remixes. At the 0:52 second mark of the @incognitogamingtv TikTok video (below left), there are brick buildings, suggesting a town or city which are edited into the lower edge of the frame. The metallic object in the cloud, and the cloud's wispy and overlapping profile in the scene is the same as pictured in the @UFO5537 video (compared below).
(Image source: Screenshots by Lead Stories from @incognitogamingtv post on TikTok and @UFO5537 post on Instagram.)
