Does a real video shot from the passenger window of a plane show the eye of Hurricane Polo? No, that's not true: This video was originally posted on Oct. 26, 2025, by an Instagram account that is labeled as an AI-generated profile. The video is also labeled as AI content on TikTok and the Hive Moderation tool determined it was 99.9% likely to be AI-generated.
The video (archived here) was posted by the @bajasurmap account on TikTok on Sept. 26, 2026. The Spanish language caption referred to the eye of the hurricane. It read:
👉👉 bajabaez
Ojo del huracán Polo
#huracan #bajacaliforniasur #mexico #México #temporadadehuracanes
This is what a screenshot of the video in the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @bajasurmap on TikTok.)
The video (archived here) was originally published on Oct. 26, 2025, by the account @earthimpacts25 (archived here) on Instagram (embedded below). The account is labeled:
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The caption read:
Watching a hurricane form from 30,000 feet -- silent chaos below, calm skies above.
#hurricane #planeview #aiartvideo #realstorm #naturebeauty #madewithai
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Lead Stories uploaded the video to the Hive Moderation platform (archived here) where the content detection tool determined with 99.9% confidence the video was likely to be AI-generated (pictured below).
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
The official Facebook page of the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published several videos showing passes made through the eye of Hurricane Polo in their data-collecting airplanes nicknamed "Kermit" and "Miss Piggy". Footage (archived here) from one of these passes (embedded below) was published on Sept. 23, 2026. The caption reads:
Hello from the eye of Hurricane #Polo!✈️👋⛈️
Check out the view from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) WP-3D Orion #NOAA43 "Miss Piggy" from yesterday's mission. These flights collect data to help improve forecasts and support hurricane research with NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory.
For the latest forecasts and advisories, follow NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center and visit hurricanes.gov.
📹Video Credit: Ensign Josh Murdock, NOAA Corps #FlyNOAA
