Date: April 4, 2025
Location: Baxter County, Arkansas
Submitted by: “N.N., amateur drone pilot”

I’ve flown drones recreationally for five years, mostly for landscape photography. This happened during a solo weekend flight over farmland near Old Mill Road, where I’d been testing a new drone with enhanced LIDAR overlay.

At 3:12 p.m., I noticed a square of fog on my video feed — not rolling fog, but a perfect geometric rectangle, about 30 feet wide. I sent the drone closer. Within the fog, I could make out an old wooden structure: a two-story farmhouse that didn’t exist on satellite maps, nor on the aerial views from previous flights.

I hovered and captured footage. The house had strange architecture — asymmetrical windows, overlapping roofs, and a porch that twisted around the back like a Möbius loop. As I panned the drone, something even weirder happened: the feed began looping time itself. I’d watch the house for ten seconds, and then the footage would repeat — the same crow flying past, the same door creaking open.

But when I tried to scrub the video file later, the loop wasn’t there. The footage was linear. No glitches, no loops.

Locals say the area used to be a Civil War homestead but was wiped out by a lightning fire in 1872. No records show a house remaining.

I’ve uploaded the footage to a private server. If this was a lens glitch, it was the most intelligent one I’ve ever seen.

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