In the third week of January 2026, a clip from a webcam pointed at Popocatépetl, the active volcano southeast of Mexico City, began circulating among UFO watchers. In it, an object that looks like a glowing saucer moves across the sky above the volcano. Then a smaller, rod-shaped object follows a similar path in the opposite direction.

Popocatépetl is watched around the clock by public cameras because of its frequent eruptions, and those feeds have produced viral “UFO” clips for years. The steady supply has given the volcano an online reputation as a supposed secret alien base, and this clip was quickly folded into that story.

What it doesn’t come with is much detail. The camera, the exact date and time, and the length of the clip weren’t reported, and no one has published a frame-by-frame look at it. Insects, birds and debris near the lens are common in webcam footage, but nobody has checked whether that applies here.