A Glitch In The Matrix! Wild Video Of An Airplane Frozen In Place Over San Francisco Bay

Strange footage of a plain paused mid-air over San Francisco Bay has social media users shell-shocked. It is scientifically impossible for an airborne vehicle to stand still mid-flight. There’s simple physics behind it, a flying plane has to keep moving forward to stay airborne. If the aircraft were to stop, it would quickly not only lose altitude but also plummet toward the ground eventually crashing. Hence, the weird visual has kick-started a heated discussion on X.

In the video, the person holding the camera is moving adjacently in another aircraft while capturing the plane that appears to be stuck. “Watched a plane pause in the air today and y’all still think physics is real,” wrote an X user while sharing the footage online. Notably, the plane continues to look paused mid-air until the end of the clip. In a subsequent post, the user added, “Lots of ‘physics understanders’ pretending that they’ve never dropped a pound of bricks and a pound of feathers at the same time and disproved Newtonian physics at home. Didn’t realize big physics had this many shills,” they concluded.