What the heck is an EBANI? (And does that explain the “UFO” I filmed?)

“What is that?” I asked when something out-of-the-ordinary in the sky caught my attention. If I’d known what an EBANI was at that time, I might’ve added that to the list of things I considered. But I didn’t so at first I thought it was a flock of birds acting strangely.

I’ll get to what I’ve since learned an EBANI is, and how I came to know about it after I do something I rarely do: share a personal experience.

The UFO Sighting

It was a sunny, slightly breezy October Saturday afternoon in Middle Tennessee. We were waiting in the parking lot of Famous Dave’s in Hermitage to pick up lunch. My mind —or rather my belly— was focused on that.

But as I watched what I at first thought was birds, my heart started racing. I’m not going to lie. I got excited thinking it might be a UFO. I’ve always wanted to see one. But my rational mind reasoned there must be an explanation.

Maybe it was like the fish in the stream of a park I like to walk in. When they turn just right, the sun glints off their scales. Maybe the same effect was happening with the birds’ wings?

Or maybe it was a bunch of balloons. Maybe one side was shinier or more reflective and when the breeze turned them it caught the sun?

Or like my husband suggested, maybe it was a bunch of trash somehow swept up high into a current?

Except, as I continued watching, they didn’t move like any kind of flock of birds I’d ever seen before. Since they were all about the same shape and size, balloons seemed the next most logical explanation. Perhaps they had broken free from a celebration of some sort? In a way, they floated like balloons might on a gentle current.

At least they did until one segment distinctly broke away from the rest of the cluster and moved back in the opposite direction. Not drifted. It was a purposeful maneuver.

“What the hell?” I asked.

By that time even my cynical husband was wondering what we were witnessing.

“I don’t know?” he said. “I’d say UFO but it doesn’t look like a ship.”

But did UFOs have to always be ships? Whatever we were witnessing were unidentified flying objects because we couldn’t identify them.

I posted a small snippet on social media and uploaded the majority of the full videos on YouTube.

I’ll share the video next. Then I’ll talk about a couple of similar videos a friend shared with me, including an article that talked about EBANIs.

The Potential EBANI Video

Definition of EBANI

If, like me, you aren’t a ufologist, you might be asking, “What the heck is an EBANI?”

That was definitely my reaction when a friend who had seen my video on Instagram shared an article from OpenMinds.tv about an EBANI filmed in Milan. Or, rather, a possible one that was filmed.

“Could this be what you saw?” she asked.

First I had to figure out what an EBANI was before I could answer. It’s short for “Entidad Biological Anomalous No Identificada,” which translates to English as “Unidentified Anomalous Biological Entity.”

Anyway, they are a sort of UFO, but rather than being a ship, EBANIs are believed to be biological entities.

Comparing the EBANI Images

A man named Antonio Urzi caught the video of the possible EBANI, which drew immediate caution from many. As OpenMinds.tv explained, “Many of his images appear too good to be true, which causes some to question their veracity.”

Urzi’s video on the OpenMinds.tv article is no longer available, but there is a screenshot of a UFO photo taken over the World Trade Center in Mexico City in March 2010 that he spotted. They look brighter and more “explosive” than what I saw, but similar.

However, the article’s author, Alejandro Rojas, shared a video of something similar he caught on video in Mexico on March 21, 2010. It also looks very similar to my video, except there’s only one or two of them in his rather than the cluster in mine.

Rojas felt his were probably ballons because they sell them on nearly every street corner in Mexico City. But then right after that proclamation, he included this:

“They [the researchers at a UFO conference he attended] explained these were UFOs that were often long and moved strangely. They believed they were actual biological entities. The EBANI researchers admitted some of them look like balloons, but they argued that the UFOs moved in such strange ways that they could not be merely balloons.”

I have never seen balloons move like what I saw while standing in that Famous Dave’s parking lot. But it’s good to know others have spotted something similar and that they are UFOs in a way, but also have a more specific name: EBANI.

Check-In

Have you ever seen an EBANI?

Or is this the first you’re learning about them too?