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Defense Contractor's Halloween Video Shows Watchful Eye, Then Darkness
A Reddit post claims Lockheed Martin released an ominous clip of a Blackbird eye that cuts to black with a warning.
THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has drawn attention to what is described as a Halloween video from the defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The post, published on October 31, 2026, consists solely of a link or image and carries no text of its own.
According to the title of the post, the video shows an eye associated with the Blackbird, the celebrated high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, before the screen goes dark. The title attributes to the clip the message "You Can't See What's Coming."
The post offers no further detail. It does not say where the video was originally published, how long it runs, or what, if anything, it is meant to advertise. Nor does the author supply any interpretation, and the material available to this newspaper contains no comment from Lockheed Martin.
The timing, on Halloween, may invite a plain reading: that a company with a famously secretive history chose a seasonal moment for a theatrical teaser. The post does not state that, and neither it nor its title claims anything beyond what the video is said to show.
Readers of the forum, which concerns itself with the unexplained, will no doubt form their own conclusions. This newspaper notes only that the eye was reportedly watching, and then it was not.