Arc Raiders Fans Think Embark Is Teasing Another New Threat as Video of UFO Sighting Circulates Online

Arc Raiders players heading topside for the caller Shrouded Sky update person their tin foil hats connected aft video of a mysterious UFO started circulating online.

Just arsenic soon arsenic clips of the caller Firefly and Comet Arc threats began making the rounds connected societal media, truthful excessively has footage of a mysterious being not elaborate successful the spot notes. Originally posted by Reddit idiosyncratic Bewarden with the caption, “What successful tarnation is that?” the 20-second video shows their quality walking done a Hurricane astatine the borderline of the Spaceport motorboat operation earlier a postulation of agleam bluish lights tin beryllium seen moving overhead.

— ARC Raiders Alerts (@ArcRaiderAlerts) February 24, 2026

It’s unnerving astatine champion and terrifying astatine worst, but things get spookier upon person inspection. The debased visibility brought astir by the Hurricane makes it hard to get a bully look astatine the lights, making it look arsenic though the Raider is watching 2 groups of drones moving quicker than normal. Watch again, and you’ll spot those lights are attached to an tremendous ship, gliding done the storm.

The AI entity known arsenic the Arc is susceptible of galore things. Drones, decease orbs, elephantine spider-like robots, and much are conscionable the extremity of the iceberg erstwhile it comes to force types, but players haven’t seen thing rather similar the UFO shown successful the clip. Studying it hasn’t been easier either, arsenic lone a fewer others person managed to seizure and stock their sightings online portion developer Embark Studios remains silent.

It feels reminiscent of the clip crippled developer Arrowhead Studios launched an update for Helldivers 2 that softly added flying bug enemies without notifying players successful its spot notes. As players spun a web of theories, that squad denied that specified creatures could perchance exist. Now, Embark seems to beryllium pursuing a akin strategy, leaving players to effort and portion unneurotic what a building-sized UFO could mean for the aboriginal of Arc Raiders. Some adjacent judge these sightings could beryllium tied to the caller ample Arc teased to get with the Riven Tides update this April.

“Is that the f***ing mothership???” 1 subordinate guessed.

“No explaining the happening volition beryllium murdering radical astir apt successful April,” 1 subordinate theorized. “Who knows it could beryllium the caller ‘large arc threat’ they roadmapped. That would beryllium chill af. A flying gigantic arc matriarch/queen benignant battle.”

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— Tommy Marion (@tommy_marion) February 24, 2026

We played done aggregate raids since Shrouded Sky launched and were palmy successful seeing the vessel conscionable once. Although Bewarden was capable to drawback a glimpse of the UFO connected Spaceport, our sighting occurred connected Buried City. While we were besides capable to perceive the vessel alert overhead during a Blue Gate raid, it sped disconnected earlier we could get a bully look astatine it.

If you’re funny successful hunting down the latest Arc Raiders mystery, we urge playing during the Hurricane representation information and keeping your eyes connected the entity astir the clip the raid has reached the halfway people (about 15 minutes). Based connected our investigating and what others are sharing online, don’t expect to drawback 1 of these connected your archetypal run.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Arc Raiders fans person spotted elephantine Arc successful the distance, but don’t expect Embark to travel retired with an mentation immoderate clip soon. While we hold for updates, you tin work our interrogation with workplace CEO Patrick Söderlund to larn much astir however the squad volition proceed to signifier Speranza and the enigmatic, post-apocalyptic Rust Belt. You tin besides drawback up connected wherefore immoderate fans aren’t blessed with however Shrouded Sky altered the look for Wolfpacks.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).