{"id":298692,"date":"2025-05-12T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=298692"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:59:02","slug":"video-unrelated-to-operation-sindoor-shared-with-claims-that-pakistani-jets-in-sialkot-moving-toward-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-unrelated-to-operation-sindoor-shared-with-claims-that-pakistani-jets-in-sialkot-moving-toward-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"Video unrelated to Operation Sindoor shared with claims that Pakistani jets in Sialkot moving toward J&amp;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-second-long clip taken at night of what appears to be fighter jets in the sky is viral on social media with claims that these visuals are from Pakistan&#8217;s Sialkot and show Pakistani fighter jets flying towards Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-298692-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/amplify_video\/1920937458578935809\/vid\/avc1\/320x574\/YT4VfLSttiSZ2qWN.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/amplify_video\/1920937458578935809\/vid\/avc1\/320x574\/YT4VfLSttiSZ2qWN.mp4\">https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/amplify_video\/1920937458578935809\/vid\/avc1\/320x574\/YT4VfLSttiSZ2qWN.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>This clip is among the flood of such aerial visuals that have gone viral amid the India-Pakistan conflict. On May 7, a fortnight after terrorists allegedly linked to Pakistan-based terror groups killed 26 civilians in Pahalgam, India launched &#8216;Operation Sindoor&#8217; to target nine terror sites in the neighbouring country.\u00a0As of May 12, a ceasefire is on, but ties between the two countries remain tense.<\/p>\n<p>The clip of the jets in the sky was shared by X user @jacksonhinklle on May 9 with the following caption: &#8220;BREAKING: Locals in sialkot report seeing Pakistan&#8217;s fighter jets soaring towards Jammu Kashmir.&#8221; The post has received over 160,000 views and has been retweeted more than 500 times. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Rid1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-298810 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-17.28.38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-17.28.38.png 802w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-17.28.38-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-17.28.38-768x892.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that Alt News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site%3Aaltnews.in+%22%40jacksonhinklle%22&amp;rlz=1C1ONGR_enIN1000IN1000&amp;oq=site%3Aaltnews.in+%22%40jacksonhinklle%22&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg60gEINjgxOWowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written about misinformation disseminated by this account<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the same video on May 10, X user @erbmjha sarcastically mentioned: &#8220;PAF jets flying over SIALKOT for neutralising drones&#8221;. The post received over 218,000 views and has been reshared over 500 times. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ZIwr1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This user, too, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site%3Aaltnews.in+%22%40erbmjha%22&amp;rlz=1C1ONGR_enIN1000IN1000&amp;oq=site%3Aaltnews.in+%22%40erbmjha%22&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg60gEINTExMGowajSoAgCwAgE&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amplified misinformation in the past<\/a> and was fact-checked by Alt News on several occasions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 PAF jets flying over SIALKOT for neutralising drones \ud83d\ude39\ud83e\udee3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5yWxXXXu7n\">pic.twitter.com\/5yWxXXXu7n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BALA (@erbmjha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erbmjha\/status\/1920923846942568624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below are screenshots of the same video shared by several other users.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-298692 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-unrelated-to-operation-sindoor-shared-with-claims-that-pakistani-jets-in-sialkot-moving-toward-jk\/screenshot-2025-05-10-213410\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213410.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213410.png 451w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213410-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-unrelated-to-operation-sindoor-shared-with-claims-that-pakistani-jets-in-sialkot-moving-toward-jk\/screenshot-2025-05-10-213356\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213356.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213356.png 447w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213356-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-unrelated-to-operation-sindoor-shared-with-claims-that-pakistani-jets-in-sialkot-moving-toward-jk\/screenshot-2025-05-10-213551\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"396\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213551.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213551.png 396w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213551-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-unrelated-to-operation-sindoor-shared-with-claims-that-pakistani-jets-in-sialkot-moving-toward-jk\/screenshot-2025-05-10-213743\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213743.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213743.png 794w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213743-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213743-768x573.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-unrelated-to-operation-sindoor-shared-with-claims-that-pakistani-jets-in-sialkot-moving-toward-jk\/screenshot-2025-05-10-213455\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213455.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213455.png 390w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-10-213455-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Fact Check<\/h4>\n<p>To verify the claim, we broke down the viral clip into multiple key frames and ran a reverse image search on a few of them. We found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w8dAAj5IaUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video<\/a> with the same viral clip posted by a channel named &#8216;Malik Ali Raza&#8217;. The video was titled: &#8220;Pakistan Air Force Fighter jets roaring near Indian Border&#8221; and was posted on April 25, 2025, nearly two weeks before &#8216;Operation Sindoor&#8217; was launched. While the headline makes a reference to India and Pakistan, the publication date of the video predates the current conflict.<\/p>\n<iframe style=\"width:100%; height:auto; aspect-ratio:16\/9;\" title=\"Pakistan Air Force Fighter jets roaring near Indian Border #trending #shortvideo #shorts #army\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8dAAj5IaUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Taking cue from this, we looked further and came across an X post by @ibrahimkaragul who also posted the same video on April 25 along with a caption in Turkish which can be translated as: &#8220;This night; India war planes Pakistan airspace pushing, at its borders flights are doing. Pakistan planes one after another are taking off. Pakistan navy at sea defense position is taking. India-Pakistan at the border, in Kashmir of clashes that there are regarding unconfirmed information is coming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">Bu gece;<\/p>\n<p>Hindistan sava\u015f u\u00e7aklar\u0131 Pakistan hava sahas\u0131n\u0131 zorluyor, s\u0131n\u0131rlar\u0131nda u\u00e7u\u015flar yap\u0131yor.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan u\u00e7aklar\u0131 ard\u0131 ard\u0131na havalan\u0131yor. Pakistan donanmas\u0131 denizde savunma pozisyonu al\u0131yor.<\/p>\n<p>Hint-Pakistan s\u0131n\u0131r\u0131nd\u0131, Ke\u015fmir\u2019de \u00e7at\u0131\u015fmalar\u0131n<br \/>\noldu\u011funa dair teyit edilmemi\u015f\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YIgiqx5VRf\">pic.twitter.com\/YIgiqx5VRf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0130brahim Karag\u00fcl (@ibrahimkaragul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ibrahimkaragul\/status\/1915542174432993344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">We then ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=india+pakistan+jet&amp;sca_esv=e05ade750ba4d55d&amp;rlz=1C1ONGR_enIN1000IN1000&amp;source=lnt&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A4%2F24%2F2025%2Ccd_max%3A4%2F26%2F2025&amp;tbm=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relevant keyword search<\/a> from around that time and found news reports about a drill exercise, &#8216;Aakraman&#8217;, conducted by the Indian Air Force pilots. According to an April 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/india-air-force-aakraman-military-exercise-meaning-pakistan-pahalgam-terror-attack-2715095-2025-04-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by India Today, the drill involved India&#8217;s frontline fighter jets and was described by the IAF as a routine training exercise. The report also said that the exercise triggered panic in Pakistan, prompting its forces to &#8220;go on alert and scramble military aircraft to air bases near the Union Territory&#8221; of Jammu and Kashmir. Data from the flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft departing from Karachi and heading to northern bases near Lahore and Rawalpindi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"379\">It is likely that the viral video captured movements from either of the sides. However, Alt News was not able to conclusively verify this. What remains clear, though, is that the now-viral clip is not related to Operation Sindoor and the shelling that followed, which only began on the intervening night of May 6 and 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-second-long clip taken at night of what appears to be fighter jets in the sky is viral on social media with claims that these visuals are from Pakistan&#8217;s Sialkot and show Pakistani fighter jets flying towards Jammu and Kashmir. https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/amplify_video\/1920937458578935809\/vid\/avc1\/320&#215;574\/YT4VfLSttiSZ2qWN.mp4 This clip is among the flood of such aerial visuals that have gone viral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":298812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[722],"class_list":["post-298692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/05\/FI-Template-Oishani-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298692"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298817,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298692\/revisions\/298817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298692"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=298692"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=298692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}