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AD1184

Celestial

This is fairly strange. The cropped screenshot in the thumbnail looks to me like it has had a sharpening filter applied to it, however. Possibly an AI sharpening algorithm was used, which a lot of professionals use. Possibly a de-noise algorithm has also been applied. These filters can improve the overall appearance of an image, but they do not faithfully recreate the small details as they are generative and not reconstructive, and so distort the original appearance when closely cropped. I suspect the raw screenshots cropped to the same degree will show a different appearance.

It doesn't really look like a kite, as many commenters on the video have suggested. It does remind me of the appearance of insect swarms I occasionally see near where I live above trees at certain times of the year, probably related to mating behaviour. However, they appear in very close proximity to the trees, and they are not quite as dense as this appears.

But in this day and age, how do we even know that it records something that actually happened?
 

nivek

As Above So Below
This is fairly strange. The cropped screenshot in the thumbnail looks to me like it has had a sharpening filter applied to it, however. Possibly an AI sharpening algorithm was used, which a lot of professionals use. Possibly a de-noise algorithm has also been applied. These filters can improve the overall appearance of an image, but they do not faithfully recreate the small details as they are generative and not reconstructive, and so distort the original appearance when closely cropped. I suspect the raw screenshots cropped to the same degree will show a different appearance.

It doesn't really look like a kite, as many commenters on the video have suggested. It does remind me of the appearance of insect swarms I occasionally see near where I live above trees at certain times of the year, probably related to mating behaviour. However, they appear in very close proximity to the trees, and they are not quite as dense as this appears.

But in this day and age, how do we even know that it records something that actually happened?

That's a good possibility of an insect swarm, or could it be birds?...I tried to find a video of something similar in insect swarms to compare but the closest thing I could find thus far was a video of a tightly formed starling flock:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztEEGSJv0I


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AD1184

Celestial
That's a good possibility of an insect swarm, or could it be birds?...I tried to find a video of something similar in insect swarms to compare but the closest thing I could find thus far was a video of a tightly formed starling flock:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztEEGSJv0I


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The trouble with the idea of it being a murmuration of starlings is that the birds require a significant airspeed in the forward direction to stay aloft. Occassinally the flock will coalesce into a dense swarm, at least when viewed from one aspect, but it will quickly spread out again because they are all moving fairly fast. The objecct in the video in question does not do that.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
The trouble with the idea of it being a murmuration of starlings is that the birds require a significant airspeed in the forward direction to stay aloft. Occassinally the flock will coalesce into a dense swarm, at least when viewed from one aspect, but it will quickly spread out again because they are all moving fairly fast. The objecct in the video in question does not do that.

Could the distance be the illusion we see of the object appearing to not move as fast as expected for birds or insects?...

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AD1184

Celestial
Could the distance be the illusion we see of the object appearing to not move as fast as expected for birds or insects?...

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It's not just a question of the distance to the camera. The UFO does not move enough relative to its own apparent size. If you look at the starling video, and picture an imaginary boundary around the outermost starlings as the flock appears in each frame, and consider how the shape of this imaginary boundary changes and moves throughout the video, then it is apparent that it is not the same type of movement as the UFO video. From further away, or less zoomed-in, the movement of the shape of the boundary around the starling flock would appear the same, just smaller in the frame.
 
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nivek

As Above So Below
I highly doubt the Holy Grail of UFO material is to be found on Facebook or YouTube.

Correct, however in this day and age we should be able to get at least decent photographic or video evidence of UFOs, and from there determine if the objects are terrestrial or not...

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Correct, however in this day and age we should be able to get at least decent photographic or video evidence of UFOs, and from there determine if the objects are terrestrial or not...

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Photographs and videos will be automatically suspect.

Interesting thought though. Suppose one day you actually do catch something extraordinary with a pic or video. What the hell to do with it? What I would not want to do is mix it up with a bazillion fakes - but honestly, IDK exactly what I would or could do with it.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Early on Jan. 19, 2024, several pilots over the Canadian prairies reported "seeing multiple lights sometimes in a triangle formation" high above them. Their reports appeared in Transport Canada's online aviation incident database on Jan. 23. NORAD was also notified of the incident, which occurred over Saskatchewan and Manitoba.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgbNKOK7lr4


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UFOscar

Novice
I've seen a ufo fairly close (1500 feet maybe) following an airplane that was preparing for landing. It was bright and orb shaped, moved on a perfect line. It was probably half the size of the airplane and lit up the underside of the cloud cover quite well. It was a solid yellow/orange color and did not flicker. At one time myself and both of my parents watched one quietly move above their house. It was low enough to not be a satellite. I live on Vancouver Island in the Cowichan Valley and live very rural with little light pollution so I figure that has enhanced my chances of seeing them.
 

nivek

As Above So Below

'I thought it was new Russian tech... but then I realized it was a UFO': Ukrainian soldier in Donetsk tells DailyMail.com the craft was 'bigger than the Empire State Building'

Ukrainian troops have recorded what they describe as a 'very hot' infrared track of a massive, over 1300-ft-long UFO over the nation's battle-scarred southeastern province of Donetsk. One soldier, a drone operator with the Ukrainian army's 406th Battalion, told DailyMail.com that - despite his roughly 10,000 operational missions flying these thermal-imaging drones over their warzone - he and his fellow unit members had 'never seen things like this before'

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