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Sitrec Tutorial Videos

Feb 05
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slA7aV2Mags

I've started a series of tutorial videos to get people more quickly up to speed with using Sitrec. The above one on the user Interface should be the starting point (even if you've used Sitrec before, there's several useful features)


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEhiP9b53ig

Clouds

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPxatbnCZQ
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Syria UAP 2021- Apparent Instantaneous Acceleration

Feb 03
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Source: https://youtu.be/nKtJslcHlCQ

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DATE - 2021

LOCATION - Syria / imaged from the border of Jordan (32°05'39.2"N, 36°53'54.4"E)

IMAGING TYPE - Thermographic / Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR)

PLATFORM - MQ-9 Reaper / Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS-B)

EVENT DESCRIPTION - Filmed by a platform operating under the direction of the United States Air Force. The UAP was observed and actively tracked - the Reaper established a weapons-quality lock. The UAP appeared to demonstrate abrupt directional changes, instantaneous acceleration, and intelligent control. Absence of traditional propulsion or thermal signatures during performance - as well as an examination of shape and acceleration - were noted in documentation. Origin, intent, and...
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Action taken against alleged drones over Volkel air base (the Netherlands)

Nov 22
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Dutch Ministry of Defence Statement posted this statement today on their website (translated):

Defence took action on Friday evening after several drones were reportedly seen over Volkel Air Base between 19:00 and 21:00. The drones were observed by security personnel. Air Force personnel deployed weapons from the ground in an attempt to bring the drones down. The drones left the area and were not recovered.

After the report, the Royal Marechaussee and the police were notified. They are conducting further investigation. At this time, it is unclear why the drones were flying over or around the airbase. For security reasons, Defence is not providing additional information about how the drones were detected or which countermeasures were used.
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Context / Notes

There is still very little clarity about what exactly happened. The Ministry did not specify...
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Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
Oct 24
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Some Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) May Be Associated with Above-Ground Nuclear Testing and Reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6347224/v1
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Transient star-like objects of unknown origin have been identified in the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) conducted prior to the first artificial satellite. We tested speculative hypotheses that some transients are related to nuclear weapons testing or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reports. A dataset comprising daily data (November 19, 1949 -April 28,1957) regarding identified transients, nuclear testing, and UAP reports was created (n=2,718 days). Results revealed significant (p = .008) associations between nuclear testing and observed transients, with transients 45% more likely on dates within +/- 1 day of nuclear testing. Significant (p<.001) associations were also noted between total number of transients and total...
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Digitized Sky Survey POSS-1

Oct 22
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I'm splitting of into a new thread since I'll keep pulling Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey off topic if I continue there.

As a summary, I'm on a mission to find the raw plates from the Digitized Sky Survey which is (I think anyway) the digitized version of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. So far I've found a set of 102 cd's that can be found in about 22 libraries world wide and I've also just found What appears to be a repository of some of the plates (Under "Browseable Directories").

I'm going to try to scrape the plates from Caltech's...
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Munich pilot reports [Oncoming Plane]

Oct 07
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Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1o0h06x/pilots_document_uap_sighting_in_july_2024_east_of/



https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktue...-sichtung-im-juli-2024-oestlich-von-muenchen/

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Throughout the sighting, the pilots were able to capture several photographs and films of the object, which also show a changing arrangement of smaller lights around a large main object, which is not characteristic of a conventional aircraft.

One of the pilots described the events as follows:

"Suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of us. It was too bright for it to be a star and it was initially stationary above the horizon. Me and my colleague (senior first officer) stared at it for a while and were unsure what it was. It looked like a single...
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Kostack Studios WTC2 (South Tower) Collapse Simulation
Sep 27
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpHXj62Ylw0

This is a very detailed physical simulation that shows (without the smoke and dust) the various aspects of the collapse that have puzzled people like AE911Truth. It's shown from various angles, with some cutaways.

In particular, we see:

The initiation event of progressive floor collapse.
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The interior collapse wave stripping floors behind the exterior

How large sections of the exterior are stripped away.
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The briefly standing core section
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Copenhagen airport closure due to reported drone activity
Sep 22
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Copenhagen airport has been temporarily closed to arrivals and departures due to a reported sighting of 2-3 large drones in the area. There's not really much in the form of substantive confirmation of what happened, aside from confirmation that there is an ongoing investigation.

It could be unrelated, but worth noting, that Russian jets and drones have been confirmed to have violated the airspace of Poland, Estonia, Romania, and Lithuania in recent months. With the violations of Polish and Estonian airspace seeming intentional.

Copenhagen Police posted on X (translated):
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Copenhagen Airport is currently closed for takeoff and landing, as 2-3 large drones have been seen flying in the area. The time horizon is currently unknown.
#politidk
Source: x.com/KobenhavnPoliti/status/1970213176860987866

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All flights to and from Denmark's largest airport have been suspended after drone sightings, police have...
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3D Analysis of the Yemen Orb
Sep 16
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This is a more focused spin-off from https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uap-hearing-new-video-yemen-orb.14427/

The Yemen Orb video appears to show a fast-moving object (the UAP) colliding with another object (the missile). It's not immediately clear from the video what is happening.

@Zaine M. has done quite a bit of work on this, and has extracted a fairly high resolution set of data from the on-screen number. In particular we have

  • The N indicator, which shows the North relative to the camera drone
  • The Azimuth, which shows the camera heading relative to the front of the drone
  • The slant range and horizontal range, which gives us:
    • The elevation angle
    • The altitude of the plane (when tracking the ocean)
    • The altitude of the object below the plane (and hence the altitude of the object)

Theoretically, given a drone's speed, this should let us calculate the drone's 3D track (likely fixed altitude and speed but...
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UAP Hearing New Video - Yemen Orb
Sep 09
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Source: https://youtu.be/LBKRr5OvF6E

Dated Oct 20th, 2024, in Yemen

It appears to show a missile interception viewed from an MQ-9. After the collision, the debris keeps going, indicating that there's a lot of parallax.
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Natick "Drone" Sightings, 2024
Aug 28
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From this Technology review article https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/26/1121458/ufo-hunters-mystery-drone-invasion/ (Archive: https://archive.ph/qwiMp )
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On a Friday evening last December, every tier of US law enforcement—federal, state, and local—was dispatched to the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, a military research installation outside Boston. A squadron of about 15 to 20 drones had been spotted violating the base's restricted airspace. The culprits could not be found.
One retired major with the Massachusetts State Police, who had been dispatched to help investigate that night, called these unidentified aircraft "the strangest thing he's ever seen," according to Brian Lauzon, deputy chief of Natick's municipal police department. When Lauzon arrived on base later that weekend, he says, he saw drones that were larger than traditional consumer models (most of which are...
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"Self-healing" Ceramic Material from Skinwalker Ranch - SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) Analysis
Aug 12
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At the start of this season (six) of Skinwalker Ranch, they posted a segment on the recovery and analysis of some small pieces of what look like ceramic tile.

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They think this came from an alien artifact buried deep underground, but it seems to be something an archeologist fished out of the spoils pit, so lacks a clear chain of custody to prove its initial location.

They take the samples to Dr Brian Patchett at Utah Valley University, and he put it in a SEM.
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They do a variety of scans, the first one displayed shows the artificial-seeming texture lines on the tile.
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They then show an animation that seems to show some holes getting bigger.





They then use the time-tested...
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Strange object captured over Malvern Hills, Western England - Reddit

Aug 07
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This one will get some traction


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1mjuunh/strange_object_captured_over_malvern_hills/

Seems it's another small/far away thing like the Utah drone footage, possibly a blade of grass in the wind, or a dragonfly.
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Alan Smith Colour UFO photo 1965
Aug 03
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The color photo by Alan Smith taken in 2 August, 1965. (rotated)

It appears to be a photo of a detail from one of two paintings by Clovis Trouille (1889-1975).

See top left in The Red Poet (1959)
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or top right (I think this is a better likeness) in The Tarantella Player (1964)
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Links to hi-res versions here:
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6498089
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6498068

Smith's photo was printed in the Look Magazine, 1967 UFO special. [p.34]
https://archive.org/details/look-magazine-ufo-special-1967/page/34/mode/2up

Some additional references for where it has been published can be found here:
https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bluebookpics9966.htm

Questions:

  1. What method do we think...
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F35 vs flies
Jul 26
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In this video (and X post), there was some great data on the camera, lens, time and other details:

Source: https://youtu.be/VH4wrZnp9Pk?si=fDAKKkqx07u6zxaH

Mick suggested on X that the objects were flies. I initially thought they'd be completely out of focus, but I decided to recreate the setup in Blender using all the provided data.

I used an 85mm lens at f/5.6 on a 7008 × 4672 photo. The camera was placed where I believe the shot was taken, and I moved the plane backward until the scale matched.
And guess what? A 1.5 cm fly, 80 meters away, would actually still be in focus - and the right size too! :)
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UAPs seen in Zimbabwe - Starlink Flares
Jul 14
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Edit - These have been confirmed as Starlink Satellite Flares.

This video grabbed my attention recently...


Source: https://youtu.be/4npE-Fgh6M4?t=339

On a recent shoot in Zimbabwe, I witnessed and photographed a phenomenal Unidentified aerial phenomenon while on a film shoot in Zimbabwe. During our stay at Tashinga, in Matusadona National Park in Zimbabwe, to be featured in the next Africa 2025 episode, three of us witnessed and photographed a series of UAPs in the night sky to the west. The phenomenon lasted about 15 minutes in all. This is the video of that event. Please help me understand what this was.
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It was put out on X too..

Source: https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1944783183657992299

Dates (2025)

Location - Tashinga...
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Wright Patterson Drone Documents and Video [Lots of Planes]
Jul 11
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https://www.theblackvault.com/docum...terson-afb-shutdown-air-force-videos-surface/
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Newly released Air Force records confirm that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Ohio experienced multiple drone incursions in mid-December 2024, prompting the temporary shutdown of military airspace and a large-scale security response. The disclosure, made through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to The Black Vault, includes incident reports, sworn witness statements, law enforcement documentation, and supporting video footage—all now public for the first time.

The base, one of the most prominent and historically significant in the U.S. Air Force system, initiated emergency procedures on December 13, 2024, after security forces reported observing several unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in restricted airspace.

Initial sightings occurred at 10:08 p.m., when patrols near the Hot Cargo Pads spotted a...
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Fake Video of "Tic-Tac" circling the USS Nimitz
Jun 04
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This video was recently posted on Reddit supposedly showing a tictac circling over a warship.... turns out it was the Nimitz...
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1l2l6cn/tic_tac_ufo_circling_over_a_warship_2003_pacific/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs_Archive/comments/1l2l8so/tic_tac_ufo_circling_over_a_warship_2003_pacific/

Looks like it is CGI generated from a photo of...
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New AARO video "UAP Video - Middle East Red Balloon 2024"

Jun 03
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https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Official-UAP-Imagery/
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Very clearly most likely a balloon with parallax.

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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office received a report from a U.S. military Service consisting of one minute and thirty-six seconds of full-motion video footage captured by a camera aboard a U.S. military platform in the Middle East in 2024. According to the reporting Service, the recording likely depicts a slow-moving spheroidal object.

AARO assesses, with high confidence, that the object depicted in the video is almost certainly (≥95% likelihood) a consumer-grade reflective foil balloon. AARO bases its assessment on the object's strong morphological consistency with other resolved imagery depicting balloons and its behavioral correlation with recorded wind speed and direction during the event.
They fail to mention the parallax effect, which is the most probably cause of the apparent high speed.

Again...
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BAASS Ten Month Report 2009 - Leaked Document
Jun 01
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https://www.metabunk.org/f/BAASS_TEN_MONTH_REPORT_2009.pdf

This report details the activities of the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), and was leaked earlier today.

Source: https://x.com/IWANTTOKNOWUK/status/1929093916017516991

Of interest, a propaganda project that reminds me of Scientology with its focus on celebrities. Maybe Tom DeLonge

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• Internet promotion: Several well known UAP Internet journalists and
bloggers will be approached and hired. BAASS can rapidly contact up to six
individuals who collectively are responsible for millions of Internet blog
postings.

• Radio promotion: BAASS has access to several well known UAP-friendly
radio journalists, a couple of whom are celebrities in their own right.

• Radio promotion: BAASS has access to several well known UAP-friendlyNewsprint promotion: The "UAP friendly" news media will be approached and...
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