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The problem is that those lighting balloons are white and black. where as the visual photo loks grey and black/dark grey. i did though finally find a photo that shows the white could perhaps blend into the sky if it was a grey day. and 'cone...

Everything not moving in the view (assuming the camera does not rotate) is moving relative to the plane at 352 feet per second, or 11.7 feet per frame. If it were 100 feet long it would move 0.117 times its length (11.7/100) per frame. The...

It's an assumption to test the question: "is this consistent with a balloon". If it can be shown to be moving under its own power then that would invalidate the balloon hypothesis. But what we can say is that there is nothing inconsistent...

We don't. We know: 1 - the plane is going 240 mph, or 352 feet per second 2 - the object's apparent speed is about 4.3 times its own length per 1/30th of a second From just those two things, and assuming it's not moving under its own power and...

Someone on Twitter/X (@SwinkMcCloud) pointed out that there are different kinds of lighting balloon. Some of them have a built in 'hat'; others have a detachable one: Source: https://twitter.com/SwinkMcCloud/status/1783406327882297800 One can...

There was a thread last month discussing a lower quality version of this video, with less information:https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ufo-filmed-over-new-york-city-what-is-it.13406/ In particular there was discussion about it being a solar...

Source: Michelle Reyes, Facebook This video was shot on March 24th, 2024, but recently showed up on a NewsNation segment with an interview of Michelle. Ben Hansen was in the segment, persumable as a representative of Engima Labs who had done...

I took this photo 10 years ago and at the time didn't know what kind of weather conditions were required for contrail formation and I didn't know that contrails could cast shadows the way they do. Anyway today EXACTLY 10 years later I am approx...

Compressing the levels on the IR image, we get the distinct impression that it's not a two-tone ball, looking more like a white sphere with a black "hat". We don't know if it's black hot or white hot. There's possibly some detail on the white...

AARO is not saying it's that particular type of balloon. Their assessment is only with "moderate confidence" and some of it seems a bit of a stretch. Although the pilot described the object as uniformly gray in the visible spectrum (it appears...

AARO thinks it's a balloon https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/case_resolution_reports/Case_Resolution_of_Eglin_UAP_2_508_.pdf (U) AARO assesses the reported UAP very likely was an ordinary object and was not exhibitinganomalous or exceptional...

Marik suggested I put this one into Sitrec. I like that Peterson had a Sitrec-like recreation back in the 1990s It would be good to A) verify this, and B) extract more info, like size, and speed. At a minimum, I need the first frame for each...

From the video presentation of what they have done, they seem to have fallen into the same trap as the EmDrive. They were registering minute forces in the range of [μN] (see figures below), initially using a torsional pendulum, whilst working...

This is what frame 984 of Gimbal looks like, showing the object's geometric properties detected by the method described here. Clearly the accuracy of the method is heavily degraded on such frames where the object makes sudden movements leading...

Saw a very bright distinctly green fireball over LAX on approach to RWY 25L on 16 APR 24 at approximately 21:13. Was a good one that broke into pieces before fading out.