I suspect if this is CCTV footage which is my current best guess the monitor would be smaller than 2ft wide. Most systems I am familiar with back from 2008 would have been CRT and smaller. Closer to 8 to 15 inches (200 - 380mm). Now do the distance calculations based on that.
The curvature of Earth is approximately 8 inches per mile squared for visible distances (the error gets larger with greater distance), so 8"×3² = 72" = 6 feet ≈ 2m for 3 miles. And for any camera position higher than ~5 ft. off the water, nothing at 3 miles would be hidden.
That seems unlikely, considering you've observed the UFO being slightly brighter than the moon. Lens flares etc. are typically darker; a lens system can't be so badly designed that a parasitic light path gives more brightness than the main path, it'd be unusable.
yes, I see that now, it is definitely a window. But I don't think that anyone is claiming that part of the video is a UFO.To me this is clearly a lit up window. You can at times even see the 4 segments of it. Atmospheric turbulence adds a lot of motion to it....but to me it is exactly the same sort of thing as in the Israel kibutz video.....its a window...
I've asked before if a translation exists. It would be extremely helpful to know what was being said by the videographer and those present at the time it was recorded.
Extremely surprised no translation has yet been released of what is being said on the video considering it's been out for more than a decade. I'm assuming Turkish is being spoken?
Note the standard UFO trope -- "It did all sorts of amazing inexplicable maneuvers and stuff which does not appear in any of the videos."According to a local where the alleged video was filmed says she saw him film it.
Maybe he did film something there but was hoaxing the majority of the footage.
I will confess that the first thought that jumped out to me about that post was "so he's into NFTs?".
I already identified this. It's a small squid boat with lights hanging on a boom on the starboard side.To me this is clearly a lit up window. You can at times even see the 4 segments of it. Atmospheric turbulence adds a lot of motion to it....but to me it is exactly the same sort of thing as in the Israel kibutz video.....its a window...
Now I understand what you mean by remarkably smooth. The top of the hoop is reflecting the light source as a mirror would (a specular reflection), and it's over-exposed. So it looks like a featureless glow.
There's a large (in relation the size of the object) nick on the left. The fine groove on the side of the bangle is very visible in this one..
We'll call this a hoop.
White arrows - A groove in side of the hoop.
Green arrow - a nick the hoop.
Green arrows - far edge of the top of the hoop.
Blue arrows - near edge of the top of the hoop.
Red arrows - the lower edge of the hoop where it meets the wooden dowel
Probably the same nick in the same hoop, but the hoop is placed differently.
I'm sorry. I should have explained this one before. Yalcin videoed a lot of different things.
LIVE VIDEO (not a screenshot)
In this case - where you have this video cued up - these are distant lights, probably offshore on a boat. (There's a later shot of something that's definitely a boat, so...)
I can't be sure, but I think it's a small cabin cruiser at night, offshore of the Yeni Kent Apartments, probably fairly distant. I don't think it's down shore, or you would see ground lights. I think it's out offshore.
Something like this.
Or more likely an inboard like this one; with a smooth transom.
Blue arrow - navigation light on the bow.
Green arrow - lights in the windows of the cabin
Red arrow - light illuminating the surface of the transom (flat part on rear of boat)
Not certain of this one. But when you watch the video I think that's what it is. There are times when the windows are pretty clearly windows. In any case, they're just distant lights. No mystery.
By "illuminating the surface of the transom," I mean the way a license plate is illuminated. A splotch of light, not a distinct light source.
All these are from that same video.
These are lights on a distant cargo ship, on a misty early morning.
The landing lights of a distant aircraft.
This one I'm confident of. It's a boat; and I think it's closer to shore than the first one. The blue line is an LED strip on the boat.
At 43:50 Yalcin finally stops playing with the camera and let's it sit still on the tripod. At that time you can see the boat rocking gently on the waves. I'm not sure what the sparkly lights are. I think they're specular reflections of the LEDs on wavelets.
LIVE VIDEO (not a screenshot)
Lights on a ship, invisible in the mist and dim light. I think there are two lights and an inferior mirage of the same.
I just realized what this probably is. There's a green light on the left and a red light on the right which means these are navigation lights on the bow. And a flashing red masthead light in the middle, which means it's bow on to us, (facing us). And there's a bright mass of lights off the starboard side. It's a squid boat.
This can all be explained as lights out at sea, or perhaps a distant shore. The antics can be explained by mirage effects and saccadic eye movements, or lights on aircraft. Dimming and brigthening can be lights on aircraft getting nearer or farther or mist getting thicker or thinner. This is really thin stuff.According to a local where the alleged video was filmed says she saw him film it.
Maybe he did film something there but was hoaxing the majority of the footage.
Article: Kumburgaz UFOs are boat windows
By Andrés Duarte (Canopus Group)
During some early mornings in the spring and summer of 2007, 2008 and 2009, a man named Yalcin Yalman recorded dozens of videos of alleged UFOs from a beach in Kumburgaz, Turkey, which has been documented by Sirius UFO [1-6]. Here are part of the videos in chronological order:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrfGiv0X8ns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BEM-ObMXJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89KkYMS8jkk
http:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2gnruDHmZg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Vdr1DKPQ0
This case is considered not very credible by several researchers and ufology fans, for various reasons that do not need to be explained here. Most hypotheses about the origin of the phenomenon refer to objects located at the level of the land or sea surface, such as domes or domes of buildings, ships, submarines, ventilation caps, oil platforms, etc. The boat hypothesis has been presented in some forums since 2008 [7-12]. After a detailed analysis, this idea leads to the windows hypothesis that will be discussed in the rest of this article.
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Now we can summarize the probable characteristics of the alleged UFOs to propose a specific hypothesis: the objects are flat or slightly curved mirror surfaces, there are different designs, they could be part of a larger object that is not seen due to the conditions of lighting and recording, they are possibly plates of transparent material, they are probably in the sea. All this leads us to the following hypothesis: the objects would be "shark fin" or "butterfly" style side windows, on certain boats and small yachts, such as those in figure 8.
Article: kinger90210
With out question since it's been posted right up to today this is the best UFO footage ever.
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This is a big "...sigh" from me.
While I love the video, the overall scenario doesn't make a lot of sense. So a visible UFO - with alien occupants, in plain view - was appearing on a regular basis, in a set place, for hours at a time. Yet - the only person who captured any footage of it is a guy who runs a UFO conference, and its appearances didn't attract other filmmakers or angles?
That just doesn't feel right to me. I'm not some hardcore skeptic, but I can't see a world where this scenario makes sense if it's legit. If they had multiple YEARS to prepare to film this thing, why does only one guy have footage of it, and footage that's filtered through a pepper's ghost setup?
Pretty sure the operator in this case has no authority to request fighter jets to attend the scene.
but I've watched your other videos. For a while I too thought that the image might be an internal reflection of some of the lens hardware. I think it was suggested earlier in the thread. TBH - I'm not convinced by it yet, but I'm not at the point of rejecting it either. I think the hypothesis works in some of the UFO scenes but not others. I think if Yalcin (the witness) faked the video, or was mistaken and honestly captured what he was seeing, the method would be consistent throughout the video - ie any suggested hypothesis should fit all cases. So bearing that in mind - here are some critical thoughts from me for you to consider.
I suggested it five years ago, as it reminded me of my lenses
yes he clearly tried different lens parts to see which would look good 2008 he worked it out and 2009 he had it down pat to trick Dr Leir remember its a reflection so it would not be as sharp.. and the blacks would blend with the dark BG. Yes I think I suggest lens rim maybe first years ago.. this is a new look and improved explanation.. still some say its LEGIT UFO.. but really it looks like a bottom cropped lens part and some are really bad and obvious.. [...]I suggested it five years ago, as it reminded me of my lenses
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/2008-ufo-footage-from-kumburgaz-turkey.9844/post-224091
But I also noted:
