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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/tsuyurikun on 2024-11-09 05:38:42+00:00.
Recently, someone posted about this sighting and made myself and many others intensely curious.
Here's the original video:
Initially, I thought it might be a kite, due to the long tail. u/Future-Bandicoot-823 thought the tail looked more like video artifacting, because it was just too perfect. While I was out for the day, I couldn't look at the video with any detail, and by the time I got home, the post was gone, but in the meantime someone found a high-quality version of the video from this X account.
Here's a zoomed and stabilized version of the UAP:
Pretty clearly, u/Future-Bandicoot-823 was right and I was wrong. You can see on this zoomed in version that the tail is an "echo" of previous frames - it even disappears when the video glitches and freezes for five frames, then has a "jump" in it after the video resumes.
u/jarlrmai2 thought the entire motion may be caused by an effect of the camera - the parallax of camera motion being stabilized and therefore creating motion for things in the deep background. I was curious if that could be true, so I motion tracked some branches and did a rough recreation of parallax.
In the below video, the yellow and red arms are showing the parallax offset between two different branches, and the green arms are showing the offset between a branch and the UAP.
UAP movement doesn't match parallax
While the yellow and red arms move somewhat in sync, the green arm does not, so the thing appears to be actually moving.
So what is it? A strange white orb, moving somewhat erratically. A lot of people thought it looked like a bug, reflecting the sun, just like this spiderweb does in the video. Especially at the end of the clip, you can see the light running along the strands of the web, glinting reflections of the sun.
Without the tail, the only interesting observable about the UAP itself is the erratic movement. A bug certainly could explain that.
Thoughts? Something I've missed?
Any questions about my analysis, feel free to ask. And below is an imgur link to my videos (may not work in the future)