For reference. The entire "pyramid" UFO video stabilized roughly against the stars and clouds. Showing the relatively small movement of the (plane-like) UFO across a portion of the sky.
It's an in-lens reflection, a type of lens flare. You often see with bright lights. Most commonly the sun. The positions of the reflections are mirrored about the center of the image.
Metabunk Discussion: https://www.metabunk.org/explained-unknown-brewing-company-ufo.t10134/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQR6ZeuaImg
The Gimbal UFO video seems to show a rotating flying saucer. However, the shape really just looks like the IR glare of a distant jet engine. But why is it rotating? The reason seems to be to do with the ATFLIR camera system which is mounted in a way that restricts rotation and forces the field of view to rotate when tracking left to right. This is then "derotated" internally. But this rotation of the optical system causes optical effects, forcing the shape of the glare to rotate when the horizon does not.
This rotation problem gets far worse at very shallow angles, so it's particularly noticeable in the Gimbal case as that's just 2° down.
The fact that the artifact is caused by the camera's gimbal system is probably why the military called the video "Gimbal"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1PRDbtiF0
A video of five lights over Twentynine Palms, California, videoed by military personnel, gives the illusion of a triangular craft. The illusion breaks down as the lights shift position.
A discovery by John Greenwald leads to video of what looks exactly like the lights from another angle. It seems like this mysterious UFO is just five flares.
Original videos at the Weaponized podcast: https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/news-1/mojave-triangle-uap
Greenwald's discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_piRRyCCKM
Greenwald's Tweet on discovering the flare video: https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1661052262981185536
The flare video: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/791782/wti-assault-support-training-4-b-roll
Metabunk discussion: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-the-mojave-triangle-uap.12967/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEkRpXuqZqo
I saw something over the trees today, and it made me think that if I'd seen it 30 seconds after I first did then my perception might have been very different, especially if I was not familiar with this sort of thing.
Context is very important, but often if a first impression gives the result people are looking for, then they just go with the first impression. This is being dishonest to yourself. Seek the wider context, and keep an open mind.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JO-o2iLTUA
I got a few requests for more detail on how I tracked down the stars in the "Hyperspectral Mothership" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JSPTYZuNf4) . So here's all the details. Warning: a bit technical.
The version of Stellarium I used: https://stellarium.org/
There's also a web version, which does the same thing, but with a different user interface. https://stellarium-web.org/
Astrometery: http://nova.astrometry.net/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AInFVWIOVx0
If you slide a coin away from you on a table it will vanish from the bottom up. But ONLY if the camera is a bit below the top of the table, or if the table bows up a bit in the middle. Yet this observation is often used to try to explain Flat Earth sunsets.
If you do the experiment on something that's ACTUALLY flat (like a 48" carpenter's level), and you keep the camera above it (like you are above the surface of the earth), then you will see nothing vanishes.
And of course, the sun does not glide away from you while touching the ocean. It's high in the sky at noon, and then sets behind the horizon. If it were moving away from you it would get smaller, and closer to the horizon, but would not actually get there.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AgkaAibh58
Over the last few years, there's been several "UFO" videos that looked something zipping by a drone. Some people interpreted these as large fast alien spacecraft. But I think these are actually very small slower objects, like birds or insects, that are quite close to the camera, and they just look big and fast because we interpret them as being far away. I call them drone zipbys.
Some people have done computer simulations to show how this illusion can happen, and I plan on doing some myself later. But I always like to do a physical recreation if possible.
I don't have a drone so I started out by throwing some rocks at my camera, and then from behind the camera. Neither of these were very useful as the motion was mostly vertical.
Next, I tried throwing a paper plane on my camera. It was really hard to get close, so I switched to the other side, and after a few goes I finally got one. I played it in reverse. And then sped it up to typical drone speed. I then compared it against the Utah video.
Wanting more control, I tied some fishing line to my gate post and then to my fence below, and made a UFO out of some card and a pen tube. This slid down at about 7 miles per hour. I was able to get it fairly consistently flying by the camera.
Speeded up to 28 miles per hour it's not a bad match for the Utah video.
I wanted to try moving the camera instead of the object. So I got on my bike, holding my phone, and pedaled towards a small UFO hanging from a tree. Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to see. It kind of matches up with Utah video in parts. But so far my zip line recreation is the best I've done.
I should probably just buy a drone.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2lIUO3Yy8
HD Version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddIgb1nGJ8
http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/news_...
Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
Researchers:
Chris Hoffmann - Faculty
Sami Kilic - Former Member
Scott Meador
Voicu Popescu - Faculty
Paul Rosen - Graduate Student
Mete Sozen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rEWKosq0IY
Geoff says that six years ago he was "as normal as everyone else," but when he was caught up in the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bomber (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) he took an interest in the events and eventually came to believe it was all staged. This led him to research other topics and now he feels nearly everything we see is staged, and that the world is run by an organization of Freemasons, Jesuits, and the Vatican. He also thinks that the earth is not a globe and that it's possibly flat.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev manhunt in Boston. - https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2013/08/27/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-manhunt-photos/
Robbie Parker's grief - (See section " Why aren't the adults sadder") - https://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/your_comprehensive_answer_to_every_sandy_hook_conspiracy_theory/
"LOL Guy" at Pulse Nightclub Shooting press conference. (Grins for 4 seconds of a 10-minute briefing) - https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/police-approximately-20-killed-orlando-nightclub-pulse-shooting-39790608
"I love you" sign language is actually closer to the "horns" hand sign (with the thumb extended) than the "WP" or "666" hand sign. - https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/love-you-gesture-emoji/
Washington Irving and the Columbus Flat Earth myth. - http://dhayton.haverford.edu/blog/2014/12/02/washington-irvings-columbus-and-the-flat-earth/
Phoenician Trade routes hugging the shore, except when crossing the Mediterranian Sea. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia#/media/File:PhoenicianTrade.png
Reciprocal Leveling - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/reciprocal-leveling
Geoff's video of a contrail at an angle. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dTMf3gX-yk
Podcast Web Page - https://www.tftrh.com/2019/11/08/episode-29-geoff-everything-is-a-hoax-the-earth-might-be-flat/
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-geoff-everything-is-a-hoax-the-earth-might-be-flat/id1462120258?i=1000456241952
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eju0mvJds8U