Jimmy's original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WDx7byI0k About 1AM on August the 14th, 2022, Jimmy Church was on the second floor balcony of his house in Palmdale, California, using a night vision device to look for UFOs. He spotted some to the north, and started filming them. On November 3rd, he shared the video on Twitter and someone (sorry I can't find who) suggested to me that it might be the same Starlink flares that pilots had been seeing and mistaking for planes flying in racetrack patterns. A starlink flare happens when sunlight reflects off a flat surface on a starlink satellite. These particular flares are reflecting off the bottom of the satellite, which is parallel to the curve of the earth, and so the reflection mostly misses the ground - which is why, up until now, only pilots at high altitudes had reported them. But Jimmy's night vision device was able to see the much dimmer flares that were visible from the ground. Over on Metabunk we'd noticed that these flares were mostly observed when looking north, towards the big dipper, with the sun directly below the satellites. Due to the tilt of the earth, there's always some satellites that are in sunlight in the summer, when viewed from Palmdale and similar latitudes. Jimmy gave me the approximate time of the video, and Flarkey used the in-the-sky.org site to get an exact match of two flaring satellites at the start of the video. Flarkey also found the correct historical Starlink position data using space-track.org, and I loaded that into Stellarium I identified the stars in the video, the bright one on the left is Doo-bee, part of the big dipper, and I used the stars to overlay a screenshot of the video onto Stellarium, set the time, and pressed play. Result - All of the flaring lights line up with starlink satellites, in the exact same spot, and at the exact same speed. Interestingly, neither in-the-sky.org nor Stellarium thought that all these satellites would be visible. This is because they are right on the edge of sunlight, so any small variation in the calculated shape of the Earth or errors in accounting for atmospheric refraction, could put a satellite in or out of shadow. But since we see they match perfectly, we know that the sun is actually hitting them. These are all Starlink satellites. These starlink flares are only dimly visible from the ground, but are a lot brighter seen from 40,000 feet, from a plane. So we are going to continue to get reports of these moving lights from pilots for the next few years until everyone is aware of the issue. So I suggest that the FAA and the airlines issue advisories to air traffic control and to pilots to minimize distractions and disruption. The frequency will lessen over the winter, due to the tilt of the Earth being away from the sun, but if nothing is done then this exact same flurry of reports will flare up again next summer. Metabunk Thread: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/jimmy-churchs-starlink-ufos-in-palmdale.12751/ Full Synced video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT7UeZI-6OY ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8BCl2yVU0

See discussion, and "how-to" photos: https://www.metabunk.org/two-suns-nope-not-sundogs.t6932/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPOmp0hHlhE

Chris was an F-16 pilot for 18 years. He and I have both done work analyzing UAP videos. We've disagreed on a few points. Here we get together for the first time to discuss those disagreements, the times we agree, and the things that still need figuring out. 00:00 Start, technical difficulties 11:45 Actual Start 13:08 Why did Chris change his mind about FLIR1 shooting off? 29:37 The IR Shape at the Start, Glare? 37:09 Gimbal Roll. Underneath or Sideways 44:07 Why didn't Underwood regain lock? 52:18 Rotating glare in FLIR1 like in Gimbal? 59:53 Can it actually be a glare from a plane? 1:03:48 TV Mode image, a clear Tic -Tac? Perpective. 1:11:20 Gimbal vs. Flir1 gimbal rolls near 0° 1:16:14 Rotation of the light pattern in the sky in Gimbal 1:19:30 The shape of the glare, and does it change as it rotates? 1:21:44 A defined edge - an example with the sun 1:32:10 The "Glowing Aura" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neTfX9Jx5AY

A contrail formed by Singapore airlines flight SQ7972, a Boeing 747, from Anchorage to Los Angeles, March 25th 2015, 18:36. (00:36 UTC, Mar 26th) Demonstrates the dissolution of the contrail into the hybrid contrails formed in the vortex cores (note there's four engines but only two vortices, as they come from the wings), which then distort with the crow instability. Finally the hybrid contrails break up in an interesting swirly effect. The video is in real time, the collapse of the vortices is quite quick as the hybrid contrail persists only as long as they are still spinning, which reduces the air pressure, increasing the relative humidity. Once they stop spinning the RH drops below saturation and the cloud evaporates. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5pP6naBcnY