The following submission statement was provided by /u/im_da_nice_guy:
I thought this was interesting because I was just watching the new Oke Shannon interview on Project Unity's youtube channel and they were mentioning videos of objects around aircraft.
Anyways you never know with these videos, sometimes they seem intriguing to me but with tricks of perspective etc its difficult to say anything definitive about any of these kinds of videos, but I still find them interesting, maybe you will too. For whatever it's worth, which is extremely little, when I froze the video and took a screenshot, the thing looked remarkably like a tic tac. Its too blurry to mean anything but that's what it looked like to me. I would guess that if it wasn't tic tac shaped the frame rate and elongation of the blur would look like that anyway.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/11ip8c1/uap_accidentally_filmed_in_slowmo_near_an_airport/jazd8hk/
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It cannot be a UFO. Let me explain why:
- We consider UFO to be a breakthrough technology.
- A breakthrough technology should be the product of a superior intelligence.
- Nobody who is a bit intelligent would go or pass by Doncaster.
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Oi, you cheeky sod. Lots of good stuff here in Doncaster, as long as you avoid the absolute dump that is the 'city' center.
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unless they knew they were on camera and wanted to be seen in the interest of disclosing their presence.
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The object is almost definitely moving behind the plane:
It's BIG and it's freaking FAST!
level 2
It appears to go behind the plane because it's simply not being picked up by the camera when the background is dark (the plane)
The reason we see the bug at all is that the sky is bright and there's a contrast there. When it's in front of the plane the camera isn't going to pick up a dark object against a dark background.
So to me it looks like a bug, going bug-speed in front of the camera.
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It’s definitely “not” behind the plane. If you at the reverse image in slow mo, as the object pass in front of the plane a black spot appears under the black dot of the nose cone as it passes the center, then disappears on exit.
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Not what I'm seeing. Right at the center of the overall video, which is what I think you've shown, there's a black dot on the front of the plane as it passes. Not the 3 large ones, the small one between them. That would mean it's in front of the plane. If it were way behind it and a high-velocity craft, it wouldn't be visible and not have covered the front of the plane for a frame. Dragonfly theory seems right.
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I think a lot of people are focusing too much on the plane. Forget about what the object is doing around the plane. The object obviously passes through parts of the clouds before it gets near the plane. And on a day like this, these clouds are high up, and the fact that they look close to the horizon means that they are pretty far away, probably at least 8 or 10 miles, but could even be 30 miles away.
This means that this object cannot be a bug or bird or anything close by. It also means it must be very large. It is nowhere in the vicinity of this plane. And there is no jet or drone that can move this fast when seen from this far away. A missile? Sure, if you think missiles are being fired in this location. It would be inconclusive if it didn't go through the edge of the cloud, but since it did, that means it absolutely has to be high and far away, moving at an incredible speed.
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To me the cloud thing rules out bug. Everybody appears to be missing that. And it's actually super obvious once it's pointed out.
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To address the dragonfly theory: The largest dragonfly in the UK is about 8cm. On the video the object is about 1.5mm on my phone. On a phone camera things that size appear about real size when they're around 10cm away. So to look as small as 1.5mm (50x smaller) we need to be about 5m (50x further) away assuming there's no zoom. The object seems to cover about 50x its length during the video which at full speed takes about 0.3s. So if we say it's 8cm long then it's moving around 4m at 13m/s or 30mph. Speed of a dragonfly happens to be around 30mph. So it could be a dragonfly 5m away flying at top speed. The 4m distance seems short though so there may be an error in the maths, someone feel free to correct me.
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It's clearly behind the plane,the light just flash exactly at the passage of the craft giving the illusion it's the craft but it's not.
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It's absolutely passing behind the plane. Slow-motion and zoom into the wing to our visual left. The object 100% emerges from behind the plane's right wing.
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I'm skeptical of pretty much everything I see here, but this is just nonsense tbh. It doesn't look for one second like it passes in front.
I doubt it's aliens. Maybe it's a military jet. Maybe it's a test missile of some sort, or a drone, or... I dunno. Supersonic weather balloon perhaps. But it sure as fuck ain't a bug, as suggested in one of the replies to your comment.
I'm also highly skeptical about the idea that government agencies post on here to try and sow doubt. But when the doubts stretch credulity more than any of the claims, even I start wondering.
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If you have a good eye, do you think it passed behind the cloud before it hit the plane though? I was trying to tell but im only on my phone rn and its hard to see. I suppose if its negative it could just be color tone matching the cloud and appear to go behind the cloud when its just blending
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Size wouldn't matter. We have insect size drones and we have drones that could carry equipment or people. The size of the object isn't relevant to what it is.
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I don’t know, but what I can see is that it flies behind the plane, not in front…
level 2
It doesn't fly behind the plane, that's just how it appears. The reason is, the bug is small, the only reason we see it is because of the light background.
Dark bug + light background = visible bug
Dark bug + dark background = not visible bug
The camera simply doesn't pick up the tiny insect when its in front of the plane.
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You know how tiring it gets having to say bug or bird constantly in this sub. And before anyone says, "but you're a skeptic, that's what you always say," no, I'm not a UFO skeptic.
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It appears to go behind clouds, so here was a chance for you to take a much-needed break
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As someone who often gets shit on for pointing out bugs and birds I'm not so sure about this one.
The object clearly passes behind the plane, so it seems too large to be a bug.
It could be a large bird, but only if it was gliding throughout the entire shot. There's no obvious wing flapping like you can see in other videos that get posted here.
It could also possibly be a drone.
This one's inconclusive for me.
level 1
Looks like a bug or a bird.
It might appear to go behind the plane, but that's a matter of contrast. Against the white sky we can clearly see it, but when it's in front of the dark plane we can't see it.
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isn’t there a glint on the body of the plane as the object passes in front of it? i’m not sure what it is but also looks to be flying in too straight a line to be a bird? just my 2cents
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Is very similar to this one (also filmed in slow-mo): Video
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There are few videos like this out there, actually. And the common theme - they’re all in slow-mo. If these are all filmed on the same model device (iPhone, for example), maybe what we’re seeing aren’t actually real objects, but artifacts from the video processing.
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Lots of assumptions here but feel free to input real values and measurements. Plane wingspan ~50m, and the screen is what ten planes wide? so ~500m. Video at 1/8th speed (no idea really?) and UAP takes ~4s to move across screen and is behind plane, therefore UAP moves over 500m in half a second -> UAP travels over 1000m/s (3600km/h)
The values are rough estimates and I didn't actually measure any of them.
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Very rough napkin math estimates 5,000 -10,000 mph. Could be significantly higher, as these are (IMO) low end estimates.
Normal jet post-takeoff speed = ~200 mph
Extremely slowed down speed = 20 mph
Slowed down UAP = 500 - 1000 mph
20/200 = 500/x
20x = 200 times 500
20x = 100,000
x = 100,000 / 20
x = 5,000 - 10,000 mph
Edit: Remember, 99.9% of these videos are fake. When I plug in “more realistic numbers,” here’s what happens —
6 mph for slowed down airplane, 175 mph for full speed airplane, 1,200 mph for slowed down UAP = 35,000 mph for full speed UAP.
7 mph for slowed down airplane, 180 for full speed airplane, 1600 mph for slowed down UAP = 41,142 mph for full speed UAP.
7.5 mph for slowed down airplane, 185 for full speed airplane, 3200 mph for slowed down UAP = 78,933 mph for full speed of UAP.
Again, these are super loose estimates so really who the fuck knows, it could’ve been someone with a strong flashlight, or a… “smudge on the lense”, swamp gas, weather balloon… or CGI. All things to consider. Flagrant, if aliens!
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What? If it's a small bug, it would have to be fairly close to the camera, so the distance would be short.
level 2
Who says it even has to be a bug, could literally just be dust directly Infront of the camera. Then it wouldn't need to travel straight for long distances, but maybe just an inch.
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My hypothesis is it’s a bug flying very fast.
Judging for the angle it enters the frame it looks like it comes from behind and the right of the camera.
If you focus on the object it seems to exhibit “bug-like” characteristic (fast - lots of bugs are fast - sudden movement, etc.)
Could also be a bird a little bit further off in the distance. Some small birds are capable of very fast speeds and quick movements. Hummingbird maybe?
Overall, looks like a very small object close to the camera. What do y’all think?
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There are no hummingbirds in Europe, definitely none in Doncaster. Also small birds usually exhibit an undulating flight pattern over open ground consisting of a few wings beats then a glide. I would say more likely a dragonfly or other bug as already mentioned
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It doesn’t exhibit bug like characteristics though. And it disappears behind the plane. It does not look like an up close bug in front of the camera.
level 1
I’ve been doing this long enough to know, This is a flying insect. You’ll get these when standing in tall grass filming things.
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I know if I ever visit an alien planet trillions of miles from home I’m going to fly my tiny ship at 30,000 mph just feet above the ground right in the flight path of incoming jet airliners near airports with powerful radar during broad daylight… (smh)
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For arguments sake. If you were an advanced civilisation, why would you use manned vehicles to explore other planets? Would make more sense with unmanned "drones".
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That's a bug. Passes in front of the plane and is out of focus in the foreground.
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These types of videos can always be explained with either birds or bugs. They are completely useless as evidence for UFOs.
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It wouldn’t have been if we could have concluded it went behind the plane. If behind its a legit video.
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I thought this was interesting because I was just watching the new Oke Shannon interview on Project Unity's youtube channel and they were mentioning videos of objects around aircraft.
Anyways you never know with these videos, sometimes they seem intriguing to me but with tricks of perspective etc its difficult to say anything definitive about any of these kinds of videos, but I still find them interesting, maybe you will too. For whatever it's worth, which is extremely little, when I froze the video and took a screenshot, the thing looked remarkably like a tic tac. Its too blurry to mean anything but that's what it looked like to me. I would guess that if it wasn't tic tac shaped the frame rate and elongation of the blur would look like a tic tac anyway.
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Possibly...I think it depends on how the radar is tuned? Like, it might ignore things travelling at this speed. From what I've heard from air traffic control witnesses, they pick up non-aircraft (ufo) signals frequently. But if they don't stick around long enough to interfere with flights, and there's nowhere to report it, and nothing they can do about it anyway, they just ignore it, from what I've heard.
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What if this is more common than you believe and they’re literally everywhere? Moving so fast we can’t see them? No propulsion engines so no sound?
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That's where I'm at, they're common. And that's what the Ukraine astronomers said, they see them everywhere all the time, essentially.
level 1
It's not a bug, bird, or anything we know of. The object flies behind the plane which means the object is too fast to be anything that we know of. We know it is behind the plane because it does not fly in front of the two lights on the sides of the plane.
Knowing this leaves us with two possible explanations. It is either an edited video or a real UAP.
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It doesn't fly behind the plane, that's just how it appears. The reason is, the bug is small, the only reason we see it is because of the light background.
Dark bug + light background = visible bug
Dark bug + dark background = not visible bug
Edit: I was blocked for this comment? lmao
Edit2: To respond to the comment below, since I'm blocked. It doesn't show up when it flies past the light because it's day, the bug is several hundred feet in front of the plane, and the bug is still only in front of the plane for like 2-3 frames. A plane light isn't going to illuminate a bug at that distance during the day and the resolution isn't even going to pick up the bug in contrast to the plane.
I think it's harmful to be as arrogant and ignorant as the person I'm responding to, refusing to hear arguments, and blocking people. Shitty mentality.
level 1
Guarantee this is dust or pollen or some other wind bound particulate just inch's from the camera
level 1
It definitely looks like a legitimate UFO . It will be very interesting to hear over the next few days if anyone who attended the Australian International Airshow at Avalon in Victoria, managed to also accidentally catch a UFO(UAP) on their mobile phones or cameras. The world's fastest jet will be in attendance.
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It's most likely a drone. It passed in front of the airplane. And is traveling about the right spped for a drone.
Airports actually have a pretty big problem with people flying their drones next to airplanes.
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If it is a bug why does it not seem affected by slowmotion? Do they rly fly that fast?
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Yeah, I think they do. Wing beats of insects range from 30 to 800 beats per second. If we’re filming at 48fps or 60fps, most insects would be moving faster than the frames can pick up.
As far as travel speed, moths and dragonflies go 33 mph and 35 mph. which doesn’t sound fast, but if the speed and size were scaled up to human size, it’s the equivalent of 325 mph.
A dart moth scaled up to a human would go 1353 miles per hour, or nearly double the speed of sound.
So if we were to see a bug fly by up close and personal, it can look blazingly fast.
level 2
A bug can cross the lens of a camera in a second up close. It’s all relative to how close a bug would be to the camera. But this does not look like an up close bug. It disappears behind the plane.
level 1
Very interesting. Appears to go through a cloud on the right just before crossing the plane, but what is really weird is that just as it apparently passes behind the fuselage, a small light illuminates on the plane's belly between the wing roots for the short duration when it isn't in view (0.08 mark).
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You can see that light flickering on the plane in the longer section of the video
level 1
Is it possible to tell if the object goes Infront or behind the aircraft? And do we know which airport? This might allow us to give an upper and lower limit on the distance of the UAP.
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If latter “could” be a bug. If it goes behind the plane it’s no bug or bird. If it’s in front, it depends how far in front. It would be inconclusive. It certainly looks to me like it goes behind.
level 1
Could be an unladen swallow. Anyone know what the airspeed velocity would be for them?
level 1
Kind of looks like a jet fighter. Any RAF bases near by?
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Bugs or birds don't fly in a perfectly straight line, ever.
What ever it is, it's absolutely hauling arse.
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It’s clearly a tethered bug or it’s definitely a rain drop. You “debunkers” are ridiculous.
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Does anybody know the date on this video? If it’s winter, the bug theory becomes much less likely
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I have a similar video, i took a slow motion video of a helicopter and caught 2 objects that appear to be saucer shaped flying past it
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To test any hypothesis on this video, we should answer a couple of material questions - camera type, aperture setting, frame rate, shutter speed, motion blur, distance of the artifact, scale of the video, calibration of the software used to process, and camera angle. (Among potentially many other things.) I think we should keep an open mind in testing these, but it would be improper to draw any conclusions without that base-level data, in my opinion.
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That looks like a bird or large bug flying in front of the plane. You can even see it cross in front of the plane when the filter is on, clear as day.
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If dark bug is visible with light background how come the object gets less visible on the super white cloud than the blue sky?
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I have stabilized the video for you: https://gfycat.com/ForthrightGaseousDegus
It took 106 seconds to process and 46 seconds to upload.
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