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DoD video captures high-speed flight of an unidentified aircraft at low altitude

• QueensGambit 7y ago
  "There are no obvious wings or tails or exhaust plume from the object." How does this move so fast then?
  • wahern 7y ago
    If your sensors are telling you something that should be impossible, do you normally assume you're seeing the impossible or that your sensors are wrong? The key here is that the movement of the ocean in the background makes it seem like that object must be moving extremely fast, regardless of whether the sensors are correct or not. But what nobody ever explains in the context of those videos is that the aircraft is banking and the camera automatically panning to stay on the target. The apparent motion of the object is better explained by parallax. Neither the aircraft nor the UFO are going very fast, it's just that the orientation of the camera is changing in a way that causes the background to shift rapidly. For a more in-depth analysis see https://www.metabunk.org/go-fast-footage-from-tom-delonges-to-the-stars-academy-bird-balloon.t9569/ https://www.metabunk.org/go-fast-footage-from-tom-delonges-t... And here's a great, simple illustration of the effect (via the previous link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdIEY1Ska_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdIEY1Ska_U