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What kind of a freaking bird travels at fighter jet speeds and rotates like that? I'm a photographer who loves watching birds, taking photos, I watch other bir
by bufferoverflow 5y ago
What kind of a freaking bird travels at fighter jet speeds and rotates like that?
I'm a photographer who loves watching birds, taking photos, I watch other bird photographers. It's never anything like that.
- danbruc 5y agoIt isn't. The bird is between the sea and the jet and for all practically purposes stationary. When the camera pod on the jet tracks the bird and keeps it in the center of the field of view, what you are seeing is a parallax motion of the sea in the background due to the motion of the jet. This refers to the second clip in the linked video which also also the focus of the linked analysis.
- bufferoverflow 5y agoYou need to listen to the interview with the pilots who filmed this. They were chasing it, and couldn't catch up.
- robotresearcher 5y agoWhich is what you’d see of a bit of gum stuck to the sensor lens. I’m not saying that’s what this is, I’m pointing out that what the pilots perceive is not to be taken at face value.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoAre you sure it wasn't swamp gas?
- pmarreck 5y agoCompletely discrediting the testimony of multiple pilots is just as ludicrous.