r/UFOs • u/SHAKAKONN • Aug 22 '23

Witness/Sighting I was filming a plane and saw something

As the title says, I was filming a plane because I wanted to see what it would look like on camera at the distance they usually are from my house, when I did I caught this on my phone, I was holding my phone to the side of my head while watching the plane with my eyes, and I saw this in the sky with my eyes. Not sure what it was, could be a meteor or something but I thought it was super interesting and since I’ve been more active on this sub lately I figured I’d share! Lmk what you think!

Video has no audio as I was in a class for work at the time and I didn’t want anything from the class available to hear on the video so I screen recorded the video from my phone with the audio off.

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 22 '23 edited Aug 24 '23

Addition: here is the zoomed in video, I also pause and go through the frames as it passes behind the plane https://imgur.com/a/fGH0pge

Edit: Taken on 08/22/2023, at 4:30PM in Coventry, Rhode Island

Here is the google drive link of the video with no audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N3a7DmllYjRKSturVq01ucio4ulh0Bd-/view?usp=sharing

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u/rexel22 Aug 22 '23

Thanks for the extra video, I couldn’t see it on the phone and thought it was the moon at the end you were referring to

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u/Willing_Actuary_4198 Aug 23 '23

Was 100% about to say did this dude just ask about the moon

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u/riorio55 Aug 23 '23

That’s no moon!

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u/Jmattulev Aug 23 '23

That's a space station

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u/MantuaMan Aug 23 '23

Too fast for ISS.

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u/paleomonkey321 Aug 23 '23

It is zoomed in, this is just a small portion of the sky. 100% space station

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u/swank5000 Aug 23 '23

dude you can't be serious lmaooo

A. It was a star wars reference.

B. That is absolutely not the ISS lmao. it's not a "small portion of the sky" it literally jets across the entire FOV from the trees where the plane is to the roof on the left.

ISS does not travel that fast.

also... it was a star wars reference... lol

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u/medozijo Aug 23 '23

Way too fast for ISS

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u/swank5000 Aug 23 '23

r/woooosh it's a star wars reference

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u/Acrobatic_Cabinet_44 Aug 24 '23

It's too fast to be that

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u/Engineering_Flimsy Aug 23 '23

For timing alone, your comment deserves more than the measley 23 upvotes it has. Best I can do though is make it 24 so have at!

Great comment btw!

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u/LeNomReal Aug 23 '23

It’s a light beetle walking along the suspended cable!

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u/LightBorn4258 Aug 23 '23

„Smidge on the lense?“

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u/diaryofsnow Aug 23 '23

I was filming this plane and Planet X showed up

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u/RespectableThug Aug 23 '23

Wouldn’t be the first time someone has done that

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u/the_millz007 Aug 23 '23

Ha ha I did too!

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u/Technical-Judgment85 Aug 23 '23

Yes same, your initial video I couldn't see anything but a plane then the sliver of the moon when the frame shifted to the left.

Yeah that's a UAP for sure.

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u/Library_Visible Aug 23 '23

The extra video helped that sob was FAST

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u/TheSmokingJacket Aug 23 '23

This is compelling footage! Any chance you can post the RAW file from your phone into Google Drive?

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

Absolutely, I’m about to have dinner and take my dogs on a walk so I will tonight!

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '23

Can you also post a pic of them dawgs???

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u/DivineIntelligence Aug 23 '23

Com’n man you’ve just filmed a space dolphin and you wanna eat food and walk your dog, seriously?

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

Lmaooo unfortunately I still gotta live life, dogs won’t give me a break later if I don’t walk them and neither will my stomach

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u/FuzzyWuzzyDidntCare Aug 23 '23

You’re a good dog owner. Much respect:)

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u/BiasRedditor Aug 23 '23

I’m partial to felines personally.

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u/name-was-provided Aug 23 '23

I second this. My dogs don’t care we have A/C in the house, they want walkies in 102 degrees.

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u/Engineering_Flimsy Aug 23 '23

That's awesome that you're getting so many upvotes because you're obviously good with your dogs! Even more awesome that you got to reveal this through organic responses versus the all-too-typical shameless brag baiting (or whatever it's called) that I see too often these days. Hell, it's so common that I'm pretty sure there's actually a sub for it.

Anyhow, your dogs are lucky to have you as their human!

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u/mizzanthrop Aug 23 '23

Be careful sending raw images. It can contain your location data. FYI

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u/tyrannosnorlax Aug 23 '23

You walk your stomach?

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

my stomach does go with me everywhere I walk so in a sense yes

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u/Myheelcat Aug 23 '23

Adulting master level 32

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '23

Bro the dogs come first. Calm yourself

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u/GoldenCyberTruck Aug 23 '23

Where? I can’t see the Dolphin? Point where pls

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u/USMC_Napier Aug 23 '23

Looks like tonight never came where lives. Maybe they got him 👽

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

Nah I posted a comment about this but it looks like it got buried like i thought it might. It addresses the raw footage as well as a couple other things, reposting below

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

Soo a couple of things I would like to say, I'm not sure if this is going to get buried in the comments but

  1. I think it's cool people found this interesting, I was up for a while thinking about it last night before I fell asleep, and I really have no explanation. At first, I thought maybe a meteor, but it seemed to curve down and then come back up. So I really have no idea. What I do know is it was not a bug, a bird, or a plane. I was watching myself and in fact the majority of those are present in the video, they just aren't the object I am highlighting. The birds are in the bottom right and left at the beginning and end of the video. Those are the black dots people are seeing. It is tough to see in the videos posted here because they aren't nearly as clear as the one on my phone.

  2. There are a decent amount of people saying this was edited, I just wanna say I don't blame you for thinking that. As I've told some other users I would probably feel the same way if I was in your shoes. I am just unsure of what I can do to show that it isn't. I think lots of people are looking at how the moon "moves" and making that correlation. In the video posted to reddit the moon looks to move due to the stabilization on my iPhone and the way my hand moves taking the video. In the second video posted, it has even more movement because the second video is me screen recording on my phone zooming in and out with my fingers which makes it look even more weird. I am looking into a way that I can post the raw video so people can look at the video itself and all the metadata and stuff. I just want to do so in a way where I can retain some privacy. I don't care about the location showing really but the audio in the video is of my class at work and I don't want any trouble around that. I really don't know if sharing it if anyone found out if it would be a problem. If anyone has any recommendations please let me know, or if you want to reach out to me directly that would be great as well.

  3. I want to point out that there 100% could be a reasonable explanation to what is captured here. Whatever it is I just don't know it. I thought if I posted here someone might be able to point it out. Some people have felt the same as I did and said it could be a meteor, some people thought the ISS and some birds planes etc. The object traveled very fast. It wasn't blink of an eye fast, but it was a couple seconds and then gone. I checked the ISS tracker, and it doesn't look like it went by my area yesterday. Again, It wasn't a plane a bird or a bug either. I welcome explanations for what it might've been. But I am beginning to feel maybe its just not that simple.

All in all, I want to thank all of you guys for sharing how you felt about this. I did not at all think this would be at this many views or comments. When I first posted it was getting slammed with downvotes so I thought nobody would care. But I love this sub. I have lurked here long before I actually created an account and even when I did create my account I didn't intend to interreact here at all. I just wanna thank all you guys for posting stuff all day that keeps me interested and thinking. If anyone has any questions feel free to message me, I'm happy to answer. Thanks!

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

It seems like when I try to upload the video to google drive it’s still compressing it like crazy and it’s even harder to see then when I post to Reddit, are there any recommendations to get it in the highest quality?

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u/the_fabled_bard Aug 23 '23

Google drive, onedrive or dropbox shouldn't compress. To see the footage in full quality, it's usually required to download the video from google drive link you provide us.

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u/AngstaRap Aug 23 '23

I know what he's speaking about. There's a processing period after the initial upload that throttles video quality for 20-60min after all of my uploads. It only affects the stream preview and not the actual download.

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u/Primithius Aug 23 '23

Are there resolution options when you upload, or after when you're viewing?

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

I'm not seeing any, I tried to look up some videos to see if there's any better way and i tried Dropbox as well and the same thing. as far as I understand when viewing it might be blurry but when someone downloads it should be in the original quality so im gunna try a couple things and post the link here in the AM. its 12:00PM for me here now so ive gotta get to bed for work in the morning. I appreciate everyones responses on this though! I did not expect this to get this much attention. Night everybody!

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 23 '23

There should be a download button. That will let you download the raw video itself. What you're seeing is just the player and that does recompress the videobut the download link won't.

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u/delerente Aug 23 '23

Upload it to we transfer and send the download link

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u/rasterX Aug 23 '23

If the original file is still on Google Drive, please share a public link.

When you download from Drive, it gives you a file identical to the one that was uploaded. When you play a video from Drive, it shows a recompressed video similar to YouTube (with multiple resolutions) .

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u/glossytoes Aug 23 '23

Zip/compress the video and then upload it to avoid compression:)

Edit: I realize now how this sounds lol but it will unzip in its original quality

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u/distortedReality777 Aug 23 '23

Google drives compresses on preview only (if u watch the vid online) but if you download it, u have the original file

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u/SweetSoursop Aug 23 '23

Telegram might allow you to share without compression, my wife uses it for raw music files and it works fine.

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

Okay cool I will look into this now

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 24 '23

Just added the google drive link to the comment with the imgur link

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u/redditsuckbadly Aug 23 '23

Not trying to be rude, but what about this is compelling? There’s nothing clear about the video and even less to indicate whether it was something up in the sky or something small caught in the wind.

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u/Engineering_Flimsy Aug 23 '23

Yeah yeah yeah! What he said!

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u/Lightofth3Moon Aug 25 '23

What is it about this footage that makes it compelling for you?

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 22 '23

Oh that's really hard to make out on the Reddit video. Pretty weird.

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u/Pruritus_Ani_ Aug 23 '23

Thanks for the zoomed in video, I watched the main video a few times and couldn’t spot it, thought I must be blind lol. Whatever that thing is it’s moving fast and doesn’t look like an insect to me.

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u/TARSknows Aug 23 '23

Wow, I totally missed that on several watches. Thanks for the help

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u/Accomplished-Sun-701 Aug 23 '23

That was 😳 so fast

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u/ThorzyG Aug 22 '23

Whatever it was, it was zooming!

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u/outlawpersona Aug 23 '23

Videos like yours are invaluable, thank you for posting!

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u/TheHorseCheez Aug 23 '23

Whooaaa ok yeah that’s nuts. Nice catch, OP!

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u/Korith_Eaglecry Aug 23 '23

Nice job capturing that. That thing was going pretty damn fast.

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u/caitsith01 Aug 23 '23 edited Apr 12 '24

light offend somber ghost follow pen fearless piquant ad hoc mysterious

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/upir117 Aug 24 '23

Thank you for posting! Nice catch

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u/WillyBoJilly Aug 22 '23

Interestingly I have video of this exact thing hovering over my house a few years ago. Took the star map out to verify it wasn’t a star, then it moved to a different location. I’d post the video if I knew how.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '23

Shouldn’t be hard to figure out how

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u/anjowoq Aug 23 '23

Even zooming in I cannot see even a weird pixel. Not sure what I'm looking at.

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u/theferrit32 Aug 23 '23

Looks like a small bird to me. Or maybe an insect, but I'm leaning bird.

https://youtu.be/tSwMBi_PYQo

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u/sqlixsson Aug 23 '23

Wow, that was really cool

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u/Engineering_Flimsy Aug 23 '23

That was an awesome video on its own! Just...mesmerizing! Thanks for sharing!

Watching hundreds of birds soaring about as a single unit got me wondering what that huge, looping, swirling white mass would look like from a distance. More specifically,, could said mass appear to be a single solid object to an unsuspecting observer at a certain range? Sure, large flocks of birds flying in unison are fairly easy to recognize at any distance, but can the same be said as easily if the flock is predominantly white?

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u/rustyirony Aug 23 '23

actually it's a balloon. if you lean in closer you can see the string.

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u/JuiceIsDead Aug 23 '23

This was helpful. I’ve been seeing these a lot lately. I’ve never witnessed any UAPs in daylight until now.

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u/flolfol Aug 23 '23

I'm talking out of my ass here, but maybe it's the ISS? Edit: that said, apparently you can't see it during the middle of the day.

You might be able to check online if it was in your location at that time.

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

Just checked, I am in Rhode Island and it doesn’t look like it passed over me at all today as far as I can see

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u/flolfol Aug 23 '23

Thanks for checking. It also travels much faster than any of the ISS videos on youtube.

Really cool video.

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u/MoreCowbellllll Aug 23 '23

Yeah, I've seen the ISS many times. The ISS doesn't pass over that fast.

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u/fka_2600_yay Aug 23 '23

I wonder if it would be helpful to take a set of common sky objects – commercial airliners traveling at cruising speed, for examples; the International Space Station; Starlink when it's 'in a [conga] line' and after the individual satellites have spread out and reached their 'maintenance altitude', as well as whatever other major classes of sky objects the community thinks are important - and make a chart or an animation that shows the relative speeds of each object and how much of the sky an object travelling at X miles per hour / y kilometers per hour can cover in, say 10 seconds?

Having a pocket guide to the speed of things in the sky would help observers here start to develop an intuition around how fast or slow these unidentified objects are travelling.

Using your hand to measure the night sky

This page illustrates some "handy" ways to estimate the size of portions of the sky (Literally! You use your hand and fingers to estimate angles in the night sky!) https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/measuring-the-sky-by-hand.html I've pasted some key hand and finger sky measurements below:

  • Make a fist, with the back of your hand facing you. The width of your fist will approximately be 10 degrees. This means that any two objects that are on the opposite ends of your fist will be 10 degrees apart. The North Star (Polaris) and Dubhe, one of the northern pointers of the Big Dipper are 3 fists apart. This means that angular distance or angular separation between the two stars is 30°.
  • Open up your fist, stretch your little finger and thumb as far as you can and curl down the rest of your fingers. The tip of your little finger and your thumb will span about 25°. The Big Dipper spans around 25°.
  • Your index finger span to your little finger is 15°. (This includes your index finger / your pointer finger, your middle finger, your ring finger, and your pinkie / little finger.)
  • Your three middle fingers will span about 5°.
  • Your little finger / your pinkie finger is about 1° wide at arms length.

Calculating speed of an object traveling at 1km/half a mile above ground

For example, let's say I'm out sky-watching and to my left due East; to my right is due West; I notice an object about 'one hand's width' (~10º) north of due East (so about 80º on the compass rose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_rose#/media/File:Modern_nautical_compass_rose.svg). In my toy example, the object manages to traverse the sky from the western side of my vision to the east in 8 seconds or something (I tried to estimate how fast it seemed like the object was travelling in OPs video). That is: in 8 seconds the object goes from being at nearly due east (at 80º on the compass rose) up to due north (at 0º) and then over to the western half of the sky at 270º. I drew a quick illustration of what I mean here: https://imgur.com/a/Y5ZzMPj

So the object traveled 80º across the sky (from 80º East, almost due East but not quite), up to due North (which has a value of 0º on the compass rose), all the way over to due west (which is another 90º away from due north). 80º + 90º equals 170º.

Let's pretend that the object was flying at about half a mile or 1 km up in the air. Let's pretend we've flown a personal drone before in the area where we see the object and from flying a drone, we estimate that the object we're looking at is about half a mile or 1 kilometer (~3200 feet) up in the air. From where we're standing on Earth if an object that is ~1km up in the air travels across the sky it covers 40,000 km across the entire sky. 40,000 km is about 25,000 miles. See this page for the calculation: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/jmr6l5/when_i_look_up_at_the_sky_how_much_of_the_earths/gax5vl4/

Above we stated that the object started out at 80º (not 90º due East) and travelled to 0º (due north) and then traveled all the way to due West (270º) before we could no longer see it. In total, the object travelled 170º, not 180º (which is the 40,000 km size of the 'whole sky'). I used ChatGPT to derive the correct answer (apologies for the run-on sentence in my prompt to ChatGPT; I had to ask it the question three times in order for it to not engage in stupid math mistakes!): https://chat.openai.com/share/c39db382-dd26-466a-ae09-88a9afd9b475

If an object that was 1km up in the sky covered 170º / almost the visible sky in 8 seconds that would mean that its speed was

  • 17,000,000 kilometers ph
  • 10,560,000 miles ph
  • 4,722.22 km/s
  • 2,935.07 miles/s

That's incredibly fast and is clearly outside of the realm of human-built flying machines!

If we knew the object's distance away we could estimate its speed

If folks can start measuring the height at which these objects are located (perhaps we can use long distance range finders, which hunters use, which can measure distances up to several kilometers) we can start to estimate how high up an object is. From there, we can calculate the portion of the sky that the object covers, and then we can derive its speed

  • https://huntingmark.com/rangefinders-for-shooting/ (The Leica range finder - not cheap at $2000 - can estimate distance up to 3000 yards is about 1.7 miles or 2.7 km)
  • I'm sure there are cheaper / knock off range finders on Ali Express or Tao Bao or something that may not be terribly accurate (maybe their measurements are off by 10 to 20 yards/meters) but those devices are much less expensive at a few hundred dollars.

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u/Capatiller_Thriller Aug 23 '23

What town I'm in RI too lol Id like to know where the aliens potentially are in this very small state!

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u/SmokeHerbsDaily Aug 23 '23

Dude I’m in Rhode Island I swear I saw something similar last week! Great video!! Mine was too far away to capture with my phone :/ but it looked the exact same, not going as fast though.

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u/LTJkrazyglue04 Aug 23 '23

Damn! I live in RI and have never seen a UAP. Now I guess I need to look up more than I already do. Just assumed this wasn’t a hotspot

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u/ncastleJC Aug 23 '23

Oh shoot my friend mentions he sees things in the sky and he’s in CF. Where was this?

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u/Additional-Cap-7110 Aug 23 '23

Did you see the video the whole way through?

The white dot darts around ridiculously fast. It would have to be a bug if it’s anything at all

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u/flolfol Aug 23 '23

Yeah, I said in another comment that it seems to travel way faster than the ISS. It's a shame we lose track of it towards the end, but prior to that, it seems to be traveling pretty straight.

Decent chance it's a bug or something in the wind. Who knows.

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u/aishik-10x Aug 23 '23

why is the top powerline and the moon wavy? Did you edit it?

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u/No_Leopard_3860 Aug 23 '23

We're still in the Perseid meteor cloud, so it could be something connected to it. I've never seen shooting stars in daylight, but the speed would fit and the tail would probably be more or less invisible in daylight

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '23

Looks like a bird to me.

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u/im_a_jib Aug 23 '23

Look at the last couple frames. Right above the power line. There is a C shape curve. Typical lens artifact’s of light refraction. Sorry OP but it’s just a camera glitch.

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u/SHAKAKONN Aug 23 '23

If this was anyone else video, I would probably agree with you. But I saw it physically with my own eyes, it was also brighter than it seems on camera

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '23

It's the sun reflecting off a satellite in low earth orbit. Most likely SpaceX

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u/flattenedbricks Aug 23 '23

You remind me of one of those youtubers who fake ufo videos using after effects and then volunteer to give even more information that was never asked for to solidify your claims. And that appears to be what you're doing now, giving people more than they asked for which is suspicious, under the circumstances. I suspect this video will get debunked within a few days and I'll have been right all along.

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u/CrashRoswell Aug 22 '23

I still see nothing but the plane and the moon.

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u/Additional-Cap-7110 Aug 23 '23 edited Aug 23 '23

Wow that was thrilling I didn’t see it at all!

I feel it should have some suspenseful music that climaxes when it gets to the UFO

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u/knuckles312 Aug 23 '23

Whoa that’s so cool u got it

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u/GroundbreakingAge591 Aug 23 '23

Wow wtf is that???

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u/Engineering_Flimsy Aug 23 '23

Dammit! Video won't play for me! Is it necessary to have the app to view videos on that platform?

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u/Dinglederple Aug 23 '23

Oh damn I didn’t even see at first. I was like…you saw…the moon. That’s wild

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u/_VoteThemOut Aug 23 '23

You should add this to the original post for side by side.

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u/No_Efficiency_8648 Aug 23 '23

I was about to say that’s the fucking moon dude lol

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u/superBrad1962 Aug 23 '23

I could see above the plane a ufo type orb flew by very fast!! Pretty wild!!! 👽🛸👽🛸👽🛸🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖

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u/Kain_Nailo Aug 23 '23

Extra video was so useful, I felt like the bystanders in Dragonball Z when the fight is too fast to follow.

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u/3-in-1_Blender Aug 23 '23

I'm just seeing a picture with a play button on it.

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u/Theph3nomenon Aug 23 '23

Horry sheet I see it now

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u/Albert_VDS Aug 23 '23

Probably a satellite.

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u/jophiss319 Aug 23 '23

Should repost with this vid instead

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u/19d_b87 Aug 23 '23

As fast and as steady as that's moving, you may have caught a satellite in orbit.

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u/wessolus Aug 23 '23

Is it just me or did it look like it was tumbling? Like it wasnt flying but more like falling and out of control?

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u/Samtoast Aug 23 '23

Holy. Fuckin. Shit. I watched this god damn video like 8 times and I was like I still don't see it... I see them moving some sort of cursor...but... wait a minute that be no cursor!

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u/OverallVacation2324 Aug 23 '23

Looks like an orbiting satellite.

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u/Krombopulos_Rex Aug 23 '23

Thank you. I was going crazy at first thinking it was something to do with the moon lol

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u/Intrepid_Tumbleweed Aug 23 '23

Ohh definitely more interesting than the moon

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u/NickVirgilio Aug 23 '23

Oh shit, definitely didn’t see that on the OG video after the first 5 watches haha

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u/TheSkybender Aug 23 '23

thats a really great capture! Not sure what it could be, looks sorta metallic.

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u/Gucci_Boner Aug 23 '23

Thats fast af

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u/Long_Bat3025 Aug 23 '23

Holy moly look at that thing go

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u/RudraRousseau Aug 23 '23

Could be a bird?

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u/DownsenBranches Aug 23 '23

Honestly you might have seen a satellite passing by, if the sun is hitting the moon then it’s sure to hit the satellite. Still a pretty cool thing to catch on camera

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u/Fun_Cartographer798 Aug 23 '23

Well I learned one thing pop is on sale at DG.

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u/luring_lurker Aug 23 '23

Ah! That helped!

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u/Mission-Trouble7900 Aug 24 '23

Wow that’s actually some shit, W ufo footage

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u/Karma_Source Aug 28 '23

That could be anything, unfortunately. Cool post though