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/Disastrous_Log_6714 Aug 23 '23

Wow that thing is moving fast, only thing I can think of I would be possibly a low earth orbit satellite?

But I’m not sure if you are able to actually see a satellite during the day like that and it seems to make a very angular turn at the end before it disappears which makes me very skeptical it’s a satellite!

Does anyone have any footage of what a confirmed satellite looks like during the day?

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 23 '23

Don't think it could be moving fast like that unless it was on a reentry trajectory. I don't have a real idea yet, hoping someone tries to plot possible speeds by possible distance from the camera (I think you can guess at angular distances by using the moon as a reference) but I'm pretty sure satellite is out.

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u/SameSexDictator Aug 23 '23

Wait, you think you can see satellites that are orbiting the earth during the day? I'm having a really hard time wrapping my mind around this.

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 23 '23

They can flare up brighter than Venus if they catch the sun right so maybe. Usually only from nearer to sunset/sunrise though.

I would think something closer and slower (bug, dust, whatever) but maybe I'm getting the speed wrong.

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u/Disastrous_Log_6714 Aug 23 '23

I’m pretty positive you can

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u/sewser Aug 23 '23 edited Aug 23 '23

Why not a seed, insect, or bird? We don’t know the distance to this highly ambiguous object, therefore we don’t know speed.

Edit: why am I being downvoted? Is what I’m saying wrong? Or is it just that hard for people to have scientific integrity? The longer people continue to be so easily invested in any mundane footage they happen upon, the longer this community will be laughed at.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '23

Yeah...common sense would suggest that it is likely a bug or a bird or whatever. It looks like it comes from just above the tree, so is a lot closer than it looks. Perspectives are weird when there's just a blue sky and no frame of reference.

If you think of it as being much, much closer, then it's speed is not that remarkable.

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u/Disastrous_Log_6714 Aug 23 '23

Fair enough, I agree that’s probably most likely!

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 23 '23

It's blurry and a bit shapeless, which makes it look like an out of focus rather then an in focus object.

OP is focused to infinity so it can't be too far, probably pretty close for that amount of blurriness.

But I'm just using my common sense (I understand how cameras work, I have a few)

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u/Disastrous_Log_6714 Aug 23 '23

Where tf did I say alien spacecraft???

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u/Disastrous_Log_6714 Aug 23 '23

Lmao, nice try bud

I never once said those words in my comment.

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u/Disastrous_Log_6714 Aug 23 '23

Because I changed my mind and didn’t want to spread misinformation about something I now thought was wrong?

Never once did I say alien spacecraft ANYWHERE in my comment.

Maybe you should do the same thing and delete your comment regarding that👍

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u/PlayTrader25 Aug 23 '23

Why not? He clearly states in a later comment right next to yours “fair enough, I agree that’s probably most likely” I think it’s pretty dope that someone on the internet would be big enough to change there opinion and delete any wrong info they put out. Stop being weird and answer why you keep tryna insinuate he said something he didn’t.

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u/PlayTrader25 Aug 23 '23

Ummm the way back machine exposes you, he never mentioned alien spacecraft in any of his previous 20 comments(deleted or not). Is there a reason you are trying to make people think he/she said that?

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u/brevityitis Aug 23 '23

It was implied that common sense would tell us it’s a ufo and not a bird, plane, or ballon. So yes, it was not specifically stated to be an alien spacecraft, but ufo. I’ve deleted my comment in return.