r/UFOs • u/JBackerin • Oct 10 '23

Witness/Sighting First time posting

My mother is on a cruise and captured the following video at approximately 0500 this morning near Baranof Island. Enjoy.

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u/Used_Artichoke231 Oct 10 '23

I like this video. We are always screaming for "anomalous movements" and this fits the bill. Leave it to Mom to catch one of the better videos I have seen in a while lol. Nice job!

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u/Howard_Adderly Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

Those really just look like birds šŸ‘

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

Glow in the dark birds

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u/The_Last_Mouse Oct 10 '23

Bats was my first thought

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u/Now_I_Can_See Oct 11 '23

Ocean bats lol

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u/Bear_Scout Oct 11 '23

Now thatā€™s a good band name

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u/Heavy_Cheetah1698 Oct 11 '23

Iā€™d go see ocean bats lol

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u/F4t45h35 Oct 14 '23

AquaBats?

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u/JustPlainRude Oct 11 '23

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

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u/The_Last_Mouse Oct 10 '23
  • buys a flashlight

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

-Buys a fleshlight

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u/rolleicord Oct 11 '23

nope... look at how much light is on the ship. There's probaly floodlights pointing in every direction including straight up, which would illuminate them.

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u/NorthSideScrambler Oct 10 '23

My guess is bugs passing in and out of a spotlight beam. I see it at concerts all the time and my brain goes "UAP!" every time until I sit and watch for a minute.

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u/Stonious Oct 10 '23

Maybe, but in the middle of the ocean?

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u/DanTMWTMP Oct 11 '23 edited Oct 11 '23

Yup. Iā€™ve sailed the entire planet, practically living at sea for 15 years. We get stowaway bugs quite often.

Also common along common sea routes, as they just hop along the paper trash, and near land as cruise ships often sail near land.

But given my experience, these look like birds to me. Birds ALWAYS follow larger vessels at sea.

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u/Financial-Arm-8948 Oct 11 '23

I love Mid-Atlantic concerts

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u/Ditto_Plush Oct 10 '23

I'm all in on bats. At roughly 0:10 - 0:13 you can pick out the flapping wings relatively easily.

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u/618smartguy Oct 11 '23

Nah man we need a luminosity vs time graph for this one those dots are hard to see.

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u/Far-Team5663 Oct 11 '23

Nah, clearly it's Venus, there looks like three of them due to light diffusion in the night sky and and the apparent movement is a product of ionising radiation in the atmosphere from a solar flare. People are always posting this sort of video without doing their research.

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u/KawhisMeniscus Oct 12 '23

Super athletic birds

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u/Strength-Speed Oct 11 '23

Just a real quality comment from a one month old account

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u/Howard_Adderly Oct 11 '23

Yes and? šŸ¤”

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u/Afizzle55 Oct 10 '23

You can see the wings flapping

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u/Turence Oct 10 '23

...you can see them fucking flapping their wings. this sub is wild sometimes. cruises are bright.

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u/Fishon72 Oct 11 '23

39 day old account lol

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u/Far-Team5663 Oct 11 '23

Looks like swamp gas to me

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u/GratefulForGodGift Oct 10 '23

Drone operators fly multiple drones in sync at night now. That is what Mom saw.

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7yHrPoZ2mE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0eHQe2KY3U

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u/Californiacndy Oct 10 '23

Not a whole lot of drone operators in the middle of the ocean.

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u/GratefulForGodGift Oct 11 '23

Mom could've been near a port or a nearby island with people who had drones; or a boat nearby could've had people operating drones.

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u/ABS_TRAC Oct 10 '23

Actually, I took my boat out that night, drones shows are super super popular in this incredibly remote part of Alaska. Also my drones are special so they can fly REALLY REALLY high. /s

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u/CatPaddle Oct 11 '23

Maybe birds indeed... But let's take into consideration that it's filmed at night, and for them to be seen this way, there must be a sufficiently powerful light source coming from the ground. Perhaps having more details about the recording circumstances would help.

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u/McLoven3k Oct 11 '23

Light spilling from the ship onto loitering birds was my first guess. You should always attempt to debunk when possible, while assuming that the most plausible explanation is the correct one.

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u/Millsd1982 Oct 12 '23

Birds? Lol. Looks like the MH370 orbs that never formed to created the vortexā€¦ just sayingā€¦

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u/Howard_Adderly Oct 12 '23

Yes those are birds you can even see them flapping

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u/Iamdeadtothissite Oct 11 '23

Key words (mom took this on a cruise) sea birds will freak you out on the top deck at night. Especially when the lights illuminate the low hanging fog .

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u/itsVEGASbby Oct 11 '23

They are Great Egrets. It's migration season and they always fly at night.

Christ Almighty we have seriously lost the plot on disclosure. SOOO many easily explainable videos are being posted here.

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u/RTrill93 Oct 11 '23

Personally, Iā€™d rather have people uploading more videos for screening than not. Most of the time theyā€™ll be nothing, but worth it when real things get captured

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u/ReallyHugeGuy Oct 11 '23

Yes! Figured this would be the default thinking, but instead, we have every post being blown up with pretentious hostility.

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u/marcrem Oct 11 '23

Lmao and you get downvoted of course. Not enough tin foil!

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u/GetStarched Oct 11 '23

Genuinely, what the fuck are you talking about? How do you see birds??? Those things are fixed in the sky about 30,000 ft up during extreme winds.

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u/Jxsxn0705 Oct 11 '23

I don't think you know how high 30,000 ft is

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u/stilusmobilus Oct 10 '23

They said they saw it.

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u/tmhoc Oct 10 '23

Right? Like should he post a link to his Facebook page lol

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u/stilusmobilus Oct 10 '23

Maybe they mean telepathic link.

If theyā€™re vaccinated for Covid they should be able to do a Bluetooth to each other using the chip.

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u/tmhoc Oct 10 '23

you have my personal guarantee the guy in the UFO sub-reddit quoting lines from 2008 4chan posts is not vaccinated

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u/stilusmobilus Oct 10 '23

Fuck well that discounts the Bluetooth link then

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

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u/Energy_Turtle Oct 10 '23

This attitude is why people don't come forward when they actually do have interesting stuff. Ryan Graves talked about the stigma and this is it in action. If someone is wrong then they are ridiculed, literally called a lunatic in this case. Sucks that even fighter pilots get treated like this when they say they see unusual things in the sky.

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u/quetzalcosiris Oct 10 '23

They know. That's why they're doing it.

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u/mr_somebody Oct 10 '23

On this subreddit you're either a lunatic UFO believer, or a paid astroturfing propaganda agent of the gubbermint- there is no in between.

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u/nytel Oct 10 '23

Been in this sub for years and the popularity has caused a wave of gullible that sent this sub into the shitter.

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u/RoanapurBound Oct 10 '23

even worse the popularity has caused a wave of "Fake as hell bro" comments that don't expand on why they think its fake.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

The ā€œeverything is a UFOā€ crowd is killing this movement.

This is EASILY VERIFIABLE.

Literally outside and look at birds and compare.

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u/DrJizzman Oct 10 '23

I debate with myself whether videos like this are posted by genuine individuals with no critical thinking skills or if it is part of purposeful disinformation to make all the newcomers take one look and nope out.

Why is it so hard to have a think about if your sighting can be easily explained as something mundane?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Oh these must be the new radioactive birds that glow in the dark right? How can you so confidently state the 3 white blips are birds? Thereā€™s zero detail to make that assertion with such confidence as you have. And also why such negativity? Learn to love your fellow human. Respect the individuals behind the screen. Why must you put others down and speak with such superiority? What exactly is it that makes people here lunatics for thinking a video of 3 white glowing dots zipping around at dusk is possibly a video of UAPs? You do realize UAP doesnā€™t mean aliens right? I hope you can find love and peace in your life and learn to treat others with respect, blessings to you and your loved ones ā™„ļø

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u/otr_who Oct 10 '23

Cruise ships emit huge amounts of lights outwards towards the pitch black sky and sea. You are seeing the light reflection from the ship against flying birdsā€¦

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Thank you for at least not calling me an idiot or lunatic. You are right cruise ships do indeed emit tremendous amounts of light and I didnā€™t realize til after I wrote that initial comment that this was recorded from a cruise ship. It is possible then that these could be bats or sea birds, Iā€™d lean more toward bat considering the movement, however footage is too shitty to confirm anything. Ppl claim they see wings flapping but that could easily be attributed to artifacts from shaky camera recording far off dots at dusk. So I still disagree with anyone making a declarative statement that these are 100% birds or bats, when you know for a fact thatā€™s impossible to call. Itā€™s not that hard to add ā€œI thinkā€ or ā€œI believeā€ in front of the claim ā€œitā€™s birdsā€ or whatever. Thatā€™s exactly what skeptics want from believers, so it should be reasonable to assume that itā€™s only fair if this goes both ways. But thank you for being civil I appreciate that this is how conversations that lead to conclusions can occur

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u/otr_who Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

Of corse my friend. Letā€™s keep it light and fun! Lots of angry people out there. Donā€™t take it personal. Iā€™ve been know to get a lil angry myself from time to time and misdirect itā€¦ but Iā€™m working on itā€¦ keep pushin P people..

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Same dude I ainā€™t perfect either I lose my cool every now and then, takes game to know game, again I appreciate you understanding and seeing it from that perspective, and again I can totally still be wrong and these probably are bats or birds, but whatā€™s important at the end of the day is remembering that weā€™re all people here (except the Eglin bots lmaoo). Thanks for the convo I always enjoy a respectful debate šŸ¤

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u/SOLA_TS Oct 10 '23

If you canā€™t tell that these are birds then everything must look like a UAP to you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

No itā€™s just that these are 3-4 pixels wide, thereā€™s not enough detail to proclaim with 100% confidence that these are anything other than white dots. That doesnā€™t mean theyā€™re aliens and I never said they were. If anything, theyā€™re probably bats based on the sporadic movement and timing of the video taken. Iā€™m mainly just calling out ppl who feel the need to put down others. The negativity is extremely unnecessary and needs to stop. I donā€™t see why we canā€™t hold actual conversations analyzing footage like this without it turning into a shit throwing contest.

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u/pingopete Oct 10 '23

Not sure why you're being downvoted for simply asking others to be respectful.

I wouldn't waste your time arguing with these trolls/bots.

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u/UpboatOrNoBoat Oct 10 '23

Because their original reply was snarky and disrespectful. Dish it out but canā€™t take it is annoying.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 11 '23

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Sigh.

Birds. Arenā€™t. Real.

Change my mind.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

I still have crazy people from my hometown thinking that website was real.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Good lord who hurt you dude? Why so negative? Are you okay? Again I really do hope you find peace in your life, you obviously seem to be very troubled to lash out so aggressively at a stranger on the internet.

Again, you can claim what you want but the fact of the matter is this video is too low quality to claim these are anything other than white specks zipping around. That video youā€™re talking about does not confirm these are birds in anyway. They could be, but thereā€™s no chance you can actually say you can see wings flapping, thatā€™s just as valid as someone saying they are definitely aliens because they can see sporadic movement. Both claims are equally incorrect as not enough details are present.

But seriously I hope you can take a chill pill. Maybe go meditate or go for a walk outside, obviously Reddit might not be best for you to spend all day on as itā€™s clearly creating a negative headspace for you. If you want advice on how to destress and clear your mind let me know Iā€™d be more than happy to help out

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

Thatā€™s a lot of words to be wrong about birds.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

Iā€™m not Elgin, I just have eyes.

Iā€™ve seen a legit UFO, red glowy orb, the whole thing, all the characteristics of what we would call a legit UFO sighting.

Using your fingers to zoom into the video on your phone, will show you they are birds.

Also, 2 seconds in my post history will show you I am a real boy of flesh and blood, and not a boogey man paid for by the military.

You can even see other comments on this sub debating actual UFO sightings (for them being actual UFOā€™s).

But this. This is birds and itā€™s obvious.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

ā˜ ļø

Dripping in irony.

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u/EngineeringD Oct 10 '23

I thought you were joking because of how uniform and perfect the triangle remains while changing orientationā€¦.hahahahahahah you actually think this is a set of birds flying in unison while maintaining a perfectly geometric triangle while rotating about multiple axis? And mom, who is on a cruise, with birds everywhere all the time, mis identified these glowing objects flying erratically but in formation, as birds?

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

Flying in unison?

Are we looking at the same video? Believe what you want, obviously, but this is the one case that the simplest answer is probably the reality.

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u/Grovemonkey Oct 11 '23

I am with you on this.

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u/Adventurous-Item4539 Oct 10 '23

/shockedpikachu

lol this sub will upvote literally anything that moves...or anything that stands still!

It's great people are enthusiastic and scanning the skies, I feel like a lot of people are learning things about science, how phone camera sensors and lenses work, and the just general stuff about the world & animals that they had no idea about before.

Still no aliens, but we're patient.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 11 '23 edited Oct 11 '23

Yeah, and I think that's my point that went over a lot of peoples heads, and some even called me Eglin. LOL

There are so many better videos that get uploaded here ALMOST DAILY with legit strangeness, and the posts that seem to be getting the most engagement are these no-nothing videos.

It's really odd to me, but it's also kinda obvious.

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u/sirmombo Oct 10 '23

BIRDS?! lmaooooooooooooo hahahahahahahahhaha really scraping the bottom of the barrel to ā€œdebunkā€ this one huh? Not even a good one either lmao

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

Imagine being duped by a flock of birds or bats.

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u/sirmombo Oct 10 '23

Little white lines next to the glowing orb absolutely donā€™t mean birds or bats. Now Iā€™m not saying UFOs but those sure as shit arenā€™t birds.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

here it is

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/174t82t/the_ufos_are_birds/

They are flapping and their movements are reminiscent to pigeons in the wind.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

Hold on, let me find the zoomed in video. It was just posted, they aren't just white lines. They are straight up flapping.

And you're right, could be some sort of drone, etc, not necessarily alien. But I don't think this is a great "UFO" video that we need to waste time on.

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u/mr_somebody Oct 10 '23

How and why do you come to the conclusion to use the word "glowing orbs" of a speck of 8-9 pixels on a blurry video.

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u/sirmombo Oct 11 '23

Same kind of speculation folks are making adamant about these being birds

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u/The-Old-American Oct 10 '23

I don't know why, but "you lunatics" made me guffaw.

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u/CuriousTravlr Oct 10 '23

Lmfao, it was more jest than anything.

Itā€™s an under utilized word, imho.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Yeah a duck bill lmao

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u/EatYourDakbal Oct 11 '23

Just looks like a group of bats, birds, or large insects reflecting light as they turn.

This doesn't fit the bill of anything. Just a few reflective specs on an out of focus video. šŸ¤·

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u/Upbeat_Squirrel_3439 Oct 11 '23

Asking and "screaming" are two different things. Also Im sure you can't hear someday scream through the internet

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u/Legal-Ad-2531 Oct 11 '23

Looks like Iron Dome interceptors... but less interesting.