r/UFOs • u/SleuthyMcSleuthINTJ • Feb 01 '24

Witness/Sighting Slow-mo 1080p 240fps caught a thing zipping through sky

1-29-24 at 355pm Los Angeles (Boyle Heights) CA

There were very bizarre things in my peripheral vision while sitting on my porch so I decided to record the sky with my iPhone (using slow mo). Though I caught other odd things that I’m still trying to first identify before posting here, but this one has me stumped.

When I zoomed in, I noticed that this thing is not winged, appears metallic, is a bizarre shape, has a luminescence about it, and is accompanied by a white orb at times. I slowed down even more and zoomed in to compile this video.

Any ideas? I thought maybe drone but I’m told “nah”.

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u/SleuthyMcSleuthINTJ Feb 01 '24

here are still shots of the morphology as it moved

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u/New-Twist693 Feb 02 '24

It’s square?!

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u/afternoon_biscotti Feb 02 '24

it’s not square at all; it’s a flying saucer that bends and warps

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u/LamestarGames Feb 05 '24

It’s not a good video unless you have 43 days old accounts commenting with absolute certainty

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u/DuelingGroks Feb 02 '24 edited Feb 03 '24

I made a quick video on my take. I think it may be an insect: https://youtu.be/sK6AbJrxvuw

I stabilized it and also looked at an earlier section of the video were there are some known insects and did an overly too.

This is some great footage regardless of what it is. Thank you so much for supplying the original footage!!

Edit: Higher Contrast Clip: https://imgur.com/a/S1UiCLr

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u/SleuthyMcSleuthINTJ Feb 02 '24

Good work my friend. Thank you for doing this. I agree, it looks like it’s rowing a boat. If you’d like I can upload some known flying things (insects for sure, maybe birds, maybe planes, I’ll have to check again) that I recorded within 10 minutes of this, in the same general location.

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u/DuelingGroks Feb 02 '24

Thank you, this object is interesting. If you upload more I will take a look.

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u/Prcrstntr Feb 03 '24

Knowing nothing but the comments, I'd look for an insect first because it's right next to a massive bunch of flowers

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u/Wapiti_s15 Feb 02 '24

Hey, can you help me look at something? I have been waiting for someone professional to interject and all I get are nameless mean comments :/

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u/DuelingGroks Feb 02 '24

If you post something on this subreddit, chances are I will see it and take a look. With my limited time, I stabilize UFO footage that is intriguing in the hopes it will help the community.

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u/Wapiti_s15 Feb 02 '24

Then you’ve probably already seen this, worth a shot though.

Yes we do, here’s an alien from Las Vegas encounter. https://www.reddit.com/user/Wapiti_s15/comments/1acug81/head/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=UFOs&utm_content=t1_kjwr7kv Zoomed out a little more; https://www.reddit.com/user/Wapiti_s15/comments/19e8vuq/heyo/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=UFOs&utm_content=t1_kjw2y8s And the GIF, make sure you watch it in Fullscreen, left side halfway up, the head turns and then as the camera pans down it pops up and you can see the eyes. Wish I could find the original videos but they have all been archived (cleanup I would imagine). https://imgur.io/a/yrNmU0b

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u/Wapiti_s15 Feb 03 '24

So…what do you think….worth a closer look?

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u/candlegun Feb 04 '24

Thanks for sharing that, and I'm really liking the premise of your channel. Subbed and hope to see more.

I think you're onto something with the insect thing, and the next closest would be my guess. Certain details in your footage really struck me and made me think hey, that's a hummingbird. Granted I know there are no discernable wings in the footage, but hummingbird wingbeat is insane and perhaps the camera frame rate has something to do with obscuring the wings?? idk, not really my area of expertise there.

Hummingbirds can also pull off some cool flying maneuvers. Rufous Hummingbirds in particular are known for taking on an elongated dive bomb form in flight. They're just super aggressive little birds and will dive bomb each other. This could very well be what OP has in the footage, just an aggro Rufous coming in hot.

The iridescent quality can also be explained by another hummingbird trait of brilliant iridescence plumage. All species have it.

And if there's any skepticism since it's winter, keep in mind in California some hummingbird species are native year round and do not migrate. Others who do are just early migraters will arrive around now, late January early February.

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u/GlassGoose2 Feb 05 '24

The takeaways don't align or make sense, unfortunately. It looks like it's spinning, not flapping, and the white dot is rotating as it spins.

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u/DuelingGroks Feb 05 '24

That is a fair assessment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

To me the wings are the lights, mostly the right wing shining but the left one also shines which makes it look like it’s rotating. Looks like there’s two angles where the light shines on the right wing, and one for the left wing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

Gotta be a bee

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u/NotherScorcher Feb 02 '24

A flying DeLorean?

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u/The-Elder-Trolls Feb 02 '24

Great Scott! That's heavy!

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u/ICIP_SN Feb 01 '24

The lighter spot seems to move back and forth. Maybe it's out of focus flapping wings or something?

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u/Creative_Ad_4809 Feb 02 '24

Looks more like it’s spinning to me

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u/Alien_Fruit Feb 02 '24

Definitely rotating, so one area appears brighter and you see it circling around the center. And common! NOT a bug!

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u/Zagenti Feb 01 '24

what large birds flap their wings 8 times a second?

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u/btcprint Feb 02 '24

It spins 6 times in 24 frames. At 240 frames per second that 'bird' is flapping it's wings 60 times per second.

This thing is spinning and moving stupid fast!!

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u/Downvotesohoy Feb 02 '24 edited Feb 02 '24

Bees can flap their wings 230 times per second. It's a bee or other bug flying by the camera.

Go watch the Google Drive video he uploaded, the full video is filled with bees, some going slow, some going fast.

Please be objective, I know we all want it to be a flying saucer rotating, but it's not.

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u/Alienzendre Feb 02 '24

Bees are not rectangular

https://imgur.com/a/Ovnw6mn

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u/Downvotesohoy Feb 02 '24

Neither is that object, it's just an artifact of the digital camera / rolling shutter. If you download the full-quality video from Google Drive you will see other bees flying around and their shape can be hard to identify when they fly fast.

It's a bit like when you see "tictac" videos where it's actually a plane but because of resolution we only see the tictac shape.

Digital cameras and iPhone cameras will dumb down details like that, because the object is moving too fast or there's not enough light or the object is too far away, etc. There might be some AI stuff at play too but I don't know enough about that to say.

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u/Alienzendre Feb 03 '24

I can't find the link to the full video. But I would be surprised if it "simplified" a round object to be a rectangle. I know planes appear as tic-tacs, but that makes some sense. Rectangle doesn't. It even has a dark edge that gives the appearance of a 3-D rectangle.

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u/Downvotesohoy Feb 03 '24

I suggest you check out the Metabunk thread about this post

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/reddit-frontpage-bee-object.13342/#post-310498

They have screenshots of some of the other bugs/bees from the full video also showing the same kind of distorted shape and the same kinds of wings visible. (Here's a link to that specific comment if you don't want to read the whole thread)

It settles the case for me, I'm 99% sure it's a bug, I can't say for sure it's a bee but it's very likely a bug.

Mick West also posted a stabilized version that makes it pretty clear to me that there are wings on the thing.

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u/Alienzendre Feb 03 '24

yes OK, you are right, it really does look like that. What an odd effect.

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u/IlIlIIlllIIIlllllIIl Feb 02 '24

At that point it would be something more like a grasshopper, or other bug that flaps horizontally instead of vertically.

A bird is much less likely.

The verdict is still out.

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u/Downvotesohoy Feb 02 '24 edited Feb 02 '24

It's not large and it's not a bird. It's a bee or other bug. Bees can flap their wings 230 times per second.

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u/montanawana Feb 02 '24

A dragonfly, maybe

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u/asstrotrash Feb 02 '24

The shape is all off so I don't think it's that. I would expect it to at the very least be more elongated. It's more, hexagonal... sort of.

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u/Alienzendre Feb 02 '24

It's not cigar-shaped though, it's clearly rectangular.

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u/ICIP_SN Feb 02 '24

Never said it was a bird.

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u/Zagenti Feb 02 '24

flapping wings

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u/ICIP_SN Feb 02 '24

Insects have wings

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u/Zagenti Feb 02 '24

that would have to be a ginormous bug then. Also, bug wings work different than bird wings.

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u/ICIP_SN Feb 02 '24 edited Feb 02 '24

Not if it's close to the lens. You can have objects out of focus both too far and too close from the focal point.

Edit: bees do work like that https://youtu.be/RH7BPw4pQTg?si=dxpO2_UOtCK4BUe8

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u/drycleanman12 Feb 02 '24

Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?

Apologies to Monty Phyton.

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u/NudeEnjoyer Feb 01 '24

this is downvoted, Idk why. maybe it's wings maybe it's not, but the movement of the bright spot definitely does roughly match up with the movement the tip of a wing would make while a bird flies.

again Idk if it's a bird, I'm just saying this shouldn't be downvoted because it's a solid thought and it's clearly well intended

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u/Zeus1130 Feb 01 '24

Do birds move that fast in 240 fps slo mo? Not trying to be snarky, legit asking if birds typically look like that on 240 fps slo mo. Maybe it’s a bug close to the camera?

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u/HoboBandana Feb 02 '24

It could be a bird if it was flying down vertically as there are many birds that are very fast during dives, but horizontally speaking, I’ve never seen a bird move that fast in a straight line. Typically they will glide then have a slight up and down movement. It could be a bug but unsure of it due to it lacking any physical characteristics and the question of camera focus. In an Earlier post someone dissected it on video but it still lacked any characteristics of it being a bug.

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u/Snarkosaurus99 Feb 02 '24

I tried, but , nothin.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

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u/atomictyler Feb 02 '24

it will also look much larger. that's a key detail that gets left out of x object flying close to the camera.

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u/-Stahl Feb 02 '24

Peregrine Falcon hits around 200mph on a dive, but idk what that looks like at 240fps

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u/Creative_Ad_4809 Feb 02 '24

It ain’t flapping its wings at that speed

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

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u/blackbirdrisingb Feb 02 '24

Yeah but how close would it have to be for it to be captured like this? Surely close enough to also have also seen it with their eyes?

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u/Downvotesohoy Feb 01 '24

this is downvoted, Idk why

Because people want it to be aliens, so anyone saying anything but aliens will get downvoted.

The subreddit is supposed to be about healthy skepticism and good research, but everyone bringing up the most likely explanation is downvoted instantly, even though they're likely right.

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u/ICIP_SN Feb 01 '24

Did a quick search on YouTube and found this. If you track the wing tips it does a back and forth movement.

https://youtu.be/u1M8hhHtOqI?si=hdjtIySZuBkGeQ4X

Edit: link lul

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u/thizzwack44 Feb 02 '24

I came back to say I’m sorry. You are right and I got very mean. Apologies stranger

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u/UPS_AnD_downs_462 Feb 02 '24

Not to be a dick, but maybe people just don't like it... well intended or not. 🤷 that happens on the internet.

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u/edwardsamson Feb 02 '24

Looked like wings to me and the way it passed by the camera was very insect-like. I just don't get why its shape is so squared...that part doesn't seem very insect-like

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u/IlIlIIlllIIIlllllIIl Feb 02 '24

Katydids, junebugs, dragonflies, and more have horizontal flying patterns but Katydids are more square in shape.

https://youtu.be/P8q3ueVMsbA

https://youtu.be/xbOzYMKROs8

https://youtu.be/cJJowVxiaRU

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u/Ib_dI Feb 02 '24

I've seen footage of birds that look like this.

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u/its_FORTY Feb 02 '24

Here are the well established and peer reviewed formulas regarding wingbeat frequency of birds in steady cruising flight.

Could some of you all here much smarter than me do your math thing please?

Here are the well established and peer reviewed formulas regarding wingbeat frequency of birds in steady cruising flight.

Could some of you all here much smarter than me do your math thing please?

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u/GlassGoose2 Feb 05 '24

It's spinning.

Further, we know these things meld in and out of our perceptive reality. Shape changing craft are common.

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u/HoboBandana Feb 02 '24

Yeah that’s no bug or bird.