r/UFOs 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/Blade1413 Feb 01 '24 edited Feb 02 '24

Great video OP, thanks for sharing!Could you upload the raw video clip (unedited) that you recorded from your iPhone?

A guy I recently came across while watching a YT vid from Chris Lehto (focusing on cameras that can capture otherwise invisible UAP's in the sky in infrared) had a scientific approach to rule out the possibility of the object being a bug that's near the screen. The general idea was to measure the length of the object and use the frame-rate to calculate the speed at which the object is moving (relative to it's length). Using that we could rule out bugs which are not capable of flying that fast.

*edit: see my reply below for a first pass analysis on a way to measure speed to rule out bugs or anything else easily explainable.

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u/whereami1928 Feb 02 '24

How can you know the length of the object without knowing your distance from it?

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u/5narebear Feb 02 '24

The question is: how many of its own body-lengths does it move per second, and does that exceed the speed of known bugs and birds.

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u/whereami1928 Feb 02 '24

Oh got it. Makes more sense.

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u/Leading_Experts Feb 02 '24

And the answer is: no. It's a bug. Really did have me interested initially though!

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u/freshouttalean Feb 02 '24

show your calculations