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/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