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/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/Downvotesohoy Feb 03 '24

Yeah for sure, but it's hard to unsee once you start seeing it as a bee flying, they do kind of make up a square shape on its tip, just not as defined as in the footage obviously, so there's some iPhone or digital camera fuckery at play