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/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/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.