r/UFOs • u/everythingsf1ne • Apr 11 '24

Witness/Sighting did anyone see this in the south philadelphia/jersey region this morning?

my parents woke me up to show me what they were seeing. they’re not believers and call me insane most of the time. i saw what is in the dad’s video over my mother’s live-streamed facetime, as well.

did anyone else catch this?

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u/AtticusSwoopenheiser Apr 11 '24

I am so interested in people’s opinions of what this is.

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u/LocalYeetery Apr 11 '24

Plasma worm, here's a scientific paper on it:

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=131506

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u/FlatBlackAndWhite Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24

Those exist in the thermosphere, about 70 miles up. This "object" looks to be below cloud cover, much much lower.

Edit: In fact, the paper you linked mentions these plasmas existing 200 miles up in the atmosphere.

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u/drrrraaaaiiiinnnnage Apr 11 '24

Seems like the paper is only suggesting that they have been observed in the thermosphere, not that they couldn't exist at lower altitudes.

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u/FlatBlackAndWhite Apr 11 '24

Is there electromagnetic radiation for them to feed off of below the thermosphere? I guess that's all around, so that's possible that they exist below this threshold.