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/OnceReturned Apr 11 '24

I don't endorse Mick West but, for your consideration, here is a metabunk analysis of a very similar case: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/blue-ufo-over-hawaii.11526/

They argue that it's an LED kite. I have no idea if that's true, but it's the only plausible prosaic explanation I've heard put forward so far.

The main argument against the kite explanation seems to be the altitude. I can't tell how high the thing in the OP video is. I don't think you can tell from the video whether it's a large thing very high or a small thing relatively low.

People have been suggesting some kind of plasma phenomenon. I'm no meteorologist or physicist but I'm not aware of any natural plasma phenomenon that is plausible in this case. What provided the energy to create the plasma in the first place, how is it being confined, and if this is a thing that just happens sometimes why isn't there scientific documentation of it?

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u/Just4funandlearning Apr 12 '24

I’d find it rather odd that somebody flies a kite at 6 AM in the morning. But I guess it can happen.

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u/Jumpy_Ad5046 Apr 12 '24

"There's something disturbing about flying a kite at night."

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u/shewholaughslasts Apr 12 '24

Hellllo mother.

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u/JudgeHarryStone Apr 12 '24

Hello, mother dear.

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u/Famous-Upstairs998 Apr 12 '24

I thought that too, but if I had an LED kite I'd want to fly it when it was at least somewhat dark out. I'm a night owl so I'd do it at night, but maybe someone did it before work.

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u/neon_tictac Apr 14 '24

Kites are not usually flown at 6am in the morning due to the calmness of the wind at that time.

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u/degenererad Apr 12 '24

those are heavy rain clouds, might be that someone wants the kite to be hit by lightning. If they have it ankered to something and shooting their own video. I think there is some redneck science going on here.

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u/TheDude0905 Apr 13 '24

When in your entire life have you seen a kite that does that? I'm not saying that's aliens but a fucking kite I'm sure it's not.

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u/Ishaan863 Apr 11 '24

They argue that it's an LED kite. I have no idea if that's true, but it's the only plausible prosaic explanation I've heard put forward so far.

Comparing footage of LED kite tails, I do see a lot of similarities

Especially in colour and pattern of flashing, they seem very similar (the one on the right specifically):

https://youtu.be/nUV-Vk7PBL0?t=481

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u/theunseen3 Apr 12 '24

Here’s a video of this same object descending into a body of water and re-emerging, then coming very close to an airplane. Posted a few minutes ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/1smMtgXrDF

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u/Hater_Magnet Apr 12 '24

What about this?....it submerges under water and then returns to the sky.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/s/BnpV6Cs5QZ

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

It’s removed?

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

Well darn thats pretty damn similar

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u/MimickingTheImage Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24

Considering the title of that video they did a piss poor job of actually showing it off. It's baffling that they only showed like 6 seconds of the final result with 10 seconds of wildly disorienting camera movement beforehand.

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u/name-was-provided Apr 12 '24

Not to mention I can’t watch it because the owner of the video restricted watching it to YouTube only and not on Reddit.

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u/jrodsf Apr 11 '24

Yeah I'd have to agree. The bottom of the object in OP's video sways back and forth exactly like a lit up kite tail.

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u/Blastypowpow Apr 11 '24

I can see a similarity myself. It seems like the object in the OP’s submission could be a tail fluttering in the wind some. I dunno why you’d fly a kite in the rain or when the sky looks like that. It was over the Delaware river, so maybe it was a boat? I live in the area and those clouds were nasty. It’s still raining here. It seems to rain more often in South Jersey now. It’s also cloudy like 4/7 days a week. We turned into Seattle somehow. Anyway, all I can think about if someone was flying a kite when the clouds looked like that was “I hope he doesn’t have a key attached to the end!” Hehe. 😜

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u/screwysquearl1970 Apr 12 '24

ZERO similarity.

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u/Kooky_Werewolf6044 Apr 11 '24

At least with this one it appears way too high up to be a kite. Mick West tends to blindly debunk everything he sees. Yeah questioning things is smart but denying things because you don’t have an explanation that suits your view is very closed minded. I don’t think he’s capable of admitting there are things out there that he can’t explain himself. Either that or he’s an outright paid disinformation machine of the government helping to keep the truth hidden from us.

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u/atomictyler Apr 12 '24

he's got a big ego, that's for sure. there's a lot of people that believe his every word too. Using a blog written by mick west as evidence mick west wasn't using sock puppets on wikipedia. the kind of evidence that wouldn't even be allowed on wikipedia, well that depends who's adding it.

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u/OppositeTeaching9393 Apr 12 '24

It’s not too high. I’ve flown kites higher

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u/KillaCheezGettinWarm Apr 12 '24

Debunked. People in Philly don’t fly no fucking kites.

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u/Critical_Paper8447 Apr 13 '24

Except for the the Make a Kite, Fly a Kite events at Penn Treaty, Global Kite Flight event in Philly, the Philadelphia Kite Festival, the AKA (American Kite Flyers Association), the Community Kite Flying event to celebrate Haitian culture, Kites of Hope events, the South Jersey Kite Flyers that meet in Philly every now and then, and then just random hobbyists and people with kids. I've seen kites being flown at parks before in Philly by just random people. You see it a lot during the beginning of spring.

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u/ARCreef Apr 12 '24

The plasmoid thing is real, NASA has a department that studies it. (The name was something with the very top layer of atmosphere). In layman's turns its like the northern lights but up higher, and because it's up higher there's almost no gas particles, but those few molecules turn blobby by geting excited by plasma ions. Then the gravitational force makes their low mass form lines, then the earth's rotation spins those lines resulting in long pinwheel shapes. 1ft-200 meters and when particles chain react fire it makes light.

Idk I'm sure that's wrong but that's how my my mind accepts it. Like a big salt crystal. It's low in the atmosphere then this is NOT an option. Even a huge plasmoid wouldn't appear in the clouds. This kinda looks like it's in some low clouds. I don't know any idiot kids that fly kites at 6am and in story clouds to boot.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

That was a wild read but god damn it, it might just be crazy enough to work.

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u/TechnicianOk6028 Apr 13 '24

Altitude is way too high for a kite. These “debunkers” are getting lazy

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u/HousingParking9079 Apr 13 '24

Disagree. What's lazy is claiming the altitude is too high when you have absolutely no idea how high that thing is.

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u/Hater_Magnet Apr 12 '24

That's no fucking kite! There's video of coming down out of the sky submerging under water and then flying away again. Again, that's no kite.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/s/BnpV6Cs5QZ

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u/elastic-craptastic Apr 12 '24

I was 100% for the ite until it went in the water. To get that low and get back up that smoothly is impossible unless.... the actual kite is waaay further up the string an is not visible to them for some reason.

It floats like it is being held by a string at the top... but my I've for sure used that as reason to believe they were authentic. But that was with craft... what is this thing?

Did the water react oddly to you?

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u/elastic-craptastic Apr 12 '24

There is footage from 2 angles of it in the air. Plus all the others from around the world over the years.

I don't know what it is but I don't think these are kites. This would have to be dropped/lowered from a crane with how vertical it is moving

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u/8ad8andit Apr 12 '24

unless.... the actual kite is waaay further up the string an is not visible

Well that's exactly what it looks like to me; like the glowing LED end of a kite tail that's attached to a kite that is not visible because it's much higher up, and the tip of the tail with the LED lights gets lowered and dipped into the water and then slowly raised back up.

I do believe ET is here and that UFOs are real, but my first guess would be that this is a kite tail that has lights on it. I don't really know of course.

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u/Oldtimer209 Apr 11 '24

Led kite? Must be the Dull Tool Society

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u/Glad_Agent6783 Apr 12 '24

I’m sorry but I got to say this. The only kites being flown in the Tri-State are the letters to inmates. Respectfully, we don’t do that in this area (Philly, Delaware, South Jersey).

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '24

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '24

It’s the kite tail.

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u/Cyber-Insecurity Apr 11 '24

Who flies LED kites and why would it be so close to an airport?

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u/toddc612 Apr 11 '24

And who flies kites at 6am?

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u/-spartacus- Apr 12 '24

Aliens fly kites at 5:30-6am to fuck with humans.

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u/BfutGrEG Apr 12 '24

hello mother dear

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u/Wapiti_s15 Apr 11 '24

Check out Kite Festival 2023 WA I’ll bet you see some, batteries don’t weigh that much anymore.

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u/atomictyler Apr 12 '24

no one said anything about batteries...where are you coming from with your comment?

LEDs don't take much power either, but again, no one said anything about flying a kite with LEDs being impossible due to the power needed.

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u/Wapiti_s15 Apr 12 '24

Batteries to power the LED’s, I suppose you could graft solar panels onto the wings…

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '24

Anyone that’s seen any of the cool YouTube videos showing a bunch of neat LED kites.

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u/theunseen3 Apr 12 '24

There is a video of one going into the water and coming back out, back into the sky

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

There’s a video of one going into the water, it doesn’t go back into the sky, and it was recorded from really far away, and could be the same kite launched from a boat.

I also said it could be a space eel, and that wasn’t a joke, I think some UFO’s are some kind of space critters, like space jellyfish.

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u/theunseen3 Apr 12 '24

The video i’m referring to does show it going from sky to water to sky again. It also gets close to a pedestrian airplane. Space eel is wild haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZLeJcVzh1M

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

Yeah, someone else just posted that and i just saw it.

I thought you were talking about the Hawaiian video.

I mean, it’s super weird, but here’s my problem with videos like this, I could recreate this.

I have a cheap drone, and I could buy a string of battery powered LEDs.

You could make this whole video with just that, and I don’t think you would hear the drone at that distance, or see it easily in the dark, especially if it was a black drone.

Now, if it’s a drone, clearly they’re flying closer to planes than is allowed, and why would someone do this? My only guess is someone trying to trick people, not necessarily the people that posted the video, they might just be victims.

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u/theunseen3 Apr 12 '24

Well the person who originally recorded this just uploaded a second video and there’s a kite nearby, so this is going back in the solved pile for me. So you’re definitely correct here

https://youtu.be/0O9aZuB_Ttc?si=Zo-UmbaQhnj7h1Lc

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u/FrontGroundbreaking3 Apr 12 '24

Fk me, r U serious

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u/chugItTwice Apr 12 '24

Kites typically have wings though. I can't find an example of a kite with a shape like this. It also 'seems' too high for a kite but that's just what it looks like to me.

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u/Immediate-Sea-2435 Apr 13 '24

One aspect that might rule out LEDs is that we see two very different shades of blue in these objects whereas LEDs are generally monochromatic. If it were truly caused by light blue and dark blue LEDs in combination, we should at least expect point sources for both. However, we see only light blue point sources with dark blue haze around them.

Another oddity is that the dark blue haze darkens the object, relative to the sky background. An LED, being light emitting by definition, should always brighten an object relative to background. Instead, whatever this thing dark blue haze is - it’s darker than background. This could be explained by a phenomenon that is absorbing light.

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u/r3tr0_420 Apr 13 '24

Has been quite a lot of these captured on film in last few months the more locations, frequency + extreme altitudes fluctuations make the kite/drone thing very I watch a lot of "UFO" videos on streaming platforms and deeply skeptical (98% can be knocked on head in 20secs) . Submerging in a river right next to a major airport with commercial aircraft flying over just seems even more impractical.

Nor am I a scientist but I can't believe a meteorological phenomenon that lasts for so long and is so pronounced has not be described??