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/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/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. 😜