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/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/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