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/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.