I’m not that good at figuring out what is there and who is who in the water. What could really add to all this is in-person interviews with those who were in the water at the time.
I think that could possibly confirm some of our suspicions if we interviewed someone on the scene in the water. absent that I have a hard time telling what is what.
If butter were to present, for example, that image of Fuddy which I have now posted several times, (and regardless of what various impressions we might have) enter a caption beneath the image:
Is this a photograph of a dolphin with a speargun?
We could respond with a simple YES or NO.
But what we see is a series of stills from a less than perfectly clear video, and a question:
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
So some are going to see nothing but a blur, some are going to see the Madonna, some will see something sinister, and they are all going to argue with each other.
The method isn’t going to achieve anything, imo. So change the method.
Maybe CAN YOU SEE WHAT I SEE would work better. But to do that, butter, you have to be prepared tell us what YOU THINK YOU SEE.