'UFO' Videotaped From Airplane: What Is It?

discovery news ^ | Sat Dec 29, 2012 07:43 AM ET | Benjamin Radford

[BenLurkin]

A home video allegedly taken just before Christmas during a late-night flight appears to show a UFO flying next to the plane. The video, posted to YouTube by a man named Mauricio Ruiz, has the Internet buzzing.

[Redcloak]

The image does move relative to the window frame, as it would whether the source were inside the aircraft or outside of it. However, without any reference images such as stars visible, we cannot tell whether the apparent movement is consistent with a source dozens or hundreds of feet away from the camera. The camera’s autofocus system doesn’t seem to be having any trouble with the image, which argues for something relatively close; a distance similar to the the distance to the window frame (i.e. inside the cabin).

But as I said before, the guy puts his hand next to the window so that the image is superimposed on the image of his hand. This wouldn’t be possible for a source inside the aircraft.

[machogirl]

when i was a kid, they scared me. ole ex-husband made me watch them after we got married. i still can’t watch the ones that creeped me out as a youngster.

[BereanBrain]

sorry, but it’s an obvious attempt a fooling the public?

Why do I say so?

because the person filming KNOWS the trick of reflections being used to fake a video, and shows it’s not a reflection in the window by moving his hand such that you can see the reflection overlapping the image.

To demonstrate this activity DURING the filming means you are thinking ahead about making the video seem realistic.

[onedoug]

Possibly the planet Venus?

[Tolkien]

It’s the backbones of the Republicans in the Senate.

[ThunderSleeps]

Why does it seem that in both segments, the 'object' is in a fixed position w/regards to the window ?

I think it is some kind of clearance/marker light on the wing. If you look right at 1:00 or 1:01 there's a blink of the top AC light. It shows the wing briefly and it looks like this light is right on the leading edge.

[Happy Rain]

For my High School Senior Term Paper—worth as much as a midterm exam-in 1972, I contrived seeing a UFO, filled out the standard “First Encounter” official USAF Project Blue Book forms for such “sightings” and then included copies of the documents and the usual Air Force response (a form letter assuring me that I was not nuts and that they may get back to me) in my academic submission...after adding a few fuzzy pics of flying hubcaps and blurry cumulus cloud formations the flim flamm was a big hit with the High School staff

...I received an A plus plus and the grade lifted my lazy underachiever borderline failure school history to about damn time he showed some effort passing...odd thing, not long after my term paper, Project Blue Book, after three decades and half a billion dollars spent ended with the official conclusion being that everyone was either nuts or seeing things.