Posted on 02/05/2020 9:15:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
As Ken Brockman would say, “I for one welcome our insect overlords!”
The ‘Death Star’ at a young age and size? (”That’s no moon”).
That’s what I was thinking or one of those things attached to balloons that go way up there and hit the jet stream and off they go.
That’s what I noticed - lots of pixel blending right around the object. Pretty obviously patched in with only marginal skill.
Lots of people do that sort of thing themselves using software and/or a keyboard. Not hard. Many keyboards have built-in drum machines.
Several FReepers contribute their stuff occasionally. I have been doing this sort of thing all my life.
In this case I was making a joke since I found the bongos to be obnoxious but YMMV. :-)
I saw something like that under a flight I was on going into New York.
It looked like a box, just sitting about 500 fit below our flight path. Never said anything to anyone, but it looked exactly like that.
Kinda scary for something to be that close, no matter what it might be.
On an image that large, the item is mere pixels across. There is going to be halos on anything that small...and moving.
No shadow of the craft anywhere - in any direction - on any of the cloud tops it is flying over - suggesting a photo shopped operation.
Would need to know resolution of camera to know how magnified image has to be before pixelation starts up...if you.look and listen closely..you can see the green and purple aliens playing the bongos....probably from beatnik planet.
It was one of those things that you are not really sure what you are seeing. At first I thought it was like a buoy. But then I remembered we were going over New York/Long Island at 25,000 ft or so.
Then I thought it was a reflection. But it wasn’t. We were past it by the time I thought to grab my camera.
Oh well. I think all of this stuff is US Military anyway. Or someone’s military.
Not my fault.
We are a peaceful tribe.
Cruise airspeed on the A320 is ~450 knots, ~750 fps. He takes ~4 seconds to film the control panel instruments, then films out the window for another 10-12 seconds before the object comes abeam of the aircraft. The way the shot is framed you can’t tell exactly when that occurs but I’m presuming he stopped filming as or shortly after it passed abeam.
That means our eagle-eyed first officer first spotted the object from at least near as makes no difference 2 miles away. And since it was lower than the a/c, he’d have had to pick it out of the broken cloud layer. And from 2 miles away he recognized that the sighting was historically significant enough to merit the aircraft’s position being included in the recording. Because if he only realized its significance once it got closer, he would have recorded the object continuously until it passed, then scanned the instruments.
So if what he’s filming is a genuine airborne object, he most likely knew it was there even before he saw it. In any case it’s a scripted event.
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