Sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, I remember seeing footage of a airplane using that same flight pattern. I only remembered because I was surprised that flights are that close to all those monuments.
edit: Just watched the video, didn't realize the video showed it in front that tower. But planes in the background do go across like that...
I'm not suggesting it is an airborne craft that is "zooming" across the horizon but the problem with the bug theory is... How many "flies" are zipping across camera lenses in January when it is below freezing? It still might be a dang big Baird but I think the fly theory can safely be ruled out given the time of year and temperature.
Honestly, it looks like a bug that flies close to the lens. It's path and the perspective makes it a bit of an optical illusion.
This is why we need 3D TV. Also, higher resolution and framerate cameras, monitors, and youtube.
Being really close to the camera would explain the transparency effect... It's also really close in colour to the monument so that might create a transparency illusion.
If it's not a bug, can anyone identify which direction the camera is facing in those?
Since the winds were Northerlies on Inauguration Day, if that photo was taken facing West then the left-to-right movement of the UFO would likely indicated it was carried by the wind and not generating its own thrust. It would be funny if this "giant cigar" was actually a piece of ash from someone's cigarette. Whatever it is, it seems to be in front of the cameras focal distance.
Even a fighter jet running with perfectly silent propulsion is still going to make a large racket moving at that speed, you still have to move the air molecules out of the way.
Not to mention the turbulence that would hit the ground two minutes later and blow everyone's hats off.
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Even a fighter jet running with perfectly silent propulsion is still going to make a large racket moving at that speed, you still have to move the air molecules out of the way.
Not to mention the turbulence that would hit the ground two minutes later and blow everyone's hats off.
My understanding is that with the right aerodynamics you reduce turbulence creation. A few years ago they were talking about developing a passenger plane that could do Mach 1.2 without creating a sonic boom. Don't know much about it though.
My understanding is that with the right aerodynamics you reduce turbulence creation. A few years ago they were talking about developing a passenger plane that could do Mach 1.2 without creating a sonic boom. Don't know much about it though.
Oh for sure, there's tons you can do. But no sonic boom is a far cry from whisper quiet.
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I was going to make the standard "I for one welcome our unidentified overlords" joke, and then I realized a bug getting too close to a camera lens was how that joke started.
Hey, did a bit of research and apparently they're "rods" and are a hot item in the alternative everything crowd! Small creatures are invisible to the eye!
Look familiar?
There's even an episode on history channel about it!
For decades, cameras have been capturing images of a flying, torpedo-like creature so fast it cannot be seen with the naked eye. Some think it is a military weapon; others believe it may be a creature from another dimension known as "Rods." Super high-speed photography, physics and even a wind tunnel experiment will be used to shed light on what these images are. One-part history, one-part science and one part monster, discover the truth behind legendary monsters.
Apparently they do a setup where they film a "rod" with a normal camera and a super high speed one, and of course it looks convincing in one and looks like a bug in the other.
Cool.
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Though I have to admit, I went to the site and wasn't impressed with a lot of the vids. Some of them seemed very explainable to me.
That cave shown in the clip on Photon's post sure had a bunch of flying things on it, but before I was even introduced to the 'rod' idea I woulda just thought they were some sort of bug.
Also, higher resolution and framerate cameras, monitors, and youtube.
