Seaside Heights, Ocean County, New Jersey - Claimied drone sighting weekend 11th - 12th January 2025

[opensci.uap]

And what is the explanation? That's a 44-minute video; can you give a summary?

Hi Mick,

Thanks for catching some poor wording. I fixed the sentence to say "A full explanation of the circumstances of this event can be found here:"

Of course I have no explanation for what these objects I have been recording actually are. I hope one day we find out.

- Rick

 

[opensci.uap]

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.

Allsky cameras typically are set up with some automatic exposure settings. On dark sky nights the camera I showed was set up for 10 second exposures. However, there were a lot of clouds on the night I showed with the strange object (white curved line with two blue dots) in between clouds. So the automatic exposure setting kicked in and brought the exposure time down to 2.3 seconds. The frame I showed with the strange object had a total exposure of 2.3 seconds.

My allsky camera now has a nice big lens on it and I can now get 5 second exposures throughout a dark sky night, even here in light pollution infested Albany area.

The only thing that showed some potential for strange properties that I recorded that night on my night vision scope was this very fast moving object I showed. I was surprised that nothing showed up on the allsky camera - but maybe the object seen in the night vision scope was moving too fast. As I said in the video, not sure what that object could be but it doesn't have enough highly anomalous features to be called a UAP in my book.

I have lots of other night vision recordings of "interesting" things, but nothing truly compelling (yet - I can hope right?).

- Rick

I forgot to provide the github repository link: https://github.com/rickavila/opensci.uap

Yes, all videos I provide have full metadata including time, location etc. The only thing I tried to pull out of the data was my exact iphone serial number. I also give the date and time of each UAP sighting in the video on the top left hand corner.

- Rick

 

[jon_eir]

https://github.com/rickavila/opensci.uap
No time/date/locations that I could see.

Having watched the full video I would have a laundry list of compliments with the approach. At the end you say open to questions and criticisms (no transcript available yet) so:-

• You call the video " Open Science UAP Introduction" what science or Anomalous Phenomena did you show?
• Your timeline runs for approx. 18 months and you never mention Flightradar24 or any celestial or satellite tracking?

These should be easy to answer. Politely and respectively I dont wish the troll tru the video line by line

 

[opensci.uap]

And what is the explanation? That's a 44-minute video; can you give a summary?

Hi Mick,

Thanks for catching some poor wording. I fixed the sentence to say: "A full explanation of the circumstances of this event can be found here:"

Of course I have no idea what the truly anomalous UAP objects are. I hope one day we find out.

- Rick

 

[Landru]

Hi Mick,

Thanks for catching some poor wording. I fixed the sentence to say: "A full explanation of the circumstances of this event can be found here:"

Of course I have no idea what the truly anomalous UAP objects are. I hope one day we find out.

- Rick

That is not the standard here at Metabunk. Please provide a full explanation so the reader does not have to click to find it. Please review the Posting Guidelines.

 

[opensci.uap]

That is not the standard here at Metabunk. Please provide a full explanation so the reader does not have to click to find it. Please review the Posting Guidelines.

I apologize for not meeting the requirements of this forum. I will fix that as soon as possible today. I have a lot meetings right now but should get you all a good set of text on this sighting later today.

- Rick

 

[opensci.uap]

https://github.com/rickavila/opensci.uap
No time/date/locations that I could see.

Having watched the full video I would have a laundry list of compliments with the approach. At the end you say open to questions and criticisms (no transcript available yet) so:-

• You call the video " Open Science UAP Introduction" what science or Anomalous Phenomena did you show?
• Your timeline runs for approx. 18 months and you never mention Flightradar24 or any celestial or satellite tracking?

These should be easy to answer. Politely and respectively I dont wish the troll tru the video line by line

• You call the video " Open Science UAP Introduction" what science or Anomalous Phenomena did you show?

The first video I posted on YouTube was intended to introduce an Open Science approach to studying UAP sightings. Open Science is defined as making scientific research including publications, data, physical samples, software, and models, transparent and accessible to all levels of society through collaborative networks (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science). So providing all of the original source videos and some analysis qualifies as working in with an Open Science approach.

Now I also put a lot time and consulted many scientists and engineers to analyze these sightings (UAP videos 1 to 7). My first analysis can be found in a second video focused on UAP #5. Again, all of the calculations, software, methods, etc. are given at the github repository or other standard places (excel spreadsheet apps, image j, etc.).

Finally, I have spent my whole career contributing to Open Source software and supporting Open Science. I think what I am doing making everything available is Open Science and hope many more people in the UAP community do the same.

• Your timeline runs for approx. 18 months and you never mention Flightradar24 or any celestial or satellite tracking?

I actually do show a stellarium screenshot in the second video I published in Youtube. I checked all sites I thought were relevant for each sighting but did not show all screenshots on my videos to keep them viewable and keep the production time down. But if you see something that looks like I may have missed an important data point, by all means let me and everyone know.

I am after the truth, whatever that may be and am willing to be corrected if data indicates something other than what I presented.

- Rick