Mick West

The video was first uploaded from MUFON by "willease", who then went and created a fake video "UFOs captured on the HDEV live stream hoax" that briefly got Reddit all excited. This obviously somewhat raises the possibility that he faked this too...

They do, but they pick the more visually interesting ones.

I think that is more likely an inadequacy in the motion tracking, due to a temporary loss of focus.

It's quite possible that the jets were just visible as tiny grey specks. They might even show up very slightly in the original video. This is just 828x434, which is non-standard, and so probably manually cropped and resized from a larger video...

No, they must have at least seen the lights first with the naked eye. They did not mention planes, so it's likely they did not see them.

the sunset it to the left of the the flares, but plane seems to be heading south or southwest. The entire scene seems to be out of the right window.

I don't think it's an Apple phone (iPhone). It's encoded with Apple Quicktime (Encoded date: UTC 2021-12-04 09:14:41) 838x434 is not a common resolution.

Why not simply practicing and/or testing dropping heat decoys? They have to test and practice at some point.

Well, good luck getting the PLAAF to tell you anything about their ops. Three smallish Chinese fighters (J-10s or so, which present a small profile and are uniformly "lo-viz" matte gray in color) in these lighting conditions would be...

Of course it changes things. The angle is pretty shallow, not much below the horizon in the wide shot (which is more like the "naked eye" shot). More in the 10° range. Might be able to get a better estimate for other sunset images if the disk of...

Why 30°?

The controller says 'contact Ho Chi Minh, 120.7', the enroute facility for southern Vietnam. Since the other pilot is asked to contact them and this was supposedly shot over the South China Sea it's quite likely that they are currently speaking...

Sounds like Ryan air 2725 to me. Still nowhere near the South China Sea. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/RYR2725

The planes would have to be in view (but not visible). All the flares I've even see ignite as they are ejected.

I made a quick video of my thoughts, with some stabilization and comparisons. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YK11YjQMc