Needs a few extra-large chickens...
It says a 150 foot line.
This is not the interview with Barber. Looks like just Ross talking to Tim Gallaudet, Marik von Rennenkampf, and Jim Segala about their opinions and giving them an opportunity to spin more stories and say how serious and credible this all seems.
Yeah Ross said he got it from an anonymous source and that trusts the provenance of the video but it was not from Barber. So in fact Barber did not present any evidence of anything. The entire interview was just evidence-free stories.
But let's walk this all the way through....assuming for the moment the whole story is true. Flight logs/manifests would identify everyone on that a/c, and it's highly unlikely the pilots were shooting video while hovering with an underslung cargo of unearthly origins. It should be relatively simple for federal investigators to narrow down the identity of the photographer to maybe a couple flight crew, a loadmaster and/or flight engineer would be my guess. I'd not want the Feds sniffing around if I'd illegally taken photos of a highly classified operation.
Oh no, an Orange Alert has been declared....
With the footage being night-vision, I had assumed that the video would be taken from the helicopter's built-in downward facing mission landing camera (and then maybe recorded by a cellphone from a display unit within the helicopter?). This would presumably be attached to the bottom of the airframe and would not have the ability to be suspended from the bottom of the airframe. Would be interesting to maybe find info on the specific sensor package that gives the Blackhawk a downward facing camera from the manufacturer.
I think that's a consequence of what we're seeing being 2 distinct ropes. The first, suspended from the helicopter, is a thick aircraft sling rope that we typically see in videos of hauling operations. The second is a thinner rope attached to the bottom of the thicker aircraft sling rope, which is in turn actually carrying the load. When the egg hits the ground, the thinner rope is the one that deforms with the load because it's a lot more pliable compared to the stiff hauling rope. The physics don't look particularly off to me.
It does look like a fishing rod with a camera attached to the rod, recording an egg or egg shaped object, such as a bobber with the attachment points removed, being lowered on a carpet.
At this point near the end of the clip the lines from the tether/harness are pulled taught from the object rolling to the right but the end of the cable doesn't get pulled to the right at all. It looks wrong to me.
From 150 feet you wouldn't expect to see much down wash on a regular grass field. This appears to be about 150 feet up: (warning, there is "music" in this video)
Yes, that part makes no sense. I suspect he was simply picking up something very much from this earth and setting it down on a field somewhere. Assuming this is footage from the long lining mission.
What if this is an actual white egg, duct-taped to some fishing line, and used as a challenge by a helicopter pilot to show off their skill in lowering stuff?
Indeed, like this type of thing:
Looking at the cable in this video I wonder why here the cable is in focus for the entire visible length. In the EGG video the section nearest the cable is out of focus. What is the depth of field like for night vision gear? Plus I am wondering where the camera was mounted on the helicopter, or was it hand-held? Seems the camera must have been very close to the top visible portion of the cable.
If the surface is an anti-slip coating and the rod is rigid, there's nothing much there that would react to rotor wash. The ropes (strings) are under tension. And the egg does look as if it's rocking.
... But from what he says, I though the egg was something inside the craft... but from what it looks like, it is "craft" itself.. Anyways, intsresting, what is this video and what do we see tnere... Also, it could be hoaxed easily imo.. Waiting for other opinions/facts/developments! Psyonics and hard drive killers also seems like something out of a movie... But then again, I am not a special uap retrieval agent
Sunlight is a good candidate. As mentioned earlier, this seems to be faux night vision. Just an ordinary video taken in daylight then edited.
