From: https://silvarecord.com/2019/02/09/chris-mellon-airforce-ufo-video/
External Quote:Mellon:
I had a friend who was a colleague at that time on the Senate Intelligence staff and he was doing some oversight at Maui Optical Tracking Facility, which does space surveillance, and I said that 'While you're out there, you know they're civilian nice guys, why don't you just ask them?' – 'You ever see any strange really anomalous stuff you can't identify?' And so he called me up, he said, 'You know I asked that question. Sure enough there's the tape right here,'
Source: https://videopress.com/v/dyPCtZ74
The video shows what looks like three bright streaks and two dim streak move across the sky. At one point there's a flash. Suggestions given are a much of meteorites, or some kind of advanced technology craft, possibly alien.
However, I think it might just be the landing lights of a plane, smeared out by the long exposure of the old night camera. Something like an MD-80 perhaps, with the triangle of big lights, and two smaller lights.

Or a C5

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J73iTlp3sQY
I mocked up the scene in Aftereffects, creating a very similar effect with image persistence from frame to frame.External Quote:Nighttime footage of a "UFO" looks likes the landing lights of a plane. But why can't you see the plane? Is it invisible? The answer seems to be frame-to-frame persistence which is used to magnify the light from the stars in the astronomical camera. Here I simulate this with the "Echo" effect in Adobe Aftereffects, showing how it can duplicate both the trails, and seeing stars through the "Invisible" plane
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