Ann K
Senior Member.
No, we just drove home once the road was clear.
Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs
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MonkeeSage
Senior Member.
I remember crazy crop dusters in North Carolina flying really close over the road but never saw a landing!
Mendel
Senior Member.
Aircraft land on highways all the time, it tends to make the news, and often there's observer footage of the landing. Recent examples:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Vh2YHbQzc
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwHGSiZQalI
Something a lot more rare happened on Sunday 9 January 2022, near Whiteman Airport (WHP/KWHP), Los Angeles: a small Cessna 172H took off, lost power and landed on a road. It stopped on a railway intersection, and was hit by a train 8 minutes later. (The pilot survived.)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnv8C3Fjvm0
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Vh2YHbQzc
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwHGSiZQalI
Something a lot more rare happened on Sunday 9 January 2022, near Whiteman Airport (WHP/KWHP), Los Angeles: a small Cessna 172H took off, lost power and landed on a road. It stopped on a railway intersection, and was hit by a train 8 minutes later. (The pilot survived.)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnv8C3Fjvm0
Mendel
Senior Member.
On 23 November 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, ran out of fuel, and ditched in shallow waters 500 yards (460 m; 1,500 ft) off Le Galawa Beach Hotel, near Mitsamiouli at the northern end of Grande Comore island. A tourist recorded a video of ET-AIZ crashing. She said that she had begun taping because she initially believed that the 767 formed a part of an air show for tourists. (Source: Wikipedia)
Incredibly, 44 people survived.
This was the first time the ditching of an airliner was recorded.
Incredibly, 44 people survived.
This was the first time the ditching of an airliner was recorded.
Ann K
Senior Member.
A huge (134 foot) concrete beam in transit derails a train in Chattanooga.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5d3NGraRqA&t=10s
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5d3NGraRqA&t=10s
Alexandria Nick
Senior Member.
As an avid railfan, I'd suggest unusual grade crossing collisions don't really fit into the "rare things better documented than UFOs" category. There's a few reasons for this:
1) Grade crossing collisions are common and also related to the volume of rail traffic.
2) Railfans congregate at hot spots with high traffic levels.
3) Grade crossings allow for good photo sites (clear fields of view, good spot to park your vehicle, audio and visual alerts of an oncoming train, etc.)
4) When the possibility of an unusual collision presents itself, the camera operator has advanced warning that a collision is imminent.
This convergence makes a sort of "unusual event trap" that doesn't work for a lot of other unusual events.
1) Grade crossing collisions are common and also related to the volume of rail traffic.
2) Railfans congregate at hot spots with high traffic levels.
3) Grade crossings allow for good photo sites (clear fields of view, good spot to park your vehicle, audio and visual alerts of an oncoming train, etc.)
4) When the possibility of an unusual collision presents itself, the camera operator has advanced warning that a collision is imminent.
This convergence makes a sort of "unusual event trap" that doesn't work for a lot of other unusual events.
Mendel
Senior Member.
It works for UFOs, though.
• We've analysed a fair amount of doorbell and security camera footage; webcams, even.
• We've commented on a camera team traipsing around Skinwalker Ranch at all hours of the day or night.
• We've seen trail camera footage of claimed rare animals.
• And there's a large amount of flaring satellites and thus a fair number of pilots who can see and document them.
• Plus all the classified military surveillance that gave us orbs and a jellyfish.
There is a huge number of "UFO traps" out there, and a large number of UFO reports, yet UFOs remain badly documented.
This suggests—but does not prove—that e.g. grade crossing collisions exist, but UFOs do not; i.e. that UFOs are only U because they are badly documented, and any potential UFOs that are well documented turn out to not be unknown or unusual.
Edward Current
Senior Member.
Person in passenger plane videos unusual-looking feature on the ground, just when a rocket launch occurs there. Rocket launches are not particularly rare, but it's just another example of how everything gets filmed one way or another. Sound off!
Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6VcLfeHm1f4
Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6VcLfeHm1f4
JMartJr
Senior Member.
I'm a bit surprised they launch with passenger aircraft that close!
I not they zoomed in on the correct pad before it was really noticeable that anything was happening, suggesting but not proving that the photographer knew which pad was the interesting one... I wonder if this is actually taken by somebody in a plane that is there in some official capacity?
Still a fun video!
I not they zoomed in on the correct pad before it was really noticeable that anything was happening, suggesting but not proving that the photographer knew which pad was the interesting one... I wonder if this is actually taken by somebody in a plane that is there in some official capacity?
Still a fun video!
MonkeeSage
Senior Member.
An asteroid was observed via telescope on September 04, 2024 by the Catalina Sky Survey and a visible fireball was predicted. It was able to be tracked and accurate predictions were made about its atmospheric entry location.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDkPryAmTV8
More videos and pictures of the event are here:
https://www.imo.net/2024-rw1-atmospheric-entry-in-pictures-videos/
Source: https://www.imo.net/9th-earth-impactor-on-its-way-to-northern-philippines/External Quote:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDkPryAmTV8
More videos and pictures of the event are here:
https://www.imo.net/2024-rw1-atmospheric-entry-in-pictures-videos/
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1gh9hui/flying_home/
Guess we can add "backpack hitting the propeller of a plane" to the list
eleggua
Member
Maybe not so rare:
This video of an Atlas V rocket launch seen from an airplane is just amazing
""My plane happened to be flying by Cape Canaveral during the Atlas V launch yesterday," airline passenger Andy Lin tweeted. He added a short video showing the United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket safely lifting off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on May 18."
Pilot apparently announced the Atlas V launch.
"The video, recorded with an iPhone X, includes a crew announcement advising the passengers to look out the right side of the plane to view the ongoing launch. This was a long-haul Delta Flight 644, which typically flies Boeing 737-900 passenger jets from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Cancun, Mexico, according to FlightAware."
Source: https://www.space.com/atlas-v-rocket-launch-airplane-video
ManInBlack
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Scaramanga
Senior Member
An upward lightning streamer....captured from just 4 feet away, in 2017. These are generally faint forks of lightning that travel upwards from the ground and which then meet the main stroke coming downwards. I captured this during a video, and the following is a frame from the video ( there is a bright lightning flash about 500 feet away a second or so later ). I was very lucky the main lightning chose another streamer to connect to and not this one !
I think this may be the closest capture of an upward streamer anyone has ever taken.....I'd estimate its about 20 feet in length.
I think this may be the closest capture of an upward streamer anyone has ever taken.....I'd estimate its about 20 feet in length.
Ann K
Senior Member.
I'm curious: was the lower end of that streamer coming from an electrical wire or metal object?
Scaramanga
Senior Member
It came from the top of a garden fence post. Where you see the streamer start is pretty much where the top of the post is., and the neighbour's conservatory you can see part of beyond that. I was lower down, sitting in the patio...with my video camera pointing upwards about 45 degrees. It was about 4 feet way. It's not the only such thing I have captured on video. I also have a capture of ball lightning just after a lightning strike....not as dramatic as some ball lightning captures but it is one all the same. I have recorded every storm since 2015 in great detail.....so its no surprise I capture rare events.
I'll dig up up ball lightning capture and post it later.
RTM
Senior Member.
Wow. I used to binge on the tornado chaser type shows in the early 2000s. They used to show these sometimes, very cool.
Scaramanga
Senior Member
Ball lightning...captured during a storm on the night of July 19th 2017. These two frames are pointing in the exact same direction and are taken from video. The first shows a bright flash of lightning, the second is about one second after the lightning....a red orb appears in the field. The orb lasts for just 2 frames. I'd like to overlap the two images but I don't know how....
Scaramanga
Senior Member
A close-up of the ball lightning....from which you can see there is not just one orb but 3....a red one and two white ones.
I have hundreds of hours of storm video, so if anyone's gonna capture something wierd its likely to be me ( as with the streamer photo further above )....
This just shows that 'orbs' do exist ! If I can capture them so easily...why can't Lue Elizondo.
john.phil
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Scaramanga
Senior Member
Thanks. I'd say that puts it about 800 feet away if one assumes it is near the ground. So its actually intrinsically quite bright...at least as bright as a 150W light bulb. There aren't that many good photos of ball lightning...and I've never seen one that seems to capture 3 at the same time. I'm assuming this is ball lighting, as in the video the orbs appear literally a second after a bright nearby lightning stroke. I think this is a pretty good capture !
Jack Mallory
Senior Member
I would think this (and the famous movie footage) would fit the criteria, no?
Sure, it was already a well-publicized and well-attended event, but what are the odds that this particular moment was captured on film, especially given the year?
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Creepy_Green_Light
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Anti gravity spy plane prototype that was built using alien technology was seen and photographed 10 years go in Amarillo.
I believe somewhere else on these forums you can see where Mick is calling the aircraft in question a B-2 Spirit.
Mendel
Senior Member.
Mendel
Senior Member.
now that I'd like to see a source for
The RQ-175 Polecat looks like it has two engines:
(via https://www.twz.com/37401/was-the-s...ne-really-photographed-over-the-mojave-desert )
The concept image for the RQ-180 that Duke found shows it with 2 contrails. Obviously it's hard to confirm when the aircraft is classified.
Mendel
Senior Member.
I dunno, movie stills from 1991 aren't all that rare?
Link to your picture: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/mediaviewer/rm1201451776/
Jack Mallory
Senior Member
Good catch.
But now I'm less inclined to share a photo I took on a recent camping trip.
I always think of the giant squid when this subject comes up.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsBelow/comments/tqlwcd/rare_footage_of_the_giant_squid_filmed_a_few/
Miles upon miles of ocean, and a camera with a field of view that can be measured in feet, and yet we still manage to get footage of them in their natural environment.
Or an echidna that is so rare it was thought to be extinct, until one was captured on video:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67363874
And yet, we have literally hours worth of UFO/UAP footage at this stage, and not a single video that confirms that we're looking at technology beyond our own capabilities.
It's as though there was something to that...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsBelow/comments/tqlwcd/rare_footage_of_the_giant_squid_filmed_a_few/
Miles upon miles of ocean, and a camera with a field of view that can be measured in feet, and yet we still manage to get footage of them in their natural environment.
Or an echidna that is so rare it was thought to be extinct, until one was captured on video:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67363874
And yet, we have literally hours worth of UFO/UAP footage at this stage, and not a single video that confirms that we're looking at technology beyond our own capabilities.
It's as though there was something to that...
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