Two UFOs on Ring doorbell footage, 8 Dec 2024

[Trailblazer]

This footage has been connected to the NJ drone sightings:

This seems to be the earliest instance of the video:


It says it was posted "4d ago" currently on the morning of 13 Dec UK time (I can't see a way to get the exact timestamp on TikTok?) and there is no location given - the descriptions on Twitter as "New Jersey" seem to be later additions.

My first impression is that it is a fake, as the motion doesn't look very realistic, and there are a few other things that seem off:

1) It is claimed to have been triggered by motion sensor, but motion detectors don't have anything like enough range to pick up movement as far away as these objects appear to be at the start of the clip. Note that the original TikTok post doesn;t say anything about motion sensors, but reposts on Twitter do, eg:

2) The timestamp in the top right hand corner isn't there from the start, it just appears shortly after the footage begins. I don't have a Ring doorbell so I don't know if this is normal behaviour.

3) The timestamp itself doesn't count smoothly, there are a couple of glitches where the seconds skip too fast. Possibly this could be a video artifact, but it would have to be only affecting the timestamp generator, not the video itself as the motion shows no such skips.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[MonkeeSage]

(I can't see a way to get the exact timestamp on TikTok?)

https://trevorfox.com/tools/tiktok-video-date-extractor/ gives this posting date (read a bit down on the site for how the date is extracted):

UTC Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 01:42:14 UTC

 

[Ingrid Delaney]

1) It is claimed to have been triggered by motion sensor, but motion detectors don't have anything like enough range to pick up movement as far away as these objects appear to be at the start of the clip. Note that the original TikTok post doesn;t say anything about motion sensors, but reposts on Twitter do, eg:

2) The timestamp in the top right hand corner isn't there from the start, it just appears shortly after the footage begins. I don't have a Ring doorbell so I don't know if this is normal behaviour.

3) The timestamp itself doesn't count smoothly, there are a couple of glitches where the seconds skip too fast. Possibly this could be a video artifact, but it would have to be only affecting the timestamp generator, not the video itself as the motion shows no such skips.

All that and Ring says:

Ring uses Z-Wave technology to securely send signals between devices around your home and the Ring Alarm Base Station. The range for Z-Wave communication is up to 76 metres between the Base Station and the Ring Contact Sensors and Motion Detectors, however, a number of factors may impact that range.

Source: https://ring.com/gb/en/support/articles/x9gba/Technical-Specifications-for-Ring-Alarm-Devices#:~:text=Z%2DWave%20range,Station%20and%20the%20security%20device.

Motion detection range on Ring devices is up to around 9 metres with the Motion Sensitivity slider at the maximum level.

Source: https://ring.com/gb/en/support/articles/951a8/Motion-Detection-for-Ring-Devices#:~:text=Motion%20detection%20range%20on%20Ring,this%20range%20will%20be%20lower.

I think the objects look further away than a football field (100 yards) which is roughly 100 meters (out of range for motion detection.) Am I interpreting this wrong? I'm not too familiar with these.

The information provided by the uploader seems somewhat inaccurate after looking at the video.

 

[jarlrmai]

This is a 'need the original video really' case.

The motion detection could be based on both pixels and a seperate PIR motion detector depending on the camera.

Low light cameras can make things look weird, they have IR illuminators etc, they have persistence algorithms that create odd effects.

Watching the video is hindered by it being on tiktok.

 

[jarlrmai]

A better video source..


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yC0Ah0AXJc

 

[Trailblazer]

https://trevorfox.com/tools/tiktok-video-date-extractor/ gives this posting date (read a bit down on the site for how the date is extracted):

UTC Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 01:42:14 UTC

Assuming the video was from the eastern time zone of the US, that is just over an hour after the time stamp on the video (7.38pm on Dec 8th would be 00:38 UTC on the 9th). So that part at least seems plausible.

 

[jarlrmai]

As noted in the OP that clock overlay is weird the way it flips from 23/34 seconds in 6 frames.

We'd need to compare other ring footage from similar devices.