~104m is the altitude in respect to the take off point. The altitude in respect to mean sea level was ~155m.
Ukraine UFO on Thermal Camera Footage
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deirdre
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ah. thanks!. i still cant get the borders to line up at that low a height. The lens must be "distorting" the view somehow...
This is footage taken from a mobile phone recording close to the screen at an angle, thus some adjustments are expected.
In the first frames, the zoom scale is visible. By measuring the relative position of the zoom gauge and comparing to the same drone model display, it was wide open at 1.0x.
Not necessarily warm - but highly reflective.
I think you're right here. They appear to be oriented to the south, which is what you'd expect for solar panels in the northern hemisphere.
However, the bigger issue is that the solar farm is on a bearing of about 160° compared to the 127° that the UFO on in the drone video. I made a mistake when I saw the greenhouses. (@Matt33 - i've just edited this)
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deirdre
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the display doesnt line up with the drone imagery
even if i transform a tad to compensate from the phone angle. (it helps) i think their display HUD is broken.
deirdre
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Please, try the position towards the right, where it was originally proposed, because at the position on the left, there is a road missing from the footage (yellow arrow), so it's probably not the right spot:the display doesnt line up with the drone imagery
Try to adjust against the satellite photo from 2019, as it more clearly shows the hedge along the road, just like in the footage.
deirdre
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with my placement literally everything else matches up -minus the iphone slight distort (the river land bump, the field edge, the left corner with the long building etc. if i go right i lose all those line ups.
you can place it whereever you want but to my eye my placement works better for more details.
This is the latest imagery I could find online for the area, taken 28 Feb 2024.
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-br...28,1]&blueRange=[0.28,1]&demSource3D="MAPZEN"
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-br...28,1]&blueRange=[0.28,1]&demSource3D="MAPZEN"
mmtmn
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@Mick West possible solution here?I'm kicking myself for not having a camera with a real-ish zoom ready all the time.
Last night as the "big storm" fizzled around here, I looked out and saw the Ukrainian UFO in the distance. There was lots of clouds and mist, but in the middle of it was a long thin rectangular UFO, almost exactly like the one in the video, just inverted. Not being a black hot thermal image, the UFO was very bright compared to the surroundings. After watching for a few minutes, I tried to video it with my phone, but it was just too far away. I went for a camera with a zoom, but as it rarely gets used anymore the battery was dead.
My plan was to shoot a photo or video and then make it B&W and invert it. I really think it would have looked pretty close for being 1/2 way around the world.
Trust me bro, I know what I saw!
This morning, I did some more looking and I'm pretty sure what I saw was the setting sun hitting a building of some sort just right to make it shine/reflect through the mist and clouds. These buildings appear to be around 35 miles away:
With the main suspect being the Johns Manville insulation factory that kinda sits by itself in a sea of ag land:
There is also a variety of ag buildings in the area.
No luck tonight with the same effect, but I've now got some morning photos of the area with a proper camera. Hopefully the scene will repeat, though it was very possible that like many UFO photos, it was the result of the clouds, sun, view and other things being just right for just a few minutes.
The Ukrainian operator claims the footage was taken at 9pm a couple of weeks ago, which excludes a reflection from the Sun. Also, the object would appear quite hot under IR if the Sun was reflecting from it.
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source?
I will have to give credit to the New York Post's Basement Office dude. After being caught up in the hype like a typical tabloid, he calmed a bit and decided to dig into the backstory.
A backstory that we all knew but uh, hey, good for him. The Men Who Stared at Dinobeavers.
NorCal Dave
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Just a big maybe. I was just trying to relate an experience that I, unfortunately, could not capture on camera. Under just right circumstances, a glowing long thin rectangle, very similar to the UFO in OP appeared for 1-2 minutes in the distance. There was heavy cloud cover up above and what seemed to be thin clouds or even rain between me and the object.
I don't know about the guy that took the video, in my case I pretty used to what I can normally see when looking west. This day, most of that was obscured due to weather. It was just grey with high clouds. Then a bright long thin rectangle appeared. Besides the insulation factory I mentioned, I also located a large dairy farm with long low metal roofed barns. In my case, it seems what I was seeing was a building of some sort that the setting sun was hitting just right to make it stand out from the fog/rain/clouds and appear a bit otherworldly.
Had I managed some photos of this, at best, it would have shown that distant buildings can, under the right circumstances appear similar to what is in the video. But it would not have been in thermal imaging. My feeling for now, is that it's something like that in the video. A distant building or structure of some sort that is a bit hotter than the surrounding fog/clouds.
And the better camera is charged and ready now
Eburacum
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I'm unsure how the anonymous drone operator arrived at the conclusion that is object was 40 miles away. It may be much closer and smaller. But if it is on the ground it must be a fairly large object; several hundred metres long, perhaps.
However it is not as 'tall' as the drone operator suggested, since it is long and thin; if it were 400 metres long, it would only be fifty or sixty metres high.
However it is not as 'tall' as the drone operator suggested, since it is long and thin; if it were 400 metres long, it would only be fifty or sixty metres high.
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