What could Dav Kaufman's UFO be?

[Alytha]

Reptile Adventurer Dav Kaufman had a weird experience in Australia recently (don't have any date, unfortunately):



Filmed near Silverton, New South Wales, on the border with South Australia, as per his narration.

The thing, whatever it is, doesn't seem to be moving much, so probably not a plane or a satellite for once?

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Tentatively...

The landing lights of a distant aircraft approaching Broken Hill Airport. And the well known hovering illusion. A distant aircraft heading more or less along the line of sight of the camera appears to "hover."

The lights are distorted by the atmosphere. Over a desert like that the ground cools rapidly, creating strong temperature gradients. The refractive index of air depends on temperature and density. The air breaks into constantly shifting cells with slightly different refractive indices. Scintillation, in other words.

Why such a short video segment? Because the object eventually resolved into a recognizable fixed wing aircraft?

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

The runway points generally to the northeast. A plane miles to the northeast of the airport would also be visible, fairly head on, from the Silverton area.

If you continued to watch it, it would eventually move slowly to the right. To a naive witness it could appear as strictly lateral movement to the right, because the plane is not moving straight toward the camera.

All well known stuff.

Eventually that movement would start to look more like a movement across the line of sight of the camera... if you showed the full video...

 

[flarkey]

Some wide angle views:

Do we have an date & time other than 'a couple of weeks ago'...?

 

[jarlrmai]

It should be geo-locatable, there's one main road with centre lines and the double non dashed lines only appear at rises and dips to prevent overtaking.

You can also see lights in the distance down the road, like a town glow

Where does the Silverton location information come from I couldn't find it on the video or comments/description.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

You can also see lights in the distance down the road, like a town glow.

Likely the town of Broken Arrow. We'd need to know what highway they're on.

I'd guess the A32...

 

[jarlrmai]

Likely the town of Broken Arrow. We'd need to know what highway they're on.

It's called Broken Hill...

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Wow. Broken Arrow was an old TV show I watched as a kid. You never know what my stutter will bring up.

 

[jarlrmai]

The problem with the road from Silverton to Broken Hill is that it has outer lines but the section we see in the video does not, and it doesn't seem as if they are covered just never painted. So that almost more likely puts it somewhere on the road north of Silverton which is not painted with outer lines

 

[flarkey]

From Dav Kaufman's Facebook page , he was in Australia from 20 to 30 March, no additional videos though.

 

[jarlrmai]

Likely the town of Broken Arrow. We'd need to know what highway they're on.

I'd guess the A32...

The A32 has white outers and is not near Silverton, I am gonna reach out to Dav to try and get some more information.

 

[flarkey]

Although he does have this UFO video ....

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BACLNHmfA/