I was thinking about technological cloning, raised by Perene, not so much coincidental "doubles" or doppelgangers. If the person/ creature described by the three Varginha girls was a double of someone/ something, the original person/ creature...
There is an offset between the real-world position and the Google Maps position of features in China - it's a restriction imposed by the government I believe. So you end up with very weird situations at the borders with neighbouring countries...
@flarkey, can you load this video directly?
https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Petra.%20-%20earlier%20with%20more%20sats%20-%2001-69668249a2b5c.mp4
Tried to line up a line of sight from one of the other photos and the one I did earlier, and came up with this intersection.
Zooming in on where they intersect is this feature, the Houxia No. 2 Bridge Tiechanggou Bridge...
@NoParty - totally agree. The problem with all these sightings of unidentified amorphous objects is that's its very hard to actually prove that they are anything in particular. This is often used by the pro-bunking community to deflect or reject...
@flarkey, under Sitrec/Settings, what do you have "Max Resolution" set to?
And does it help if you change it, say to 480 or 360?
Also, can you look in the .../More Tools/Developer Tools/Consol Tab, then right click and "Save As...", and...
Based on that, could it be a light on top of the mountains? It doesn't look like a window reflection to me, but it does appear to be moving more slowly than the city lights, which would be consistent with parallax on a more distant light source...
I think the one in the Chinese video is definitely the moon the location matches perfectly. Presumably the phone is in "night mode" as the city lights are relatively dim, so the moon is very overexposed.
Regarding the diffraction spikes... there...
Yes I am sure it is the engine. I think the camera may be pressed against the inner window, but not perpendicular to the pane, so the view is somewhat forwards.
This seat map is from Delta but I think A321-200 seat plans are fairly standard...
I think that's correct, because the dark object at lower left looks like a seat in the row in front of the photographer. He claims he had the camera held flat against the window, but that seems incorrect at this point.
Looking in the region of the bridge it is puzzling that we can't see more lights. Many of the buildings are actually down in the valley, though, and would be hidden from the POV of the plane. If it is not the bridge itself, could it be some of...
Do I have the co-ordinates wrong? It doesn't look like a match to me. It's the purple pin here, and I think there is a corresponding bright area in the pics from the plane. The mystery light is some way further left (north) - close to the bridge...
Indeed, some comments in the original video pointed out that it might be a ski resort, which is a plausible idea. However, the ski resort mentioned earlier was too far away, so I searched for a few ski resorts near Urumqi that align with the...