https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/DropOfGold/20260429_224306.js
Matching the hill profile and then the size of the object, comes out at about nine feet across, so some sort of canopy seems plausible.
Helicopter for scale...
Dolan is presenting ideas that I've considered for some time (years). A type of controlled contact from a persistent technology. "Flash 'n Dash", lonely road encounters, D&D: Displays & Demonstrations. No tipping point.
Source...
I continued the analysis with RA/DEC comparison plots. On the left, the third-party 107K list. In the middle: Vasco60 survivor candidates, and on right, the Vasco60 full tile footprint.
Observations here...
What I always find amusing about all this is the obsession with fuzzy videos.
Every day the NRO's toys in orbit, commercial imagery satellites, foreign satellites (both government and commercial) image vast portions of the Earths surface.
If...
I am pretty sure it is a real object. It's there in the same place in two separate videos taken at clearly different times, and you can see it in the zoomed-out view (just about):
In particular when you have examples of what we're capturing like @Matt33's bulldozer here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/what-could-the-flying-saucer-shaped-object-located-on-a-mountaintop-in-southern-ca-be.14860/post-367950
(Yes, that's...