This is the only question I feel I can answer, and the answer is yes. The tracking cameras the US uses are absurdly powerful and effective at tracking objects. The video quality in the released versions are often downgraded from the real video as...
The optical artifact effect seems obvious, but that brings up two questions.
Given the apparent distance between the bright signal and the swinging parachute that camera is ZOOMED way in, like reading a license plate from a mile away zoomed in...
I've wondered along similar lines.
It's interesting that a disproportionate number of these released UAP cases are IR imagery (as Gimbal was)- I say disproportionate because the military use visible spectrum cameras too, as does pretty much...