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Absolutely. This seems to get lost often in all this UFO talk. How many surveillance drones, aircraft, areostats and other devices are on station right now all over the world. On any given day, I would imagine terabytes of information are being...

The issue might be more to do with data transmission. Cameras like the MX-15 (as used in Aguadilla) and this MX-25 (a bigger version with better optics) are generally used by manned surveillance platforms and will have a HD video feed displayed...

Yes distance puts stuff in the LIZ, poor settings does the same, the camera might be setup more to detect presence or movement of an expected target, rather than as to perform general id of various types of things, so over exposure and over...

I started to type, and then realized that jarlrmai largely beat me to it: Before we had cameras and lenses as good as we do now (I'm not even a photographer, and I have a 200-800mm lens) we had great, interesting, clear UFOs described to us by...

If you expect that to pass as evidence of aliens, when it is clearly just a car with a bunch of dudes on it.. Perhaps a poorly remembered puppet troupe..

If we're talking about fun details on big vehicles that have been repurposed, then how about this one, based on a 1960's US ambulance chassis. The one and only, Il Tempo Gigante. It was made as a life size functional replica of the model...

At least you know there’s room to lie down in the back.

This link goes to the Wikipedia article about The Andromeda Strain, not a video.

Well, you eventually got to the right conclusion, but of course the "color of the parachute" would also change in thermal imaging, depending on the ambient temperature.

Regarding whether it is a parachute flare or lens flare, Mick, I wonder if you could try a supplementary experiment? Use a thermal imager in black-hot mode to capture a descending flare at an appropriate distance (where the spot size is similar...

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You must slowly cook the sauce to concentrate its flavors; takes a lot of patience, perhaps too much. Cooking it down is an essential part of preparing Skepticus Metabunkus, which must marinate for a long time so it is tender and the sauce...

Ahh, I had not noticed that, am packing like mad to drive home from a week of showing off flying fabric of different sort, I'll provisionally accept your point but in the spirit of true skeptical enquiry will watch the video again while watching...

Ahh, I had not noticed that, am packing like mad to drive home from a week of showing off flying fabric of different sort, I'll provisionally accept your point but in the spirit of true skeptical enquiry will watch the video again while watching...

For the rotation center to stay in the same place through the video would means the camera is tracking the rotation center of the pendulum/chute system. Here it's outside of both "objects" so the camera doesn't have anything to lock on. It's not...