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It's accurate. The Syria 2021 video in ULTN matches visually at about 0.1° vertical FOV, and then there's 2x and 4x digital zoom on top of that, so effectively 0.025°FOV

120x isn't unheard of in broadcast TV contexts, but at much higher resolutions, so its ability to resolve details is about on par with professional grade. If you want better resolving power, NASA should be your first stop. (Not forgetting that...

Perhaps not in this case, but certainly in others we have seen, a distant bright object viewed through miles of atmosphere can have a wide variety of colors introduced by schlieren, the wavy appearance produced by thermal/density variations such...

It always amuses me when it's claimed that one (or in this case multiple are implied) modern technologies have been reverse engineered from some kind of recovered, or shared alien technology. This would require there to be some strange "missing...

Nearer than the buildings in the background => smaller than its projection onto the background => no bigger than a brick.

The Sun takes a different arc across the sky every day, so especially at low angles, there are are limited set of days that the Sun will appear at a specific elevation and azimuth angle pair. If it is the Sun and the angles are 5º el and 115º az...

The Sun takes a different arc across the sky every day, so especially at low angles, there are are limited set of days that the Sun will appear at a specific elevation and azimuth angle pair. If it is the Sun and the angles are 5º el and 115º az...

The Sun takes a different arc across the sky every day, so especially at low angles, there are are limited set of days that the Sun will appear at a specific elevation and azimuth angle pair. If it is the Sun and the angles are 5º el and 115º az...

According to ChatGPT, 0.08x0.11 is the same as 26,000mm in a normal 35mm camera - it sounds totally crazy to me.

@Giddierone Perspective lesson in a nutshell: if there are two objects, one ten feet away and one twenty feet away, the second appears 50% the height of the first. (10/20 = 0.5) But if one is 1000 feet away and the other is 1010 feet, then the...

How far away do we think the drone is? I think Mick's sitrec suggests ~10 n miles / 18 kilometres? Makes me think of this recent case where the cameras were far further away (20km) from the subject than I'd thought and I think they were shot on...

- Unusually low video quality - Wild and continuous camera movements - Two different types of static - Random meaningless numbers - Lack of interest in the UFO.

The first thing that struck me was "just as a gut reaction, due to the static and the general appearance of the UFO, and such, this looks fake." Of course "this looks fake:" is not a good debunk. But it still looks fake to me! The second and...

My husband exemplified the "husband vs refrigerator" trope by opening the door, and instead of observing the big white gallon of stuff (top shelf center), would turn his head, look at me, and ask if we had any milk.