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Why would a cell phone video be 4:3 though it's odd, they are generally 1080p, how does resizing it to as if it were taken vertically and expanded look?

My quick attempt to recreate this ufo by filming sun lens flare It doesn't go "behind clouds" the same way - it hides rather abruptly (I move phone to the side and sun hides behind a wall) but I bet If I obscure sun using some transparent...

Not sure where the date comes from in the original submission, but there was a solar eclipse covering that geographical area in June 2020. Might make sense that submission was delayed a month or two. To me, this looks like someone filming the...

In the original video, the moment the "UFO dives into the clouds" is exactly when it just "turned a corner," which seems to correspond to the movement of the camera lens. It is possible that this movement caused the camera body to temporarily...

It's most likely a plastic bag. (PR060) The object traveled 484.27 meters in 57 seconds. That's about 19 mph. Credit to : - @i11umin8ed (twitter/x)

Forcing a distortion from a 3:4 aspect ratio to a 16:9 ratio—I believe there is a very high probability that this was done intentionally

I restored the video to 4:3, 1:1, and 9:16 aspect ratios respectively, but ultimately found that in the 3:4 frame, the figures look normal and the rocket's glow appears approximately circular

Ours aren't. Ours can pull up and land delicately on a nest not much larger than the top of a telegraph pole, and not knock it off. However, there's survivorship bias potential there, and of course existence of the graceful does not deny the...

I have a bit of experience watching birds and john.phils video does not seem very bird like to me, it looks to me like it blows in gets temporarily stuck then gets blown a few more times.

My quick attempt to recreate this ufo by filming sun lens flare It doesn't go "behind clouds" the same way - it hides rather abruptly (I move phone to the side and sun hides behind a wall) but I bet If I obscure sun using some transparent...

My quick attempt to recreate this ufo by filming sun lens flare It doesn't go "behind clouds" the same way - it hides rather abruptly (I move phone to the side and sun hides behind a wall) but I bet If I obscure sun using some transparent...

My quick attempt to recreate this ufo by filming sun lens flare It doesn't go "behind clouds" the same way - it hides rather abruptly (I move phone to the side and sun hides behind a wall) but I bet If I obscure sun using some transparent...

Iraq is home to such large white birds as storks and cranes, graceful when soaring but rather clumsy when landing.

My prior was "big shrug", but, after seeing that, my posterior is "could so easily be lens flare". Just as a sanity test - is the sun (presumably the only sane source of the flare) and the shadows it casts, at the appropriate angle? With the poor...

I came across an older but highly relevant paper while digging into photographic plate artefacts: Greiner et al. (1990), Astronomy & Astrophysics, 234, 251–261 "Discrimination between star-like defects on photographic plates and possible γ-ray...