I meant to include this in my post above, but got lost discussing cicadas:
If you look at the frame captured and posted third in the original post, you can see faint smudges that are likely the motion-blurred wings of whatever insect it is...
Silly waste of money apart, I am impressed by the capabilities of AIM-9X: a party balloon is surely a very different target from those AIM-9X's was designed for, both as signatures and as flight envelope.
Distance isn't a problem in that case, but perhaps paranoia was.
I once found a balloon (in Ohio) that had been launched by a third grade class in Michigan during the days when that was a fad. Upon corresponding with the class, I asked what was...
I wouldn't. Possibly Kirkpatrick is talking about these guys:
From their homepage:
https://nibbb.org/highlights-of-the-nibbb/
February 14th 2023, Pico Balloon K9YO Missing in Action and 7th Circumnavigation of Pico Balloon KD9UQB launched from...
So I assume the frame was supposed to show "it's all fake because the crisis actors are all in their blue protective gear, while the woman in the background is not wearing any!!!!!" In the full video, it is pretty clear that they are leaving the...
If you open https://video.sitrec.org, you can import or drag in a video file to view. But more usefully, you can drag in (or copy and paste) the URL of
- A Metabunk thread that mentions a PR video number in the title, e.g...
So I assume the frame was supposed to show "it's all fake because the crisis actors are all in their blue protective gear, while the woman in the background is not wearing any!!!!!" In the full video, it is pretty clear that they are leaving the...
I was wondering as well. It appears that access to footage varies by state, but in New Mexico, body-worn camera (BWC) footage is a public record with a number of exceptions:
New Mexico
description
Body-worn camera recordings are public records...
Recently I published Polish article: https://ufonapowaznie.pl/ufo-z-kumburgaz-w-turcji-problematyczny-przypadek/ about this case (there is option in menu for translate). It doesn't really help with identifying the objects. It focuses on...
I don't get this either. How many "unconventional explanations" can be credibly deemed to be "resolved" with a high degree of confidence?
This is at odds with the preponderance of poor evidence, e.g. low resolution IR zoomed videos of fuzzy...
It's really not odd. Your location puts you right between 2 of the busier airports in the country with Dallas-Ft. Worth to your west and Atalanta's Heartsfield to your east. You're right where they can cross:
The sky's over Haleyville right...
Recently I published Polish article: https://ufonapowaznie.pl/ufo-z-kumburgaz-w-turcji-problematyczny-przypadek/ about this case (there is option in menu for translate). It doesn't really help with identifying the objects. It focuses on...
Recently I published Polish article: https://ufonapowaznie.pl/ufo-z-kumburgaz-w-turcji-problematyczny-przypadek/ about this case (there is option in menu for translate). It doesn't really help with identifying the objects. It focuses on...
Overall timeline for reference
This isn't directly related to the question of the grid-burn vs blotchy-burn photos, although there are additional clues herein. Just adding for completeness.
Sources:
Davis (RCMP), 26 May 1967 report (cited as...