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Don't be sorry, your observation report was excellent.

It was my mistake with the statement about the ISS. I had tried to reconstruct it with the AI and relied on the data used. This was the mistake. She had used the time of a planetarium, which was indicated as 21:21. This did not fit within my time...

Confirmed on in-the-sky.org.

Hello, dear Metabunk community, Mr. West has kindly allowed me to present my case here. It concerns a video I recorded on May 13, 2026, at 9:47 p.m. over Radebeul. The video was recorded with an iPhone 16 Pro. The first part of the video was...

If it is a helicopter the green position light would be on the right (furthest) side of the fuselage and we would not see it (post #55) if we are viewing the port (left) side of the (probable) aircraft, which I think we are. If it is a fixed-wing...

The background noise in an image is the "grain" or "static", the random pattern of variations in brightness you can see here (contrast set to 5 in Sitrec) I was looking for repeating patterns in the clouds when one of my bots noticed there...

Don't worry about it! We have a long-running joke about people saying "it's not X" basically guaranteeing that it is X, so you're not the first person this happened to, nor will you be the last. You provided good data (including...

Just to point out something I noticed that might aid future readers of this thread when looking at something similar... The brightness of the mystery light fluctuates as it passes across the clouds, getting brighter where the clouds are thinner...

You provided all the information that was needed for a swift identification, all is good. OK, Mick and flarkey are absolute wizards at this, but still, sometimes it has to go via a shortlist before they find a positive ID. To be honest, you made...

The background noise in an image is the "grain" or "static", the random pattern of variations in brightness you can see here (contrast set to 5 in Sitrec) I was looking for repeating patterns in the clouds when one of my bots noticed there...

I did this using spare capacity included in my subscription (and one free reset) on and off over a week. Had I used the API, it would have been. quite expensive. Again, that's not what I paid. It was free, as it was compute that was spare...

The background noise in an image is the "grain" or "static", the random pattern of variations in brightness you can see here (contrast set to 5 in Sitrec) I was looking for repeating patterns in the clouds when one of my bots noticed there...

And here I hoped I could get away with being lazy. :p https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12/10/903 Acoustic Experiments for Special Forces Helicopter Operations W. F. J. Olsman Aerospace 2025, 12(10), 903; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12100903...

Yes, I misread your initial post. I thought you were saying that ADS-B is required when you clearly caveated that with civil aircraft equipped with ADS-B.

It looks more like 32 unique source noise frames which are reused with the columns permuted. So each frame has the same noise (where visible) as frames 32 frames away, but with the columns shuffled and blended or blurred a bit A cheap fast way...