I don't doubt that all. However, if someone was interested in creating this video the time and cost may not matter much. The cost would be tied up in the computer as they weren't spending money on AI tokens back then. As for time, if someone is...
@John J.
In the (fairly rare) instances a where both red and green lights are visible, they might appear from a distance to be a yellow light, not readily distinguishable from a white light. That may be one of the reasons people breathlessly...
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...
I remember @Mick West made a GIF some years ago on twitter and posted it. It was very clear that the rotation of the glare matches perfectly the rotation of the smudges on the lens.
Forget smudges. Just watch the horizon - the clouds. We get the following pattern: the clouds jolt, then another jolt, then a long drawn-out counterclockwise rotation, then another jolt. Watch it multiple times, watch the clouds only near the...
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...
Please call it a strobe.
I don't think the analysis that led you to make this determination is detailed enough to be reliable.
And likewise here; a phone microphone typically dampens the low frequencies that would carry the best in humid night...
Without any context of the video, this describes a helicopter or light civil airplane.
The expectation that one would hear an aircraft in these environmental conditions can cause a perceptive disconnect. I went back and listened and I do hear...
Couldn't the sounds at aprox 13secs be an aircraft?
Its been mention that military aircraft may not appear on flight tracking data. Lakehurst is base is approx. 30km away and Saturday activity may be unlikely but it maybe an error to rule...
I am willing to believe that, but have never noticed it nor heard it mentioned -- is this based on personal knowledge of helicopters, or can you share a source?
NOT disbelieving you, it's just that if I am going to explain this to somebody...
Adding to what others have said, I would not expect to necessarily hear a helicopter on a windy night. How sound propagates depends quite a bit on environmental factors. When I first saw this video, my initial thought was that it looks exactly as...
Lights in the sky must be either natural or artificial.
Something in the air or near Earth with clearly visible, regularly strobing red and white lights is unlikely to be natural.
Artificial lights in the sky come from many sources. All known...
A skilled CGI artist using a program like Blender could do it in a few hours or less. Corridor Crew on YouTube did a video showing how it was probably done. I used to make similar animations in blender. It's just a model of an aircraft parented...
It looks more like 90 blinks per minute to me, about 1.5 hz
The video has a variable frame rate, which can lead to some software, including Sitrec, which I'm fixing, playing back some segments at the wrong rate.
And the light layout seemed a...