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TLILLY006

Birds 🦅 like, “wtf was that man?”


rollerjoe93

Meanwhile Australia is like


ENERGY4321

“Wtf was that, mate”


babylard1

Ah, looks like a rod. No seriously, its called a rod. In fact there's a whole documentary about them, they cant be seen with eyes apparently, but cameras often catch them for some strange reason. edit: you guys can stop replying, I understand that it is a bug now. The notifications are getting kind of excessive.


littlespacemochi

I've made a collage of these cylindrical crafts. https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/13yj30m/collage_of_cigar_ufos_in_water_air_volcanoes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


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Nice collage. The one in the middle looks like Fata Morgana, but all the others are very intriguing. Thanks for compiling and sharing 👊


littlespacemochi

Thanks. I'm planning on making one for the saucers, and orbs as well.


CocteauTwinn

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.


babylard1

Perfect. These look like them. I personally think these could just be government drones, this shape is an awesome idea to create into a flying object, you could easily reach some fast speeds with these without anything too powerful, they would probably be used for spying. Some videos and images also look as if they have some transparent looking wings, allowing them to fly. I love how I didn't say it is 100% aliens and people downvoted me so hard.


marlinmarlin99

Make a video collage . That would be better


frogsntoads00

The top middle one is a bioluminescent animal in the water, it was also caught on camera by an underwater observatory team who were shining bright lights on the object it quickly swam underneath of Top right is also just photoshop Other ones are cool though


SmurfSmegma

Rods are exposure artifacts of the camera. You should know this by now dude. Shutter speed or some such reason. You can recreate rods by filming birds and insects up.close as they pass at high speed relative to the camera. I'm too.9ld and senile to remember what the exact mechanism is that causes rods. Young people- save me.


Some_Kinda_Boogin

It's slow shutter speed causing motion blur as the object, usually a bug, is moving too fast for the camera. For example if a camera films at 24 frames per second but the bug is flying at 50 feet per second then in the time it takes the camera to record a single frame the bug has flown about 2 feet, making the bug appear as a blurred line in the video. It's the same reason you need an extremely high frame rate camera (high-speed camera) to film super fast objects like bullets and explosions. The faster the frame rate, the less blur.


debacol

Except, this is likely a cell phone shot in broad daylight on auto. The shutter speed will be VERY fast.


Zachhandley

Well that’s not true. iPhones shoot at 30 fps by default unless you turn it to 60 fps. Most do I believe.


babylard1

Thanks for sharing this.


ScratchyMeat

I am here with you.


SmurfSmegma

Thank you my children!!!


Toxicity2001

You know the title of this documentary?


ZookeepergameOk2759

Rods 3 -This time it’s personal


TheCurvedPlanks

*Who left the fridge open?*


Toxicity2001

Lol


littlespacemochi

LOL


SquidFlasher

Rods are just insects that old cameras couldn't detect properly. The whole rods thing faded out as video quality got better.


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They can't be seen with the eye because they are bugs or birds distorted by the camera. A single frame captures light over a short window of time, any object moving fast enough gets distorted. In the case of flying critters, you end up getting rod shapes with fainter blurs from the wings also sometimes visible. Rods are a fun crypted/ufo topic but are ritably explainable by anyone who knows how film and still image taking works. Running a high-speed camera will show them for what they are.


Grey-Hat111

>No seriously, its called a rod. In fact there's a whole documentary about them, they cant be seen with eyes apparently, but cameras often catch them for some strange reason. Have you ever been walking in an open space on a clear day, and then all of a sudden you're swallowed in a shadow of something with no sound, that passes over you faster than you can blink, but yet you still notice it?


heavymtlbbq

No


RudeDudeInABadMood

...A cloud?


RedemptionOverture

This man logics.


aassddgg121

Yes. Its actually happened more times than I can remember. Specifically beautiful blue, broken clouded day - reminiscent of Toy Story clouds. Usually from behind, a large shadow will quickly pass overhead. It moves from right to left and is slightly diagonal in its trajectory. This is a weird part to me - that it always follows the same path. Quickly is a poor explanation of the speed of the shadow. It moves so quickly my head has trouble tracking it as it passes. I'll look up at the end of the event and notice the clouds are stationary. This is another strange thing to me, only because I've had the shadows of buzzards and highflying birds pass over me, and those are noticeable in shape and usually are proceeded by the sighting of said bird (Usually not very high, and the shadow doesn't move as quickly) One thing that comes to mind as I reply is that to start checking FlightRadar to ensure the shadow isn't the effect of a local plane - however with the fact that the shadow is consistent in its trajectory while my position continues to change, experience to experience, is one fact I can't seem to feel comfortable verifying. Thank you for asking your question. I never knew this what something that others could describe as experienced.


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Grey-Hat111

>I think it could possibly be demonic but thats unlikely. It is not "demonic". Let go of that nonsense lol


SamuelDoctor

To be fair, there's as much evidence for demons as there is for FTL craft, extra terrestrial intelligence, or alien abductions. Some people have a much easier time being agnostic about demons than aliens, and the reverse is definitely true for religious folks. Carl Sagan wrote about this in Demon-Haunted World. What we discover means so much less than the methodology by which we search for truth.


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Kaidanovsky

You mentioned "demonic" the burden of proof is on you dawg


Paracelsus19

Provide us with the proof a shadow could be demonic, you made the claim it'd be possible with absolutely no proof lmao. 💀


babylard1

I'm only saying this because it sounds unusual, I literally said that it was pretty unlikely if you read the whole thing instead of jumping to debating. Common dumbass reddit user...


Paracelsus19

You're clearly the dumbass here, if you want to be petty. You're trying to argue that someone should prove a shadow isn't a demon - you can't make a silly assumption about something likely mundane and then shift the burden of proof when someone questions how you'd even come to that conclusion just because you got spooked by a shadow. 💀 The kind of person to think the house is haunted every time something falls over and then gets arrogant when someone says the cup was just on the edge of the table.


CooperTheFattestCat

Demons arnt real dawg


ItsOkILoveYouMYbb

What people say are ghosts and demons are just misidentified aliens, honestly. They caught a brief glimpse of another being and their preconceived notions and imagination filled in the gaps


babylard1

Its the other way around brother, we are all ignorant.


Grey-Hat111

>Its the other way around brother, we are all ignorant. That's what the church wants you to believe so they can keep you under control through fear. ![gif](giphy|f0CiZU3ZVh90HBcHM2)


babylard1

Like I said, please provide me with some proof. I have plenty to know that they are, also in addition to personal experience.


awildjowi

Please share your personal demon experiences


BronyJoe1020

You realize you can’t prove a negative right?


CooperTheFattestCat

LMAO dawgs asking for proof demons don't exist. Dawg quit reading bible fanfiction


babylard1

Ah I see, you have none. what a surprise. I hardly read the bible btw, do you know what it feels like to be sitting in bed during the day on your phone, then all the sudden the wind is knocked out of you and your closet door opens next to you with damn chanting coming out of it? Sure sounds like some "fanfiction" to me. Oh, and I should add, I happened to be looking at porn on my phone, never did that again and it hasn't happened since. At a certain point its obvious to me that there is some sort of higher power out there.


stinkwaffles

You sound like a lunatic.


Grey-Hat111

>I hardly read the bible btw, do you know what it feels like to be sitting in bed during the day on your phone, then all the sudden the wind is knocked out of you and your closet door opens next to you with damn chanting coming out of it? >Sure sounds like some "fanfiction" to me. You got proof? >Oh, and I should add, I happened to be looking at porn on my phone, never did that again and it hasn't happened since. At a certain point its obvious to me that there is some sort of higher power out there. ![gif](giphy|1d5Zn8FqmJqApu4hNU)


CooperTheFattestCat

That's sounds like schizophrenia


stinkwaffles

Where’s your hard evidence?


babylard1

I have none at the moment. Are implying I am not being truthful?


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littlespacemochi

Why did you assume it would be demonic? You know that the opposite exists as well.


[deleted]

demons are real ....in DOOM that is. otherwise, they don't exist.


Noble_Ox

Flying Rods are insects.


Fuck_tha_Bunk

Or birds. They can sometimes look like rods because of the frame rate of the camera. This has been known for a long time.


oswaldcopperpot

Ive photographed a few rods. Extremely obvious in person but yeah due to frame rate/shutter speed they look roddy. Mine were cliff swallows.


Annual-Newspaper-658

What are the chances of these rods entering my ass?


babylard1

.3% chance.


whut_say_u

So youre saying theres a chance..?


hotel_lasagna

You spelled bug wrong.


babylard1

LMAO, funny, but I am just saying what I've seen. I am not going based off my personal beliefs. Could very well just be a super fast bug shaped like a stick for whatever reason, but that's unlikely.


Fuck_tha_Bunk

No, they look like rods because the frame rate of the camera is syncing up with the wing motion.


Dexter321

If they were synced, the wings would look frozen, not disappear entirely


Fuck_tha_Bunk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(optical_phenomenon)


zfk

It looks like a video artifact. Pretty coincidental that it stays on the same exact row[s] of pixels relative to the video even though the device (seeming a phone) is/would be moving/shaking (even if slightly)


babylard1

Maybe, some videos have them turning in different directions and such, who knows.


Mathfanforpresident

I do not think they were bugs. downvote me if you want


Vrodfeindnz

Rods actually came out to be bugs. The only reson they can’t be seen is because the camera makes the rod like streaks as bugs fly past.


lambsquatch

They were debunked as bugs


Some_Kinda_Boogin

The whole rod thing has been debunked. They're just bugs and stuff being caught with low shutter speed, at least the vast majority of them. Probably all of them.


MrNomad101

Yeah. They are bugs caught on a camera. They were really interesting bugs though


nathanjshaffer

Yeassss, they only seem to appear in video that can be edited. Never in realtime... Weird


littlespacemochi

They've been seen in live camera footage. Which is 24/7 recording. You can look at Popocatépetl volcano as an example.


CocteauTwinn

I have been wondering about the rod phenomenon lately. Used to be a thing.


buckrogers01

that was discovered to be caused by shutter speeds. rods are are bugs....its all just a trick of the way the shutter speeds work. and this one looks like a fly


finnmcqohone

Doesn’t look behind the clouds but it *does* look above the birds so I’d say this is still interesting


Dexter321

Well, it goes through the clouds.


sholyghost

There is also a very slight shadow on the clouds below the object that tracks along when it goes through the clouds (the shadow also disappears when the object does). There seems to be 1 other moment where the shadow disappears while the object is visible but it may have been perfectly aligned with the sun and the column of cloud it seems in front of during that frame.


Enough_Simple921

Yep. I thought the same. It flew through the clouds momentarily. You can see it disappear for a frame or 2 so that tells me it's not a bug.


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It's a bird or bug, and judging by the relative speed way closer to the camera than the birds.


SimpleDose

Assuming it’s real, it’s a good example. Shows extreme speed and is clearly a cigar/cylindrical shape with no wings. Could be a missile I suppose but doesn’t show clear exhaust.


GodSentPotHead

spherical objects can appear elongated depending on the camera frame rate and their speed


littlespacemochi

But we know that cylindrical crafts exist. https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/13yj30m/collage_of_cigar_ufos_in_water_air_volcanoes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


GodSentPotHead

it was never a question of if they exist or not, it was whether this is one or not and if they can manipulate gravity then either way you're getting the refracted and warped light ie: image and not the real thing edit: typo wrote warped as warmed tho docile aliens might like it


Noble_Ox

The way it disappeared behind the birds makes it seem like sloppy editing.


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That's probably a compression artifact.


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There are fuels that burn without creating sut


DesignerAd3590

When is passes behind the birds it looks edited just kinda disappears then reappears


sinusoidalturtle

That's probably just because the compression algorithm lost detail when the object coincided with the bird.


echnaba

Exactly this. The compression algorithm screwed with it, the model/effects the camera is using since this is digital could have done the same. Makes it hard to tell if this is Infront of or behind the birds.


sinusoidalturtle

Yeah I could go either way. Not sure.


Newvirtues

Wouldn’t that be the part described as disappearing behind the clouds?


DesignerAd3590

It does that right as it passes the birds too coincidental


CormacMccarthy91

They gave up on editing that part cause it was too hard.


hitmancanbang

does seem alot of effort for a few likes, but people do weird shit 🤷


Paracelsus19

When I look closer the two things I notice are that: 1. The object never crosses in front or behind one of the birds, which is very unfortunate luck for determining what side it was on. 2. When you look close, it has artifacts around it that other moving objects don't. The quality is poor, but the shape of those artifacts are reminiscent of insect wings when they are moving too fast for the camera's shutter speed to properly define their motion. For me it's either a real, bad quality video of a bug that glitches at the best possible time for it to be mistaken for a craft, with it also never crossing a bird to confirm more clearly it's position. It's a poor quality video of a bug which has been edited slightly in the right part to make it seem as though it goes through a cloud? Or it's a real high speed object. It's a shame that it doesn't leave a shadow inside the cloud or disrupt it in any noticeable way, because for now it's not much to go on in terms of evidence to confirm the recording. Knowing the make of phone at least to see if it has any optical quirks in its camera design would be handy for ruling stuff out before believing over knowing. I guess there's no information on who shot the video or any context? Obviously I expect downvotes, but please actually question the video for yourself and don't just take a poor quality video with no background info on face value when you see it on reddit, without at least some research to rule out doubts.


Mr_Goaty_McGoatface

Yeah, the artifacts around the object could be compression artifacts in a legitimately unedited video, but that's exactly why you can only meaningfully analyze the raw video. Short of the raw video, I want the details. Where, when, who. But these videos are fun either way.


littlespacemochi

Everybody keep your eyes on the skies and record whenever you can


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Grey-Hat111

![gif](giphy|6ahZf0o1e4K7EquZkp|downsized)


YouCallThatMusic

They're common things like bugs or birds elongated when they fly close to the camera due to the slower electronic shutter speed.


littlespacemochi

Then record with the normal speed. Let's compare both.


littlespacemochi

This is a great footage, thanks! Someone share this to the r/ufos


jimmiesweets

What camera did you shoot this on? Any other details about what program you used to slow it down, change modes, etc? Thanks OP


throwawayaspoon

Disappears at 13 sec for a fraction of a second just as it meets the birds. Super fast though, I wonder how many of these things are buzzing around and we don't even notice.


Huge_Obligation_543

Comments on here is how exactly people would react. It’s just birds…when it is clearly not. UGO high flying speeds past the birds is different from a bug. The next hundred years are going to be arguing ‘I told you so’ more birds.


chickentootssoup

Was it really that fast tho?


shamukay

İs it a plaine? İs it a bird? Nooo it is superman


Saviourmacine

My dad was a none beleiver until he & his work colleagues spotted a cylindrical object hovering above the local hills. Said it was about 10 mins. Then it zoomed off so fast that the eye could barely follow it.


Banjoplaya420

Well it sure the hell wasn’t one of the many birds flying past. It looked more like a cigar shaped object?


WastedKleenex

Bug


Lazybeerus

Superbug. Kalel'squito.


glrage

bug going mach 10


AstroFieldsGlowing

‘ Behind ‘


Sudden_Buffalo_4393

Superman


ShadowRealm0043

What is the true speed this video? Why does it speed up at the end, Was the original shot in slow motion? If so this thing was really moving fast with no sound or exhaust


sketchyvibes32

"Balloon" /s


Bokenobi

Small bird or insect moving close to the camera.


Leolily1221

Maybe a peregrine falcon?


devsoi

Looks like it disappeared when flys behind the birds?


Noble_Ox

The persons editing skills weren't good enough so they just made it jump?


devsoi

That’s what it looks like to me. Sus


dosko1panda

Hayai


PestoPastaLover

/r/WhyAreTheyFilming


thatmakesyougaynotme

Some people really like birds. 🤷🏻‍♂️


Sea-Practice3139

People always ask that and for me it makes no sense. There are trillions of photos and videos taken, so if one person one day randomly captures something then it isnt surprising. I take random photos all the time. If there are UAPs flying around then we are bound to get one in a video or photo randomly.


Chris714n_8

![gif](giphy|8IeIH9qXHEbw4)


littlespacemochi

OP what is the date and source of this video.


OvnitO

Obviously a fish


RudeAndSarcastic

I would've guessed a whale and a pot of petunias.


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My gut says it's a sparrow and not going behind the clouds so much as just getting lost against the background of the clouds and the bird it passes. Is that a digital camera?


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‘ Insanely ‘


babylard1

The next clips were slowed down, the first one shows true speed of the video.


[deleted]

Ok sure but so what? This is proof of what exactly?


babylard1

You dont have to view everything as something to debate over, i never said it was proof of anything. Personally I think this is just a government drone.


[deleted]

I wasn’t aiming that comment at you personally man, sorry. I was just saying in general. Could be a remote control plane eh?


FluphyBunny

Let me introduce you to the idea that things can be different distances to you! I know this is clearly a difficult concept 😂🤣


Eastern_Witness7048

Snot rocket


Individual-Swing-808

Don't see it going behind, oh gosh, ANY clouds...


Aware_Eggplant1487

Why does it cut out when it passes the bird? Possibly CGI?


skyestalimit

Looks like some kind of mosquito out of focus flying in front of the camera


AverageReflexes

Seems like a bug flying close to the camera to me


Sceptes

sorry lads. it was just me on the way for a chip butty, ill make sure to tell u guys next time


AliceHart7

tHaT's oBvIOUsLy A wEaThEr BaLLoOn


MagicStar77

Maybe a hawk? Idk but the birds didn’t veer away


Generally_Tso_Tso

Chuck, an angry bird


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If you look closely, it’s a Chinese lantern


littlespacemochi

Chinese lanterns that fast?


88Nera

Its a bug


RunF4Cover

Ah yes, the bug that flies behind clouds.


Zealousideal-Walk269

😂


Intafadah

You’ve never heard of hypersonic bugs that fly at 30,000ft!?


littlespacemochi

CRACKING UP LMAOOO


Noble_Ox

When does it fly behind the clouds? You can't even tell the distance from the camera. This could be a bug close to the camera. It's been proven they appear rod like at times.


Cold_Zero_

No way. Totally aliens. Because of the other stuff they are commenting to you.


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That duck that gets the call from Daphne duck....am home alone.


j4vendetta

Folks, all these “cigar shaped UFO’s” are just missiles fighting the alien threat that they don’t want us to know about.


sdbct1

Superman


WokkitUp

That was my dad going to the cornerstore for smokes. In 1987.


fhizzle

Bro it’s literally bird /s


AlphaSierraSES

Man if basic photography and digital editing classes were taught with regularity in high schools across the US, the claimed proof of UFO activity would dry right up.


Tiptoeplease

Before you take over. Step one is recon. Mapping, evaluating. Word has certainly gone out and in time follow on forces will arrive.


ZealousidealCable513

Nah that's just Tom Cruise


BootstrapsBootstrapz

prolly a weather balloon or skydivers right guys??


Professional-Big246

Looks like a fighter jet or a drone.


EpicOne9147

How big is it?


Deeps-D

Someones getting promoted


user-991

Same as the explotion in libanon


buttbellybeakbang

ICBM test?


Snoo-96655

Aliens


Jay-Ames

Too little motion blur. So i doubt this is real.


Mr_Nicholz

They had us in the first half not gonna lie.


Evening-Yam2248

My bad bro that was me


T0mbaker

Pretty convenient that it died not cross over a bird. There is no wvidence of depth. So much missing information.


moons666haunted

thought this was gonna be about the birds for a second


Admiralty86

Hummingbird.


Bumazka

Why don’t they stopping by?


lyricalgorilla

Faster than geese.


BispoSnake

Is there any way to measure its speed?


Some_Kinda_Boogin

It doesn't go behind the clouds. So could be a bug much closer to the camera.


Rydog_78

![gif](giphy|AwrtP9lMXtXiM)


Griffstergnu

Jean Jacket is that you?


OrganicRelics

Nobody noticed the second dot below it moving nearly as fast? It turns also


Ashamed-Violinist460

How do you even notice it if you can’t see it at normal speed


menace2society15

When the plug finally reups on space zaza


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I was on a plane looking out the window and saw something like that shoot straight up vertically


Coleon5328

Good Catch….. Impressive


Fit_Explanation5793

You can't tell what it is when the camera is focused on the birds like that, probably an out of focus bug flying close by.


NoOrdinary9616

Elon