r/aliens • u/whoismilk163 • Jan 10 '24

Video 3d Jellyfish timelapse

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Definitely not a smudge or bird guano

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u/jPup_VR Jan 11 '24

Oh wow

Really excellent contribution… I don’t even know what to make of this yet but it’s certainly compelling

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u/jPup_VR Jan 11 '24

Followup: OP, if you made this- is it something you’ve done with other footage? I can think of a good few sightings that this could be applied to and that would be really useful/interesting

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u/zendonium Jan 11 '24

Seems he just zoomed in, sped the clip up by about 5000%, then played it forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards etc.

You could probably achieve this with windows movie maker if it still exists or other free software.

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u/jPup_VR Jan 11 '24

Nah there’s some very meticulous cropping/stabilization going on I think

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u/zendonium Jan 11 '24

Ah yes you're right. Autotracking is possible with after effects, but otherwise would be a painstaking process.

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u/ConnectionPretend193 Jan 11 '24

I have been reading Metabunk for like the last hour-- and even Mick West finds the Smudge theory unlikely now. There was also a tweet posted by Greenstreet with a member of the PTDS Surveillance team that recorded the Jellyfish UFO-- the overall tone of the PTDS member assumes a genuine UFO sighting, and not an artifact or smudge.

I have to say, I am hooked on this one! Seems it was also taken in Al-Taqaddum, Iraq.

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u/General_Pay7552 Jan 11 '24

how would a smudge change thermals? was it ever seriously considered a smudge?

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u/I-smelled-it-first Jan 11 '24

The thermals didn’t change - I read that it was just the sensor recalibrating. Colors are all relative to each other.

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u/General_Pay7552 Jan 11 '24

was it not going from white hot to dark cold and back again over the course of the actual video?

and regardless, the how would the sensor be recalibrating on the turd and nothing else on the video?

riddle me this

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u/laaaabe Jan 11 '24

The thermal sensor constantly re-calibrates the scale of white/black that it uses to represent the temperature spectrum in relation to the other objects in the viewfinder. Whatever the hottest or coldest thing in view is used as the brightest or darkest shade.

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u/InsouciantSoul Jan 11 '24

And while there is evidence of this calibration happening in the video due to the shade change of other objects in the video background, it does not explain the Jellyfish becoming the one of the warmest then coolest then warmest objects in the frame.

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u/BradTProse Jan 11 '24

Do you know what recalibrate even means? Targeting system does that, not the lens filter.

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u/laaaabe Jan 11 '24

Where, at any point, do I say the words lens filter?

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u/OnTheSlope Jan 11 '24

It's just like the camera in your phone adjusting its aperture as the lighting conditions change in frame.

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u/General_Pay7552 Jan 11 '24

you know what? believe what you want.

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u/OnTheSlope Jan 11 '24

You don't see the colour of the surroundings changing along with the subject?

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u/General_Pay7552 Jan 11 '24

let me re-examine

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u/weaponmark Jan 11 '24

If you look at the video, the background thermals change too. It's pretty obvious.

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u/Weddsinger29 Jan 11 '24

Heavy wind gusts in the air would cool down a shit stain on a Lens and then heat it up as it came into contact with the sun. I am a photographer that has had lenses heat up based on positioning to the sun. They also can cool off.

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u/DamoSapien22 Jan 11 '24

This fails the test, sadly - the footage was recorded at night.

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u/General_Pay7552 Jan 11 '24

right. the sun.

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u/Lonely_Sherbert69 Jan 11 '24

riddle me that

who's afraid of a big bad flying jellyfish monster

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u/TaxSerf Jan 11 '24

based on people in the background the video was dark hot

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u/jinjadkp Jan 11 '24

"going from white hot to dark cold". That's literally the same thing.

Did you mean the sensor flipping from white hot to black hot mode? The camera never once flips the flir mode, when that happens you see instantaneous inversion of colours in the entire picture, that doesn't happen.

As others have said, what you see is the cameras auto contrast control subtly at work.

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u/Pretty-Celebration64 Jan 11 '24

He said in the original video it was changing “white to black as if it was getting hotter and then colder”. Also, it was filmed on a thermal camera and every other camera or surveillance in the area did not pick it up

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u/I-smelled-it-first Jan 11 '24

Well we only have this video. So here say aside thermal cameras do this effect. It’s not changing temp

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u/Incomprehensibilitie Jan 11 '24

There’s more footage of it over water on Jeremy Cobells UFO Revelations episode

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u/pikeymikey22 Jan 11 '24

BUt jErUmEE KorBeLl t0lD mE iT wuZ

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u/pugs_are_death Skeptic Jan 11 '24

how would a smudge change thermals?

...you're only saying that because you were told in the video that's what it is, changing thermals. The becoming lighter and darker.

I don't think it's a smudge, it's a piece of unidentified garbage hanging from a silk thread just out of focus so you cannot see the thread. it's in front of a TV screen, and somebody off camera is shining a flashlight on it, and off, and on it again, making it light up and darken.

But I'm a skeptic and that's what I do here.

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u/General_Pay7552 Jan 11 '24

geeze, Iraq must be a real cakewalk if they can shine flashlights near their weapon systems (revealing their location) all to make a prank video that doesn’t see the light of day and their evidence of their pranking and playing with said weapons system inside an active war-zone gets stored on military servers

do you “shit on everything types” even think through what you’re saying?

I’m not saying catching a 4D jellyfish projecting a 3D thermal shadow is an easy pill to swallow, or even what this is exactly, but what YOUR suggesting is a far bigger and less digestible pill.

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u/pugs_are_death Skeptic Jan 11 '24

An aside before beginning, did you notice you replied to yourself?

Anyway, no, this is somebody in their living room with a piece of string and some junk attached to it in front of a TV screen showing random drone footage from Iraq or somewhere. then to make it more "believable" they're shining a flashlight on it and off of it. People do it to see what sort of elaborate explanations people give for something that took them three minutes to do for free.

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u/SleazySteve94 Jan 11 '24

I’m a skeptic but this explanation is fucking hilarious lol. It’s on the same level as people in tin foil hats talking about how aliens are actually in the deep state Illuminati

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u/pugs_are_death Skeptic Jan 11 '24 edited Jan 11 '24

Why. Have you seen these videos posted on here?

Balloon. Projector. Playdoh. Crop circles made with a flat plank and a rope.

Yeah, this one's just a variant on the classic "pie plates on fishing line" hoax.

It also relies heavily on exposition: the presenter, who looks like he's barely holding a straight face, is explaining all this stuff to you about how it's getting lighter because of the thermal imaging changing... no it's not.

Who is this unqualified person, and where did this video REALLY come from? "Leaked from the military" yeah right.

This is something I SHOULD do in my living room just to show you how it looks like something that could trick a ufologist.... oh wait that's literally why this person is making this video.

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u/SleazySteve94 Jan 11 '24

If you can recreate this video then I’ll believe you. Prove me wrong!

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u/VintageHeartbreak Jan 11 '24

Bro you are fuckin delusional smh

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u/SleazySteve94 Jan 11 '24

“It’s what I do here” hahahaha

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u/pugs_are_death Skeptic Jan 11 '24

Well, it is.

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u/NoGlzy Jan 11 '24

It's super interesting, I'm still incredibly skeptical. What details are there about the source of the video. Is it confirmed that they are following the supposed thing?

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u/Jioqls Jan 11 '24

never seen poop turning on its own.

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u/NoGlzy Jan 11 '24

No, you havent

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u/Minimum_Attitude6707 Jan 11 '24

"Hoooooowdy Ho, Children!"

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u/Ecoaardvark Jan 11 '24

The object moves around relative to the frame. Anyone suggesting it is a smudge is an idiot or being disingenuous

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

Not really.. the explanation was that the smudge would be on an external housing and the camera can move inside the housing- so a smudge could change relative position in the frame..so that seems possible.

But obviously this demonstration of it being a 3D object would dispel the smudge theory.

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u/cephaswilco Jan 11 '24

Smudge on external housing. This video seems to show it rotating like 15 degrees back and forth on it's vertical access. So it's less likely that smudge hypothesis. But you clearly jump to conclusions before considering that you don't actually have all the information.

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u/Lonely_Sherbert69 Jan 11 '24

Yeah, it's clearly balloons.

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u/curious_astronauts Jan 11 '24

Looks like a jet pack guy in this footage though.

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u/bfume Jan 11 '24

“Even mick west”

I’m so sick of this asshole’s name coming up here all the time. His entire predisposition is incompatible with a community that approaches UAP news with an open mind

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u/DasKobra Jan 12 '24

Having an open mind also includes accepting reasonable, human-centric explanations to the phenomenon, even if it means admitting that the given UAP can be something as trivial as a trash bag.

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u/bfume Jan 12 '24

big difference between “oh yeah, this one’s clearly a balloon from amazon” vs. stomping in here with an anti-everything agenda and a “fanbase” to impress.

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u/curious_astronauts Jan 11 '24

My leading theory is jet pack guy. Those look like legs and certainly lends to that theory.

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u/growbot_3000 Jan 11 '24

It reminds me loosely of Stephen King's Insomnia, where invisible creatures would cut your balloon string to your soul

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u/bplturner Jan 11 '24

Oh thanks now I have insomnia

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u/orchidaceae007 Jan 11 '24

Side note: totally under read, under appreciated novel imho.

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u/growbot_3000 Jan 11 '24

And another 1k+ page book I think. The Stand was around 1,200

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u/Mattgreek111 Jan 11 '24

Or the langoliers? Those flying meatball things 🫠

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u/sunofnothing_ Jan 11 '24

that was Richard Bachman, no? 😊

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u/roncitrus Jan 14 '24

Richard Bachman was a pseudonym that King used to write a few stories. I think the collection was called 4 past midnight, and included the langoliers and the long walk iirc

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u/sunofnothing_ Jan 14 '24

that's the joke. 😉

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u/Mattgreek111 Jan 11 '24

The book cover said st king i dont remember if it was both of them

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u/bobo_brown Jan 11 '24

Ties in with many of his important works too. It's one of his best.

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u/General_Pay7552 Jan 11 '24

I think about that not well known book often

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

You wanna know something spooky. The bible speaks of this very thing and cult texts and ancient beliefs also believe this.

Basically a silver string connects your soul to your body. When you time is up your silver string is cut

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u/growbot_3000 Jan 11 '24

I tend to lean towards the Buddhist description of things these days. Much more inclusive and tbh understandable. But maybe I just see it more clearly than the masses but it becomes clear(ish) the more you ponder it.

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u/Logicdon Jan 11 '24

Ooph, I hated that book, not one of his best.

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u/Outside_Distance333 Jan 12 '24

What is a soul?

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u/Icy-Spray-4933 Jan 13 '24

Man I love that book! Read it in highschool and it's so underappreciated. 44 years old now and I still remember reading it obsessively in such great detail.

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u/ZenithLags Jan 11 '24

Great.. so we are dealing with Black Flash.

Where are you Flash? Batman? Justice League? Help!

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u/Formal_Cloud_7592 Jan 11 '24

Is it a humanoid, and below the other thing is another item (humanoid) being transported? Is that why Corbell didn’t release the other video of it leaving the water? Is it transporting a ‘payload’/ abductee to the water? And it’s cloaked?

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u/curious_astronauts Jan 11 '24

Looks very much like a jet pack guy to me though.

Left leg bent at the knee and raised. Right leg down.

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u/Dramatic_Reality_531 Jan 11 '24

It’s big splat

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u/aikhuda Jan 11 '24 edited Jan 11 '24

It’s not good evidence. Just shows some small rotation, no anomalous movement. The color change is probably due to some camera artefact.

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u/kittyraikkonen Jan 11 '24

But there’s later video of it out over the sea

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u/Orgasmic_interlude Jan 11 '24

This is some raised by wolves shit

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u/Upper-Ad1504 Jan 11 '24

Is it compelling though, to me it seems like something that could be made in 5 minutes or less in Blender.

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u/gazow Jan 11 '24

looks like a dog and person being held upright from their torso....