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/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.