Help identifying this object.

a reply to: Macenroe82

Jesus has returned to earth with a hangover.

a reply to: vlawde

It was the end of November in Northern Canada.
There was no hot day lol.

a reply to: recrisp

I knew it something down to earth.

Thank you for your help!

a reply to: recrisp

I found a video showing exactly the same thing on youtube.
Even using the same camera.

Again thank you for the help!

a reply to: Macenroe82

You're welcome!

I have seen that same video, I don't know why I didn't think to show that. heheh

That favors a baseball. One could even make out the seams.

Of course, something has exaggerated its appearance.

a reply to: Macenroe82

Here's the pelican thing I mentioned, it may actually benefit you at some point when you are researching things.
(Be sure to read some of the comments too, I tried to tell them what it was, but they didn't listen)

www.youtube.com...

a reply to: Macenroe82
It's a light aimed in a swimming pool, you can see the water rippling

a reply to: irgust

Damn you! It’s a video of the plastic pool drain cover under water. Boom baby! Mystery solved. Next please.

a reply to: recrisp

Ya that’s the thing in this field, you can tell them to your blue in the face that it was the ISS or a satellite, but they will swear up and down that it was moving at angles and what not.
I just send them an email telling them what it was and if they have any questions I’d be happy to address them.

a reply to: Macenroe82

A water droplet.

The apparently parallel lines, I suspect, are an image of something in the combined lens/droplet field of view.

a reply to: Macenroe82

That's the best way to handle that, you're doing good.

It is the Nikon P900 rippling orb effect. The Nikon P900 is notorious for not maintaining auto focus on small bright light sources. The rippling effect is just atmospheric distortion.

Mick West from Metabunk has produced the following highlighting the problem with the Nikon P900.



Metabunk Nikon P900 rippling orb effect link

Other examples of Nikon P900 videos using Venus as a subject.

a reply to: tommyjo

This is perfect.

Sending it to all my Investigators now.
That way if they ever run into it In a case again, they don’t waste their time on it.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: tommyjo

This is perfect.

Sending it to all my Investigators now.
That way if they ever run into it In a case again, they don’t waste their time on it.

No problem. Thanks for the reply!

originally posted by: vlawde

originally posted by: TrustedTruth


it was too out of focus on an hot day, and the heat rising creating a mirage, causing the distortions we see, is all it was.

^^^This

*zoidberg voice* Hurray, I was right.. for once.

originally posted by: tommyjo
It is the Nikon P900 rippling orb effect. The Nikon P900 is notorious for not maintaining auto focus on small bright light sources. The rippling effect is just atmospheric distortion.

Mick West from Metabunk has produced the following highlighting the problem with the Nikon P900.

Metabunk Nikon P900 rippling orb effect link

Other examples of Nikon P900 videos using Venus as a subject.

Yessir... case closed.
or reopened, and then closed again.