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There is movement, and you’ll often see dark ‘holes’ or spots that change position on their surface
That's kind of a strawman. We don't think every UFO is a balloon, just the ones that look like and behave like balloons. I can't tell exactly what kind of balloon or bunch of balloons that is, but it very much behaves like a balloon or balloons.
originally posted by: StarnatalSandia
And not forgetting the “every ufo is a balloon” crowd, yes, I’m certain the triangular object overhead is not a ‘Mickey Mouse’ balloon.
cameras auto-balance features and lighting conditions can change the apparent colors of objects in videos, without the objects themselves changing. I didn't really see it appear red, just various shades of dark colors.
The ears of those are much higher on the head, and no part of it would flash from black to red with the smaller bulbs changing colour from black to blue and purple.
Your video does not show an object vanishing, it would be more interesting if it did, then you might have some support for your claim it vanished. But it seems more likely you were simply unable to re-acquire the object, which isn't too surprising since it looked pretty far away when you didn't magnify the image.
It also would have continued moving in the sky for some time. This object just vanished.
Aside from the slight change in appearance which as I said seems quite possible for a balloon, I'm not sure why you seem to want to rule out a balloon or balloons. You are sort of confirming my hypothesis that when someone tells you what a UFO isn't, maybe 3 times out of 4, that's what it is. When people make a thread and say "what is this UFO? it's not lens flare." it seems like about 3 times out of 4, it's lens flare. Your video isn't lens flare, but you go out of your way to say you don't think it's a balloon even though that's what it looks like, though it could be multiple balloons tied together giving it the shape it has.
I expect the regular portion of folks will obsess about balloons, regardless, but that makes all of this stuff especially entertaining.