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Originally posted by Unknown Soldier
I was thinking, perhaps the flying dragons described in ancient Asian cultures could be based on this phenomena?
Just a thought ?
Originally posted by SunshineLaws
reply to post by ThinkingCap
It's not my video. Go to YouTube link to read the comments on how ShieldPascal got the video. I just find it very interesting that many have posted similar sightings over the last several years. Could this be the "critters" that Buzz Aldrin mentioned? Is it a natural phenomenon?
My Youtube user name is ShieldPacal. I am the original poster of this video, but not the source of it! That credit goes to a friend of mine. Here is my recent, detailed response to comments by other contributors regarding the 'choppiness' of this footage:
NEWEST UPDATE: Thanks for all of your input. The footage is choppy during the beginning when he moves the POV in order to frame the light source, and after the spectacular footage when he changes the POV for reference to other objects. This choppiness is augmented by the night mode of the camera which greatly reduces the frame rate. You can see on the footage that the street lights, star(s), and airplane show streaking, ghosting, and 'choppiness', but these effects do not come close to mimicking the effect of the object.
During the middle 3 min, the frame is focused directly on the object, with the camera mounted on a tripod. He didn't intentionally jostle the camera, although for about 5-10% of the critical footage he was manually zooming in and trying to frame the phenomenon.
There have been several explanations for this footage. The most obvious and common is the following: 'source of light: planet; streaking effect: vibration or jostling the camera or tripod coupled with greatly reduced frame rate; color effect; possible auto-focus or other camera anomaly; conclusion: easily explainable mixture of science and nature.
However, I have yet to see any star or planet footage, either manipulated or natural, that has duplicated this phenomenon other than the Texas, USA and Ghana, Ireland footage (owners, please contact me and I will include your names). I have just begun my research into this phenomenon and refuse to be so quick to draw conclusions when the very real possibility exists that this may be something 'other'. Further, there have been many, many naked-eye sightings of similar phenomena which utterly discounts the doubters 'camera angle' (555!). For me, I'm going to reserve judgment for awhile...
Originally posted by Unknown Soldier
I was thinking, perhaps the flying dragons described in ancient Asian cultures could be based on this phenomena?
Just a thought ?
Dancing Light UFO Video in Thailand Update: Expert Analysis of Video, UFO ‘Skywriting’
December 17, 2010
By LBG1
UFO expert: Thailand 'Dancing Light' video authentic
Analysis of the Thailand UFO video by Donald Arthur Johnson, PhD:
This UFO was videoed by my colleague at work, and witnessed by his wife and him. The witnesses are both in their 30s and college educated professionals. The sighting occurred on Monday night, December 13, 2010 at around 10 p.m. Bangkok time. Location: Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand from his 6th floor apartment.
He was smoking a cigarette on their 6th floor balcony when he first noticed a bright light in the sky, which turned into a bright line. He first thought it was a star, then a satellite, and then an airplane, because it was multicolored and was more than just a point source. However, it hung in one place in the sky, so he called to his wife to come out and bring his video camera, because he wanted to use the telephoto zoom on the camera to enhance the image and try to explain the mystery of what they were witnessing. He mounted the camera on a tripod and used the camera’s telephoto lens to zoom in on it to get a higher magnification. That was when they both noticed it was dancing very rapidly in snake-like or worm-like movements, but in the same place in the sky. They were looking toward the southern sky. They actually saw 3 of these dancing lights but filmed only one of them. The light you first see in the video is a light on the side of their apartment building, which provides some reference to the angle of elevation. He estimated it was perhaps 10,000 feet above the aircraft passing underneath on approach to Bangkok (BKK) Suvarnabhumi Airport, so the altitude might have been around 15,000 feet. The choppiness you see in the video is definitely part of the phenomenon, because the speed of the video is normal, not sped up or slowed down. This can be verified by the audio comments they both made, which are quite interesting to listen to. To the naked eye the UFO appeared like a bright light or line in the sky; only under telephoto magnification, with the camera mounted firmly on a tripod, were the strange worm-like maneuverings observable on the camcorder’s digital display.
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