Unknown object passing through while filming the moon

reply to post by TheEnlightenedOne


lmao thats so fake.. no stars in sight.. moon looks squished too.. crappy camera or not it shouldnt do that.. nice try on creating a "viral" video though hahah..

To me it looked like a bat. They are very fast and are out at night. Didn't seem like anything really out of the ordinary otherwise IMO.

Note to OP...

This is why I quit posting videos to ATS.

All you are trying to do is share and get a few answers.

Instead you get treated like you are trying to hoax us (with over 700 posts).

Thanks for sharing....Don't know what the heck that is.

S&F

You did say it was a crappy camera. Could it be a crappy camera defect? Kind of like when the screen roll, when you get bad transmission? Only it moves perfectly horizontal across the screen and aligns with the moon perfectly.
Just seems a very odd double coincidence and would seem to be something machanicle/digital rather than by chance.
Just a thought, and I'm no expert.

Originally posted by CagliostroTheGreat
reply to post by TheEnlightenedOne

 

i see.

very misleading. the video title makes it seem as though the moon is the Unknown light source.

The moon is the bright white spot you cannot miss, it isn't questionable, it's the bright spot that went in front of the camera.

reply to post by TheEnlightenedOne

Hi,
This vid was shot outside?
Is there a highway viaduct in the view-finder we don't know about?

Scale of object size(s) x velocity of closer object tells me it may be a car on the highway. But I'm notoriously wrong.

For the moving object to spend most of its time dis-figuring the moon in slow-mo and not reach the other end of the screen...

Just using filters to begin with tells of a wanted out-come brewing.

I spilled a soda on a library book recently. I took my little comfort furnace to dry the pages. One by one I could get the pages to turn without my furnace (doing it) in the view-finder, (if looking through a camera lens). It looked like a real tele-kenesis trick in my minds eye..

I felt pretty confident that I could fool alot of viewers, but there are a couple of viewers who would be onto me, and then it would just get awkward.

I'm guessing it's a greyhound traveling at around 67 mph across a freeway viaduct.
I'm cool with being wrong, so any offenses committed against you are not meant to be mean-spirited, and I apologize if warranted.

reply to post by zilebeliveunknown


oh, is that what that is.

obviously.

what i was saying was the youtube video originally said nothing about the moon.

it only referenced an unknown light source.

*sigh*

Originally posted by whyamIhere
Note to OP...

This is why I quit posting videos to ATS.

All you are trying to do is share and get a few answers.

Instead you get treated like you are trying to hoax us (with over 700 posts).

Thanks for sharing....Don't know what the heck that is.

S&F

Thanks for the comment. I'm not going to give up though, I know people think this is fake but I know it isn't.
How do I prove the above? I can't.

I am trying to figure out what that is but I'll come back and see if anyone has any positive feedback on this.

Nay sayers won't discourage me at all, I will accept their input and try to see it from their point of view and carry on.

reply to post by TheEnlightenedOne


I, for one, do not know what passed in front of the moon that night.

whatever it was it was incredibly quick and som serious maneuverability.

but like others have said:

we see vids like this a lot and a lot of them turn out to be something mundane, like an insect or other living thing.

but without the proper analysis it remains a mystery.

reply to post by loveguy


I have my dad besides me as I am answering your questions but he was upstairs on the window facing the backyard. The window was open and he placed a tripod to have a steady view of the moon and zoomed in so that he can get a better image but that wasn't the case obviously.

The camera model I stated above has a zoom of about 700X digital, and he said he had it maybe 1/3 of it zoomed or could be 1/2.

Now for the reason of the moon looking like that, I will try and see if it was something I did while adding the comments on the video itself and I may have squished the size of it but regardless of the shape of the moon, the question is not Why the moon looks like that, but what the object beside it is.

Originally posted by TheEnlightenedOne
reply to post by loveguy

 

I have my dad besides me as I am answering your questions but he was upstairs on the window facing the backyard. The window was open and he placed a tripod to have a steady view of the moon and zoomed in so that he can get a better image but that wasn't the case obviously.

The camera model I stated above has a zoom of about 700X digital, and he said he had it maybe 1/3 of it zoomed or could be 1/2.

Now for the reason of the moon looking like that, I will try and see if it was something I did while adding the comments on the video itself and I may have squished the size of it but regardless of the shape of the moon, the question is not Why the moon looks like that, but what the object beside it is.

Well,
FWIW; if you say it is not a passing car on a viaduct, then I'll have to take your word for it.
Thanks for an interesting thread.

Originally posted by middleman5oh6
reply to post by TheEnlightenedOne

 

lmao thats so fake.. no stars in sight.. moon looks squished too.. crappy camera or not it shouldnt do that.. nice try on creating a "viral" video though hahah..

The moon did look like it was squashed, on the OP 's behalf. Even I had to look at it 3 x last night. Other night it looked round after work. But last night it wasn't a full moon. It looked like parts of it got chopped off or something. I believe the OP on this one.

It kinda looks like the object flew in front of the camera, and not in front of the moon.

I just reread your initial statement and I think I may have your answer. Your father noticed it on the replay which fits my theory perfectly.

Do you think the object in question that flew in front of the moon was the moon? Let me explain. Like another poster said it looks as if something is dragged in before the light. The sky part darkens before the light comes. The light is in the same exact position as the moon and honestly it looks just like it in brightness and shape except a bit stretched as if in motion. It almost looks like an image of the moon and sky was overlaid and dragged over the moon. It's not an "it" at all. It is a frame that gets played over the original.

I'm no camera expert but do you think it is possible the camera glitched and somehow jumbled the shot and superimposed an image over the original?

reply to post by DetectiveT


Not exactly sure if that could be it but interesting theory nonetheless. I watched the video after the so called object/light flying by and it only occurs on that section. Perhaps it could be what you say, I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks,
TEO

Odd. I see light on the object as it is initially passing... Yet as soon as it gets in front of the moon it actually not only blocks light from the moon but is also actually no longer producing light instantaneously... Why? Dunno.

You mentioned this but could not believe it till I also saw it. Confirmation post.

I think it could have been an insect flying very close to the camera.

OP:
was there a light source near you -- such as a house light (even inside the house), porch light, or street light, etc. that could have lit up an insect flying in front of the lens?

Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
I think it could have been an insect flying very close to the camera.

OP:
was there a light source near you -- such as a house light (even inside the house), porch light, or street light, etc. that could have lit up an insect flying in front of the lens?

That is a good observation, I wasn't thinking about that.

I had to go to the room where he took the video and he had the lights off in the room during the time of filming, the only light source was about 6 degrees down from the aiming point and to the left not the right where the light in question was noticed. The street light was so deemed that I don't believe would have been strong enough to light up the insect. At least this is my opinion!

Originally posted by TheEnlightenedOne
reply to post by loveguy

 

The camera model I stated above has a zoom of about 700X digital, and he said he had it maybe 1/3 of it zoomed or could be 1/2.

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If that is true above I don't think you were looking at the moon at 200-350x the moon would more than fill the frame!! Also I tried to get some info on this camera is it old because even Panasonic have no info on it!

Originally posted by TheEnlightenedOne
reply to post by CagliostroTheGreat

 

My guess (and this is just my guess) that the camera was trying to refocus on the moon brightness after it was interrupted by the passing "thing".

I got another camera and pointed zoomed in at a light in the house, had my hands pass through between the light and the camera and it had the same effect, but then again could be a fluke.

good idea lends a bit of credit to OP
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