UFO captured on Flying Camera Video!

480sparky · Jul 16, 2014

Went out this afternoon to take some video of a nearby courthouse that I thought would make an interesting subject. While stopping at a local restaurant afterwards to have dinner and use my laptop to preview the raw video, I happened to glance away from the screen and the same time I thought I saw a 'glitch' in the video.

So, I stopped the video and backtracked it a couple seconds. Pressed play, and something weird showed up on the right. At first I thought it was a recording error on the part of my bird, but when I was able to pause the video just at the right moment, it wasn't pixelated like I thought it would be. Instead, I saw this brown spot on top of a long, black 'pole'. Just for one frame.

What the he11?

So I waited until I got back to my desktop and opened my 'real' video editing software that I discovered what this UFO was.

Yep,... a bug! It flew up from the base of the courthouse, right smack-dab in front of the lens. Not sure if the props managed to slice & dice it, or whether it just got knocked down by the wash and the effect is a result of the rolling shutter. But it sure did give me pause to start thinking about flying when there's a lot of bugs out. I'm sure some are large enough to bring a bird down by damaging a prop.

robbins.photo · Jul 16, 2014

Ok, well since we know this is a bug wouldn't that technically make it an IFO? Identified flying object?

Lol

480sparky · Jul 16, 2014

robbins.photo said:
Ok, well since we know this is a bug wouldn't that technically make it an IFO? Identified flying object?

Lol

Still a UFO.... since I don't know what kind of bug it is.

robbins.photo · Jul 16, 2014

480sparky said:
robbins.photo said:

Ok, well since we know this is a bug wouldn't that technically make it an IFO? Identified flying object?

Lol

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Still a UFO.... since I don't know what kind of bug it is.

But still, wouldn't that then be a UFB?

Lol.. ok, sorry, I'll stop "helping".

Designer · Jul 17, 2014

Looks like a wasp to me. Any idea what caused the dark vertical line?

astroNikon · Jul 17, 2014

Come on .. that's one of those Predator Aliens !! You caught him as he was in his invisible mode.

Have people been disappearing in that area lately ?

You know it's true. They've made movies about these aliens !!

480sparky · Jul 17, 2014

Designer said:
........... Any idea what caused the dark vertical line?

My guess is the camera's rolling shutter.

Msteelio91 · Jul 17, 2014

Designer said:
Looks like a wasp to me. Any idea what caused the dark vertical line?

Pretty sure it was carrying a stick to shove into the rotors and disable the heli. OP was lucky this time.

robbins.photo · Jul 17, 2014

astroNikon said:
Come on .. that's one of those Predator Aliens !! You caught him as he was in his invisible mode.

Have people been disappearing in that area lately ?

You know it's true. They've made movies about these aliens !!

Well sure, because any film with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it is a documentary. (Shh, just keep smiling at him and keep him busy until I can find a stick or a rock or something)