"Flying Jellyfish" footage

[icerat]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12943295/Shocking-new-UFO-footage-jellyfish-craft.html

This footage and story is doing the rounds of international media, a "flying jellyfish" UFO, iraq 2018. Looks like a (human) body hanging in some kind of harness to me?

More claims and footage from Colangelo -

https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1744567963309556045

 

[icerat]

Ok, looks like it's probably bird **** on the lens cover, and then completely different footage is just assumed to be the same object

 

[smartcooky]

First link in OP

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[Gord_in_Toronto]

First link in OP

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Curious. Works for me with Windows 10 and Firefox.

 

[Myriad]

Works for me on Safari/MacOS

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12943295/Shocking-new-UFO-footage-jellyfish-craft.html

This footage and story is doing the rounds of international media, a "flying jellyfish" UFO, iraq 2018. Looks like a (human) body hanging in some kind of harness to me?

More claims and footage from Colangelo -

https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1744567963309556045

Lots of discussion at Metabunk

Best to view the complete, un-cropped, un-editted source video. Except that is not available. There are some parts of the UFO claim that are easily explained mundanely. The purported "changing temperature" of the object match changes in the background. An auto adjust function.

Check Metabunk for the unfolding story.

 

[Galaxie]

Ha! It really does look like bird ****

 

[bruto]

The first video is pretty obviously something like bird poop on the lens cover, and anyone who thinks this is not part of the camera needs a little lecture on perspective and relative angles.

The second part of the second video, which shows something else (of course too distant and poorly resolved to see just what it is) at least shows by changing relative angles to other objects that it is not part of the camera. My first guess would be a bird.

However just to be on the safe side I'm charging up my ray gun.

 

[Axxman300]

It's a party balloon. Steven Greenstreet from the NY Post was the only reporter who bothered to track down the source. The source thought it was something on the lense, but it's probably a balloon.

People are just dumber than ever, and the press used to know better.

 

[bruto]

It's a party balloon. Steven Greenstreet from the NY Post was the only reporter who bothered to track down the source. The source thought it was something on the lense, but it's probably a balloon.

People are just dumber than ever, and the press used to know better.

Party balloon makes perfect sense for the second video. The "flying jellyfish," though, is undoubtedly something on the lens (or so I say!). An object outside the camera would not move that way.

 

[Checkmite]

The first video is pretty obviously something like bird poop on the lens cover, and anyone who thinks this is not part of the camera needs a little lecture on perspective and relative angles.

How do you explain the object changing position relative to the crosshair reticle then? The crosshair should be immutably in the center of the FOV, so anything on the lens should remain in the same place with respect to it, should it not?

 

[Checkmite]

My biggest problem with this video is that, as always, we have "leaked" videos of an object just moving in a slow and unspectacular straight line, and all kinds of stories about the amazing physics-defying things it did seconds later when the camera wasn't watching.

 

[bruto]

How do you explain the object changing position relative to the crosshair reticle then? The crosshair should be immutably in the center of the FOV, so anything on the lens should remain in the same place with respect to it, should it not?

I'll have to look at it again, I guess. It looked to me in the video as if the object moved in a way that was not consistent with separation from the spotter, and the quality of the movement was quite different from that of the flying balloon.

 

[Mike!]

How do you explain the object changing position relative to the crosshair reticle then? The crosshair should be immutably in the center of the FOV, so anything on the lens should remain in the same place with respect to it, should it not?

Yeah, it moves all around the frame, even crosses over the crosshair at one point, BUT, the one thing that stands out making it look manufactured is, the object never once changes it's orientation to the camera in the least. You would think anything moving around that much would have different angles, but it's size, shape, and orientation, no matter how much it moves, never change in the least. It's also almost always behind the crosshair, you'd think if you were trying to follow an invisible ghost it'd be ahead of the crosshair, not behind it as it moves.

 

[novaphile]

How do you explain the object changing position relative to the crosshair reticle then? The crosshair should be immutably in the center of the FOV, so anything on the lens should remain in the same place with respect to it, should it not?

The released footage, is from someone filming a screen with their mobile phone and moving around while they were doing so.

From the detailed commentary (link posted earlier) the discarded exoskeleton/shell of a small spider inside the camera housing between the lens and the outer protective casing looks to be a very good fit to me.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Pretty sure it's an Imperial Probe Droid looking for Luke Skywalker& the hidden Rebel.Base.

 

[arthwollipot]

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From the Daily Mail? When did their editorial policy change?

 

[Axxman300]

1. Look up : "EID Mubarak Party Balloons" and the mystery will solve itself.

2. Here is the interview with a Marine who was based in Iraq, and saw this footage while he was there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0V9mhk9Hm0

3. Mick West and others have been looking close at the footage. The big find is the image is moving WITH the wind. So, you know, balloon.

 

[Checkmite]

The released footage, is from someone filming a screen with their mobile phone and moving around while they were doing so.

That still doesn't explain why the object is not stationary on the screen relative to the crosshair, unless you're saying you think the crosshair is on the phone.

 

[Checkmite]

1. Look up : "EID Mubarak Party Balloons" and the mystery will solve itself.

2. Here is the interview with a Marine who was based in Iraq, and saw this footage while he was there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0V9mhk9Hm0

3. Mick West and others have been looking close at the footage. The big find is the image is moving WITH the wind. So, you know, balloon.

The idea that it's a balloon, or a cluster of balloons, fits a lot more than something on the lens, to me. The object moves like balloons do when captured by a moving aerial camera.