Mystery Object Filmed With High-Speed Digital Cam

[BrcBlessedBoy]

someone threw a stone and u filmed it :P

[oldmanwormswood]

is it a fly?

[Rikotistic]

@oldmanwormswood, I am more inclined to believe it could be a fly or some other artifact of film and the distance and the ability of the sky to be properly digitized from a camer's perspective. I think it is probably a bird or an insect that was near the lens. But if it were one of those 4 percent of strange things that no one can account for, it was moving really fast.

[DerrickB82]

thats a nice clip day time to sweet

[Rikotistic]

Thank you. I think the greater part of these unidentified things being caught on film are these fast moving objects that defy conventional notions about how fast something manmade could move within the soup of our atmosphere. Someone corrected my estimates on how fast it had to be going and said it was more like 24,000 mph. We have nothing going that fast--accept ICBMs but they leave a heated trail as such speeds create friction. Something internal cools down the hulls on these fast moving ufos.

[boltonpalms]

yep the real deal is that! Spybot test??? Or Beyond Earth Spacecraft??? Or lol a golfball??? Who knows, but that was the better of the bunch!

[Rikotistic]

It's the indistinct smaller ones that seem to be the most believable. Against my skeptical mind, I have to admit this thing flitting across the sky weirded me out! Maybe it was a golfball! Thanks.

[snoopg14]

holy shit

[Rikotistic]

Figuratively speaking, you are correct.

[Rikotistic]

I'm usually a skeptic...but this was really interesting in that I managed to capture that on accident in two frames of a camera operating at 30 fps. I sat down and did the math and the thing really had to be going in the neighborhood of 12,000 to 18,000 mph given the span of sky. I suppose it could be some unknown test craft...just no sonic boom or sound of any kind. With a little more than 6,000 more mph it would have escape velocity from earth's gravitational pull. Very peculiar.

[kenrg]

What was the fps of that camera? Because I swear I was doing much faster than only 8,000 mph.

[Rikotistic]

30 frames per second. I figured it was you. The laws say you have to keep your landspeeder near land! You hit three Robins that day!

[Rikotistic]

That speed was just a guestimate. When you imagine it crossed roughly 20 miles of airspace in a third of a second, then drop back to a more conservative 50 miles a second, we come up with 18,000 mph.