This is mildly interesting:
I say "mildly" even though it can by a non-skeptic such as myself be perceived as yet more evidence for intelligent life of a kind we don't seem able to understand flying in our skies.
I thought I'd post about it, but as on this and previous UFO-related threads I always feel the same: (1) Progress towards understanding or plain doing anything about this phenomenon is painfully slow (even if the military are secretly involved it is still apparently slow); (2) It's very convenient to post YouTube clips TBH, but as skeptics have pointed out, they prove little. I agree a fair deal: while I accept most videos of this nature as authentic (not all), they do very little to advance our understanding of UFOs.
(The link Jas gave a while back to a UFO which apparently 'disappeared', but looking at the frames actually just flew up at an astonishing acceleration does help us understand some details e.g. 'disappearing' UFOs are often just moving away with acceleration we can't understand. Nevertheless, it doesn't advance our understanding of this incredibly important subject very far.)
The real news, and the really important data, is textual, from what people say of their encounters. This isn't so convenient to post as YouTube video clips.
But such new clips are always out there, for anyone to find using the correct search terms. More than anything though, since they often have no use in furthering our understanding, I just consider them a form of entertainment.
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David that video reminds me of the multi-coloured UFos seen last year in the USA, where the shape and colour changes rapidly. Similar serpent type shapes. I think they were mentioned here last year.
Meteor, or ...?
This is called a "meteorite" in Wales (link below). Which gives an idea of the standard of reporting: a meteorite is a meteor that hits the ground, and there's no report that this one did reach the ground. So if natural, it was a meteor, a bolide in fact.
But the case evidently hasn't been researched at all. The man interviewed talks of watching it, going in for his camera, calling to his wife, coming back out and filming ... and it does move so slowly. The slowness is completely unlike a meteor (shooting star). It's not convincing that this was a meteor at all: it doesn't look like one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8440345.stm?ls
... just saw it again. No, not a meteor. Far too slow. And: "Not jet high".
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Very difficult to judge any speed from that shot as there are no stationery objects to compare it to. I presume the smaller light was lens reflection?
I watched it twice and simply judged that the stationary light was 'something', maybe a star, and judged movement from that. But yes, we don't know what that light is either.
Altogether it's a useless piece of reporting, by the BBC no less.
As I've mentioned before, an online thread such as this severely 'twists' what is really happening, because the truly important cases or developments simply may not be online, or are loads of text to read. I fully admit and put my hands up, that I feel the enticement to post links here to video clips - but they rarely tell us anything, and the most important cases need to be read about. I'm also not really in the field of Ufology these days, so wouldn't even know what the recent major cases are. (Is there a kind of 'alert' site you know of, Jas, which is sound, sane, and up-to-date on global Ufological events?).
An exception to the "video clips prove nothing" is yours recently in this thread of the object which zoomed off upward in just 2-3 frames: it's long been said that supposedly "disappearing" UFOs are really just moving off at incredible speed with no need for a gradual acceleration: your clip illustrates that well. 🙂
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