Could you please post the geographical coordinates of the exact spot where you were filming ?
Talking about the wind...
Problem is that even if you guys use a personal weather station connected to your computer with both clocks set at the exact same time, you still wouldn't know what the exact speed and wind direction (wind layers) is 30 ft (10 m) up for example.
The speed of the wind rises with altitude, where it is less affected by the friction of the ground and obstacles. This difference is discernible even over a relatively short distance.
Another problem is that wind can change direction rapidly. How many of you guys noticed how the smoke change direction while doing a bbq or a camp fire when you are not close to it ? (otherwise you create a vacuum effect and if you move, the smoke moves as well and it seems that it keeps "following" you)
Just to say that unfortunatly the wind direction that you mentioned is not
reliable and imo it is gonna be hard to rule out the flying seed hypothesis for (some of) your video capture(s), specialy the one(s) that "look(s)" like it.
Here is a visual comparison (sort of) :

Now, it's up to video experts to tell us how we can differentiate the two...if it is not possible, I think Occam's razor will do the rest in this case.
Cheers,
Europa aka Buck
[edit on 4-10-2008 by Europa733]






