Most likely a plane or helicopter.
Lots of of "irregularities" in that shot. Like "stars" appearing and disappearing within the blink of an eye.
Very cool video!

I take it you are referring to the 180 degree turn of the "thing" between 1:30 and 1:40?

If so, yes that's pretty cool!

totally agree - nice shots throughout.



ETA I must say, upon further viewing, I'm not too sure about what you are referring to, especially in light of the comment above.

What part are you talking about?

Originally posted by Regenstorm
Most likely a plane or helicopter.

That's a joke, right?

Originally posted by Sublimecraft
I take it you are referring to the 180 degree turn of the "thing" between 1:30 and 1:40?

If so, yes that's pretty cool!

totally agree - nice shots throughout.



ETA I must say, upon further viewing, I'm not too sure about what you are referring to, especially in light of the comment above.

What part are you talking about?

edit on 21-1-2013 by Sublimecraft because:

The article says:
The "UFO" appears at (1:30-1:35) and makes three broad circular sweeps over the desert.

Plane-copter ruled out by the fact that we're looking at a time lapse video. The looping object has looped very, very slowly.

Originally posted by apecar
Plane-copter ruled out by the fact that we're looking at a time lapse video. The looping object has looped very, very slowly.

yup. If you read the article, the object is creeping along the sky.

There are two loops in the starry sky and then in the blurred motion of the stars there is a third.

It's a stunning video and the anomoly makes it all the more cool

I'd say yes, definitely a long time.

Originally posted by Crakeur

Originally posted by apecar
Plane-copter ruled out by the fact that we're looking at a time lapse video. The looping object has looped very, very slowly.

yup. If you read the article, the object is creeping along the sky.

There are two loops in the starry sky and then in the blurred motion of the stars there is a third.

It's a stunning video and the anomoly makes it all the more cool

It's not really "creeping along" as much as the story claims it is. I see it making two passes between 1:31 and 1:33. That's two broad circles in the sky in (at the most) 2 seconds of this time-lapse video...and it could even be LESS THAN 2 seconds of video.

Even IF the time scale of this video is 10 minutes per second (which doesn't seem right, considering the speed of star movement -- but I can't verify that either way), I think a helicopter or slow-moving plane could have made two sweeping circles in less than 20 minutes, maybe less than 15. That is slow, but not really unbelievably slow. Again, that's assuming the rate of 10 real minutes per 1 second of video is really what the speed of the time lapse is (we only have the word of the article's author on that).

Plus the fact that you can easily see a continuous green light and a continuous red light, which could be the left and right navigation lights, and the white blinking collision avoidance light...this tells me it has the lighting configuration of an aircraft.


The bottom line is:
The steady green and red lights, and the blinking white light alone make this look like an aircraft. If the time really is what is said in article (which I can't verify either way), then 15 or 20 minutes for a slow moving aircraft to take two wide circles around the sky still seems possible.

Amazing Video! wish there was a way to slow it down to investigate the peculiar lights.

So hard to say exactly what it is, If I were to guess, i'd say a plane of some type.

Regardless, Ty for sharing, stunning really!

to know what speed it was going, you would have to know what the elevation was.....lower to the ground, lower the speed, if it was 30 or 40 miles up, it was big, and it was haulin' ass.

Really nice-Really nice. Amazing video and the UFO makes it all the more spectacular.