UFO Footage: Videos of Unexplained (and Easily Explained) Phenomena
Images of UFOs were caught on video and spread to the public long before YouTube made it easy. They're caught in parking lots and on rooftops by avid UFO-spotters or passersby with camera phones. These particular videos show meteors, clouds, military flares and camera tricks that some claim are sightings in all their grainy, handheld glory.
Stephenville, Texas became the center of UFO-sighting in the United States when, on January 8, 2008, red orbs were spotted in the sky by a number of observers. The next day, the Stephenville Empire-Tribune published one account and, soon after, the town had made national news. "Texas Town Abuzz Over Dozens of UFO Sightings," wrote Foxnews.com. "Are UFOs Invading Texas?" asked Texas Monthly.
Phoenix Lights
Phoenix Lights
At 10 pm on Mar. 13, 1997, thousands of residents of Phoenix, Arizona witnessed a string of bright lights disappearing over the Estrella mountain range. The Air Force at first denied any warplanes in the area, but later recanted, saying a pilot dropped 10 decoy flares in the area that evening.
Hudson Valley Boomerang
Hudson Valley Boomerang
More than 300 people in the Hudson Valley reported seeing V- and boomerang-shaped lights in March 1983. The incident turns out to be a hoax by pilots who rigged their planes with extra lights before formation flights.
The Peekskill Meteorite Car became famous shortly after it ate meteor, even going on a world tour to show off its extraterrestrial body damage.
B. Lenticular Cloud, aka Altoculus Standing Lenticularis
Moist air forced to flow upward around mountain tops can create Lenticular clouds. When fast moving air is forced up and over a barrier-like these clouds moving over Mt. Rainier in Washington-perpendicular to the direction that the upper winds are blowing, these seemingly stationary, saucer-like Lenticular clouds form.
Military Flare Exercises
Two Lockheed AC-130 planes drop flares in this video. These aircraft have a Countermeasures Dispenser System, that make use of a computer controlled system to dispense decoys for to shake infrared and electronic targeting.
Decoy flares, as seen on this F-16 fighter, give heat signatures that resemble airplanes. Some decoys come with thrusters, according to Dennis Clark, a countermeasures engineer at BAE Systems. New missiles have sensors that use color to distinguish target airplanes as well, and other flares have the ability to change colors to shake these weapons.
Camera Tricks
David Caron from Stephenville, Texas videotaped squiggling, multicolored lights on Jan. 19, 2008. "You could see it much better through the camera than just with the naked eye," he told the Stephenville Empire-Tribune. In this video that he shot, Caron was likely filming a distant, stationary light. The handheld exposure of a bright light results in light streaks from camera movement that could explain these images, says George Reis of Imaging Forensics. The color shift may be from color mosaic filtration on the camera¹s CCD chip, Reis says.
In a series of images showing "long exposure of very distant lights," Bruce Maccabee, a UFO expert, explores exposure times and their impact on capturing bright objects at night with cameras. Here, he shows examples of how exposure effects-on a river-side power plant and images of Mars-can create the illusion of a fast-moving object.
In a series of images showing "long exposure of very distant lights," Bruce Maccabee, a UFO expert, explores exposure times and their impact on capturing bright objects at night with cameras. Here, he shows examples of how exposure effects-on a river-side power plant and images of Mars-can create the illusion of a fast-moving object.
Natural Phenomena
A. MeteorsIn November, 2008, a meteor hit the ground in central Alberta. Residents all over Western Canada got an extraordinarily bright light show in the early evening on Nov. 20. Multiple fragments of the recovered meteorites measured up to 8 cm in diameter. Some 25 million meteors enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
The Peekskill meteor of 1992 was captured by 16 different video cameras before it struck a car in Peekskill, NY. Popular Mechanics senior science editor, Jennifer Bogo, was one of many witnesses to the spectacular event. Like the person who took this video, she too watched the meteor blaze across the sky over a high school football game in Pennsylvania--about 120 miles from Johnstown, where this footage was shot. "It was the homecoming game, and this giant ball of fire streaked right into the end zone," Bogo says. "It was the closest thing to a touchdown our team had seen in years."
The Peekskill Meteorite Car became famous shortly after it ate meteor, even going on a world tour to show off its extraterrestrial body damage.
B. Lenticular Cloud, aka Altoculus Standing Lenticularis
Moist air forced to flow upward around mountain tops can create Lenticular clouds. When fast moving air is forced up and over a barrier-like these clouds moving over Mt. Rainier in Washington-perpendicular to the direction that the upper winds are blowing, these seemingly stationary, saucer-like Lenticular clouds form.
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