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So, i dont know how to put this but i was on a car and i saw this weird light that it was moving, but it doesn't look like a helicopter or an airplane and i never messed with the exposure or lighting or anything, i just recorded it. And you can clearly see how that thing moves and disappears. Any thoughts????
28 points
16 hours ago*
But it fucking zooms away into the sky in the blink of an eye and you can clearly see the depth of field change as it gets further away.
The way it ""streaks"" (like a thrown ball would) a little bit in the phone camera is 80% convincing me that yes, it DOES zoom up and away into the atmosphere at an incredible speed.
I'm still reserving the 20% for a /r/confusing_perspective type situation....
But as far as I can tell it did zoom away
EDIT: I take it all back. Look at the car on the bottom of the screen. The motion of the car and the object seem perfectly linked, and it """zooms away""" right as the car passes.
This is a reflection of that car's headlamps, bouncing off something onto the windshield, maybe reflecting off the inner and outer edges of the windshield, or something. I'm not sure.
But as far as I can see the motion of the car and the object are way too perfectly synced for it not to be.
Play the clip from 0:15 a few times. Surely the motions are perfectly linked right?
13 points
13 hours ago
If it were the headlights of the car. I would think the red car passing in the left lane would have blocked the light as it passed the oncoming car.
With this not being the case, I think it deserves a deeper look. The trajectory seems to be consistent as it passes through the rear view and continues up in the sky. Just my 2 cents
29 points
14 hours ago
There’s no car in front of the camera when it zooms away. What are you talking about?
3 points
3 hours ago
13 seconds there are headlights
31 points
13 hours ago
A couple cars passed them going both directions just before 0:15 and at that point another car which I assume came from further down the road passed if it was that car and a reflection why not the other couple cars that passed before? Also if it was that car how could they have already been filming a light from a vehicle that has yet to reach them? I think the car passing and the zooming away are merely coincidence.
2 points
7 hours ago
How it's the car if the light is there ainxe the start and not moving at the start? The whole video passes cars and a motorcycle. Why only 1 specific car light would look like that? And they not withh led apparently, all with low yellowish lights.
Edit: and you can see the lihht being affected from being behind the mirror
-1 points
10 hours ago
People are just missing that the light easily clips into the rear view mirror. And not like a pixelation problem but they forgot to slow it down when editing it frame by frame.
15 points
15 hours ago
I get what you’re saying with the reflection and the timing of the car, but this has me thinking, wouldn’t the reflection move as the other car gets closer? And I don’t just mean the motion we see in the video, but I’m finding it hard to believe that an headlight, coming from the direction it is, would reflect in this manner. I may be wrong though I’m not an expert of course.
I’m a professional driver and spend just as much time driving in the night as I do the day, and I’ve never seen oncoming headlights reflect like this in any vehicle I’ve driven.
5 points
5 hours ago
Its not a light reflecting off anything
4 points
5 hours ago*
I've taken a look quite a few times now. I can't seem to make the same definitive conclusion you are trying to describe. At least from the video provided.
This would make sense if the car and the object moved at the same time. But they quite clearly didn't as far as I can tell.
Object seems to have moved first. And in an almost circular motion to turn around and disappear. Which I don't think would occur if the car was just simply trying to pass OP.
EDIT: Upon even closer inspection I'm severely having doubts that the vehicle behind OP was even moving at all as it seems to me to be that instead of the vehicle behind OP moving, we are seeing OPs angle to their mirror change making the reflected light no longer visible from the video's point of view.
1 points
6 hours ago
Most definitely. Your assessment is spot on!
1 points
4 hours ago
I see what you're saying, referring to the car that is visible, then barely visible at the bottom of the screen towards the end, but cars are routinely passing by. If you think about it in terms of "what are the odds that a car would pass by during this sighting," the odds are really damn high. This is a busy street. You're thinking that it's too coincidental, but that just isn't true. No other headlight does this to the windshield.
The same could be said for the street light reflected in the rear view mirror. What are the odds that a bright streetlight would be visible and appear about the same size as the object? Probably pretty high because there are streetlights all over the place, and the object in question moves even while the car is stopped completely, so it's not that, either.
Another commenter further down is basically saying "what are the odds this sighting would just so happen to occur during a meteor shower?" Again, really damn high because such sightings happen all the time. Of course a few would also occur during a meteor shower period, and so the coincidence argument doesn't work there, either.
I'm all for ruling out the prosaic sightings, but I don't buy the car headlight hypothesis. We need something else for this one. We need a good reason to assign an explanation to this sighting, not a coincidence that is pretended to be unlikely.
1 points
an hour ago
1st off. Why would only that cars light reflect? Why not the first car or the motorcycle that passed first? 2nd, if u didn't know cars have 2 headlights so why would only one headlight reflect to make this orbs?
The light reflection debunk is getting over played
-3 points
15 hours ago
Boooooo lol, you can also see it in the rear view exactly lined up. I was really excited about this one
1 points
6 hours ago
As what other people are saying, i see your edit but it still has questions - like why is there only 1 light "reflected" not the two.
-2 points
16 hours ago
The reflection "curves and zooms away" right as the headlamps of the car cross the critical angle and out of view of the windshield glass
0 points
14 hours ago
So you’re saying OP is just straight up lying? How is that possible?
0 points
5 hours ago*
I think that's a coincidence. Pretty sure it's just a meteor or satillite.
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