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Mylar balloon.

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Instant assumption based on former pattern recognition.

No assumption, just stating what it looks like and most probably is.

Drone is high and moving while focused on fixed point on ground, balloon drifts thru field of view in opposite direction and so looks faster than it really is. The geometry is visually deceptive though really quite simple.

How to explain the lack perspective change of ground features? Without it drone movement seems small, so hard to explain the giant speed in your balloon theory.

People don't understand that the vast majority of UFO behaviour is actually just the camera being unstable and jerking around a bit or a parallax effect caused by a moving and rotating camera pointing at a static object.

The famous "GIMBAL" UFO video on YouTube is just the backside of a jet and you are seeing the engine exhaust including glare.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-ufo-a-new-analysis.1...

OK, but how to explain the lack perspective change of ground features in this vid?

Without it drone movement seems small, so hard to explain the giant speed in your balloon or camera theory.

> "OK, but how to explain the lack perspective change of ground features in this vid?"

I guess it is explained by the "or a parallax effect caused by a moving and rotating camera pointing at a static object." part of GP post.

No, but how can you explain the magnitude of it? I don’t think it accounts for that.

Wouldn't the people at the Pentagon already have thought of this?

Right! And haven’t the aliens at pentagon city thought of this too?

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