Strange Object Circling Concorde.

Forgive me if this has already been shot down in flames, but what is the Dope on the object at 38 secs, in this video? If, as suggested in some of the comments, it is a camera defect, or a reflection on the window being filmed through, why is it not apparent in other sections of the footage?

Worst music I’ve ever heard.

It’s probably just an insect or dust mote or something close to the camera, judging by how blurry it is. If it were near the concorde it would have been in focus.

Looks like a piece of dust or a defect in the original film.

So why was it not in view throughout the whole sequence, or in the earlier view from behind? Why would it just appear at that point, whatever it was?

Something just fluttered by the lens, probably at or on the surface of the lens or the window of the plane it was shooting from. At the very end of the sequence the camera moves up and the speck moves with the camera. It’s not near the Concorde.

Have you ever actually watched a film?
All sorts of crap - dots, lines and specks come and go. Sometimes a piece of grit will get caught in the gate and scratch the film for a while, and then move on. This “UFO” is so laughable it’s amazing anyone would even post it as such.

I believe – and I could be wrong – but I believe that is the Travelocity gnome.

Yes, I know that, and there are plenty of such artefacts in this footage, but only one of them makes an orb shape that is visible for at least a second or two. You can’t say the object is too blurred to be an actual physical object, because the footage of the Concorde isn’t exactly in perfect focus either. Don’t just laugh at the anomaly, explain exactly how that particular one occurred.

I disagree. It looks to these eyes as if it disappears behind Concorde on it’s initial downward pass. How would one go about recreating such a ‘speck’ on a bit of video footage?

Unfortunate choice of phrase for a thread about Concorde :).

The cabin door is locked securely; your hijack attempt is futile. :stuck_out_tongue:

Look closer. It’s a white artifact moving past a white object. Your eye is tricking you into seeing it move behind the aircraft.

And you didn’t address the fact that it moves with the camera, something that would be essentially impossible for an actual object.

If that was the case, why doesn’t it momentarily block that ‘black band’ along the length of the plane?( Is that a line of windows?)

Where exactly do you think it does that? I’m not quite sure what you mean, are you just saying it is impossible for a physical object to do that?

It looks like a drop of water on the window of the plane the camera operator is in, that gets blown into a different direction through the motion or perhaps vibration of the plane.

What always amazes and disappoints me about these kinds of things is how often people will instantly dismiss the natural and logical explanations, and immediately leap to, and cling to, the supernatural possibilities instead.

Strange thing moving on a piece of footage? Is it a drop of water or a speck on the film? No, it’s aliens. Strange noise in the attic? Is it a squeaky floorboard or a rat? No, it’s a ghost. Moving shape amongst the trees? Is it a bear or a deer? No, it’s bigfoot.

Pah.

It’s a leap of faith to call a spot on film an “object”, if you mean a physical object. Before you can all it that, you must establish that it is not an optical phenomenon, which many UFO pictures are.

If an optical phenom has been ruled out, next you must consider the distance from the camera and the lighting. Hard to do without 3D imaging, but until you have a distance, a tiny bug is equivalent to a giant spaceship.

It does. Watch the close up at the end. From about 1.02 onwards you can clearly see it moving across the black bits.
I’ve seen photography experts discussing this, and their opinion is that it’s a lens flare, caused by sunlight reflecting off a plane’s bright white body.

Agreed, exactly what I thought.

So, it’s definitely not an aerial probe of some kind. Phew, what a relief. All my inbuilt preconceptions were in danger of crumbling to dust. OK. Show’s over…back to work folks.

He forgot his hat.

Perhaps the bobble on the end slows him down too much? It’ll probably be in his pocket.