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Closer look at a witness submitted video: Case 21-021 AN 1

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A new witness submitted video has us scratching our heads. This was shot on an ordinary cell phone: an LG G7 Thinq, and was shot in full HD. It was roughly an hour after sunset on 13 May 2021. The 60 fps clip is just under 30 seconds long (1786 frames). The camera was oriented toward the southeast. We have interviewed the first witness, who shot the video. The total duration of the event he describes was about 5 hours.

We still don’t know how to interpret what we are seeing here, and haven’t completely ruled out sensor defects, or possibly a strong magnetic field. Some more tests are required with the camera in question. We are also hoping to speak to a second witness.

If you were in or around Pueblo, Colorado on the night of 13th of May, and saw anything unusual in the sky, please contact us as soon as possible: https://reportaufo.org.

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Any idea what this is?

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Update (28 October 2021) : we now consider this case solved. See our Report of Investigation.

On 19 January 2021, at about 18:09 EST, we were shooting an International Space Station pass and experimenting with Direct Manual Focus (DMF) on the Sony A7 III mirrorless camera. The lens was a Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 – a very good quality lens. The standard lens hood was attached, and video was captured at 4K resolution, 30 frames per second. We were looking to the East (you can see the constellation of Taurus in much of the clip). For a few seconds, a reddish, extended object “flew” through the frame, and was dismissed at the time as a lens flare. However, examination of the footage shows that is not a lens flare, so we’re baffled as to what it could be.

What do you think it could be?

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Case 20-030: looking for a smoke trail.

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Is the video submitted for Case 20-030 an atmosphere-skimming fireball? If it is, we could reasonably expect to see a smoke trail. The great daylight fireball of 1972 left a smoke trail hundreds of miles long that lingered in the air for several minutes.

However, this video was shot on a moonless night, and it might be hard to see a smoke trail. This video explains how we went looking a sign of it. Nothing conclusive was found.

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Witness Submitted Video with star identifications (Case 20-030)

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It was a clear, moonless night, and the witness was out in his back yard observing comet Neowise with a digital night vision camera when this extremely bright object flew over.

When you have reference objects in a video or photograph, the first order of business is to determine whatever you can about the direction and distance of those objects. In the case of stars, the distances aren’t important, but if you know the date, time, location, and which star you are looking at, then you know the exact location in the sky.

In this video we show the names of a few of the stars as the object passes by. For 64 Cygnus, you might notice that as the object neared, a bright lens flare briefly hijacks the tracker.