What is this object transiting the Sun?

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  • That observing session really had alot of stuff going on. What do you guys think it was?
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  • @orionbarnes1733
    @orionbarnes1733 3 месяца назад +2571

    That was me, sorry guys. Didn't mean to transit the sun while you were taking pictures, my bad

    • @TheTurtleZebra
      @TheTurtleZebra 3 месяца назад +62

      Damn it I was trying to peek through somebody's window and you were distracting me

    • @olaf1373
      @olaf1373 3 месяца назад +41

      classic barnes

    • @bobisyouruncle1
      @bobisyouruncle1 3 месяца назад +14

      Ooeeee, aliens again. They're everywhere. We should hide. They're watching us😂

    • @waterthugs
      @waterthugs 3 месяца назад +9

      Always one in the bunch messing up a shot😂😂😂

    • @BullerPerson
      @BullerPerson 3 месяца назад +3

      I forgive you

  • @icevlad148
    @icevlad148 3 месяца назад +549

    That was DB Cooper. He still hasn't landed

  • @brownie9948
    @brownie9948 3 месяца назад +231

    My automatic thought was satellite, but you were quite convincing that it might be a balloon

    • @jacobmartinelli7496
      @jacobmartinelli7496 2 месяца назад +3

      i hope it was the fabled "vulcan." i'll rewatch

    • @incubus_the_man
      @incubus_the_man Месяц назад +2

      If it's a balloon, it's lucky it didn't get shot down by a USAF F-22

  • @kevpoll81
    @kevpoll81 3 месяца назад +238

    It's just the Nomai sun station. The one that makes sun's go supernova. (Although it doesn't work unfortunately so we might never find the eye)

    • @ForeverMasterless
      @ForeverMasterless 3 месяца назад +16

      Best comment

    • @Mr.F1ox
      @Mr.F1ox 3 месяца назад +16

      I’m so happy someone commented this

    • @solecproductions
      @solecproductions 3 месяца назад +3

      just made me remember i gotta watch another supercut from lord eelis anyways bye

    • @user-tg3ni4hh4n
      @user-tg3ni4hh4n 2 месяца назад

      That what i was thinking. I mean if more than 21 tons of tree limbs are being burned. And the reverse understanding a water tank checker goes around and around looking for breaks or metal meakness so its like someone flying around to check so the plasmatic or pyretic glass is in tact. To make sure its not a like the history book Bible. The acidental pour of the sun magna. So if yall care for sun light please remmeber the forrest are there for light same as you all know growing and watering also feeding. Same as the trees and all have the duty to protect them. So. Same as one checking a styrophome cup for leaks. Or a new clear reactor checking the leaks. So growthe reason eternity still excists. Its a ecosystem not the ones saying its theres by exsplaining eco no mine. Aka economy. Thats lifes greats with in growing so please be life. Aka belief.

    • @obama5041
      @obama5041 2 месяца назад +4

      Oh, and you might find Dark Bramble if you look hard enough.

  • @anastasiabeaverhausen8220
    @anastasiabeaverhausen8220 3 месяца назад +1088

    So nice to see an observational video of a 'ufo' on YT that makes sense instead of sensationalism.

    • @thetruthchannel349
      @thetruthchannel349 3 месяца назад +17

      i think the sun grabs whatever is close & sometimes more than one thing gets sucked in close & as it does this stuff gets turned into smaller 'moon-like' organizations of matter before getting gobbled up by it.

    • @daMillenialTrucker
      @daMillenialTrucker 3 месяца назад +14

      ​@@thetruthchannel349no it was aliens

    • @thetruthchannel349
      @thetruthchannel349 3 месяца назад +4

      @@daMillenialTrucker *Dmnd aliens again huh?*

    • @algee2005
      @algee2005 3 месяца назад +12

      Meanwhile every flatearther worth his money: Hah! They can't explain this, just more proof their whole theory is flawed!
      And then some obscure argument about how this would fit perfectly well within their flatearth nonsense.

    • @timelikeinfinity5142
      @timelikeinfinity5142 3 месяца назад +2

      @@algee2005 Fanatics don't think like that, they believe how they want -much like anyone else

  • @amhaun01
    @amhaun01 3 месяца назад +627

    i estimated the angle of the object to be around 7.2 arcseconds. For distances between 1 and 10km (a helium balloon will pop higher than this), this corresponds to an object size between ~3.5 and 35 cm. Ordinary "party ballons" are in the range of 25 or so cm across.
    So it actually fits very well: a typical helium balloon at, like, 7km altitude.

    • @richard_loosemore
      @richard_loosemore 3 месяца назад +55

      I did my own calculations just now in another comment, and we both came to the same number as far as the angular diameter. Where we might differ is in the party balloon interpretation, because the party balloon that is 25 cm at ground level is very much more than that by the time it gets up to those altitudes.
      So, your range is for very different heights, but that means you need a large height to get a reasonable diameter (we know that 3.5 cm is too small, obviously). And then, at that large height, the diameter has to be well above its starting diameter.
      I’ve seen one estimate that a latex party balloon expands about 2 inches for every 1 inch of ground-level diameter, before it pops. If that is correct then a typical 25 cm balloon at ground level would be somewhere in the 50 to 75 cm size range when it reached maximum altitude.
      At the 7km altitude you mention (23,000 ft) I calculate the object diameter at about 25 cm, same as you, but if the balloon was near bursting then its original ground diameter was about half that (12 cm), which starts to look implausible.
      Because of the drift speed conflict between object and vapor trail I believe the balloon theory is not holding up very well.

    • @analog_guy
      @analog_guy 3 месяца назад +44

      I came to the same figure of 0.002 degrees, which is 7.2 arcseconds, which is 3.4 x 10^-5 radians. (Thus, the object diameter equals the object distance times 0.000034.) So, if the object is at 30,000 feet distance, it would be about a foot in diameter.
      I just noticed that Kyle listed the elevation angle of the sun at 52 degrees when the video was taken. So, the distance to the object would be about 1.27 times the altitude, if the earth were flat.
      According to the National Weather Service, their typical weather balloons are about 5 feet in diameter at ground level and expand to about 20 to 25 feet in diameter at a typical bursting altitude of around 100,000 feet. So, by my guesstimation, standard NWS weather balloons at any operational altitude would be at least five times larger in angular size than this object.
      Kyle's telescope aperture of 50 mm (about 2 inches) will have a diffraction limit substantially less than the angle subtended by this object, but a small object (considerably less than 2 inches) will appear as a blur circle of about 2 inches when his telescope is focused at infinity. The 2-inch diameter would work out to a distance of about 4900 feet. However, the blur circle of a small object would not appear to have a core as dark as this object produces. Thus, I think we can assume the object has to be at least one and a half inches in size. Insects are known to sometimes fly at high altitudes, but a bug of one and a half inches would be unusually large and the wing beats of a butterfly or moth or small bird would likely show up in the imagery, so I doubt the object is an insect or bird. The extended dark wing covers of a rhinoceros beetle could obscure the wing beats of its mostly transparent wings, and the high-speed wing beats of a hummingbird might be missed in the imagery, but the object appears to be too well-defined as a circle to likely be one of these.
      That brings me back to a balloon as the most likely guess.

    • @richard_loosemore
      @richard_loosemore 3 месяца назад +18

      @@analog_guy Yup, I forgot to take account of the angle. So it’s about 80% lower in height than its range.

    • @amhaun01
      @amhaun01 3 месяца назад +8

      @@analog_guy great reasoning!

    • @Bynk333
      @Bynk333 3 месяца назад +7

      An if it was planet near Sun it would have more then 1500 km in diameter. :D

  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist 3 месяца назад +366

    Great video! Instant subscriber.

    • @AmazingAmbro1
      @AmazingAmbro1 3 месяца назад +2

      Only one like and no replies???

    • @JuevoOK
      @JuevoOK 3 месяца назад +2

      hello

    • @iamgreylol8872
      @iamgreylol8872 3 месяца назад +35

      holy shit it’s jesus

    • @ExploringNew1
      @ExploringNew1 3 месяца назад +3

      Hey jesus I see you everywhere. And even Jack's fiverr videos lol

    • @Pineapplegaming597
      @Pineapplegaming597 3 месяца назад +3

      No way its jesus christ

  • @syeddanishali323
    @syeddanishali323 3 месяца назад +10

    Excellent job, seeing your hard work on reasoning and explaining.

  • @brackeng1294
    @brackeng1294 3 месяца назад +757

    Spoiler alert: it is Astrophage. We should construct some kind of space ship to go investigate.

    • @DanielDSII
      @DanielDSII 3 месяца назад +54

      Man I loved reading Project Hail Mary

    • @bobdownard
      @bobdownard 3 месяца назад +19

      LOVE that book.

    • @DonovanCYoung
      @DonovanCYoung 3 месяца назад +18

      Maybe Rocky coming to pay us a visit?

    • @brackeng1294
      @brackeng1294 3 месяца назад +11

      @@DonovanCYoung loved the ending but it would be cool to see what Rocky thinks of earth.

    • @DonovanCYoung
      @DonovanCYoung 3 месяца назад +3

      @@brackeng1294 Agree!

  • @johnnyjohnson3733
    @johnnyjohnson3733 3 месяца назад +376

    As an old amateur astronomy geek this is one of the best laid out presentations I have ever seen. Keep up the good work!

    • @ewmegoolies
      @ewmegoolies 3 месяца назад

      another china spy sat, our armed forces either didnt see it or are hoping the chinese can gather the intel they need without alerting the population or media and that it goes unnoticed so Biden can take his next payment from Xi.

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 3 месяца назад +3

      What you are actually seeing, is a fairly large sphere flying incredibly fast at high altitude in the atmosphere. Or what is known as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) formerly known as a UFO. In the past ten years we have seen these flying silver spheres all across our planet and they are becoming very common. Both along our coasts and places of nuclear energy (weapon and power origin) It is more difficult to see them flying at high altitude unless the camera is from above looking down. So you have a very rare perspective in this video. I would assume it was a meteor or asteroid. But the shape is to perfect.
      Search up Silver flying spheres or Silver orbs and you will see the other reference videos.

    • @lmb888
      @lmb888 Месяц назад

      I thought Sat too. Nope.

  • @RubbittTheBruise
    @RubbittTheBruise 3 месяца назад +14

    I don't know what it was, but I appreciate the process you applied to narrow down the field.
    Also, cool sun pics.

  • @MitchFlint
    @MitchFlint 3 месяца назад +1

    Great report, Kyle. Thank you for sharing.

  • @mestis343
    @mestis343 3 месяца назад +312

    The ending with the Chinese anthem and the spy balloon was icing on the cake.
    Good job Sir.

    • @TheSpanishEnigma
      @TheSpanishEnigma 3 месяца назад

      Care to elaborate?

    • @pegions9819
      @pegions9819 3 месяца назад +11

      @@TheSpanishEnigmacccp agent spotted

    • @MatchGuy
      @MatchGuy 3 месяца назад +1

      起來!

    • @Czeckie
      @Czeckie 3 месяца назад

      it wasn't a spy balloon, american government admitted it, but who cares

    • @allenbaylus3378
      @allenbaylus3378 3 месяца назад +1

      I was thinking space debris (the US has agencies which track these) and spy balloon.
      The spy baloons have been in the news so much that that was where I was thinking all along.
      I did enjoy the scientific approach - eliminating the possible to limit the probable sources.

  • @pierrenavaille4748
    @pierrenavaille4748 3 месяца назад +152

    What a mystery it would have been if it is a balloon that burst mid-transit. The fragments would disappear very quickly - or instantly.

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  3 месяца назад +36

      That would be so damn confusing 😂

    • @Uniblab9000
      @Uniblab9000 3 месяца назад +30

      Once, many years ago, I was outdoors around sunset and spotted a bright point of light in the sky almost directly overhead. As an amateur astronomer I was well-acquainted with the sky and I immediately ran inside to get my telescope. Through the telescope I could see that it was a large balloon. I stood up to tell my friend what I was seeing and to give him a look through the telescope. Moments later I looked back into eyepiece and it was gone! It had burst in the few seconds we weren't watching, but I could see the falling instrument package, trailed by an orange flag that made it look a bit like it was in flames. It remains my favorite "UFO" sighting.

    • @timconnors
      @timconnors 3 месяца назад +7

      Flying that close to the sun, you would almost expect that!

    • @Uniblab9000
      @Uniblab9000 3 месяца назад +5

      @@timconnorsYeah, just look what it did to Icarus.

    • @harrywalker968
      @harrywalker968 3 месяца назад

      the solar system, was known about thousands of yrs ago. its actually drawn, carved, on temples, caves.. along with ufo,s. world wide.@@kylemccaslin

  • @sammyjohnson5596
    @sammyjohnson5596 3 месяца назад +3

    I live in the DFW area too. I appreciate your rational thinking here

  • @markh4211
    @markh4211 3 месяца назад +1

    Impressive analysis! And very funny and engaging presentation! Great work!

  • @edp2260
    @edp2260 3 месяца назад +114

    A balloon would just have to rock a little in order to present that 'wiggle' in the transit. It does look like a periodic wiggle, as though it was tipping back and forth in the wind. I vote for balloon.

    • @donwayne1357
      @donwayne1357 3 месяца назад +4

      It looks like a string of "____ Be_ds."

    • @user-xj8wy4uu1q
      @user-xj8wy4uu1q 3 месяца назад +2

      @@donwayne1357?

    • @kellyshea92
      @kellyshea92 3 месяца назад

      Damn the Chinese are even spying on the Sun now?!

    • @adrianhenle
      @adrianhenle 3 месяца назад

      @@user-xj8wy4uu1qhe wanted to write "anal beads" but thought that actually spelling the words would be too uncouth

    • @adora_was_taken
      @adora_was_taken 3 месяца назад +1

      @@donwayne1357 you're missing some underscores there

  • @crinklecut3790
    @crinklecut3790 3 месяца назад +78

    That was an excellent video. Can’t believe you’re under 5K subscribers. I expect your channel will grow quickly if you keep this level of quality in your content production. Well done, sir!

    • @dump___
      @dump___ 3 месяца назад

      Not anymore. 😌

    • @AndreGreeff
      @AndreGreeff 3 месяца назад

      under 5k subs... and 7 days later, the channel is at 6.4k. seems your prediction is on point. :)

  • @futureme8719
    @futureme8719 3 месяца назад +1

    What to say? A perfectly balanced presentation, Instant subscriber 👍

  • @Space_Library
    @Space_Library 2 месяца назад +2

    Fascinating examination of the unidentified object passing in front of the sun! The way the narrator meticulously ruled out possibilities one by one was both impressive and suspenseful. The inclusion of personal observations and comparisons with known phenomena added a personal touch to the scientific inquiry. Looking forward to more captivating content!

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  2 месяца назад

      Thank you, thank you! More on the way! Probably ISS related, but we'll see...

  • @glevideo
    @glevideo 3 месяца назад +134

    Back in the early 1990s I made a hobby out of observing lunar and solar satellite transits through my 8inch dobsonian telescope. I would run a large number of keplarian elements through my tracking program and whenever a satellite pass would line up close to the sun or moon I would set up to be ready to view. I had about a 20% success rate because I had to be in precisely the right location. Being a mile to one side or the other would cause me to miss the transit. At times I would just sit outside at night observing the moon for hours and just watch for whatever might fly by. Saw the Mir Space Station one night. Seeing these things in silhouette form allows for high detail such as antennas and solar panels to be identified. What you saw looks very much like a satellite pass but I’m not sure about the wobble in the path. The possibility of a PICO balloon is also good (they’re only about 3 feet across) but only if it was traveling west to east. It would be influenced by the jet stream at it’s typical altitude of around 40,000 feet.

    • @nullvoid001
      @nullvoid001 3 месяца назад +6

      I see communication satellites quite often. Occasionally, when the period of the orbits are correct it is easy to see the SpaceX satellites lit up by the reflection of the sun off the moon.

    • @Opceedee
      @Opceedee 3 месяца назад +14

      I would also think it’s a satellite, likely in very high orbit, probably geosynchronous. You are not seeing the movement of the satellite, but the movement of the sun behind it. Your telescope is tracking the sun, hence the motion. The wobble is most likely a result of the tracker gear making a push. I see ‘wobbly’ lines from satellites in my night images too, probably due to tracking.

    • @bellyillish
      @bellyillish 3 месяца назад +3

      No kidding just a mile or so? That's interesting I wouldn't have thought that...

    • @GRelayer
      @GRelayer 3 месяца назад +3

      Thanks for that. Very enlightening!

    • @noelht1
      @noelht1 3 месяца назад +2

      This is really cool.

  • @markfisher7962
    @markfisher7962 3 месяца назад +51

    One method of getting some perspective on this: you have a pretty specific angular size and a very accurate read on the angular motion. It might be helpful to generate a table of size and speed for different assumed ranges.

    • @antimatterhorn
      @antimatterhorn 3 месяца назад +6

      i commented without seeing your comment here, but i've done this calculation assuming it was orbital motion, and it would have to be a >200m object at >3000 km altitude to look like what he filmed.

    • @ZenZaBill
      @ZenZaBill 3 месяца назад +1

      Going at what assumed speed?
      @@antimatterhorn

    • @antimatterhorn
      @antimatterhorn 3 месяца назад +4

      @@ZenZaBill at an angular speed of 0.5 degrees in 13 seconds.

    • @RangieNZ
      @RangieNZ 3 месяца назад +2

      @@antimatterhorn So the object is ~ 15,000 times higher, than it's diameter. So 2m at 30km/100,000ft, which is in the correct sort of ballpark for a weather balloon.

    • @antimatterhorn
      @antimatterhorn 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@RangieNZ yes that's right. If it's in the atmosphere, it can be traveling at almost any speed necessary to have the observed angular speed of 0.5 degrees/13s, but once you require it's in orbit, that places it at only one distance and makes the object exceptionally large. So it is very likely a balloon of some kind.

  • @user-eb3ms3ij7o
    @user-eb3ms3ij7o Месяц назад +1

    The best I see of eclipse. You are so excited it was exciting watching you. Ty for sharing your joy.
    Shine brother shine ❤❤❤!

  • @JS-yj7ow
    @JS-yj7ow 3 месяца назад

    Well done, nice to see an honest treatment of this, and I would have never guessed that’s where you would end up. Makes perfect sense though.

  • @mrzorg
    @mrzorg 3 месяца назад +420

    Balloon seems the most likely. This video explanation was really well done. Thanks. Maybe it was one of those Chinese spy balloons??? LOL

    • @user-wf4hy4ub7p
      @user-wf4hy4ub7p 3 месяца назад +17

      Easy to check. Get the weather guys to say which way the wind was blowing when you took the pictures.

    • @krazykuz13cmc
      @krazykuz13cmc 3 месяца назад +6

      ITS FUCKING STAR LINK

    • @tjpprojects7192
      @tjpprojects7192 3 месяца назад +24

      ​​@@krazykuz13cmcNah, Starlinks are squares, not circles, it's more likely a flying crab. They're notorious for bombing cameras.

    • @manomenon1
      @manomenon1 3 месяца назад +3

      Maybe its aliens probe

    • @thehimself4056
      @thehimself4056 3 месяца назад +2

      I’d say balloons. I have seen several of these videos. From different areas. They all look very similar.

  • @ricky_pigeon
    @ricky_pigeon 3 месяца назад +151

    it's a bird in a ufo.

    • @ganymede3141
      @ganymede3141 3 месяца назад +4

      It was a UFO in a bird.

    • @skld-xm
      @skld-xm 3 месяца назад +7

      of course the pigeon would say that

    • @pauljs75
      @pauljs75 3 месяца назад +2

      So Kurzgesagt was to blame?

    • @zackels
      @zackels 3 месяца назад +1

      I was gonna the infamous Birdman in a UFO.

    • @Greeneon6073
      @Greeneon6073 3 месяца назад +2

      @@ganymede3141it ufo was a bird in

  • @ChrisContin
    @ChrisContin 3 месяца назад +1

    Nice investigation and documentary! Fun to watch.

  • @troyglossop1113
    @troyglossop1113 22 дня назад

    your video is really well made, thank you for sharing!

  • @rosswootton8825
    @rosswootton8825 3 месяца назад +109

    I was observing a full moon a few years ago and watched a perfectly circular black disc cross my field of view contrasting sharply with the lunar surface, it was considerably bigger than your object, perfectly round but moved at around the same speed. To this day I have absolutely no idea what it was.

    • @Ry2009Ry
      @Ry2009Ry 3 месяца назад +13

      I’ve recorded this object.

    • @robertgormley7602
      @robertgormley7602 3 месяца назад +11

      Some sort of balloon is likely

    • @sarajoolae8197
      @sarajoolae8197 3 месяца назад +4

      Not a weather balloon by any chance 😮

    • @jeremygalloway1348
      @jeremygalloway1348 3 месяца назад +7

      How big would you guess it was? In earth atmosphere or closer to moon?

    • @cestmoi7368
      @cestmoi7368 3 месяца назад +1

      A bug on your lens? ;)

  • @MarekMakes
    @MarekMakes 3 месяца назад +31

    Never watched any of your videos before, very well done! Excellent editing

  • @gamingwithgeko7377
    @gamingwithgeko7377 3 месяца назад +3

    With all the accusations and claims of knowledge online. I really appreciate you breaking down your list in the way you did. It was easy to understand informative and if you got something wrong I'm sure a viewer who knows better would chime in. You have totally earned my like and sub.

  • @UAPs
    @UAPs 2 месяца назад +1

    good video and excellent observation of the speed matching wind speed

  • @Henyahyah
    @Henyahyah 3 месяца назад +10

    This is a great video. I love the setup of explaining all the possible things, yet still keeping it short and simple. Nice job 👍

  • @AndroidPsyches
    @AndroidPsyches 3 месяца назад +17

    My friend, this was good science! Proper skepticism and great deductive reasoning. I agree with your intuition, I think the most likely case is that it is probably a weather or a party balloon, and I wouldn't rule out your concluding innuendo. Cool to see another enthusiast and proper thinker here in DFW. Thanks for the thought provoking content!

  • @ConanCat927
    @ConanCat927 3 месяца назад +17

    That, sir, is the Sun Station do not worry

    • @jamaicanexile
      @jamaicanexile 3 месяца назад +6

      Science compels us to blow up the sun!

    • @TheJerlynK
      @TheJerlynK 2 месяца назад +1

      Surely, you must be referring to the one that makes sun's go supernova, correct?

    • @mr.phantom674
      @mr.phantom674 20 дней назад

      @@TheJerlynK no no, they're talking about the one that makes the sun taste like cotton candy

  • @new_fone_who_dis
    @new_fone_who_dis 3 месяца назад

    Great video, enjoyed the analysis

  • @jeromejooste3493
    @jeromejooste3493 3 месяца назад +11

    Good analysis of possible objects and a very well produced video.

  • @NevadaDesertSkies
    @NevadaDesertSkies 3 месяца назад +53

    I'm glad you used logic and worked through all of the possibilities. My first guess the instant I saw it was a balloon as well. I've done a lot of solar Ha imaging and have captured several jets, birds, ISS transits of the Sun and the Moon, and the occasional satellite that was extremely small and fast. And every once in a while I manage to capture an unknown object like this. I've almost always attributed them to something floating in our atmosphere because they are traveling in the direction of the prevailing winds.

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 3 месяца назад

      What you are actually seeing, is a fairly large sphere flying incredibly fast at high altitude in the atmosphere. Or what is known as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) formerly known as a UFO. In the past ten years we have seen these flying silver spheres all across our planet and they are becoming very common. Both along our coasts and places of nuclear energy (weapon and power origin) It is more difficult to see them flying at high altitude unless the camera is from above looking down. So you have a very rare perspective in this video. I would assume it was a meteor or asteroid. But the shape is to perfect.
      Search up Silver flying spheres or Silver orbs and you will see the other reference videos.

    • @thecalham
      @thecalham 3 месяца назад

      My first guess was that tesla that they launched few years back, glad I was wrong

  • @minekuchi
    @minekuchi 3 месяца назад +1

    This video was really cool man! Definitely going to subscribe and stick around to see what else you find :D

  • @Infraclear
    @Infraclear 3 месяца назад +2

    I had high hopes that you could tell us the exact nature of the object you observed. I'm happy all the same that your video's title is a question, and not a promise. It's cool that we don't know what you saw, and I'm glad that you covered so many possibilities.

  • @NG-VQ37VHR
    @NG-VQ37VHR 3 месяца назад +8

    Great video. Editing and commentary were well above what I'd normally expect from a channel with 4k subs.
    It was also a nice reminder that i need to start looking at solar scopes again. I neeeed one.

  • @oo7naughtyusmaximus933
    @oo7naughtyusmaximus933 3 месяца назад +16

    I think it's a thingy, a bit like a whatnot......but smaller.

    • @sonofmaksim8989
      @sonofmaksim8989 3 месяца назад

      Best explanation yet..!

    • @tbounds4812
      @tbounds4812 3 месяца назад

      looks yay big to me way down yonder

    • @itspfaff
      @itspfaff 3 месяца назад

      ALINS!!

    • @skld-xm
      @skld-xm 3 месяца назад

      LOL

  • @graemeshaw3964
    @graemeshaw3964 3 месяца назад +3

    If you look closely to the picture of the sun and the dotted lines, then you realize that the dots get closer on the edges and farther in the middle. That concludes that it was not any of the candidates.

  • @valerune192
    @valerune192 3 месяца назад

    Very educating and well explained all the debunks

  • @Magnetar99
    @Magnetar99 3 месяца назад +11

    You did a good job convincing me it was a balloon without a ton of skepticism. And I dig into UAPs. So great job. Thanks!

  • @alexbuilds706
    @alexbuilds706 3 месяца назад +4

    Just stumbled across this vid and it's excellent! Definitely subbed.. This feels like one of those channels that'll be over 100k in the next year. The algo is picking it up obviously, just need to keep it up! Great work...

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  3 месяца назад

      Welcome aboard, and thank you! Fighting that urge to put off uploading lol.

    • @KallePihlajasaari
      @KallePihlajasaari 3 месяца назад

      @@kylemccaslin If every yt channel mentioned that RFK Jr. is running for president the mainstream media could no longer keep is quiet. He has is on Substack and worth reading.

  • @tracymorgan6700
    @tracymorgan6700 Месяц назад +1

    ❤ Great video ❤ Thank you for sharing 😊

  • @thenotoriousyumz
    @thenotoriousyumz 3 месяца назад +3

    The velocity matched the vapor trail, so it's likely being affected by the wind. The different angle can definitely be caused by elevation change. I think you are correct with the balloon. Maybe a sky bison.

  • @SimonAmazingClarke
    @SimonAmazingClarke 3 месяца назад +5

    You can get an aftertaste, not sure if that is the correct term, but it's a report of the actual weather so you can check wind speeds at different heights and see if any match. As the air gets higher it changes direction due to the coriolis effect, and other things. Will be interesting to see what it actually was.

  • @peterharbman
    @peterharbman 3 месяца назад +12

    Love the opening ancient aliens meme! Just awesome, seriously LOL! Great tube, I'm a new sub and love the content, looking forward to your future clips!!🎉😊

  • @templargfx
    @templargfx 3 месяца назад +1

    your google searches at the start gave me a chuckle. great video

  • @linearlink
    @linearlink 3 месяца назад +5

    Mothman. It’s always Mothman.

  • @marcleblanc502
    @marcleblanc502 3 месяца назад +3

    Great video ❤

  • @haroldhenderson2824
    @haroldhenderson2824 3 месяца назад +7

    With the transit time, you should calculate the speed required to achieve that time at various heights. Jetstream winds can approach 250 knots (between 25k & 35k feet). Low Earth orbit objects cover 4 degrees per minute.

    • @ericmoyer8538
      @ericmoyer8538 3 месяца назад +1

      Could possibly even be a mylar balloon at a couple hundred feet

    • @danfoss1535
      @danfoss1535 3 месяца назад

      It's most definitely Vulcan.

  • @machonugget
    @machonugget 3 месяца назад +1

    wonderful video! liked subbed, cant wait to see more, keep it up!

  • @davemiller6055
    @davemiller6055 3 месяца назад +3

    I like how in the video he eliminates a bunch of things (satellites, planets, asteroids, etc.) and explains why it can't be those things, and then a bunch of people in the comments are saying that it's a satellite or Mercury. Did you guys WATCH the video? Seriously.

  • @ArtUniverse
    @ArtUniverse 3 месяца назад +20

    As for the satellites, there are only 4-5 large enough to be clearly visible in front of the Sun, and none are circular in shape. Smaller satellite transits (mostly Stalink) are pretty common, occurring roughly once per hour on average, but they are barely visible even with a large telescope.
    Also thanks for using the ISS Transit Finder, I made this website. Planetary transit calculations are coming soon!

    • @kylemccaslin
      @kylemccaslin  3 месяца назад +2

      Yeah, I think there were quite a few satellites passing during the session, their speeds matched the LEO estimates and they were small, had little contrast, and were poorly defined.
      You made ISS Transit Finder??? Thank you so much for doing that! That site is awesome!

    • @dave882
      @dave882 3 месяца назад

      Love your website! Got me into hunting for transits and driving all over the state, parking in fields and trying to rapidly set up my telescope before the police show up 😂😂😂
      Ps can you put a filter by angular size on the settings page please?

    • @Michael_LaRiviere
      @Michael_LaRiviere 3 месяца назад

      You're the best

    • @mikerentiers
      @mikerentiers 3 месяца назад

      The traversal looks like Starlink - can we really rule out manipulation of Starlink over the sun? Also, screw Starlink and whoever allowed 40,00 satellites (that need replacing every 5-7 years) to run a bullet train in low earth orbit. Kessler Syndrome anyone? A cascading collision of space debris in low Earth orbit will definitely trap us.
      ISS just had to do an emergency maneuver to avoid junk. NASA tracks thousands of pieces of junk. The man who wants to get us to Mars may be the guy who ensures we never escape the planet. Satellite Comms companies use line-of-sight of sIght for A GOOD reason..... do line-of-sight up there and our comms are fast. Starlink (a financially dubious company) offers only a slightly lower latency? They must maintain the fleet very often and do you think

  • @drscribbles-mcsnifflephd.2996
    @drscribbles-mcsnifflephd.2996 3 месяца назад +4

    This is the first video of yours I've seen, it came up as a random suggestion in my feed. I wanted to leave you a comment to compliment the quality of your analysis. It is so refreshing to come across a content creator familiar with logic and reason! I am now subscribed and look forward to exploring your channel. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing! 😁 ... And those are some extraordinarily beautiful solar images by the way!

  • @anthonycampos7417
    @anthonycampos7417 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for inculding titles of the bmg used in the description

  • @rosaleesmith8772
    @rosaleesmith8772 3 месяца назад +1

    Love your work!!! ❤️❤️❤️😍😍. Aliens!!!!

  • @AGDinCA
    @AGDinCA 3 месяца назад +7

    I appreciate how you rationally and methodically address each candidate on your list of possibilities. Some of your assumptions may be wrong (or they may all be correct) but that's not really important. What's important is _how_ you make your observations, _how_ you make your conclusions. Your efforts are to be applauded and I hope others will be inspired to solve the little mysteries in their own lives with a similar scientific approach.

  • @raoulduke7668
    @raoulduke7668 3 месяца назад +5

    "A balloon? How silly of a theory! It's definitely an alien mothership!!1!!"

  • @TrailBlazer5280
    @TrailBlazer5280 3 месяца назад +2

    Seeing the vapor trail and the object moving in the same direction and at similar speed was very convincing

  • @rcsendandblast1579
    @rcsendandblast1579 3 месяца назад

    Question did it only do 1 fly by or did it wrap around the sun multiple times again and again
    Is it still visible now today still

  • @skyking4557
    @skyking4557 3 месяца назад +3

    Dyson Cloud?

  • @gdutfulkbhh7537
    @gdutfulkbhh7537 3 месяца назад +9

    Okay, okay... hear me out: obviously, it's a party balloon... but how do you know it wasn't released by aliens?!
    Checkmate.

    • @Wild-Eye
      @Wild-Eye Месяц назад

      😂

    • @MiniLemmy
      @MiniLemmy Месяц назад

      Yeah, with the open borders…..

  • @X4Alpha4X
    @X4Alpha4X 3 месяца назад +1

    As soon as you brought up the wobbly path i immediately thought it had to be a balloon. cool that it seems most of us agree here!

  • @NotTheWheel
    @NotTheWheel 2 месяца назад

    Good work kid :) You're a smart fella

  • @Kav_Games
    @Kav_Games 3 месяца назад +3

    Its actually the sun station from outer wilds

  • @markfreeland1027
    @markfreeland1027 3 месяца назад +10

    How about the Parker Solar observation satellite?

    • @christophtoifl6848
      @christophtoifl6848 3 месяца назад

      That is millions of kilometers away. To appear that big compared to the sun it would have to be enormous, like as big or bigger then the moon enormous...

    • @davidbordwell8346
      @davidbordwell8346 3 месяца назад

      My thoughts exactly..timed stamped at 40 seconds in.. im sticking with it.

  • @kjrey9878
    @kjrey9878 3 месяца назад

    Dude, I LOVED your video! I can't explain how much this kind of Observe, Hypothesize, Research/Test/Compare, and then Theorize has been missed on this platform. Your video right here, THIS is what I miss about youtube (and the internet in the early 2000s in general)! People sharing information, details, asking questions, and having NOTHING to do with status/popularity seeking, or this whole thing with people's entire motivation being "getting rich in your pajamas" by posting nonsense on youtube for "Likes👍". You've just earned a "SUBSCRIBE" from me, and I hope to see more excellent and thought provoking content in the future! 😃👍

  • @DNOPLAYSGAMES
    @DNOPLAYSGAMES 2 месяца назад

    Sick video, subbed

  • @leifharmsen
    @leifharmsen 3 месяца назад +4

    It is a satalite. Slower because it is farther. Likely GPS. Shimmer explains the appearent imperfect tracking.

    • @Uniblab9000
      @Uniblab9000 3 месяца назад +5

      GPS satellites orbit at about 12,500 miles above Earth. At that distance, a typical GPS satellite (which has an width of about 17 feet) subtends an angle of 0.000015 degrees, or about 33,000 times smaller than the disc of the sun as seen from Earth. Assuming the angular size measurement of this object offered by others here, about 7.2 arc seconds, is correct (I didn't measure it myself), that makes it about 1/250th the size of the sun's disc, or about 132 times too large to be a GPS satellite. At 0.05 arc seconds, a GPS satellite would not even be visible in a telescopic image such as this.

    • @stop-533
      @stop-533 3 месяца назад

      It could be the Parker solar probe?

    • @Uniblab9000
      @Uniblab9000 3 месяца назад +1

      @@stop-533Nope, it's invisible from Earth.

    • @alexatedw
      @alexatedw 3 месяца назад

      @@Uniblab9000it’s a sat for sure

    • @Uniblab9000
      @Uniblab9000 3 месяца назад

      @@alexatedwYou'll need to explain the erratic path of this object as it transits the sun to make that case.

  • @defenestrated23
    @defenestrated23 3 месяца назад +3

    It definitely has the pendulum-wobble characteristic of balloons, and the silhouette matches.

    • @RollingCalf
      @RollingCalf 3 месяца назад

      But would the ballon's wobble correct to return to its original path. By the time the transit is over, the object returns to it's initial trajectory

  • @og4372
    @og4372 3 месяца назад

    You had me at poking fun of it being aliens! Lol, good stuff.

  • @mvc9178
    @mvc9178 3 месяца назад +1

    Just stumbled on your channel.
    What great ALGO luck.
    Looking forward to the journey….

  • @Sir-Dexter
    @Sir-Dexter 3 месяца назад +1

    nice work

  • @festumstultorum1462
    @festumstultorum1462 3 месяца назад

    Is it possible to calculate the distance at which that object is?

  • @writteng
    @writteng 3 месяца назад

    Yo this is fun and intresting!

  • @donnakano3697
    @donnakano3697 3 месяца назад +1

    Interesting analysis. At first, I just assumed it was a transit until you disclosed the time.

  • @freshtapcoke
    @freshtapcoke 3 месяца назад +1

    Great video

  • @biggie2568
    @biggie2568 3 месяца назад +1

    It's fucking mesmerixzing how beautifully insane and crazy space is. I thought the first images were fake until I realised he was actually scanning the sun. Fuck it's amazing.

  • @beasleydad
    @beasleydad 3 месяца назад

    Damn, fine, I'll subscribe in the first minute and a half.

  • @user-nc3dl6zo7e
    @user-nc3dl6zo7e 3 месяца назад

    I was looking at the image of all the dots close together, doesn't it look like the dots get smaller when the object goes into a wave, I think you may have caught it solid instead of a knock around like you think happened, and the object moved in a wave or swirl.

  • @ybsmike6512
    @ybsmike6512 Месяц назад

    What is the shadow from at 8:10 in the vid? It starts around 4pm and exits at 1pm just after 8:13. Its very similar in size to your mystery object in size, but is half the darkness of the one in question. Appreciate the vid!

  • @plebeychips
    @plebeychips 2 месяца назад +1

    0:33 I’m sorry that “was men in black a documentary” immediately sent me lol. Great video tho!

  • @hansangb
    @hansangb 3 месяца назад

    I think we can safely rule out it being a balloon because you can't see the string. Ergo, it must be an alien spaceship....I WANT TO BELIEVE!!! Great voice-over and video. Well done!

  • @mitchmahoney5586
    @mitchmahoney5586 3 месяца назад

    Your ending with the chinese flag and chorus just got you a new subscriber. Very very good video with an excellent ending.

  • @boriskaragiannis
    @boriskaragiannis 3 месяца назад

    3:46 i don't see the connection with solar eclipses..can you explain a bit more on this?

  • @lmb888
    @lmb888 Месяц назад +1

    This video is on point... Hook line an sinker

  • @robinhilliard
    @robinhilliard 3 месяца назад +1

    I’m a private pilot with about 500 hours logged and I’ve flown past party balloons including the larger mylar ones at least two or three times flying over urban areas at around 2-4 thousand feet.

  • @ypanso
    @ypanso 3 месяца назад

    for what it's worth, I live in a city called haifa, back in february around 5 am I saw 9 tiny fast moving lights in the sky, no flickring or red/green like plaanes, just white. I counted 9 , moving on what seems to be a straight line, quite fast and high .

  • @jabebwell2183
    @jabebwell2183 3 месяца назад

    What camera & zoom do you use?

  • @iang8905
    @iang8905 3 месяца назад

    As a dfw resident who likes to look at the sky a lot, we do have a satellite that flies straight over us or dang near rather frequently and it moves over the horizon pretty quick. (I only have my eyes though not a fancy scope so idk)

  • @nish5383
    @nish5383 Месяц назад

    It cud be solar Parker satellite for sun exploration??

  • @musclechicken9036
    @musclechicken9036 2 месяца назад

    I think it’s the mythical space spaghetti monster that we have all been waiting for

  • @bramverhees755
    @bramverhees755 3 месяца назад +1

    Interesting and well-reasoned video 👍 I’m sold on the balloon theory. But obviously it’s somehow also aliens.

  • @gaureearolkar1522
    @gaureearolkar1522 17 дней назад

    1. when u record it?
    2. how many times this occurs?
    3. does it has same path and time of transition w.r.t. sun?

  • @moonshadow7064
    @moonshadow7064 3 месяца назад

    If I was to guess. I'd say since it seems to roll a little bit and if balloons is ruled out I would concentrate on ruling out some sort of space debris (junk). A piece of booster or any of the other things that get added every time a space agency takes a trip up.

  • @vanillagorilla8696
    @vanillagorilla8696 3 месяца назад

    Could we get enough information of that for 3d reconstruction?