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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@Opceedee I don't think it could be geosynchronous, if my math is correct: The sun spans about half a degree on the sky, and the object travelled across near the middle of the sun, so it went nearly half a degree in 13 seconds. But the sun moves 15 degrees per hour as viewed from earth, which is half a degree in two minutes. So, the angular speed of the object is much too high to be geosynchronous.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
The vapor trail showed the air current moving in basically the same direction as the unknown object. I think you are correct a high altitude Balloon is probably the culprint. Great video!
no, it did not, the trail was moving left to right, the object was moving up and to the right. It's an illusion that the trail seems to move up and to the right due to the angle of the trail moving left to right.
@@d0n77yes but a helium ballon wouldn't have neutral buoyancy like that vapor does. It would have a combination of the force of the air current and the buoyancy creating lift.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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?
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
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.
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!
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.
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!!🎉😊
I saw something similar a few months ago, while observing the moon with a telescope and I saw a round object transiting the moon but it did not travel in a straight line ,it was going in a S shaped zigzag, without slowing down, im convinced it was an alien space ship
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.
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 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.
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.
I'm no astrophysicist so please excuse my terminology but in my best estimation it would appear to be a little black dot. Hope this helps clear things up for you.
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.
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!
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.
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...
5:50 The object appears to cross the diameter of the sun in 13.81 seconds. The Sun is moving through the Sky with an apparent speed of 15 degrees per hour. That means it moves the diameter of the Sun in almost exactly 138.1 seconds. Are you sure the video playback is not at 10x speed, and the object is hanging still in the air?
Is it at all possible the day could have been considered "breezy" anywhere in the vicinity? Spiders, even rather largish ones, commonly traverse to greener pastures by 'ballooning' (their preferred mode of transportation over sometimes, impressive distances). If one area gets too competitive, hazardous, or even uneventful, (relatively speaking), certain spider species will often climb to the highest point they can find, then spray multiple strands of silk up into the air, in hopes of hitching themselves to a convenient breeze to carry them 'happier hunting grounds'... It IS still mating season for them, as well. There is no hard and fast rule for the 'raining spiders' phenomena, other than a good stiff timely breeze coupled with a firm wish to be elsewhere. It's possible the mysterious traversing object could've been a lone and portly spider arriving early (or late) to the annual spring arachnid fling....
Totally agree that spiders do that and there may have been some doing that that day, but it still doesn't match the size and sharpness of the object. In order for it to be that dark and sharp, it would have to be far away, and if it's far away it's too big to be a spider.
Not if the media is told not to tell us so we dont panic knowing certain annihilation is hurtling toward us. Nowadays with internet itd be much more difficult to hide from us
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.
That is a good suggestion that slipped my mind. Though thinking about it, I'd expect consumer-level drones to be flying low enough that some shape is visible. Maybe something more diamond shaped.
I’d guess weather balloon. At height they become circular. They can go up to 130.000 feet before popping. And you do point out that the object is moving with more or less the same speed as condensation trails.
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 .
For those asking if this could be the Parker Solar Probe, the answer is no. On the day this video was shot the Parker Solar Probe was more than 8 degrees east of the sun (that's more than 16 times the sun's apparent diameter) and was near perihelion (the point in its orbit closest to the sun) meaning if it *had* been directly in front of the sun it would have been about 89 millions miles from Earth. At that distance an object only 8 feet across (the diameter of the Probe's solar shield) is invisible in even the largest telescopes. Even at its closest to Earth, about 25 million miles, the Parker Space Probe is invisible.
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My first guess would be a balloon of some sort. My second guess would be a discarded rocket faring as the atmospheric shimmer could actually be due to tumble. Should be pretty easy to figure out possible sizes at what altitudes to narrow things down via trig.
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)
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!
Spoilers : It's actually a weird ship with an O'Neill Cylinder and a solar sail which comes from another system and has been left in our solar system. There was an exhibit about it at a radio tower somewhere i'm pretty sure although it's now closed due to fire damage
In the mid 1960s when I was about 14, I saw a similar "transit" and have never known what it was. I did not have photographs, so it is poorly documented, but the transit time was about an hour. I knew there were no transits of Mercury at that time, so I was, and remain, completely at a loss. There were many fewer satellites in orbit in those days, and I grew up in a very rural area, so the options are pretty limited. I eventually became an astrophysicist, but still have no idea what transited the sun.
I haven't even begun to watch your video, but, right away, that is definitely not orbiting the sun. If it was, that object is HUGE, and traveling extremely fast. It would be very known to our scientists by now.
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.
DiCasaFilm spotted a moon transit of something that was more recognizable as a shaped mylar baloon, but it looked to be a similar speed across the disk. That vid is titled "Balloon Transits Moon!"
That was me, sorry guys. Didn't mean to transit the sun while you were taking pictures, my bad
Damn it I was trying to peek through somebody's window and you were distracting me
classic barnes
Ooeeee, aliens again. They're everywhere. We should hide. They're watching us😂
Always one in the bunch messing up a shot😂😂😂
I forgive you
That was DB Cooper. He still hasn't landed
A man of culture I see.
Could be
and with 2 mil in the bag
That’s crazy 💀
thats superb
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.
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.
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.
@@analog_guy Yup, I forgot to take account of the angle. So it’s about 80% lower in height than its range.
@@analog_guy great reasoning!
An if it was planet near Sun it would have more then 1500 km in diameter. :D
My automatic thought was satellite, but you were quite convincing that it might be a balloon
i hope it was the fabled "vulcan." i'll rewatch
If it's a balloon, it's lucky it didn't get shot down by a USAF F-22
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)
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I’m so happy someone commented this
just made me remember i gotta watch another supercut from lord eelis anyways bye
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.
Oh, and you might find Dark Bramble if you look hard enough.
So nice to see an observational video of a 'ufo' on YT that makes sense instead of sensationalism.
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.
@@thetruthchannel349no it was aliens
@@daMillenialTrucker *Dmnd aliens again huh?*
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.
@@algee2005 Fanatics don't think like that, they believe how they want -much like anyone else
Spoiler alert: it is Astrophage. We should construct some kind of space ship to go investigate.
Man I loved reading Project Hail Mary
LOVE that book.
Maybe Rocky coming to pay us a visit?
@@DonovanCYoung loved the ending but it would be cool to see what Rocky thinks of earth.
@@brackeng1294 Agree!
As an old amateur astronomy geek this is one of the best laid out presentations I have ever seen. Keep up the good work!
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.
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.
I thought Sat too. Nope.
Great video! Instant subscriber.
Only one like and no replies???
hello
holy shit it’s jesus
Hey jesus I see you everywhere. And even Jack's fiverr videos lol
No way its jesus christ
I don't know what it was, but I appreciate the process you applied to narrow down the field.
Also, cool sun pics.
What a mystery it would have been if it is a balloon that burst mid-transit. The fragments would disappear very quickly - or instantly.
That would be so damn confusing 😂
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.
Flying that close to the sun, you would almost expect that!
@@timconnorsYeah, just look what it did to Icarus.
the solar system, was known about thousands of yrs ago. its actually drawn, carved, on temples, caves.. along with ufo,s. world wide.@@kylemccaslin
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.
It looks like a string of "____ Be_ds."
@@donwayne1357?
Damn the Chinese are even spying on the Sun now?!
@@YunxiaoChuhe wanted to write "anal beads" but thought that actually spelling the words would be too uncouth
@@donwayne1357 you're missing some underscores there
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for that. Very enlightening!
This is really cool.
@@Opceedee I don't think it could be geosynchronous, if my math is correct: The sun spans about half a degree on the sky, and the object travelled across near the middle of the sun, so it went nearly half a degree in 13 seconds. But the sun moves 15 degrees per hour as viewed from earth, which is half a degree in two minutes. So, the angular speed of the object is much too high to be geosynchronous.
Excellent job, seeing your hard work on reasoning and explaining.
I live in the DFW area too. I appreciate your rational thinking here
The ending with the Chinese anthem and the spy balloon was icing on the cake.
Good job Sir.
Care to elaborate?
@@TheSpanishEnigmacccp agent spotted
起來！
it wasn't a spy balloon, american government admitted it, but who cares
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.
it's a bird in a ufo.
It was a UFO in a bird.
of course the pigeon would say that
So Kurzgesagt was to blame?
I was gonna the infamous Birdman in a UFO.
@@ganymede3141it ufo was a bird in
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.
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.
Going at what assumed speed?
@@antimatterhorn
@@ZenZaBill at an angular speed of 0.5 degrees in 13 seconds.
@@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.
@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.
That, sir, is the Sun Station do not worry
Science compels us to blow up the sun!
Surely, you must be referring to the one that makes sun's go supernova, correct?
@@TheJerlynK no no, they're talking about the one that makes the sun taste like cotton candy
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.
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.
I’ve recorded this object.
Some sort of balloon is likely
Not a weather balloon by any chance 😮
How big would you guess it was? In earth atmosphere or closer to moon?
A bug on your lens? ;)
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!
Not anymore. 😌
under 5k subs... and 7 days later, the channel is at 6.4k. seems your prediction is on point. :)
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!
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.
Mothman. It’s always Mothman.
The vapor trail showed the air current moving in basically the same direction as the unknown object. I think you are correct a high altitude Balloon is probably the culprint. Great video!
no, it did not, the trail was moving left to right, the object was moving up and to the right. It's an illusion that the trail seems to move up and to the right due to the angle of the trail moving left to right.
Thank goodness he didn't conclude that it was swamp gas. 😉
To me the video of the smoke overlapping shows that this object was NOT following the wind
@@Sat1re1 the camera is moving, if the object is closer to the camera than the sun, then the object could be sitting still in space.
@@d0n77yes but a helium ballon wouldn't have neutral buoyancy like that vapor does. It would have a combination of the force of the air current and the buoyancy creating lift.
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.
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.
My first guess was that tesla that they launched few years back, glad I was wrong
Balloon seems the most likely. This video explanation was really well done. Thanks. Maybe it was one of those Chinese spy balloons??? LOL
Easy to check. Get the weather guys to say which way the wind was blowing when you took the pictures.
ITS FUCKING STAR LINK
@@krazykuz13cmcNah, Starlinks are squares, not circles, it's more likely a flying crab. They're notorious for bombing cameras.
Maybe its aliens probe
I’d say balloons. I have seen several of these videos. From different areas. They all look very similar.
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.
Seeing the vapor trail and the object moving in the same direction and at similar speed was very convincing
Never watched any of your videos before, very well done! Excellent editing
Good analysis of possible objects and a very well produced video.
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.
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.
This is a great video. I love the setup of explaining all the possible things, yet still keeping it short and simple. Nice job 👍
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.
Could possibly even be a mylar balloon at a couple hundred feet
It's most definitely Vulcan.
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!
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!
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?
You're the best
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
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.
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!
Thank you, thank you! More on the way! Probably ISS related, but we'll see...
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.
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!
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!!🎉😊
Thank you thank you!
I saw something similar a few months ago, while observing the moon with a telescope and I saw a round object transiting the moon but it did not travel in a straight line ,it was going in a S shaped zigzag, without slowing down, im convinced it was an alien space ship
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.
"A balloon? How silly of a theory! It's definitely an alien mothership!!1!!"
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...
Welcome aboard, and thank you! Fighting that urge to put off uploading lol.
@@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.
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.
Interesting analysis. At first, I just assumed it was a transit until you disclosed the time.
I'm no astrophysicist so please excuse my terminology but in my best estimation it would appear to be a little black dot. Hope this helps clear things up for you.
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.
Thank you
Okay, okay... hear me out: obviously, it's a party balloon... but how do you know it wasn't released by aliens?!
Checkmate.
😂
Yeah, with the open borders…..
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!
Possibly a Stratollite LTA platform. Basically a "satellite" suspended from a balloon.
Thank you for inculding titles of the bmg used in the description
Dyson Cloud?
It is a satalite. Slower because it is farther. Likely GPS. Shimmer explains the appearent imperfect tracking.
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.
It could be the Parker solar probe?
@@stop-533Nope, it's invisible from Earth.
@@Uniblab9000it’s a sat for sure
@@alexatedwYou'll need to explain the erratic path of this object as it transits the sun to make that case.
How about the Parker Solar observation satellite?
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...
My thoughts exactly..timed stamped at 40 seconds in.. im sticking with it.
5:50 The object appears to cross the diameter of the sun in 13.81 seconds. The Sun is moving through the Sky with an apparent speed of 15 degrees per hour. That means it moves the diameter of the Sun in almost exactly 138.1 seconds. Are you sure the video playback is not at 10x speed, and the object is hanging still in the air?
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!
Is it at all possible the day could have been considered "breezy" anywhere in the vicinity? Spiders, even rather largish ones, commonly traverse to greener pastures by 'ballooning' (their preferred mode of transportation over sometimes, impressive distances). If one area gets too competitive, hazardous, or even uneventful, (relatively speaking), certain spider species will often climb to the highest point they can find, then spray multiple strands of silk up into the air, in hopes of hitching themselves to a convenient breeze to carry them 'happier hunting grounds'... It IS still mating season for them, as well. There is no hard and fast rule for the 'raining spiders' phenomena, other than a good stiff timely breeze coupled with a firm wish to be elsewhere. It's possible the mysterious traversing object could've been a lone and portly spider arriving early (or late) to the annual spring arachnid fling....
Totally agree that spiders do that and there may have been some doing that that day, but it still doesn't match the size and sharpness of the object.
In order for it to be that dark and sharp, it would have to be far away, and if it's far away it's too big to be a spider.
That's a balloon. 8th birthday and blue to be precise. You're welcome.
Not if the media is told not to tell us so we dont panic knowing certain annihilation is hurtling toward us. Nowadays with internet itd be much more difficult to hide from us
Impressive analysis! And very funny and engaging presentation! Great work!
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.
The best I see of eclipse. You are so excited it was exciting watching you. Ty for sharing your joy.
Shine brother shine ❤❤❤!
Great report, Kyle. Thank you for sharing.
good video and excellent observation of the speed matching wind speed
What to say? A perfectly balanced presentation, Instant subscriber 👍
Love your work!!! ❤️❤️❤️😍😍. Aliens!!!!
Just want to mention drones as a candidate. Not sure if one would look like that, but the mostly-linear path fits.
That is a good suggestion that slipped my mind. Though thinking about it, I'd expect consumer-level drones to be flying low enough that some shape is visible. Maybe something more diamond shaped.
Nobody gonna talk about how he looked up “do I have a telescope buying problem” and “was men in black a documentary”
Nice investigation and documentary! Fun to watch.
Might’ve been the Saturn V rocket’s discarded stage
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.
I’d guess weather balloon. At height they become circular. They can go up to 130.000 feet before popping. And you do point out that the object is moving with more or less the same speed as condensation trails.
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 .
Just stumbled on your channel.
What great ALGO luck.
Looking forward to the journey….
For those asking if this could be the Parker Solar Probe, the answer is no. On the day this video was shot the Parker Solar Probe was more than 8 degrees east of the sun (that's more than 16 times the sun's apparent diameter) and was near perihelion (the point in its orbit closest to the sun) meaning if it *had* been directly in front of the sun it would have been about 89 millions miles from Earth. At that distance an object only 8 feet across (the diameter of the Probe's solar shield) is invisible in even the largest telescopes. Even at its closest to Earth, about 25 million miles, the Parker Space Probe is invisible.
This video was really cool man! Definitely going to subscribe and stick around to see what else you find :D
You are underrated
Thank you!
your google searches at the start gave me a chuckle. great video
It's a spaceship from movie sunshine!
You're right-on, dude!
My bad, but thank you that you found my space-truck.
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! 😃👍
My first guess would be a balloon of some sort. My second guess would be a discarded rocket faring as the atmospheric shimmer could actually be due to tumble. Should be pretty easy to figure out possible sizes at what altitudes to narrow things down via trig.
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)
"was men in black a documentary" cracked me up
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!
I think it’s the mythical space spaghetti monster that we have all been waiting for
Spoilers : It's actually a weird ship with an O'Neill Cylinder and a solar sail which comes from another system and has been left in our solar system. There was an exhibit about it at a radio tower somewhere i'm pretty sure although it's now closed due to fire damage
0:33 I’m sorry that “was men in black a documentary” immediately sent me lol. Great video tho!
In the mid 1960s when I was about 14, I saw a similar "transit" and have never known what it was. I did not have photographs, so it is poorly documented, but the transit time was about an hour. I knew there were no transits of Mercury at that time, so I was, and remain, completely at a loss. There were many fewer satellites in orbit in those days, and I grew up in a very rural area, so the options are pretty limited. I eventually became an astrophysicist, but still have no idea what transited the sun.
I haven't even begun to watch your video, but, right away, that is definitely not orbiting the sun. If it was, that object is HUGE, and traveling extremely fast. It would be very known to our scientists by now.
Very educating and well explained all the debunks
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.
Son, you’ve just discovered a new planet
❤ Great video ❤ Thank you for sharing 😊
DiCasaFilm spotted a moon transit of something that was more recognizable as a shaped mylar baloon, but it looked to be a similar speed across the disk. That vid is titled "Balloon Transits Moon!"
your video is really well made, thank you for sharing!