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by highlysyntropic 2237 days ago
Yeah, nice try but this is pretty much fake news. There are good quality videos of anomalous objects:

https://www.higgypop.com/news/is-the-utah-ufo-fake/

https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/drone-footage-shows-ufo-tra...

https://youtu.be/AKC_Iaw9EN4?t=199

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrAntonioUrzi/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/myparanormalufostory/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyDQ-v0N1p0

And some man-made "TR-3B Astra" triangle footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnUpJw5sahg&feature=emb_titl...

Which is IR. I think the IR videos are the most promising, since high quality IR tech is restricted and optical camo could explain why sightings happen infrequently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XevJR7biQE8

Also, the interviews about Navy/5gon UFO videos have stated that the original footage was much higher resolution and showed some "protuberances" coming from the TicTac, like landing struts or whatever. The also said that the released footage was much lower resolution and also that it was unlikely the radar data would ever be released (but in other cases, JAL, Belgium, there have been radar data of anomalous objects released).

I don't think it's surprising that it's hard to get great quality footage of high tech things like this.

For the following reasons:

- the large number of cameras you mention are mostly low quality cameras

- the objects are supposed to be very fast

- the objects are often very far away

- the object might use optical camo

For example, if you are sitting on the ground in high visibility day with bright sunlight and you see a 737 in the sky at 10km it will look like a mostly translucent white speck. The obvious thing will be the contrail.

If you have an object smaller than that, faster than that, and even higher than that, you'll have a worse image.