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by cyanydeez 28 days ago
skeptics guide does a good run through of basic evaluations: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-1088

One of them is essentially: you're watching an object doing normal things while a zoomed in lense tries to track it and without proper foreground/background information, it looks like the objects moving when in reality it's just the poor camera tracking.

tl;dr: weather balloons and poor camera tracking

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> weather balloons and poor camera tracking

That doesn't really help the eyeball witnesses claiming seeing several objects

I was just sampling the discussion I mentioned. Normal eyewitness account skepticism is it's own bag of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony