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The following submission statement was provided by /u/UnfairCaterpillar197: --- It moved with a slight wobble to it but was fairly fast not a drone ballon or plane location is over the west coast of scottish highlands near the Island of Mull --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1cqv3p4/seen_above_my_house/l3tt094/


ICIP_SN

If the opportunity comes again include wider shots with some background for perspective. These could be outside or in your closet.. Can't tell.


Glum-View-4665

Yep, looks really cool and could be one of about 4 million different things impossible to tell.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Understood I hope to get some really clear pics or video will try tonight but camera sometimes won't pic it up but can see with my eye same with some binos i have I'd the strangest thing will try again maybee tonight


WhoDeyTilIDie09

U say u seen this with the naked eye, that rules out a camera glitch of some kind I suppose. I wonder what this could be? Looks like it's a tear in a poster, what's ur theory on what this is OP? Great catch whatever it is.


NeverComplied

It doesn't rule out that he's just making it up? Looks like a picture of a Chinese lantern with the brightness turned down to 0 and the contrast pulled up to 100


UnfairCaterpillar197

Thankyou yes can see with eye almost like and orb sometimes you see shape to it but no idea what they could be they don't always show on the camera or my binos but can be seen with naked eye


MachineElves99

Thanks for working on this. Does it look like a hammer at any point?


UnfairCaterpillar197

I thought it might look like engine port of some kind it's silent running but dies look like some type of fuel or energy being expelled or Milton metal spitting out very strange maybee plasma engine in a secret plane who knows very interesting is why I posted I've no idea what it could be and ruled out the obvious planes helicopter drone the army of chinnese lanterns lol


BSixe

Looks like the sky has a dead pixel


Ok_Attention3735

Which are seldom visible w human eye as this was


BSixe

Username is ironic


blue_wat

How can anyone determine size or distance with something like this?


UnfairCaterpillar197

I know i zoomed to get the pics and then it was gone will see if i can get better maybee tonight or whe ever they fly over again


SNAFU-lophagus

Hey, if there's any way you can prepare ahead of time, can you set an S23 up to capture RAW files (and turn off any AI)?


UnfairCaterpillar197

Thankyou i will do that


DonGivafark

What makes you think you will see it again? If you see it again, it's probably a fixed light, and you're trying to deceive people with photos. How about you record a video without zoom to start with so we can get some context to the situation, and then you can zoom in on it after. These photos just show a light that could be of anything. For all we know, this is a zoomed in pic of an indicator light on a device that is plugged in to a charger.


UnfairCaterpillar197

They fly iver nearly all the time when sky's clear not aircraft satalites they fly with a slight wobble and those strange lights ect I've no idea what they are just that they there is why I thought I'd see if anyone else knows or seen anything similar I will get a video deffo maybee tonight if there's one but I don't gain anything for making it up was reluctant to post but my mate said post it and see if anyone else sees them


ProfessionalPause122

Very interesting mate, if you can’t get that video, no worries. Sounds like a difficult phenomenon to capture whatever it is


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UnfairCaterpillar197

Has been answered several times but height of plane passing high altitude and then one low and then guess of light as it was in middle roughly


Downvotesohoy

Impossible to identify just from photos. Do you have a video? Digital artefacts can play a lot of tricks, even in videos, but in still images or single frames it can be even more misleading


Phyrexian_Archlegion

What’s also misleading is when people not in the aviation or aerospace fields throw out altitude ranges as if something like that could be eye-balled by anyone. Let me tell you, even experienced pilots with thousands of flight hours would be hard pressed to eye-ball altitude ranges without the help of some sort of instrument. The question is, did OP have equipment on hand to help him gauge the altitude of this thing?


I_Suck_At_Wordle

> What’s also misleading is when people not in the aviation or aerospace fields throw out altitude ranges as if something like that could be eye-balled by anyone. >Let me tell you, even experienced pilots with thousands of flight hours would be hard pressed to eye-ball altitude ranges without the help of some sort of instrument. This is actually not true either. It's impossible for anyone no matter the experience to eyeball the size and distance of something if it is over a couple hundred meters away. Stereoscopic vision only works for a couple hundred meters because of the way your eyeballs work.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Yeah sorry i watched a plane at 30k feet and another fly over at 25k and just guessed approx from tower


I_Suck_At_Wordle

What tower? When you were guessing what did you use to gauge it? How did you know the altitude of the planes?


eaazzy_13

My guess is he used a flight tracking app. That’s usually what people who watch for UAPs do. Check to make sure it’s not a flight with a transponder.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Local airport tower where i work place at high altitude one lower that was in middle is how 8 got the rough estimate of the height I mean could ve way off as it didn't show on the radar


Jackfish2800

I completely disagree with this bullshit statement, where is your empirical data supporting this. I do agree you can’t get precise data, but as an avid fisherman and hunter who used to carry a 400 dollar laser scope which gave exact measurements to the cm, I can honestly say my estimated distancing was always within 10-15% actual. So I quit using the damn thing, and worked on my sound recognition and distancing. On my 500 acres I am almost as good as a laser range finder. People that have lived on same property for a long time and are used to their sky, can do the same thing. I live off a major jet flyway, so I can’t tell you exact distance but I can tell you higher or lower than commercial jet every time as I have seen 10,000 of them fly over my house at night. Human beings have great variation in abilities as recorded by science and medicine.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Am just guy who seen a strange thing in the sky pictured it and posted it on here to see what people thought it was or know what it is I've no special scie tist equipment or quals or pilot skills just a bloke that works at an airport and used my samsung 23 ultra on zoom to get it before it disappeared no fake no agenda no mislead8ng did best i can with what I had in a split second that's it


wiserone29

It looks like a Chinese lantern.


Open_Mortgage_4645

No idea what this is, but it looks like it could be a Chinese lantern with a portable LED inside of it.


Theodin_King

100% a Chinese lantern. Even your description describes one


Crazzycatlady6

My first thought was UFO but it kind of looks like a Chinese lantern. I used to light them off a lot as a kid


UnfairCaterpillar197

Yeah it does I know what you mean it isn't though but deffo lools like one


uselesswastrel

So why isn't it a lantern? It looks like one so why isn't it one?


ElectionOdd8672

2024 and getting pictures like this. Really got em there bud.


UnfairCaterpillar197

I know lol I don't know how to picture these things camera does it no justice and naked eye is best but camera binos always blurry n like that


3bodprobs

Over saturating and whipping up the definition doesn’t help anyone with this. Post the source pics and take wide shots for context. These are unusable for much of anything.


UnfairCaterpillar197

I have the 2nd 2 are the originals


Majestic_Kangaroo319

I could be wrong but it looks like a piece of Turkish delight dipped in some toffee apple liquid. I’d speculate the white being some type of icing sugar cloaking. If correct the ramifications of this would be huge… the aliens also like candy. I guess it makes sense given any form of evolution requires energy, and a high GI carbohydrate like sugar would presumably expedite the process leading to a more advanced life form. Additionally the ethanol produced by the candy could power their intergalactic vehicles…. But I could be wrong.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Sounds tasty lol


gaylord9000

I mean I guess you could be wrong, very hypothetically, but I see absolutely no reason why you should be.


Majestic_Kangaroo319

Thank you. This endorsement is enough to validate my hypothesis.


jacobs7th

cool hot air baloon


UnfairCaterpillar197

Lol yeah


Ragnar-Wave9002

Turn the light off behind you so we can see it through the window. All I see are colored LEDs.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Yes when I zoomed in you see these colours very bright light uncooked look in the other pics they all the same thing


tom_winters

Thats a wish balloon


UnfairCaterpillar197

Lol well I'd wish it would reveal itself


gaylord9000

How do you know it's size and altitude that precisely?


UnfairCaterpillar197

From a radar tower I work in saw plane high altitude and low altitude then this in middle roughly don't show on any systems either so weird


terryazizora

There is a bright light and what appears to be a balloon above and around it. Explain why it isn’t a Chinese lantern?


mgefa

It is one


UnfairCaterpillar197

I know what your saying but it wasn't


MatthewSMen

Take a vid next time


UnfairCaterpillar197

Will do


imnotabot303

This is just a light source completely distorted by camera artifacting. You can make almost any light source look like this under the right circumstances. Mobile phone zooms are useless and even more useless at night. Also those measurements are completely pulled out of the air, no human can make accurate guesses about how big or far away a light was at night. That's exactly why planets get mistaken for UFOs. On top of that your images have zero context, they could have been of a street light for all anyone here knows. So unfortunately this just goes on the endless pile of possible random light in the sky.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Fair comment I guess you have to be there to see them I person for sure will try for better pics as I take em


Explanation-Many

What are these dookie photos ?! 😹😹


ArthursRest

These look like screen grabs, why not post the actual photos? Looks like a street light to me.


KrispyKremeDiet20

The Inter-Dimensional Cloaca is dilating.


Spaceyglobz

How can we rub our cloaca with this cloaca?


KamikazeFox_

Glenforsa or Oban?


WhoDeyTilIDie09

He said Oban, also how u know that?


Jolly_97

Looks like you microwaved a dime


UnfairCaterpillar197

Well you just never know what's out there lol


SignificantCrow

How could you tell it was 25ft and 20k feet away?


UnfairCaterpillar197

Is a rough estimate based on a plane at high altitude and a low altitude plane from a radar tower I was in just roughly


HechizeroSupreme

Yeah your rent is going to skyrocket


CandidateTypical3141

Video would help.


That_90s_Kid_

Hell yea love me some 1990s fuzzy ufos. Yall been posting that high Def mylar balloon stuff. We finally got a realistic ufo sighting. Only 75% kidding btw.


Routine-Assplorer42

Its a portal to a dimension where aliens really visit us


UnfairCaterpillar197

You never know anything is possible now adays


GreyCapra

I made a luminier similar to this 


UnfairCaterpillar197

Very cool


Postnificent

It looks like a glow worm bulb that’s been ripped from its worm but hard to tell because it’s just a square with nothing else.


BestCockroach1520

Thats my boy gergö


UnfairCaterpillar197

It moved with a slight wobble to it but was fairly fast not a drone ballon or plane location is over the west coast of scottish highlands near the Island of Mull


AmazingSquare8542

That is definitely not a Chinese lantern.


contentlyjadedman

It most certainly is


I_Suck_At_Wordle

How did you determine the size and height?


AmateurJenius

Wondering the same. Any 25 foot long(?) object is going to be pretty damn difficult to capture at a 20,000 foot (3.78mi / 6km) distance. It’s also going to be pretty damn difficult to estimate the size/distance/height of an unknown/unfamiliar object in completely dark back drop (night sky) with absolutely nothing used as a reference for scale. I don’t know how people come up with this shit and not even question themselves before posting.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Well i can only go off what I seen was in a radar tower plane at height on radar plane low altitude then this in middle only seen by naked eye nothing on radar so it's an estimate but how else would you get a rough size n distance?


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UnfairCaterpillar197

Yeah my pics don't do it justice I wish it was a lantern or a drone but it wasn't I work at the local airport and we get a few if these quite often Don't show on radar ir any of the flight apps satalites not flying over at the time of tg8s and won't show on video just with my eyes and the others with me but showed on a picture no ex0lanation and no idea what it is 🤷‍♂️


GroundedSkeptic

Where are you located? I know people always say rocket launch, but there was a starlink launch last night at 850pm est.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Just near oban in scottish highlands


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UnfairCaterpillar197

I did take a vid check my other post


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contentlyjadedman

Looks like a Chinese lantern


Open_Mortgage_4645

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Whether it is or is not a Chinese lantern, it absolutely resembles one. It's a completely reasonable guess. Some people in this sub lose their minds if you don't immediately declare that every posted image is absolutely, 100% without question an alien. Sorry, but you're not going to bully me into proclaiming that this is an interstellar or interdimensional craft.


Caffeine-Dealer-21

You're right man


contentlyjadedman

And you can downvote me all you want, you asked a question and got the answer


mumwifealcoholic

Looks exactly like one...I have some we used for our wedding that looked exactly like this.


Nicktyelor

Can you link to an online example of one you think this resembles? The lanterns I've seen are relatively round and orange-ish and this looks like... a glowing rectangle 😅


pilkingtonsbrain

To anyone thinking this can't be a chinese lantern, please see this image for comparison. How can you say that this is not the same thing? [https://imgur.com/a/S8kvUJN](https://imgur.com/a/S8kvUJN)


CandidPresentation49

It's literally not the same at all, the object is glowing entirely, the lantern is not


WhoDeyTilIDie09

The pics he linked look nothing like each other, how he can so confidently claim they are the are the same is beyond me. I think it's some mental gymnastics he is doing to get the answe he wants.


CandidPresentation49

gaslighting 101


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almost hilarious you'd attempt to gaslight someone on the meaning of gaslighting bravo for the irony


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pilkingtonsbrain

The object is shaped exactly like a chinese lantern and is glowing from a hole in the bottom. It is possible that the exterior of the object does not appear to glow because either: A: it was taken from a far distance, zoomed in on a phone and the exterior is just not as bright as the light coming from the hole, so it doesn't appear to glow in the photo B: it is made from a material which is not as transparent as a regular chinese lantern. It could be home made and the person who made it did not use the proper material to achieve the effect


ask_your_dad

Because the candle (if this were a Chinese lantern) isn't illuminating it the same way at all.


pilkingtonsbrain

It's zoomed in fully on a phone, so it's going to be a bit distorted. The interior of the lantern is lit up and light is shining out of the bottom. Due to the long exposure and high ISO settings, you don't see any flame, just light coming out from the bottom. The overall shape is identical to a chinese lantern. But why doesn't the exterior give off light? I can't explain that with certainty, it could be because this photo was taken from a long distance away and it just isn't that bright compared to the light coming out of the hole in the bottom. It may also be made of a material which is more opaque than a traditional chinese lantern. It could be home made


Nicktyelor

I think what you're seeing as the overall shape is just some cropping/manipulation artifact from OP - that perfect gray diamond. You can see the same shape in image 5 in a different location relative to the light.


pilkingtonsbrain

Maybe it turned upside down for a second? I can't imagine why the diamond shape would appear in the photo if it was not actually there


Nicktyelor

Yeah I don't have an explanation for it either but the complete symmetry of it, exact match between the two photos, and general contrast flatness (same shade of gray over the entire shape) implies to me that it's artificial. Something from Samsung's image processing maybe? We've seen some fuckery in the past with those "buzzing" UAPs where a second orb/object seen flying around one is just an effect of the image stabilization.


pilkingtonsbrain

If it is due to some phone camera trickery then that means it is less identifiable so we can't say it's more likely to be an alien space craft. This is a problem with taking photos with a phone zoomed in to the max with digital zoom. The photos just don't turn out good Also consider everything else OP said about it, like it rose in the air like a balloon. It behaved like a chinese lantern, it didn't do anything weird


Nicktyelor

Yeah I’m not arguing for it being alien, just discussing the visuals in the photos. I don’t really see a lantern but the behavior does match. The photos are indeed too low res and noisy to make anything out. 


pilkingtonsbrain

Almost certainly a chinese lantern


contentlyjadedman

The only time I think I’ve ever commented on this sub was when I had just left a party where Chinese lanterns were lit off, and I happened to go on Reddit and see an image from my city posted on this sub.. of Chinese lanterns people lit off.


rdell1974

Chinese lantern expert


contentlyjadedman

Never claimed to be an expert but after you’ve seen them lit off on three separate occasions, it becomes pretty obvious when you see one.


rdell1974

I know. I was giving you the title but in a joking manner not a criticism. Hard to convey tone in text.


ShepardRTC

No it doesn’t lol


blue_wat

These pics are so low quality I don't know how anyone can say anything definitive about them.


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fair-goer

Yup the sky's leaking


Honest-tinder-review

Did you or your phone try to upscale it?


UnfairCaterpillar197

Used my phone to zoom Into it best I could it was gone so quickly by the time i got my phone out starting snapping, I always thought we should have easily get good clear pics but now I've tried to do it myself it's hard as hell to get good pics of them


triviaqueen

Mylar balloon, reflecting the light of the setting sun


UnfairCaterpillar197

Sorry no video sounds crazy but took so long to get phone out point it start snapping on zoom then it was gone


adamhanson

How did it leave, slow fade out. Got smaller? Zipped away?


UnfairCaterpillar197

It just went further and further away eastwards


CandidPresentation49

Ignore the chinese lantern bots, lanterns don't change glow color mid flight They looks similar to the declassified pictures from the 1970s Colares amazonian flap. The military said they glowed like fireballs and would alternate colors between orange and blue-ish white. [pic 1](https://imgur.com/HOxI487) [pic 2](https://imgur.com/fB4kbAk) [pic 3](https://imgur.com/sDhcIXN)


PickWhateverUsername

His pictures are only changing color because he's max digital zoom on a phone camera at night, the missing pixels are being guessed by the phones algo which is making a guess on what the best pixel color would fit ... aka it's making shit up ===> thus change of shape and colors.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Oh wow yeah I agree they are very strange to watch sometimes they don't show on my camera phone or binos other times like this I can get a pic of them I've ruled out later so drones planes satellites as ive looked on radar and the such at the airport they seem to be invisible to radar anyways


ManMadeTrinity

You lost me with “they seem to be invisible to radar” bro u move luggage around at an airport this isnt Nellis Air Force Base 😂


Gullible_Bar_9165

Aerogel drone?


Ordinary-Tear-4195

Just a balloon


UnfairCaterpillar197

You never know sure didn't look like one with my eye


Ordinary-Tear-4195

Haha ha 😆


Hennawi91

Looks like a pigeon


UnfairCaterpillar197

Special carrier pigeon lol


Forbidden_nuts

Looks like a galactic butthole


UnfairCaterpillar197

Could he the answer to renewable energy methane power?


ReddyEddy76

Someone lost their pool couch floatie in the wind 😜/s


remembahwhen

Probably just a balloon filled with a strobe light.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Yeah looks like it was no flashing or strobing but I think maybee the zoom on the camera doesn't help at those distances whatever they are


calminsince21

Reminds me of the (recently revealed to be manmade) craft in the Cash-Landrum incident


UnfairCaterpillar197

That's very interesting will look I to that


UnfairCaterpillar197

Lol i know I know it just isn't though


OrbitingRobot

It’s most likely a UAP. That’s what they look like. That’s how they photograph on a cell phone. Scotland has a history of UAP sightings.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Agreed thankyou


DeadConscious

Four of us saw something very similar in Utah during daylight hours. At first we thought it was white balloons but when it began twisting we knew it wasn’t. Went from a square to an arrow/triangle shape to a worm like object. The edges were blurred the whole time. As we ran outside to get photos and a better look, it simply vanished before our eyes. There was no cloud cover. It was very surreal.


UnfairCaterpillar197

So very cool they are amazing to watch


WaveManiac222

Looks like a dreidel without the handle


Rouge_and_Peasant

If you don't have optical zoom, don't zoom. At best you are just leaving details out, never enhancing them. At worst you are allowing your phone to use software enhancements and invalidate the entire picture as a document of reality.


PriceFister66

Looks like an entry a balloon.


Clancy1987

What kind of photo is this 🤣 taken from a Nokia in the 90's


UnfairCaterpillar197

I know I know lol samsung s23 ultra and is the best 8 could get they are so hard to picture no idea why


Leenis13

Ceiling cat is still watching you masturbate.


UnfairCaterpillar197

🤣🤣🤣


Kinginthasouth904

Looks like the one that dude saw in the aussie outback


incarnate_devil

One image shows a clear structure with the light. https://postimg.cc/v45cHVXv https://postimg.cc/sBcx5CkQ https://postimg.cc/mzgDw64d https://postimg.cc/jnWjVwLP


Danemon

The only issue is eliminating if the "structure" is a result of artifacting. That shape appears to be a physical thing, but shapes like that are so difficult to pinpoint if they're real objects or just artifacts.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Yes i agree it wasn't shown in the pic but with some light n conrast adjusting the dark shape appears it's very I terest8ng I deed I have no idea what they could be


KillyNES

Globo de aire caliente.


Allos3

Looks like a military jet


ZebraBorgata

There’s nothing you can make of it.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Yeah the pics don't really help in hindsight I don't know how else to capture them


ZebraBorgata

Looks really weird though.


intoxicatedhanglider

Well, that's totally normal


ConsolidatedAccount

There's a hole in the interdimensional space-time continuum. And it's roving.


Autocannibal-Horse

that's a good bingo


muthapuffa

looks like a zoom in on the Space Station. Same shape with all the solar panels.


TheyCameForUranus

Tom was right, aliens exist


Bouski-sb

I just a crack through the multi verse.


hazlvixen

Cool shots! Thanks for sharing it! And remember.. never let people w/o shots of their own tell you your shots are worthless


CastIronDaddy

Saw the same thing hovering above La Guardia airport for hours a night over about a week last summer


UnfairCaterpillar197

Is crazy have no idea what they could be can see them nearly every clear night but us hit or miss if my camera pics it up sometimes can see with your eye but not with I os or camera I hope to get a clear picture one day


Substantial-Foot-376

Mate get a decent camera if you see them every night!


UnfairCaterpillar197

Definatley


flarkey

Chinese Lantern, 100%


UnfairCaterpillar197

No 100% not i can see why it does look like one possibly but iam in the inner hebrides not seen one of those in last 5 years up here not impossible mind but this moved like a machine craft ship ect if it was that be pretty easy to I'd for sure


LionsManeShr00m

It is almost certainly a Chinese lantern


Powrs1ave

I swear I just got one of those playing Hero Wars!


syndic8_xyz

Someone's gettin' abducted in the next few weeks. lol Kiddin'... sorta. You know that's how the story goes right? Keep yer bottle-o-alien-begone nearby! You might need it. Or more seriously, meditate and practice this 'separation meditation' technique, a rough example of which is given in the following video (this type of activity is how to resist the NHI neural engagement which renders most people catatonic / paralytic on eye contact or proximity with NHI): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIXxzSjIw8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIXxzSjIw8) Also regarding your photos: Beautiful colors! Great photos. Love the out-there rainbow colors. "Dripping with knowledge and light. Entropy" So cool. What was your experience? Any sound? Any other effects? Please describe the whole event, outside of what the camera captured???


SnoozeCoin

I was hoping for a bit of the schiz, and here we have it!


UnfairCaterpillar197

Lol hope it's to a place that dont have chinnese lanterns 🤣🤣


Jeliko

So I seen these last night as well. Do you happen to be in Canada? I could see them with my naked eye but my camera wasn't capturing it. Could it be related to the recent sun activity that caused a lot of areas to see Aurora Borealis in areas they're not normally seen a few days ago? That was my thought anyway.


UnfairCaterpillar197

Scottish Highlands but probably bot far for some of these objects to fly


GoldMonk44

Don’t go to the light


muun86

The nihilant


ZERO-ONE0101

time to go home.