Video: Circular UFO Over Yokohama, Japan
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NOTE: OK, here's one for you to ponder. I've been thinking about this video for the past 24 hours and decided to post for comment. Personally, I think it is a balloon type object...but who knows. A comment with graphs (below) on ATS probably explains the object best. What's your opinion? Lon
From ATS forum: I would feel inclined to say that it's likely a balloon, because of the way it moves, except that when I took a closer look at the video it seems impossible for any non-changing shape to "rotate" in such a way.
Try this yourself. Watch the video again and pause it whenever it looks like it could be a 3-dimensional shape (like a donut or whatever else). Try to think of all possible shapes that could produce that silhouette you're seeing. The closest thing I could think of is an hourglass shape with a wide hole going through it, and two thin arms going down the outside of it (click graph to enlarge):
If you keep that shape in your head while you watch it, it seems possible. But then there are times when this shape seems to rotate from one side to the other without ever showing the hole in the middle, which would be physically impossible.
The only other thing I could think of, and of course this is entirely hypothetical, would be some kind of craft meant to be completely invisible to viewers below, but which is either malfunctioning or is still in the prototype stage. The basic principle for artificial invisibility would be to gather light from behind the craft and re-project that light in front of the craft, so that a viewer below sees the sky behind the craft instead of the craft itself. Here's what I mean (click graph to enlarge):
I could also see this being CG. Honestly there isn't much you can't do with computer graphics these days. The only way to come close to disproving this theory would be to analyze the original footage.
Video: Circular UFO Over Yokohama, Japan
posted by Lon Strickler at 2:34 PM
4 Comments:
Yes, this shape, as illustrated, but also spinning.
I noticed that the sky appears through the sides of the hourglass, but is darkened, which would be the case if the object were as depicted in the illustration, but spinning about an axis of symmetry running through the hourglass from top to bottom.
Also the hole appears to be square in some frames and round in others.
Could it be that the hole through the middle of the overall torus, or donut, shape, is square in shape and also appears round because the craft, or object, is spinning?
Also, there are optical illusions that occur when something is rotated at speed. One illusion that can be performed with a pencil is to spin a black and white disk and to create colours, and another illusion that spinning a disk can create is an image of a shape that is not visible on the stationary disk. As well, there is the camera, which refreshes the image, stores, and refreshes, and then runs the images together. There is a lot going on here - we can only see what the camera has recorded, not the original phenomenon, and even e original phenomenon could be a source of optical illusions.
I think physical modelling, and experimentation with a camera, would throw some more light on what this is. If it is this shape and it is spinning under its own power then it must be artificial - can anyone suggest how it would be possible to build a craft that would fly like that? It is unlike any flying machine that I have ever seen.
What if the two struts on the outside of the hourglass were screw-shaped, as in a propellor?
Could something that had a propellor around a central shaft fly?
If not, then I suppose it is some form of anti-gravity, something not yet invented.
This is not a UFO. It is a well documented film of the Japan Space Agency's recent probe the "Hayabusu" returning to the atmosphere.
The upper atmosphere re-entry was impressive with incredible trails.
G.Garrison , Kyushu Reporting Agency (KRA, Kysushu Japan)
Yes, but just for the record, Glenn Garrison, of the "Kyushu Reporting Agency", in case any susceptible and suggestible people see that comment, the Hayabusu space probe re-entered Earth's atmosphere and was recovered on the 14th June, 2010, in the Woomera Prohibited Area, in an Australian desert - not, please note, not in Yokohama city in Japan to the honking of car horns.
After watching the video again, I did consider the possibility that it was a balloon of some shape - near-doughnut-shaped, presumably, which was part dark coated and part silver-reflective coating - which could explain the apparent transparency factor: It otherwise looks like a rapidly spinning partly-but-neatly-eaten charcoal-coloured apple with its core removed by an apple-core-cutter... that I cannot relate to any flying object of well-known terrestrial human design.
However, I had to discount this hypothesis, since a balloon bobs around in the sky or stays apparently fixed, in relation to the observer, while rising - it does not slowly and methodically rotate like Linda Blair's head in "The Exorcist" - and three-dimensionally, to boot!
I did have a sickening feeling that it could have been an inflated wine-cask ... it would have been so sadly disappointing, if that is all it had been, but when I watched the video again to see if it was, I was even more convinced of its authenticity, in that the craft or object behaves authentically. It is not a balloon - balloons have no ability to move like this. But again, I wonder, could a gyroscopically controlled "spherical gyrocopter" be constructed that would be able to stay aloft and turn three-dimensionally in this fashion? If so, it could be of human design using well-known present-day technology. I think this video is of immense value for aeronautic study and research.
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