An Orb Overfly

[@thomasfessler]

Great video. I’m north of you in Mill Creek and saw another one moving generally east as will. This is the 3rd one I’ve seen. All of them have a orange glow to them and make no noise.

[@jimlake5404]

Thomas, was it visible with the naked eye? My cameras are recording every clear night, this is the first orb I have seen.

[@vibratinggoddess1111]

I see the orange one every night! I’ve been seeing these for months and got some good videos what are these?

[@alexhudson-]

I live in Mill Creek too! Small world. My guess is that it's some type of satellite balloon? I Googled satellite balloon and maybe it could be something of the sort? Who knows though. Great footage!

[@stuartwalker16]

See what ur all thinking that is exactly what they are awsome I know hope everyone has an awsome day ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️🙏🙏❤️❤️

[@Ericafreedom]

I captured the EXACT same thing with the same camera last year.

[@TheArabConservative]

I'm in Oakland county Michigan I saw this type of object with my binoculars. It seemed to use the stars to camouflage.

[@lvx5317]

New to Olympia & I see tons of activity near Mt. Rainier

[@DavidEsp1]

Who knows what it was - but the apparent see-through effect would be expected as a routine _smearing_ camera-artefact. We can tell the camera-recording is definitely smearing (in addition to whatever else might or might not be going on "out there") because all the _stars_ in the footage appear smeared. The true apparent size of even the closest star (at our distance from it) is absolutely tiny - virtually a point. If any star in this footage had not been smeared, it would likewise appear here as a point. The presence of such smearing doesn't discount the _possibility_ of the orb/whatever having transparent edges, but it does take away our ability to be _certain_ of it. Links in the smearing-chain: In principle the highest-resolution / smallest depiction of a point-like item (eg star) that a camera sensor could record would be one single pixel (in the exact shape of the pixel that the point had been focused into). In practice, optical diffraction and lens manufacturing limits/tradeoffs cause any lens to spread even the image of a point into a (typically tiny but not ignorable) filled circle - that photographers call a _circle of confusion_ - on the sensor. That circle's diameter depends on F-stop (iris diameter) among other things, but it is greatest at a camera's widest iris setting - as would be the case for such low-light filming. A sufficiently tiny circle of confusion could in principle be "lucky enough" to fall within only a single sensor-pixel, but more likely (by pure chance, at any given instant) would straddle more than one pixel. In practice, in low light /wide iris situations, the circle of confusion's diameter would typically (for most cameras lenses) straddle a _bunch_ of pixels. Additional to such lens (circle of confusion) effects, most camera sensors have pixels that can unfortunately (electronically) "bleed" across to their neighbours (to some degree, depending on sensor model and state). Lastly, most video gets recorded via lossy compression encoding formats, which (like image jpg compression) "don't like" (don't faithfully reproduce, only approximate) truly sharp items - such as edges and (more relevantly to this case) points - the end-effect being to blur them further. Essentially, in encoding and subsequent decoding (when editing/playing), each approximated-pixel gets computed not only from its corresponding original pixel (on the sensor) but also its neighbouring pixels. A kind of "controlled bleed". Only the use of a _lossless_ recording format (eats memory card and disk space!) could avoid that.

[@CompletelyNormalPhenomenon]

With this camera, do satellites have the same wavey trajectory or do they appear to go perfectly straight?

[@jimlake5404]

There is a satellite moving east to west in the fov. Unfortunately, it is very hard to see in this highly compressed video. It moves in a straight line with no detectable side to side variation. The motion of the orb is not in a straight line. It does vary from side to side.

[@CompletelyNormalPhenomenon]

@@jimlake5404 thank you for answering

[@davenport8]

@@CompletelyNormalPhenomenon yeah satellites move in straight lines...if it doesn't, it ain't a satellite! Thanks for the video. It's an odd trajectory.

[@Justin1337Sane]

I see moving lights at night in Denmark too.. You should try get a laser pointer and aim it at the lights .. What happens is quite mysterious and i wont reveal it :)

[@THEVOID5044]

What happens?

[@Jv19979]

@@THEVOID5044 they flash you back.

[@DanielLopez-kn3us]

I live in Alice Texas and every night I go fishing or before it turns the dark I go fishing and right as it gets dark I get in my car and at that point I look up and every single time there's two orbs right above me and I can take off walking and no matter where I go they're always there and this is every single night it's pretty pretty cool and it seems like they're only about I don't know 30 to 40 feet up in the air I'm taking several videos of them and it looks like they have like three little fins I almost thought they were drones I could have sworn I heard a little noise coming from them but no they're orbs and they're translucent and when I snap a photo of them I can capture the three little finsspinning hey disguise himself as stars and then I start looking at them and they start descending down towards me and then when I leave they follow me for a while and then they just blend in with the stars above and there they sit and then they look so much higher like a regular star at that point

[@uroslazarevic6720]

If it is true, can you post a video link ?

[@supertuesday600]

Can you please upload your videos?

[@justcallmetruman]

Welcome to my world, you should see them in low orbit or below the atmosphere, they're huge. I got one video of them on my channel i filmed with infra red

[@brentrussell780]

Can you see a face in the orb? Sometimes the persons face is still visible. Its a recently released soul, now free! Beautiful.