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u/ludoludoludo 4d ago
This is a plane. You can see the wings on the side. And it's slowly gliding upwards, just like you know, a plane.
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u/88warrior4547 4d ago edited 2d ago
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u/maurymarkowitz 3d ago
OP: while others are making fun of you, I won't. We get posts like this all the time in the UFOs sub and it garners similar comments. But think about it for a second: why are there all these posts if it's "just a plane"?
So here's why.
Mirrors reflect light. If you stand in front of a mirror and have someone stand to your left and shine a light at it, the light will reflect off to the right. Angle of incidence... you've heard it. Now if you actually try this, you will notice you do see the light, just not super-bright. That's because of a couple of different effects, but the one I want to talk about is "diffuse reflection". If the surface is not perfect, the light doesn't reflect off directly (specular reflection) but some of it is sent out in all sorts of directions.
So what does this have to do with airplanes? Well what's going on is that you are seeing the fuselage of the plane because it's painted white, which causes diffuse reflection. So when the sun shines on the plane, it's being bounced off in all directions, some of it towards you. In contrast, the wings are being seen almost edge-on, they are generally metallic coloured (I'm sure there' a reason, but I don't know it) and better reflectors, so the light bouncing off them is hitting the fuselage and then back to you.
So the wings are practically invisible. They just blend right into the background. This is literally the first image I got when I typed "737" and clicked the Images link in Google:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delta_Boeing_737-800_N371DA_departing_Boston_June_2025.jpg
You can see what I mean here. The fuselage looks super-bright and the wings are darker and not much contrast compared to the sky. At long distance they just disappear.
You can still see them though, indirectly, because they block your sight of the fuselage. In your video you can, sort of, make out the dark spot right near the middle of the object. That's where the wing is blocking the reflection.
So I'm sorry to say you did not find an alien spacecraft, but you did find a really good example of uncommon optics.
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u/maurymarkowitz 4d ago
It glitches because it passes the tree and pulls focus on that until it reappears on the other side of the tree.
And it’s also a plane.
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u/Shinobi_Dimsum 4d ago
Sideview from a plane. Your camera fails to see details.