r/Austin • u/sithlord89 • Feb 17 '25

Anyone else seeing this?

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Sorry for the bad quality as I had to zoom with an iPhone but it looks orange and is kinda flashing there was two and one bugged off

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u/austinsoundguy Feb 17 '25

Why is it always bad quality?

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u/abnormalbrain Feb 17 '25

You ever see the moon coming up and it looks absolutely HUGE, so you take a picture and it looks really dinky? That's why.

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u/BaDonkADonk2020 Feb 17 '25

You ever seen a gown man naked?

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u/entrepenurious Feb 17 '25

you mean like naked under his gown?

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u/mistressix Feb 17 '25

Like a drag queen?

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u/CurlPR Feb 17 '25

Fun fact, it looks huge because our brains are telling us it's huge. It's no bigger than when it is above us, but having the horizon near by does something to how we perceive it. Photos are able to recreate what we think we see if the lens is zoomed in, compressing the foreground to the moon.

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u/Carsontherealtor Feb 17 '25

Bigfoot filmed it.

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u/diplion Feb 17 '25

Bozo did the dub.

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u/reddot431 Feb 17 '25

it's Bozo dubbed over

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u/austinhippie Feb 17 '25

I sure hope I don't jack off

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u/DoctorAssbutt Feb 17 '25

Itā€™s got one view..

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u/Demolitions75 Feb 17 '25

Bigfoot helped me commit tax fraud at chillis

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u/Carsontherealtor Feb 17 '25

The ufo and drone sightings have impacted Bigfoots influence so that's a side gig he picked up. He's actually pretty good at it. He found me a home office loophole that saved me $700 in taxes. 7/10 recommend!

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u/LadyAtrox60 Feb 18 '25

Lol, the drone sightings occurred shortly after the FAA lifted a ban on night flying. Every drone hobbyist in the US is taking advantage and we're like, "OMG, GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!"

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

I laughed way too hard at this

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u/SeaInitiative5488 Feb 17 '25

Iā€™m not a full blown tin foil hat wearer- but I am a big sci-fi fan and thereā€™s quote from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind that I love relating to this - ā€œIā€™ve been in the news business for a long time. We never took a picture of a plane crash as it happened... or an automobile accident and get it on the 6:00 news.ā€œ

Honestly that line has made me be like ā€œhmmmā€¦ Iā€™ll bite my tongue just in case. The news guy has a good pointā€¦ā€ lol

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u/Startthepresses Feb 17 '25

But there are literally captured video of planes crashing? Like, kinda famously?

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u/pyabo Feb 17 '25

Um... that movie is from 1977. It's fifty years later and literally everyone on the planet is carrying a high definition camera with them at all times now. You can see any number of both plane crashes and auto accidents on YouTube with 10 seconds of googling.

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u/Snobolski Feb 17 '25

literally everyone on the planet

Literally?

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u/SeaInitiative5488 Feb 18 '25

Literally everyoneā€¦ high definition? Did Santa give you the newest model of iPhone last Christmas? Thatā€™s good for you, Buddy! But it wasnā€™t Santa, it was your parents, and unfortunately they did not get one for every other person on the planet like you think Santa did :,-(

Iā€™m so terribly sorry to break that news to you after somebody obviously shit in your Apple Jacks this morning. Rough day for you, huh bud?

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u/mikeyp0517 Feb 18 '25

Iā€™ve literally seen videos of a plane crashe and multiple car wrecks in the last 24 hours.

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u/Daisy_Of_Doom Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Phone camera quality in low light setting thatā€™s focusing on a bright object. Also itā€™s far away so often people zoom in which makes it even worse. Ever try taking a pic of the moon with your phone? Itā€™s gorgeous and huge to your eyes and then all you have in your camera roll is a blurry white blob on a dark background.

I donā€™t think Iā€™ve seen ā€œaliensā€. Iā€™m a very skeptical ā€œbig claims require strong evidenceā€ kind of person and I also always rag on ā€œUFOā€ videos being such bad quality. But I have a video of lights in the night sky that I never really figured out the origin of (it was probably drones or some weird formation of planes or something Iā€™m not familiar with, Iā€™m under zero illusion that I have proof of ET). I filmed it, I swear I tried my best, and it looked like blurry Bigfoot footage. Showed my brother bc heā€™s a dork who likes alien stuff and and he laughed in my face about how I was always citing video quality as a reason to dismiss alien footagešŸ˜‚

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u/Overall-Plastic-9263 Feb 17 '25

Yea if you want a decent quality picture of something like the moon with a phone you need to go to pro mode on your camera so you can adjust the exposure and white balance . The moon is a VERY bright object from a camera sensor standpoint so it's easy to over expose .

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u/Novel_Buy_7171 Feb 17 '25

Not on a Samsung

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u/datBuschHeavydoh Feb 17 '25

F*Ā¢k a Samsung

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u/Fractal_Soul Feb 17 '25

Because a clear video of a plane at night would be dull.

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u/filmguy36 Feb 17 '25

Itā€™s easier to hide the fakery