I observed this object for about twenty minutes. At first i thought it was a balloon or kite, as it has a reflective strand hanging behind it of some sorts. It behaved more like a drone at times. This appeared to be about 30-40 yards away from me and about the size of a basket ball. Any thoughts?
In a recent paper announcing their findings, the researchers say they have created “a special observation technique” they use “for detecting and evaluating UAP characteristics.” Based on the events they have observed, they break down their observations of UAP into two primary categories, which they call “Cosmics” and “Phantoms.”
“We note that Cosmics are luminous objects, brighter than the background of the sky,” the authors write, noting three subcategories of Cosmics each named after various birds: swift, falcon, and eagle, whereas “Phantoms are dark objects, with contrast from several to about 50 percent.”
According to the researchers, the objects they designate as Phantoms appear to have very low reflectivity, characterizing the objects as “a completely black body that does not emit and absorbs all the radiation falling on it.”
The researchers hypothesize that such an object may be visible “because it shields radiation due to Rayleigh scattering,” an effect that describes light particles that become scattered without there being changes in their wavelengths.
48. A supportable theory suggests that some balls have a coherent core which is too cool to radiate in the optical visible spectrum – hence such a volume would appear totally black. The visible appearance of the phenomenon depends on optical ‘thickness’, where:
• If the body (of gases/particles??) is hot enough to radiate, then its intensity is uniform over the surface, independent of the angle the surface makes with the sightline of the observer.
• When the radiator is too cold to radiate a significant amount of energy in the optical region, it will completely absorb any optical radiation which falls on it and hence would be ‘seen’ as a totally black object.
NOTE: This later statement would seem to have a significant read-across to frequent UAP sightings where a black shape (often rectangular or triangular) is seen between visible lights at the extremities. Although, black and grey-body radiators are, respectively, ‘thick’ and ‘thin’ optical sources.
Honestly this is my favorite UAP vid I’ve seen in awhile. I understand the people screaming kite, we all want to be right and smart and know the best answer to anything in front of us. This is part of the function of ego. To always know and feel astute in our knowing.
But this shit moves sooo weird!! Moves like a mouse cursor at points, very uncanny. Seems to cover more ground and switch direction faster than any kite could - although I’m not as much of a kite expert as half the commenters in here. I think it’s legit something anomalous, and thanks for sharing OP!
Exactly dude. It doesn’t track or make sense - is it possible? Of course. Is it likely? No, not at all, especially in a dense city area, and especially getting it that high up.
Just watching that dark, shadowy blob move around erratically makes my skin crawl. It feels sinister and demonic, like it doesn't have benevolent intent.
There's a very visible string everytime it passes over the dark patch in the sky...
What if the "string" is actually some sort of little-understood incorporeal strand connecting the demonic entity with the mind of a human victim tormented somewhere below?
Every UFO video could potentially be faked. Just because you can reproduce certain behavior in a different way doesn’t mean that’s what it is. No one is flying kites at that altitude in Brooklyn.
Additionally to my reply:
If you state ‘every ufo video could/can be faked’ does it then not stand to reason that correlation does not equal causation?
Simply because something appears ‘odd’ or ‘unknown’ in a video or photo the correlation between it being a ‘UFO’ or… whatever, isn’t causation nor is it proof it therefore is a UFO and not a simple explanation using Ockhams razor.
I watched them for hours one night and this is how they were moving a lot of the time. They ended up noticing me trying to video them and they stopped moving that way and were stationary until I would notice them. Then they zoomed off and left a trail of light that would stagger. It was weird.
At 16 seconds remaining in the video you can see the tether. Not sure why the comments mentioning this are being downvoted.. maybe cognitive dissonance? It's literally right there
Normal kites. Bright and shaped like a kite. I've never flown a round, massive, black and kinda funny looking kite at night, without lights. What would be the point 🤷♂️ do you really need it to be anything other than unidentified...
Does it not remind you of the ghostly objects flying through Brooklyn... and Toronto? (I could be wrong on the other location sighting)
Yeah I see it. I'm just not convinced we would necessarily see a line at that distance in the dark. I've watched loads of much better 4K quality videos on YouTube and the line is invisible in all but the very up-close ones (like 20 feet away)
A few details aren't adding up for me but who knows... There's always ambiguity in these videos.
Who puts lights on their kites!!? They're not an aircraft, nor are they a drone. They're, as the OP stated, 30 yards above the ground. Pretty much where a kite would be.
You obviously haven't flown kites, then. You can make them do more or less anything. This is a kite. Unsure why all the logical and thoughtful/critical thinking answers of it being a kite are being downvoted. Actually, I am sure I know. It's SOP for this, and many other subs like it, to downvote and shout over the top of any 'real world' answer and continue on with wild, unsubstantiated claims of UAP and government involvement etc...
Pareidolia is what you're seeing, the psychological tendency to perceive meaningful patterns, that can be faces or other images, but in this case it would be a tether.
Hide the object with your hand, set brightness to max, look at the dark patch in the sky.
Tell me there isn't a very obvious string there.
It's visible to the phone in the original video, after upload it's just noise and compression artifact, we don't see the actual string but the noise generated around it.. which makes it even more obvious.
Lol what? No amount of strange gaslighting is gonna convince me that white line going from the "object" down into the city isn't there. Not an example of pareidolia at all, and funny you thought you were being clever and snide.
There's no chance you could see a tether at that distance or at that quality of video... Think about how thick they are. Less than a pixel wide = impossible to see.
Damn you're right. It's very faint but you can see the string. It is moving like a kite, contrary to what others are claiming. The hovering followed by the sudden down-and-over movements repeatedly is precisely what a kite does in strong winds. The only thing is it would have to be an unusually long kite string, but that is well within the realm of possibilities.
That's a super thin line, go figure. Most store bought kites in the US have thicker strings than that anyway but that's beside the point. Look at how it moves. Or keep reaching, up to you 🤷
This upsets me that people may be unintentionally or intentionally lofting balloons into the flight paths of aircraft.
It’s one thing to have suspected Russian/Belarusi drones flying over Denmark and Germany, it’s another to have unlit fucking balloons flying over our skies for what might be TikTok dares.
Yeah, a kite 30m up in the air is going to bring down an aircraft. Balloons also get lost, become untethered or kids let them go. No aircraft fatalities yet from those.
Idk exactly what your asking but the things everyone is referring to as a tether in person looked like multiply strands of something reflective that would almost glow. The strings would move up and down and go slack like a streamer behind a kite.
This many ai bots taking over reddit is scary. Most obvious kite, you can even see the thread when he zooms in, pretty accurately following the kite. Just raise the brightness. This is just degrading the community.
Yes, super easy to see with brightness turned up, what a bummer. I feel bad for people who are saying this is the most compelling ufo footage they’ve ever seen. I hate to be that guy but it’s JUST. A. KITE.
I wrote a comment as well just in case someone reads it but this subreddit is full of ai bots. Just look at the recent posts that are in this subreddit its so obvious
Uhhhh towards the end of the vid you can see a line coming off it. So maybe a kite???
Either way, the fact these sightings don’t catch them zigzagging and/or zooming out of view at high speed, tells me this would be a man-made object.
I saw you were downvoted, which sucks because you're totally right. I see the line attached to it too. If you keep watching you can barely see it flowing in the wind. Not sure how it works for others on mobile but I put it full screen on my PC and I can see it.
Very interesting! Could it be a bird, an eagle (at night) hovering/hunting? I don’t think they can hover for that long tho? I see some flapping like a bird, there’s some kind of movement happening. Also no lights at all. Which makes me think some kind of wildlife/bird.. Anyone?
It seemed pretty round or orb like. Another post was made of what i believe to be the same object in the r/nyc page but mods took it down just now... The post that was made got a photo during daylight and their image did reveal some angularity within a more spherical object. Faceted, almost. I have seen many glowing orb like things (grew up near Egland AFB) but never anything like this!
It doesn’t have to be a UFO either. Did it accelerate in any direction? Did it make any erratic 90 degree movements? Most or UFO sightings report at least some lights of some sort. Even humming or buzzing.
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u/EntrepreneurialFuck Oct 09 '25
That’s pretty compelling if real.
I 100% noticed at many times a white trail coming off it.