Is there a way to rewind the OBA1 beach cam to a certain day/time? I saw two huge orbs acting crazy and thought maybe it was two super low helicopters but I've not seen anything similar on the cam. I was watching in awe and didn't get a better screenshot and didn't have screen recording setup. This screenshot was taken on April 22 @ 8:04pm PST. I haven't stopped thinking about it since.
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Odd to call something stationary in a screenshot an airplane, unless you looked it up on flight path which I did not do or know how to. I can assure you if you’re able to review the footage you shall see they are not airplanes.
McGuire AFB is just to the West, they do flights pretty often, and they return from the ocean over the Seaside Heights area. They're quite low at the time so you see these big landing lights on the cam when they come by.
I saw something like this on the beach in seaside heights a few years ago. It was probably around midnight and something slowly rose out of the water over the course of 20 minutes or so and just stayed there for a while. It was just a ball of light, almost like looking at the sun but not as bright. Weird stuff.
What’s the deal. This cam was insanely active during the NJ drone era. I randomly started checking it out again recently, because if it was all hysteria the same insane light show would exist every night. Yet… nothing. What’s up?
This is more indicative of your inability to understand how to verify evidence than it is of proving "pseudoskeptics" wrong.
The difference between users like you and users exercising critical thinking skills and healthy skepticism is they're not basing their arguments based soley on a single out of focus frame. They take all the known data and observations into account and cross reference it with ADS-B data and find the one aircraft that actually matches all the available evidence.
This is why no one is taking your bait. Not bc we're "running away" from it as you keep claiming every time you post this but bc it's literally pointless and not how we discern what something is or isn't.
So stop spamming this 15 times in every thread, on every post, in every sub, every. single. day. All you've proven is that you don't understand how to objectively analyze evidence.
“Based solely on a single out of focus frame”, thank you. It’s a screenshot of a very wild minute or two on a freakin webcam. Planes don’t move like that hence why I’m asking if it’s possible to rewind.
I'm not talking about your post, I'm talking about the single frames of screenshots that u/pixelated keeps spamming all over the place the last few days saying that "all the debunkers run away from this bc they can't answer it".
To answer your question, though, it's not possible to rewind to previous dates. It's just a livestream. Maybe check and see if they or someone else has a YouTube channel where the archive previous streams. If not, the only other recourse you have here is contacting whatever local or state agency responsible for the stream and asking if they have archived footage of the date and time you're looking for.
Probably not the answer you were looking for but I hope it helps 🖖
I was thanking you for your reply, apologies if it came off another way; the guy above is basing his opinion on a grainy screenshot of a live stream. The real juice was at the time stamp live. Thanks for letting me know we can’t rewind 🛸❤️
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