UFO misperceptions - samples

[Elevenaugust]

UFO?



No, tall radio antenna array with six wired tether, in the Western Australia's Badgingarra National Park.
There is a ground-level enclosure. It has a fence around it, thus the wildlife and cattle cannot get in and graze, so the vegetation grows better there, and the ground is not disturbed, and so it appears darker than the surrounding terrain.
The triangular shape mirrors the outline of the six wires (the bright spots are where the wires are anchored to the ground)

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NOTE: this one is not THE antenna, but an example of what one can see in Australia.

[Elevenaugust]

UFO?



Non, UFO blimp over "Stade de France", for show games, 2009 April.





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[Elevenaugust]

UFO?



No, probably a corn waste ejected off the combine harvester. The same as those we can see on the ground.



Crédits goes to RNCSC for the original photography.

[Elevenaugust]

UFO?

U.F.O Bizarre clouds filmed over Moscow. October 2009



No, very uncommon cloud formation called "hole-punch clouds".
They are usually caused when an aircraft intersects altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds.

Altocumulus are high-altitude clouds, usually white or gray in color, that occur in sheets or patches. Cirrocumulus also are high-altitude clouds made up of supercooled liquid water droplets and ice crystals.

An airplane passing through a mixed cloud layer while ascending or descending could disrupt the delicate coexistence between the ice crystals and the supercooled liquid water droplets, causing a hole to be punched in the sky.

Small-scale atmospheric movements, both up and down, caused by the jet stream, could cause a similar phenomenon.



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NOTE:
In the original video , the sky brightness behind the darkest clouds create this striking contrast.

[Elevenaugust]

UFO?





No, small jet by night....





Special thanks to Marvin.

....And thanks also to "Alison Kruse" for letting us know exactly what NOT to do....

[Elevenaugust]

UFO?



No, Spikey hot air balloon!

[Elevenaugust]

UFO?



No, single cobweb strand illuminated by the camera flash and moving with the wind....







Special thanks to Nekitamo!

[Elevenaugust]

UFO?



No, failed RSM-56 Bulava ICBM, which was launched from a submarine!

[Elevenaugust]

UFOS?







No, "sprites" or "mega lightnings"





This may look like a flying saucer of movie fame, but it’s really an atmospheric phenomenon called a “sprite.” Sprites appear 35 to 80 miles above the earth’s surface; they can be set off when the lightning from a thunderstorm (only 7 to 10 miles high) excites the electric field farther up in the atmosphere. Though they appear above most thunderstorms, they appear so briefly—less then a second—and so high up that it’s not so shocking that they weren’t discovered until 1989. Like other similar phenomena called “elves,” “trolls” and “goblins,” sprites dance in the sky and are thought to be the source of some UFO sightings.

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[Elevenaugust]

UFO sphere following a plane?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x71...-un-avion_tech

No, winglet of the plane.



Only the winglet is visible due to:
* Angle of the sun
* Angle that the right wing makes with the cameraman and that makes appears the rest of the wing invisible
* Badly focused camera

http://www.livevideo.com/video/TheCe...-chasing-.aspx



Special thanks to MV of the French radio "Icietmaintenant" for this idea!