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Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX and Barrington Lake NY - Magical Realist - Aug 26, 2026
WTF?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_p6bFh-uRw&t=83s
Here's another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSap5QIO_pk&t=105s
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX - Syne - Aug 26, 2026
Sitting in a running truck that is inducing vibration on the phone/camera.
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX - Magical Realist - Aug 26, 2026
How does a truck's vibration induce a spinning circle of light in the sky that is zoomed in and out on?
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX - Syne - Aug 26, 2026
(Aug 26, 2026 06:55 PM)Syne Wrote: ...inducing vibration on the phone/camera.
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX and Barrington Lake NY - Magical Realist - Aug 26, 2026
(Aug 26, 2026 06:59 PM)Syne Wrote:(Aug 26, 2026 06:55 PM)Syne Wrote: ...inducing vibration on the phone/camera.
Prove that that actually happens. I've never heard of it.
Two more---one in NM and one in Japan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPz3ItRbYw
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX - Syne - Aug 26, 2026
If you cannot see the clear, matching vibration on the power lines, I probably can't help you. If you have a digital video recorder of any kind, you can make the experiment yourself. That's likely the only way you'd understand what's going on. But I doubt you really care to test it.
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX and Barrington Lake NY - Magical Realist - Aug 26, 2026
No..the telephone lines are not vibrating, only out focus. The object is clearly moving consistently in a circle in a CCW direction at a constant velocity. Movement or vibration of the cellphone would only result in a squiggly random mess. Also, see the other 3 videos of the same phenomenon I added to the OP.
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX and Barrington Lake NY - Syne - Aug 26, 2026
Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say. Meh. There's actually moments in the video where there is no vibration and you can see it's just a stationary light.
Not like the facts would ever change your mind though.
It's all just vibrations or micro-tremors in the hand reacting with optical image stabilization.
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX and Barrington Lake NY - Magical Realist - Aug 26, 2026
Typical skeptic's approach: just say any old stupid thing so you can dismiss it and move on.
RE: Spinning uap filmed over Cleveland TX and Barrington Lake NY - Syne - Aug 26, 2026
(Aug 26, 2026 09:12 PM)Syne Wrote: Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say. Meh.
For those with any genuine curiosity:
How OIS Generates the "Small Circles"
OIS stabilizes video by floating the camera lens on tiny motorized springs or magnets controlled by internal gyroscopes.
When you introduce external micro-tremors, the OIS system tries to counteract the vibration by floating the lens in the exact opposite direction.
If the vibration matches the natural harmonic resonance of the OIS floating springs, the lens begins to physically orbit or wobble in an elliptical or circular pattern inside the phone.
This causes a stationary light to look like it is swimming in perfect, fluid micro-circles, while the rest of the frame remains relatively stable.