[OT] interesting UFO vid

[Derek Martin-9]

It's definitely off-topic, but almost certainly of interest to a lot
of folks here.  I saw this curious video today... decide for yourself
what it is (or isn't). =8^)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOCPrVvLZg

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[bostonlinuxandunix]

I'm not sure what's supposed to be interesting about that video.
Somebody shot it from inside a car with the window rolled up, and
then zoomed in on a ring-shaped mark on the car's window.

Seems pretty mundane to me.



On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Derek Martin<invalid@...> wrote:

> It's definitely off-topic, but almost certainly of interest to a lot
> of folks here.  I saw this curious video today... decide for yourself
> what it is (or isn't). =8^)
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOCPrVvLZg
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[Derek Martin-9]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:38:33PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I'm not sure what's supposed to be interesting about that video.
> Somebody shot it from inside a car with the window rolled up, and
> then zoomed in on a ring-shaped mark on the car's window.
>
> Seems pretty mundane to me.

Actually it was shot from a spot standing in the middle of an
amusement park, over which it appeared.  You can see one of the
attractions in the video.  It clearly is not a mark on a surface in
front of the camera, as the smoke from another attraction in the
background obscures parts of the ring as the video goes on.  It is
definitely some sort of object in the sky.  Whether or not it is
extraterrestrial is another matter...

Another thing that makes it interesting is that it has garnered
substantial news media attention (e.g. from CNN).  There are also
reports of extremely similar events occuring in the 1950's.

Digging into this some more, it seems that park officials said it is a
smoke ring produced by the park's volcano attraction.  This seems very
likely, although it's a bit odd... if you watch the trees in the
video, and the white smoke closer to the camera,  there are some
indications that the weather is at least a bit breezy.  However the
black ring shows no signs of dissipating smoke, even after more than a
minute of video, plus whatever amount of time it took the witness to
get her camera ready and start shooting.

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[Richard Pieri]

On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> likely, although it's a bit odd... if you watch the trees in the
> video, and the white smoke closer to the camera,  there are some
> indications that the weather is at least a bit breezy.  However the

The ring's altitude is indeterminate.  Breezy at ground level does not  
mean breezy at whatever altitude the ring is.

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[Derek Martin-9]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 05:15:08PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > likely, although it's a bit odd... if you watch the trees in the
> > video, and the white smoke closer to the camera,  there are some
> > indications that the weather is at least a bit breezy.  However the
>
> The ring's altitude is indeterminate.  Breezy at ground level does not  
> mean breezy at whatever altitude the ring is.

Indeed, though it had to get there from the top of the volcano. ;-)
We know that the highest point of the roller coaster is 155', and the
top of the volcano is significantly below that.  Not exactly ground
level, but neither are the tree tops, nor the white smoke blowing from
the top of the volcano (from whence the ring purportedly came).
The roller coaster also comes up over the rim of the volcano, which
would seem to necessitate that a smoke ring ejected from the mouth of
the volcano would be interrupted by the rollercoaster tracks,
seemingly preventing the perfect ring seen over the park, with no
trail of dark smoke, from being possible... especially if it were
breezy near the top of the volcano.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Volcano_(Full_Sky).jpg

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