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I’m supposed to be working, but instead I think I’ve figured out the physical positions of the photographer, orb, and other waypoints in the Manchester Airport pics.

I didn’t realise at first but, there’s a fair bit of distance between everything so that’s something to bear in mind when talking about whether or not the OOP’s statement about it being the size of a car is off or not.

I did see somebody on another post say that the coordinates had been found already, but what they didn’t seem to realise was that the three main shots (orb pic, rainy pic, and video) are all taken from different positions as the plane is taxis. The plane is also leaving to take off and not having just landed, in case it matters.

1st picture is the main one with the orb, which I saw on the original files was labelled as “clear”, so we’ll stick with that. Pic 1 for reference and pics 2 & 3 are my evidence for the following:

If you look behind the planes there is a buildin, this is The Airport Hotel, coordinates 53.363808, -2.258276

The photographer’s plane is 53.358240, -2.271995 and the orb position est 53.359132, -2.268810

Everything is a lot more spaced out than the barther down the runway. When the video pans up to show the orb it is not just high but also ahead still. I estimate that the orb has moved NE 460m or 1,520ft from its original position in photograph 1.

Additionally, I think the photographer is in an Airbus A320. See cockpit pic for reference against video still. Happy to be corrected on that though I’ll also chuck in some pictures of the hotel showing the red light mounted to the building and chimneys.

Last thing I wanted to say was that I’ve seen speculation going about that this was related to the power outage that Manchester airport suffered in June this year, I think this may be a red herring.

The OOP didn’t appear to explicitly state that this was photographed in June, just that it was taken a few months ago. The comment that they mentioned June in I think was referring to somebody asking when the power outage was.

Anyway, I still had a look at the weather forecast for that day and it was only raining in the evening, the power outage happened in the early hours of the morning. Also, entirely subjectively I don’t think that looks like summer rain here in the UK, looks too grim.

Happy for you to tear my theories apart now.