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Time: Feb 1, 2025, \~3:30PMLocation: Burbank, CA

TL:DR \- Caught something small, bright and fast on a high speed camera (\~700fps) that was only a single frame at normal speed.

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I rented a high speed camera earlier this year to play around with. And specifically went out that day to film airplanes, attempting to capture anything interesting that would be invisible or hard to see in real time with the naked eye. I was recording between 700 and 800 fps throughout the day.

I chose this location because of orb and “dragonfly” appearances around planes, if you entertain the “defense system” theory that scans anything in the air.

I was going through the footage again last night, trying a motion extraction method on the footage and caught what’s in the video provided. I tried to include as much information as I could.  I’ve since created a spreadsheet to record as much data at future capture points as possible.

Based on the size, glint/color, and speed, I don’t think a bird or bug is likely. I also don’t think it’s a lens flare since it disappears behind the airplane and any flare would go over the image.

The most likely explanation is that it's a distant airplane that caught the sunlight just for a moment, but obviously I can’t say that conclusively, thus, a UAP.

At normal speed it’s only visible for a single frame, vs. the 22 frames when recorded at \~700fps.

If there is anything up there, I do believe that it’s going to have to come from the community rather than any government or private entity. I’ve been building up my equipment including full spectrum IR cameras, thermal, extreme telephotos, etc. With the purported speed these things can move at, I think high-speed is a real path toward capturing something OR at least removing the misidentified birds, bugs, planes, etc. that can blur and warp with rolling shutter cameras.

I have other videos with unidentifiable objects and am trying to create a baseline norm for reporting these events with as much information as possible, including prosaic examples to help build up a visual database with each method.

Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, suggestions, critiques, and theories on all of it. Been a lurker here for a very long time and decided to finally join the discussion.