That was me, sorry guys. Didn't mean to transit the sun while you were taking pictures, my bad

@TheTurtleZebra

3 ай бұрын

Damn it I was trying to peek through somebody's window and you were distracting me

@olaf1373

2 ай бұрын

classic barnes

@bobisyouruncle1

2 ай бұрын

Ooeeee, aliens again. They're everywhere. We should hide. They're watching us😂

@waterthugs

2 ай бұрын

Always one in the bunch messing up a shot😂😂😂

@BullerPerson

2 ай бұрын

I forgive you

That was DB Cooper. He still hasn't landed

@ExceptionalMaka

2 ай бұрын

A man of culture I see.

@PixelGuysGaming

2 ай бұрын

Could be

@CTINA--NguyenHongPhuc

2 ай бұрын

and with 2 mil in the bag

@adamakestuffOSC

Ай бұрын

That’s crazy 💀

@tetkabiberche

Ай бұрын

thats superb

My automatic thought was satellite, but you were quite convincing that it might be a balloon

@jacobmartinelli7496

2 ай бұрын

i hope it was the fabled "vulcan." i'll rewatch

@incubus_the_man

22 күн бұрын

If it's a balloon, it's lucky it didn't get shot down by a USAF F-22

It's just the Nomai sun station. The one that makes sun's go supernova. (Although it doesn't work unfortunately so we might never find the eye)

@ForeverMasterless

2 ай бұрын

Best comment

@Mr.F1ox

2 ай бұрын

I’m so happy someone commented this

@not_here2

2 ай бұрын

just made me remember i gotta watch another supercut from lord eelis anyways bye

@user-tg3ni4hh4n

2 ай бұрын

That what i was thinking. I mean if more than 21 tons of tree limbs are being burned. And the reverse understanding a water tank checker goes around and around looking for breaks or metal meakness so its like someone flying around to check so the plasmatic or pyretic glass is in tact. To make sure its not a like the history book Bible. The acidental pour of the sun magna. So if yall care for sun light please remmeber the forrest are there for light same as you all know growing and watering also feeding. Same as the trees and all have the duty to protect them. So. Same as one checking a styrophome cup for leaks. Or a new clear reactor checking the leaks. So growthe reason eternity still excists. Its a ecosystem not the ones saying its theres by exsplaining eco no mine. Aka economy. Thats lifes greats with in growing so please be life. Aka belief.

@obama5041

2 ай бұрын

Oh, and you might find Dark Bramble if you look hard enough.

i estimated the angle of the object to be around 7.2 arcseconds. For distances between 1 and 10km (a helium balloon will pop higher than this), this corresponds to an object size between ~3.5 and 35 cm. Ordinary "party ballons" are in the range of 25 or so cm across. So it actually fits very well: a typical helium balloon at, like, 7km altitude.

@richard_loosemore

3 ай бұрын

I did my own calculations just now in another comment, and we both came to the same number as far as the angular diameter. Where we might differ is in the party balloon interpretation, because the party balloon that is 25 cm at ground level is very much more than that by the time it gets up to those altitudes. So, your range is for very different heights, but that means you need a large height to get a reasonable diameter (we know that 3.5 cm is too small, obviously). And then, at that large height, the diameter has to be well above its starting diameter. I’ve seen one estimate that a latex party balloon expands about 2 inches for every 1 inch of ground-level diameter, before it pops. If that is correct then a typical 25 cm balloon at ground level would be somewhere in the 50 to 75 cm size range when it reached maximum altitude. At the 7km altitude you mention (23,000 ft) I calculate the object diameter at about 25 cm, same as you, but if the balloon was near bursting then its original ground diameter was about half that (12 cm), which starts to look implausible. Because of the drift speed conflict between object and vapor trail I believe the balloon theory is not holding up very well.

@analog_guy

3 ай бұрын

I came to the same figure of 0.002 degrees, which is 7.2 arcseconds, which is 3.4 x 10^-5 radians. (Thus, the object diameter equals the object distance times 0.000034.) So, if the object is at 30,000 feet distance, it would be about a foot in diameter. I just noticed that Kyle listed the elevation angle of the sun at 52 degrees when the video was taken. So, the distance to the object would be about 1.27 times the altitude, if the earth were flat. According to the National Weather Service, their typical weather balloons are about 5 feet in diameter at ground level and expand to about 20 to 25 feet in diameter at a typical bursting altitude of around 100,000 feet. So, by my guesstimation, standard NWS weather balloons at any operational altitude would be at least five times larger in angular size than this object. Kyle's telescope aperture of 50 mm (about 2 inches) will have a diffraction limit substantially less than the angle subtended by this object, but a small object (considerably less than 2 inches) will appear as a blur circle of about 2 inches when his telescope is focused at infinity. The 2-inch diameter would work out to a distance of about 4900 feet. However, the blur circle of a small object would not appear to have a core as dark as this object produces. Thus, I think we can assume the object has to be at least one and a half inches in size. Insects are known to sometimes fly at high altitudes, but a bug of one and a half inches would be unusually large and the wing beats of a butterfly or moth or small bird would likely show up in the imagery, so I doubt the object is an insect or bird. The extended dark wing covers of a rhinoceros beetle could obscure the wing beats of its mostly transparent wings, and the high-speed wing beats of a hummingbird might be missed in the imagery, but the object appears to be too well-defined as a circle to likely be one of these. That brings me back to a balloon as the most likely guess.

@richard_loosemore

3 ай бұрын

@@analog_guy Yup, I forgot to take account of the angle. So it’s about 80% lower in height than its range.

@amhaun01

3 ай бұрын

@@analog_guy great reasoning!

@Bynk333

3 ай бұрын

An if it was planet near Sun it would have more then 1500 km in diameter. :D

So nice to see an observational video of a 'ufo' on YT that makes sense instead of sensationalism.

@thetruthchannel349

3 ай бұрын

i think the sun grabs whatever is close & sometimes more than one thing gets sucked in close & as it does this stuff gets turned into smaller 'moon-like' organizations of matter before getting gobbled up by it.

@daMillenialTrucker

3 ай бұрын

​@@thetruthchannel349no it was aliens

@thetruthchannel349

3 ай бұрын

@@daMillenialTrucker *Dmnd aliens again huh?*

@algee2005

3 ай бұрын

Meanwhile every flatearther worth his money: Hah! They can't explain this, just more proof their whole theory is flawed! And then some obscure argument about how this would fit perfectly well within their flatearth nonsense.

@timelikeinfinity5142

3 ай бұрын

@@algee2005 Fanatics don't think like that, they believe how they want -much like anyone else

Great video! Instant subscriber.

@AmazingAmbro1

3 ай бұрын

Only one like and no replies???

@JuevoOK

2 ай бұрын

hello

@iamgreylol8872

2 ай бұрын

holy shit it’s jesus

@ExploringNew1

2 ай бұрын

Hey jesus I see you everywhere. And even Jack's fiverr videos lol

@Pineapplegaming597

2 ай бұрын

No way its jesus christ

I don't know what it was, but I appreciate the process you applied to narrow down the field. Also, cool sun pics.

Spoiler alert: it is Astrophage. We should construct some kind of space ship to go investigate.

@DanielDSII

3 ай бұрын

Man I loved reading Project Hail Mary

@bobdownard

3 ай бұрын

LOVE that book.

@DonovanCYoung

3 ай бұрын

Maybe Rocky coming to pay us a visit?

@brackeng1294

3 ай бұрын

@@DonovanCYoung loved the ending but it would be cool to see what Rocky thinks of earth.

@DonovanCYoung

3 ай бұрын

@@brackeng1294 Agree!

As an old amateur astronomy geek this is one of the best laid out presentations I have ever seen. Keep up the good work!

@ewmegoolies

3 ай бұрын

another china spy sat, our armed forces either didnt see it or are hoping the chinese can gather the intel they need without alerting the population or media and that it goes unnoticed so Biden can take his next payment from Xi.

@geronimo5537

2 ай бұрын

What you are actually seeing, is a fairly large sphere flying incredibly fast at high altitude in the atmosphere. Or what is known as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) formerly known as a UFO. In the past ten years we have seen these flying silver spheres all across our planet and they are becoming very common. Both along our coasts and places of nuclear energy (weapon and power origin) It is more difficult to see them flying at high altitude unless the camera is from above looking down. So you have a very rare perspective in this video. I would assume it was a meteor or asteroid. But the shape is to perfect. Search up Silver flying spheres or Silver orbs and you will see the other reference videos.

@lmb888

Ай бұрын

I thought Sat too. Nope.

If you look closely to the picture of the sun and the dotted lines, then you realize that the dots get closer on the edges and farther in the middle. That concludes that it was not any of the candidates.

That, sir, is the Sun Station do not worry

@jamaicanexile

2 ай бұрын

Science compels us to blow up the sun!

@TheJerlynK

2 ай бұрын

Surely, you must be referring to the one that makes sun's go supernova, correct?

@mr.phantom674

9 күн бұрын

@@TheJerlynK no no, they're talking about the one that makes the sun taste like cotton candy

What a mystery it would have been if it is a balloon that burst mid-transit. The fragments would disappear very quickly - or instantly.

@kylemccaslin

3 ай бұрын

That would be so damn confusing 😂

@Uniblab9000

3 ай бұрын

Once, many years ago, I was outdoors around sunset and spotted a bright point of light in the sky almost directly overhead. As an amateur astronomer I was well-acquainted with the sky and I immediately ran inside to get my telescope. Through the telescope I could see that it was a large balloon. I stood up to tell my friend what I was seeing and to give him a look through the telescope. Moments later I looked back into eyepiece and it was gone! It had burst in the few seconds we weren't watching, but I could see the falling instrument package, trailed by an orange flag that made it look a bit like it was in flames. It remains my favorite "UFO" sighting.

@timconnors

3 ай бұрын

Flying that close to the sun, you would almost expect that!

@Uniblab9000

3 ай бұрын

@@timconnorsYeah, just look what it did to Icarus.

@harrywalker968

2 ай бұрын

the solar system, was known about thousands of yrs ago. its actually drawn, carved, on temples, caves.. along with ufo,s. world wide.@@kylemccaslin

The ending with the Chinese anthem and the spy balloon was icing on the cake. Good job Sir.

@TheSpanishEnigma

3 ай бұрын

Care to elaborate?

@pegions9819

3 ай бұрын

@@TheSpanishEnigmacccp agent spotted

@MatchGuy

3 ай бұрын

起來！

@Czeckie

3 ай бұрын

it wasn't a spy balloon, american government admitted it, but who cares

@allenbaylus3378

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking space debris (the US has agencies which track these) and spy balloon. The spy baloons have been in the news so much that that was where I was thinking all along. I did enjoy the scientific approach - eliminating the possible to limit the probable sources.

Excellent job, seeing your hard work on reasoning and explaining.

Seeing the vapor trail and the object moving in the same direction and at similar speed was very convincing

A balloon would just have to rock a little in order to present that 'wiggle' in the transit. It does look like a periodic wiggle, as though it was tipping back and forth in the wind. I vote for balloon.

@donwayne1357

3 ай бұрын

It looks like a string of "____ Be_ds."

@user-xj8wy4uu1q

3 ай бұрын

@@donwayne1357?

@kellyshea92

3 ай бұрын

Damn the Chinese are even spying on the Sun now?!

@adrianhenle

3 ай бұрын

@@user-xj8wy4uu1qhe wanted to write "anal beads" but thought that actually spelling the words would be too uncouth

@adora_was_taken

2 ай бұрын

@@donwayne1357 you're missing some underscores there

it's a bird in a ufo.

@ganymede3141

2 ай бұрын

It was a UFO in a bird.

@skld-xm

2 ай бұрын

of course the pigeon would say that

@pauljs75

2 ай бұрын

So Kurzgesagt was to blame?

@zackels

2 ай бұрын

I was gonna the infamous Birdman in a UFO.

@Greeneon6073

2 ай бұрын

@@ganymede3141it ufo was a bird in

Mothman. It’s always Mothman.

I like how in the video he eliminates a bunch of things (satellites, planets, asteroids, etc.) and explains why it can't be those things, and then a bunch of people in the comments are saying that it's a satellite or Mercury. Did you guys WATCH the video? Seriously.

Back in the early 1990s I made a hobby out of observing lunar and solar satellite transits through my 8inch dobsonian telescope. I would run a large number of keplarian elements through my tracking program and whenever a satellite pass would line up close to the sun or moon I would set up to be ready to view. I had about a 20% success rate because I had to be in precisely the right location. Being a mile to one side or the other would cause me to miss the transit. At times I would just sit outside at night observing the moon for hours and just watch for whatever might fly by. Saw the Mir Space Station one night. Seeing these things in silhouette form allows for high detail such as antennas and solar panels to be identified. What you saw looks very much like a satellite pass but I’m not sure about the wobble in the path. The possibility of a PICO balloon is also good (they’re only about 3 feet across) but only if it was traveling west to east. It would be influenced by the jet stream at it’s typical altitude of around 40,000 feet.

@nullvoid001

3 ай бұрын

I see communication satellites quite often. Occasionally, when the period of the orbits are correct it is easy to see the SpaceX satellites lit up by the reflection of the sun off the moon.

@Opceedee

3 ай бұрын

I would also think it’s a satellite, likely in very high orbit, probably geosynchronous. You are not seeing the movement of the satellite, but the movement of the sun behind it. Your telescope is tracking the sun, hence the motion. The wobble is most likely a result of the tracker gear making a push. I see ‘wobbly’ lines from satellites in my night images too, probably due to tracking.

@bellyillish

3 ай бұрын

No kidding just a mile or so? That's interesting I wouldn't have thought that...

@GRelayer

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for that. Very enlightening!

@noelht1

3 ай бұрын

This is really cool.

That was an excellent video. Can’t believe you’re under 5K subscribers. I expect your channel will grow quickly if you keep this level of quality in your content production. Well done, sir!

@dump___

3 ай бұрын

Not anymore. 😌

@AndreGreeff

2 ай бұрын

under 5k subs... and 7 days later, the channel is at 6.4k. seems your prediction is on point. :)

I live in the DFW area too. I appreciate your rational thinking here

Fascinating examination of the unidentified object passing in front of the sun! The way the narrator meticulously ruled out possibilities one by one was both impressive and suspenseful. The inclusion of personal observations and comparisons with known phenomena added a personal touch to the scientific inquiry. Looking forward to more captivating content!

@kylemccaslin

Ай бұрын

Thank you, thank you! More on the way! Probably ISS related, but we'll see...

Balloon seems the most likely. This video explanation was really well done. Thanks. Maybe it was one of those Chinese spy balloons??? LOL

@user-wf4hy4ub7p

3 ай бұрын

Easy to check. Get the weather guys to say which way the wind was blowing when you took the pictures.

@krazykuz13cmc

3 ай бұрын

ITS FUCKING STAR LINK

@tjpprojects7192

3 ай бұрын

​​@@krazykuz13cmcNah, Starlinks are squares, not circles, it's more likely a flying crab. They're notorious for bombing cameras.

@manomenon1

3 ай бұрын

Maybe its aliens probe

@thehimself4056

3 ай бұрын

I’d say balloons. I have seen several of these videos. From different areas. They all look very similar.

One method of getting some perspective on this: you have a pretty specific angular size and a very accurate read on the angular motion. It might be helpful to generate a table of size and speed for different assumed ranges.

@antimatterhorn

3 ай бұрын

i commented without seeing your comment here, but i've done this calculation assuming it was orbital motion, and it would have to be a >200m object at >3000 km altitude to look like what he filmed.

@ZenZaBill

3 ай бұрын

Going at what assumed speed? @@antimatterhorn

@antimatterhorn

3 ай бұрын

@@ZenZaBill at an angular speed of 0.5 degrees in 13 seconds.

@RangieNZ

3 ай бұрын

@@antimatterhorn So the object is ~ 15,000 times higher, than it's diameter. So 2m at 30km/100,000ft, which is in the correct sort of ballpark for a weather balloon.

@antimatterhorn

3 ай бұрын

​@RangieNZ yes that's right. If it's in the atmosphere, it can be traveling at almost any speed necessary to have the observed angular speed of 0.5 degrees/13s, but once you require it's in orbit, that places it at only one distance and makes the object exceptionally large. So it is very likely a balloon of some kind.

Dyson Cloud?

Great report, Kyle. Thank you for sharing.

I was observing a full moon a few years ago and watched a perfectly circular black disc cross my field of view contrasting sharply with the lunar surface, it was considerably bigger than your object, perfectly round but moved at around the same speed. To this day I have absolutely no idea what it was.

@Ry2009Ry

3 ай бұрын

I’ve recorded this object.

@robertgormley7602

3 ай бұрын

Some sort of balloon is likely

@sarajoolae8197

3 ай бұрын

Not a weather balloon by any chance 😮

@jeremygalloway1348

3 ай бұрын

How big would you guess it was? In earth atmosphere or closer to moon?

@cestmoi7368

3 ай бұрын

A bug on your lens? ;)

I think it's a thingy, a bit like a whatnot......but smaller.

@sonofmaksim8989

3 ай бұрын

Best explanation yet..!

@tbounds4812

3 ай бұрын

looks yay big to me way down yonder

@itspfaff

2 ай бұрын

ALINS!!

@skld-xm

2 ай бұрын

LOL

The velocity matched the vapor trail, so it's likely being affected by the wind. The different angle can definitely be caused by elevation change. I think you are correct with the balloon. Maybe a sky bison.

I had high hopes that you could tell us the exact nature of the object you observed. I'm happy all the same that your video's title is a question, and not a promise. It's cool that we don't know what you saw, and I'm glad that you covered so many possibilities.

My friend, this was good science! Proper skepticism and great deductive reasoning. I agree with your intuition, I think the most likely case is that it is probably a weather or a party balloon, and I wouldn't rule out your concluding innuendo. Cool to see another enthusiast and proper thinker here in DFW. Thanks for the thought provoking content!

I'm glad you used logic and worked through all of the possibilities. My first guess the instant I saw it was a balloon as well. I've done a lot of solar Ha imaging and have captured several jets, birds, ISS transits of the Sun and the Moon, and the occasional satellite that was extremely small and fast. And every once in a while I manage to capture an unknown object like this. I've almost always attributed them to something floating in our atmosphere because they are traveling in the direction of the prevailing winds.

@geronimo5537

2 ай бұрын

What you are actually seeing, is a fairly large sphere flying incredibly fast at high altitude in the atmosphere. Or what is known as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) formerly known as a UFO. In the past ten years we have seen these flying silver spheres all across our planet and they are becoming very common. Both along our coasts and places of nuclear energy (weapon and power origin) It is more difficult to see them flying at high altitude unless the camera is from above looking down. So you have a very rare perspective in this video. I would assume it was a meteor or asteroid. But the shape is to perfect. Search up Silver flying spheres or Silver orbs and you will see the other reference videos.

@thecalham

2 ай бұрын

My first guess was that tesla that they launched few years back, glad I was wrong

With all the accusations and claims of knowledge online. I really appreciate you breaking down your list in the way you did. It was easy to understand informative and if you got something wrong I'm sure a viewer who knows better would chime in. You have totally earned my like and sub.

Thank you for inculding titles of the bmg used in the description

Never watched any of your videos before, very well done! Excellent editing

This is a great video. I love the setup of explaining all the possible things, yet still keeping it short and simple. Nice job 👍

Well done, nice to see an honest treatment of this, and I would have never guessed that’s where you would end up. Makes perfect sense though.

The best I see of eclipse. You are so excited it was exciting watching you. Ty for sharing your joy. Shine brother shine ❤❤❤!

As for the satellites, there are only 4-5 large enough to be clearly visible in front of the Sun, and none are circular in shape. Smaller satellite transits (mostly Stalink) are pretty common, occurring roughly once per hour on average, but they are barely visible even with a large telescope. Also thanks for using the ISS Transit Finder, I made this website. Planetary transit calculations are coming soon!

@kylemccaslin

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think there were quite a few satellites passing during the session, their speeds matched the LEO estimates and they were small, had little contrast, and were poorly defined. You made ISS Transit Finder??? Thank you so much for doing that! That site is awesome!

@dave882

3 ай бұрын

Love your website! Got me into hunting for transits and driving all over the state, parking in fields and trying to rapidly set up my telescope before the police show up 😂😂😂 Ps can you put a filter by angular size on the settings page please?

@Michael_LaRiviere

3 ай бұрын

You're the best

@mikerentiers

3 ай бұрын

The traversal looks like Starlink - can we really rule out manipulation of Starlink over the sun? Also, screw Starlink and whoever allowed 40,00 satellites (that need replacing every 5-7 years) to run a bullet train in low earth orbit. Kessler Syndrome anyone? A cascading collision of space debris in low Earth orbit will definitely trap us. ISS just had to do an emergency maneuver to avoid junk. NASA tracks thousands of pieces of junk. The man who wants to get us to Mars may be the guy who ensures we never escape the planet. Satellite Comms companies use line-of-sight of sIght for A GOOD reason..... do line-of-sight up there and our comms are fast. Starlink (a financially dubious company) offers only a slightly lower latency? They must maintain the fleet very often and do you think

You can get an aftertaste, not sure if that is the correct term, but it's a report of the actual weather so you can check wind speeds at different heights and see if any match. As the air gets higher it changes direction due to the coriolis effect, and other things. Will be interesting to see what it actually was.

What to say? A perfectly balanced presentation, Instant subscriber 👍

This video was really cool man! Definitely going to subscribe and stick around to see what else you find :D

Good analysis of possible objects and a very well produced video.

You did a good job convincing me it was a balloon without a ton of skepticism. And I dig into UAPs. So great job. Thanks!

For those asking if this could be the Parker Solar Probe, the answer is no. On the day this video was shot the Parker Solar Probe was more than 8 degrees east of the sun (that's more than 16 times the sun's apparent diameter) and was near perihelion (the point in its orbit closest to the sun) meaning if it *had* been directly in front of the sun it would have been about 89 millions miles from Earth. At that distance an object only 8 feet across (the diameter of the Probe's solar shield) is invisible in even the largest telescopes. Even at its closest to Earth, about 25 million miles, the Parker Space Probe is invisible.

Impressive analysis! And very funny and engaging presentation! Great work!

Love the opening ancient aliens meme! Just awesome, seriously LOL! Great tube, I'm a new sub and love the content, looking forward to your future clips!!🎉😊

@kylemccaslin

3 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you!

With the transit time, you should calculate the speed required to achieve that time at various heights. Jetstream winds can approach 250 knots (between 25k & 35k feet). Low Earth orbit objects cover 4 degrees per minute.

@ericmoyer8538

3 ай бұрын

Could possibly even be a mylar balloon at a couple hundred feet

@danfoss1535

3 ай бұрын

It's most definitely Vulcan.

Question did it only do 1 fly by or did it wrap around the sun multiple times again and again Is it still visible now today still

Anything visible after it passes edge of sun. Loop cuts before it passes.

Just stumbled across this vid and it's excellent! Definitely subbed.. This feels like one of those channels that'll be over 100k in the next year. The algo is picking it up obviously, just need to keep it up! Great work...

@kylemccaslin

3 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard, and thank you! Fighting that urge to put off uploading lol.

@KallePihlajasaari

2 ай бұрын

@@kylemccaslin If every yt channel mentioned that RFK Jr. is running for president the mainstream media could no longer keep is quiet. He has is on Substack and worth reading.

Great video. Editing and commentary were well above what I'd normally expect from a channel with 4k subs. It was also a nice reminder that i need to start looking at solar scopes again. I neeeed one.

As soon as you brought up the wobbly path i immediately thought it had to be a balloon. cool that it seems most of us agree here!

good video and excellent observation of the speed matching wind speed

"A balloon? How silly of a theory! It's definitely an alien mothership!!1!!"

Its actually the sun station from outer wilds

Nice investigation and documentary! Fun to watch.

Nobody gonna talk about how he looked up “do I have a telescope buying problem” and “was men in black a documentary”

How about the Parker Solar observation satellite?

@christophtoifl6848

2 ай бұрын

That is millions of kilometers away. To appear that big compared to the sun it would have to be enormous, like as big or bigger then the moon enormous...

@davidbordwell8346

2 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly..timed stamped at 40 seconds in.. im sticking with it.

I appreciate how you rationally and methodically address each candidate on your list of possibilities. Some of your assumptions may be wrong (or they may all be correct) but that's not really important. What's important is _how_ you make your observations, _how_ you make your conclusions. Your efforts are to be applauded and I hope others will be inspired to solve the little mysteries in their own lives with a similar scientific approach.

@kylemccaslin

3 ай бұрын

Thank you

Very educating and well explained all the debunks

Great video, enjoyed the analysis

This is the first video of yours I've seen, it came up as a random suggestion in my feed. I wanted to leave you a comment to compliment the quality of your analysis. It is so refreshing to come across a content creator familiar with logic and reason! I am now subscribed and look forward to exploring your channel. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing! 😁 ... And those are some extraordinarily beautiful solar images by the way!

Great video ❤

Interesting analysis. At first, I just assumed it was a transit until you disclosed the time.

It's fucking mesmerixzing how beautifully insane and crazy space is. I thought the first images were fake until I realised he was actually scanning the sun. Fuck it's amazing.

Okay, okay... hear me out: obviously, it's a party balloon... but how do you know it wasn't released by aliens?! Checkmate.

@Wild-Eye

Ай бұрын

😂

@MiniLemmy

Ай бұрын

Yeah, with the open borders…..

It is a satalite. Slower because it is farther. Likely GPS. Shimmer explains the appearent imperfect tracking.

@Uniblab9000

3 ай бұрын

GPS satellites orbit at about 12,500 miles above Earth. At that distance, a typical GPS satellite (which has an width of about 17 feet) subtends an angle of 0.000015 degrees, or about 33,000 times smaller than the disc of the sun as seen from Earth. Assuming the angular size measurement of this object offered by others here, about 7.2 arc seconds, is correct (I didn't measure it myself), that makes it about 1/250th the size of the sun's disc, or about 132 times too large to be a GPS satellite. At 0.05 arc seconds, a GPS satellite would not even be visible in a telescopic image such as this.

@stop-533

2 ай бұрын

It could be the Parker solar probe?

@Uniblab9000

2 ай бұрын

@@stop-533Nope, it's invisible from Earth.

@alexatedw

2 ай бұрын

@@Uniblab9000it’s a sat for sure

@Uniblab9000

2 ай бұрын

@@alexatedwYou'll need to explain the erratic path of this object as it transits the sun to make that case.

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your google searches at the start gave me a chuckle. great video

It definitely has the pendulum-wobble characteristic of balloons, and the silhouette matches.

@RollingCalf

3 ай бұрын

But would the ballon's wobble correct to return to its original path. By the time the transit is over, the object returns to it's initial trajectory

I’m a private pilot with about 500 hours logged and I’ve flown past party balloons including the larger mylar ones at least two or three times flying over urban areas at around 2-4 thousand feet.

I'm no astrophysicist so please excuse my terminology but in my best estimation it would appear to be a little black dot. Hope this helps clear things up for you.

❤ Great video ❤ Thank you for sharing 😊

your video is really well made, thank you for sharing!

That is almost certainly a balloon! It very closely matches the approximate wind speed and direction at that altitude, and it's almost exactly the right size and shape. I think you caught yourself a Weather Balloon.

Just stumbled on your channel. What great ALGO luck. Looking forward to the journey….

0:33 I’m sorry that “was men in black a documentary” immediately sent me lol. Great video tho!

for what it's worth, I live in a city called haifa, back in february around 5 am I saw 9 tiny fast moving lights in the sky, no flickring or red/green like plaanes, just white. I counted 9 , moving on what seems to be a straight line, quite fast and high .

You had me at poking fun of it being aliens! Lol, good stuff.

Possibly a Stratollite LTA platform. Basically a "satellite" suspended from a balloon.

I was thinking the sun probe that is circulating pretty close to the surface (i forget what it was called) but yeah not entirely sure on the size of it though

I was looking at the image of all the dots close together, doesn't it look like the dots get smaller when the object goes into a wave, I think you may have caught it solid instead of a knock around like you think happened, and the object moved in a wave or swirl.

What time of day was it recorded? 800 or 900 places around the world release weather balloons at around 11am and 11 pm daily, a few places at mid day mid night 6am and 6pm. I worked at an 11 am and 11pm place. They gain altitude pretty quickly and the balloons around 1m or 1.5m in diameter go out of sight in about a minute or quicker. They expand to 5m or so I guess about half an hour after release. I cant remember how high they get before they pop, a couple of kilometers. Low flying jet altitudes Something like that.

Could we get enough information of that for 3d reconstruction?

1. when u record it? 2. how many times this occurs? 3. does it has same path and time of transition w.r.t. sun?

"was men in black a documentary" cracked me up

wonderful video! liked subbed, cant wait to see more, keep it up!

Sick video, subbed

Are balloons that opaque?

I captured exact the same thing in may 2017 (Netherlands) with the nikon p900. Same speed across rhe sun, same shape and nearly going the same direction and more zoomed in when capturing it. I still have the clip. Thnx i was also wondering what this was.

What is the shadow from at 8:10 in the vid? It starts around 4pm and exits at 1pm just after 8:13. Its very similar in size to your mystery object in size, but is half the darkness of the one in question. Appreciate the vid!

If I was to guess. I'd say since it seems to roll a little bit and if balloons is ruled out I would concentrate on ruling out some sort of space debris (junk). A piece of booster or any of the other things that get added every time a space agency takes a trip up.

Is it possible to calculate the distance at which that object is?

Myself and another person I'd just met saw a very similar object transit while observing the last Total Solar Eclipse in 2017, Carbondale IL. No idea what it was.

I think it’s the mythical space spaghetti monster that we have all been waiting for

Are you able to figure out an equation for the size it would have to be for the distance away it is ? Like a billion meters in diameter if it was right above the photosphere or 3 meters in diameter if it was at 5,000 meters in altitude.

As a dfw resident who likes to look at the sky a lot, we do have a satellite that flies straight over us or dang near rather frequently and it moves over the horizon pretty quick. (I only have my eyes though not a fancy scope so idk)