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Recommended for Flightradar24 app
An unfamiliar shadow in the sky
It wasn't a UFO
Another unidentified flying object
A number of flying unidentified flying objects
Balloon Loon plan
Many balloons floating high in the sky
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1, App, Flightradar24 Recommendation
Recently, the number of planes flying in the sky has decreased due to a sickness.
The aviation industry will be in trouble.
This time we will talk about flying objects.
When I see an airplane flying high in the sky with contrails flying, I'm pretty worried, "Where is that airplane going?"
Before, it was difficult to know the destination of such a flying plane.
But lately, with apps like Flightradar24, you can quickly get information about such flying planes.
When I was in Japan, I learned about this app from a Nikon user photographer I met at the shooting location. It has been useful ever since.
This great app, plus its plane type, airline, departure point, destination, departure time, arrival time. Furthermore, navigation altitude, speed, and other detailed information can be known immediately as long as they are connected to the Internet.
You can use such a dream-like app for free. (Paid option with more excellent functions)
With this app, you can know the operation status of almost all airplanes on the earth.
When the epidemic is at its peak, it is often not possible to see a single plane over Kenya.
Although it has increased considerably recently, it seems that only about one-fifth of the time before the disease spread over Kenya.
In addition, many of the flying planes are local flights.
2, an unfamiliar shadow in the sky
Then, on a sunny evening when the number of planes flying over the sky decreased, it was an unfamiliar shadow that appeared in the sky.
It looks like it's barely moving.
With the naked eye, I quickly realized that it was not an airplane.
What about UFOs?
I like stars, so I'm a caretaker who often looks at the sky, but I've never seen a UFO.
When I saw this flying object this time, I was thrilled, "Did you finally see the UFO!"
I had high expectations, but in my heart, I canceled the feeling that it was a balloon.
When I looked at the shadow of the machine, it shined with tremendous brightness.
The time was past 18:00, and the shining sunset in the west sky, probably the light of the sunset reflected on the balloon. "No, the UFO was shining on its own!", Hoping with hope, "I can't do this!", And prepared the camera in a hurry.
The caretaker, the occult story, is my favorite.
I used to watch UFO programs without fail.
Extraterrestrial life, or future earthlings? It's a world of dreams and romance.
In reality, it may be a bad guy.
By the time the camera was ready, the glow had already diminished.
But even though it's dark, I can see it properly.
After all, it seems that the setting sun was reflected.
"No, the UFO has diminished the light emission!"
Such expectations and anxieties pass through my head.
I want to check as soon as possible.
And the photo below was taken in a hurry at that time.
The light has diminished, but something looks like a ring.
This shape is the reason why I thought the pins would not fit at first.
I thought that the subject was a point light source, and I moved the focus ring back and forth, thinking, "Oh? AF is out of focus." "Is this lens so ring-blurred?"
Actually, it was in focus with AF.
What exactly is the ring that looks up in the sky?
The shape is donut-shaped.
It's a donut-shaped UFO!
Is there such a thing?
This is too small to understand.
If you zoom in and see what it is.
The photo below is an enlargement of the photo above to the same pixel size.
High-resolution cameras are useful in such cases.
Enlarged to the same size as the above photo pixel
By magnifying the photo, the expectation of a UFO disappeared.
This is a balloon.
The material seems to be some kind of vinyl such as polyethylene, and something hangs under the balloon.
3, it wasn't a UFO
However, UFO is an unidentified flying object, does it mean that it remained UFO if it was not confirmed in this way?
Most of the videos posted by UFOs are just out-of-focus lights or drones.
These images are all taken with autofocus using a smartphone or the like.
In the sky with almost no contrast, the pins do not fit easily on a smartphone.
In the first place, smartphones and manuals have almost no function to focus infinitely, but before that, most photographers, even if they had manual focus, would take pictures without thinking about anything like that. ..
The more things and automation progress, the more wisdom seems to be deprived of the people who use it.
If you shoot the subject of a point light source without focusing, it will appear as a blur of the camera lens.
Then, the point light source may have a rather distorted shape due to the out-of-focus shape of the bokeh, the performance of the lens, vignetting, the shape of the aperture, and so on.
The shape of such a blur became the name of the UFO. All of them are disappointing to watch.
Few UFOs have been taken firmly with a Gachi professional camera.
Is the basis of UFO photography out of focus?
If you're shooting a UFO, I'd like you to focus on it with a solid camera so that you can see the details.
In comparison, UFO images taken with Gachi seem to be more like composite photos of Gachi.
What was interesting about the Gachi system was a huge flying object that flew over the surface of the moon.
I think you can still see it on YouTube.
If you have software that allows you to create composite images, edit videos digitally, and edit layers on top of each other, it's pretty easy to do.
However, trying to perfect the finish can be a daunting task.
And no matter how hard I try, the synthetic hints are hidden somewhere.
For the time being, I tried to come up with some ways to distinguish between fake and real
The subject is out of sync with camera shake.
If it's real, not synthetic, it should be perfectly synchronized with any small movements or blurs. If the blur is not synchronized even for a moment, it is a fake. Video editing software, it is very difficult to separate layers and match blurs perfectly. It's supposed to be a little divisible to make a finished image, so it's something that will remain. Can it be done automatically now? To make a composite image, fix the camera firmly on a tripod. If you don't move the pins manually, the post-work will be much easier. Speaking of which, I used to see an image of an airplane crashing into a building, but since the floor of the roof is shown, the image was taken from a helicopter (there are no buildings around it that are taller than that building). It seems that he was working on the composition after completely correcting the blur. If you add blur after finishing all the work, it seems to be real, but at that time the resolution of SD was low. I think I didn't do it because the resolution wasn't enough, it became blurry, and the credibility was further reduced. Even if that is not the case, the original image is also cropped to correct camera shake, and the resolution is considerably reduced.
If the focus is not completely synchronized, it is a synthetic product. If the timing of focus movement and the bokeh do not exactly match the subject and background, it is a fake.
If the change in camera exposure does not completely match the background and the subject, it is a composite product.
Even though it is auto-exposure, it does not react to high-brightness subjects on the screen at all. If a high-brightness subject enters the screen during shooting, it will be adjusted by automatic exposure and the screen will become slightly darker.
And the direction of the light and the way the shadow appears do not match.
Perspectives due to differences in the focal length of the lens may not match the subject and background.
In the case of an ultra-bright subject, some flare or ghost should occur in the lens, but it does not occur, or the reflection is not reflected in the surrounding objects.
etc.
You can see that it is very difficult to make a perfect composite image.
However, with the recent progress of synthetic technology, there will be more and more products with indistinguishable finishes.
It seems that I will be excited in various ways.
However, if that happens, the real thing will be said to be fake.
4, another unidentified flying object (space shuttle)
Another story about unidentified flying objects, which the caretaker himself did not see, was interesting and recently found to be what he believed to be, so I will write it here.
More than 20 years ago, in 1998, the caretaker, who was a wildlife photographer at the time, was learning about wildlife in Tanzania.
A story about when he was in Dar es Salaam during his school training.
It was confirmed by the Japanese who were studying together at the school that something huge, even though it was long and narrow, was flying in the sky. He uses binoculars to confirm.
Seeing the real thing, he said that a big missile was flying toward the sea around noon.
He didn't know what it was and thought it might be a missile or a UFO.
However, I was able to come up with something that seems to be the true character.
That was when I was simulating the launch of the Space Shuttle with a space simulator.
He saw the spent fuel tank of the detached Space Shuttle cross the African Continent and fall into the Indian Ocean.
Seeing this, the memory of an unidentified flying object that I saw in the distant Dar es Salaam was revived.
In 1998, when the Space Shuttle was flying frequently.
Upon examination, the Space Shuttle mission, STS-95, had lunch at Cape Canabelal on October 29, 1998 at 2:19:34 (-5). It is 10:19:34 (+3) in Tanzania time.
I can't confirm the date of the training because I can't remember it, but I think I went to this training at this time.
If so, the time and date match perfectly.
After lunch, when the Space Shuttle reaches a certain speed and altitude, two solid fuel boosters on both sides of the aircraft finish their duties and separate, which falls into the Atlantic Ocean.
Furthermore, the fuel loaded in the large fuel tank attached to the belly of the Space Shuttle is consumed as fuel for the liquid fuel rocket mounted on the Space Shuttle body, and is converted to the speed and altitude of the Space Shuttle.
With even more speed and altitude, the Space Shuttle, which turned its back on the Earth when the fuel in the external giant fuel tank ran out, turned its belly to the Earth. Then, the huge fuel tank is separated from the space shuttle and falls to the earth.
Lightened Space Shuttle While consuming fuel in the cabin, it ascends to the orbit around the earth, performs fine control, and is put into the desired orbit.
The Space Shuttle is already over African Continent when the giant fuel tank is disconnected. The fuel tank crosses the African continent and falls into the Indian Ocean. This fuel tank will be collected and reused.
Although it shifts from north to south depending on the passage route and input trajectory of the fuel tank, it is probably Don Pisha that passes over Tanzania.
It also matches the time seen.
So what he saw was definitely a fuel tank separated from the Space Shuttle.
Again, it doesn't look like a UFO. Or rather, it's no longer a UFO.
5, a number of flying unidentified flying objects
The manager himself thinks that there is no doubt that some kind of UFO is flying.
In fact, regardless of the truth, the pilot of the regular flight reported that he saw the UFO, and he could not fly in the sky. I also hear that half of the Air Self-Defense Force pilots are looking at some unidentified flying object.
The most "this is!" Was an unidentified flying object that flew alongside Apollo 11, which remains in the video.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon for the first time. Astronauts Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and others have confirmed a mysterious flying object running alongside a spacecraft flying at high speed from the earth to the moon, and video recording is also being done.
I saw this UFO image, NASA's official video, and YouTube, but I don't know the details because the resolution of the camera at that time was so bad.
At that time, it was impossible for humankind to run alongside Apollo 11 and fly something.
If there is a possibility, a future person who knows the history of the earth?
Extraterrestrial life with science and technology that is overwhelmingly ahead of humankind?
Keeping an eye on the development of humankind since ancient times, helping Moses cross the sea, crushing meteorites that flashed tremendously in Russia in 2012 to control damage, and other dimensions unknown to the general public What is the super-high-tech civilization that lives with human beings beyond the realm? In fact, human beings with super-high-tech civilization that reaches beyond the dimension are surviving and watching over the future of human beings.
I can't explain why UFOs are often seen at key points in history.
If you can cross the dimension, it is natural that you can not catch up with any jet, and you can easily disappear from the 3D world or keep floating in the sky against gravity.
The world of occultism, the world of dreams and romance.
横道が長くなってしまったが、話を気球に戻すとする。
6, balloon Loon plan
When I looked at the flying object flying over the sky with FlightRadar24, which I introduced at the beginning, the identity of the flying object was displayed properly.
Type: Loon
balloon
American nationality
Floating about 61,000 feet (18 km) above
60,000 feet above the sky seems to be low for a balloon.
The flying height of an airplane is
Regular flight jets fly at most 42,000 feet.
Concorde was flying at Mach 2 at about the same height as 60,000 feet, but has already retired.
Even an airplane that flies quite high, such as a rear jet, is about 51,000 feet.
In each case, the height at which a typical airplane flies is much lower than this balloon.
If you look up this Loon on the net, you can see a lot of videos on YouTube, and you can know the true identity in detail.
To briefly explain what it looks like
The plan is to place antennas and relay stations high in the sky for communication.
Communication speed is about 3G.
It seems that the aim is to build a communication network cheaply and easily, rather than installing a number of new antennas in remote areas where telephones are still unreachable.
It is said that this balloon can float in the sky for about 100 days and can go around the earth three times.
It seems that it is in the experimental stage now.
Even so, are you planning to collect the fallen balloons? If you are going to collect an object or helicopter that you do not know where it will fall on the earth, it would be much cheaper to build an antenna and set up the infrastructure.
I feel the smell of trying something wrong.
7, many balloons floating high
Even so, a balloon that is swept away by the wind and easily crosses national borders.
There may be some bad countries, and I doubt if it will work, but I would like to keep an eye on it with expectations.
After all, if you gain experience that it was good or bad to do it rather than the theory on the desk, it will be a fertilizer for science in the future.
It does not mean that radioactive materials will leak and create an uninhabitable area, and it is an experiment that can be redone as many times as you like.
Looking at FlightRada24, as of this writing, there are 6 balloons over Kenya and 9 balloons over Uganda.
Some time ago, there were no balloons in Uganda, and many balloons were floating over Kenya. And I saw many balloons being swept toward Somalia in the northeast.
Recent air currents appear to be flowing towards Uganda, heading west.
(Two days later, at 10 o'clock (+3) on January 22, the balloons disappeared from the sky in Uganda, and 20 balloons were flowing to Kenya and even to Somalia in the east.
It is a seemingly stable stratosphere above 60,000 feet (20 km), but when you look at the movement of the balloon, you can see that the airflow is swirling and moving in a complicated manner.
The balloon in Uganda seems to have been swept away by a strong eastern wind and reached near Somalia. )
The movement of this balloon is wandering back and forth over the sky.
A balloon flying west turns east at some point, and vice versa.
And I think that it is more efficient to have several balloons dispersed, but it seems that there is also a habit of gathering each balloon because of the air flow.
Perhaps the leaves floating on the surface of the water gather in one place, or the balloons gather in places where the wind flow is weak or swirling.
But after a while, it's dispersed again.
As of January 22, there are as many as seven balloons floating 100km square around Wajir in northeastern Kenya.
There are places where there are no balloons on each side of several hundred kilometers, and there are places where there are many balloons like this.
If you entrust this balloon with an internet connection, you might say, "I can't connect because there is no balloon in the sky right now!"
It's also fun to watch the movement of the balloon on Flightradar24, which you don't know where to go.
The balloon that appeared above the caretaker's head at the beginning moved very slowly to the east.
When it got dark, I saw this balloon flashing green and red lights like other aircraft.
Anyway, I want to see the real UFO.
Later talk
I noticed that this Loon disappeared from the flight radar before I knew it.
yeah?
I was really looking forward to observing the airflow in the sky, and when the balloon approached next time, I was thinking of catching it firmly with a telephoto lens, which is very disappointing.
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