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Not impossible for a bird:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_speed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon[/QUOTE]

given the way it accelerates from the woods and the...

I'd think that anything doing 'research' would be moving slowly, or more slowly, covering an area methodically.

This is a very subjective view (and not necessary logical!), but it's almost as if...

What about the second object though? Bottom left, it appears to be accelerating, ascending from the forest and also changing direction to the left. They both appear about the same time

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