Tiny, Bright, Spherical UFO Leaving a Crop Circle

[Fellow Aspirant]

Hi Folks

My apologies for "reposting" a crop circle link that had previously appeared within a thread on Avalon (just a couple of days ago). At the time, I noted this anomaly and had meant to return to the thread to draw everyone's attention to it, but of course I have now completely lost track of the thread. No one commented on the presence of this little globe, so I thought I should.

So, here's the link again. The tiny - about half the width of a hand - bright globe appears at 2:31 minutes into the vid. It suddenly pops up out of one of the "tracks" cut into the grasses, and, skimming the grass, flies swiftly to the left for a distance of about 5 metres (15 feet) before "winking out" - as though it was a light bulb that had been turned off.

It doesn't look like a video production "glitch". It gives the appearance of an actual 3D mass: its light illuminates the top fringes of the grasses as it zips over them.

Whadda-ya think? :confused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGy_4-pezg

Cheers,

Brian

[Zionbrion]

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[Zionbrion]

Im thinking it has to do with the sun and camera lens.

[Sidney]

Looks like lens flare/reflection to me.

[Hazel]

To my eye there was a flash like a lense flare, just prior to what appeared to be an orb gliding across the view....

[Lancelot]

This is definitely a case of lens flare.
It occurs as the camera pans directly towards the sun and has a secondary reflective flare consistent with such occurrences.
Sorry.
Nice crop circle formation though!

[DeDukshyn]

To my eye there was a flash like a lense flare, just prior to what appeared to be an orb gliding across the view....

Both the flash and the two "orbs" gliding were lens flare artifacts. I am 100% sure -- I'm a camera and video guy.

Pretty cool video, very nice drone camera work (and I imagine a lot of after the fact image stabilization ;)).

[sirdipswitch]

OK I see what I think you're seeing Brian. I saw it and then expanded to full screen, and lost it. It would not show for me at full screen. So, back to small screen. Found it again. Began with start stop procedure - "many" times to capture it, but did. I then went to full screen and there it was. Don't look at all like those Lens Flairs, a couple of seconds further on. This thing is different. It shoots from the middle to right side of that circle, and up to the left at a very high rate of speed, completely independant of camera sweep. Keep backing up the vid, to approach that circle, and you will see it, before those lens flairs. Comes right out of that circle. Play with it. capture it. Then go to full screen. Ain't no lens flair orb. It's difrnt. ccc. Good one Brian!!!!

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Oh yah, I captured it at 2:29.

[sirdipswitch]

look for it from 2:27-28. orbs go at 2:30-31

[Billy]

I am not sure if it is a flare or not. But it also glides in at the 1min38sec mark at the bottom right of the screen.

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[KiwiElf]

Past videos have shown small orbs - usually several - appearing out of nowhere, and within literally seconds, you have a crop circle. They zoom off at high speed and disappear. (Excluding the Oliver Castle footage in the late 90's which was faked - however, it did portray the affect quite accurately, faked or not).

[Fellow Aspirant]

First, thanks one and all for the ideas and thoughtful input.

BUT ... I have a couple of problems with this little 'light blob' being identified as 'lens flare'. Yes, I have noted the obvious pair of overlapping, translucent disks that occur just as the camera swings through the sun's centreline. These are obvious flares. This little 'thing' does not behave like them. First, it changes direction at a 90 degree angle as it rises. Lens refraction 'artifacts' stay along the axis of the light source (sun) and the center of the lense, as do the aforementioned translucent blobs. This thing did not. Besides taking a right angle turn, it went far beyond the axis, to the left.

Additionally, it casts an illuminating light onto the tops of the grasses as it zips over them. Lens flares are phenomena that occur within the hardware of the lens itself - they cannot leave the camera and shine the sun's light onto the external world.

So, I am not ready to join the 'lens flare' camp on this one.

The fact that it pops up out of the 'slot' in the design leads me toward the opinion that there is a link between the formation of the crop 'design' and this little ball of light.

Any other input?