'Unlikely' that object in new UAP video is camera smudge: Expert | Vargas Reports

New footage of a purported UAP, or unidentified aerial phenomena, shows something that resembles a jellyfish flying in the sky, its tentacles dangling in the air. Dr. Matthew Szydagis, a professor of physics at the University of Albany and an expert on UFO research, joins "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" to discuss the "strange" object, which he said resembles a droid from Star Wars. He said it's "unlikely" that it's just a camera smudge as some have speculated online.
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[bookie]

The change in color if you look closely is the camera adjusting, not the object. you can see buildings in the background change color at the same time as the object.

[mtpckets]

I’VE SEEN ONE OF THESE!! But MUCH bigger! Aside from size everything seems to be the same. It flew right over our house barely above the trees. It was completely silent. Looked metallic with chain like “tentacles”. It was the same color as the sky and blended in perfectly as it glided over us. I remember it being a little bit smaller in width than our two car driveway and it left a weird black trail behind it. Not of smoke or anything. It was just darker than the rest of the sky. I’ve been searching for this damn thing online for years, as this happened back in 2009 and is what started my ufo obsession since. No matter what I came up with, there was absolutely no logical explanation for it. I was even emailing a dude from the Adler Planitarium about it for a while there, as he seemed very interested too. PLZ LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAS SEEN THIS THING!!!

[theloneranger]

I think the reason the two people on the ground didn't see this object overhead, is because this footage was taken at night time by a infrared camera.

[PyroLH]

At 2:24 min you can see that the first small building object which comes into the view of the camera (top left) also changes its "signature" from dark to a lighter shade. Which for me implies that it is a camera scaling effect.

[makeshift]

Looks like what the Indian scientists encountered in the Ladakh region in 2004:

"A five-member group of geologists and glaciologists led by Dr Anil Kulkarni of the isro's Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad were on a research trip through the barren Samudra Tapu Valley. They filmed a four-foot tall 'robot-like' figure, that 'walked' along the valley, 50 m away from them. The humanoid object then rapidly became airborne and disappeared. The encounter lasted 40 minutes. It was seen by 14 persons including the six scientists." - The Register

[BrandonFarley]

It's obviously a smudge or piece of fuzz. Given the panning perspective, from right to left, one of the so-called tentacles should have overlapped with the other, but it remained stationary to the view of the camera, which means it is fixed to the lens itself.

[CarlWByrne]

What’s unlikely is that Jeremy Corbell would release anything to the public he hadn’t vetted in every way first. George taught him better than that!

[EricMacLennan]

the background also changes "color" when the object does as well. it's clearly a temperature rescaling automatically done by the camera software

[Kiwiinaus-rmrb]

This guy knows what it is as much as we do

[-rg]

You even can clearly make out how the stuff of the smudge is driping down on the bottom of the smudge. Thats what they think are "wierd leg like things".
Its not legs but clearly snot drops runing down on some surface.

Also they are not *following* anything in this video.
They are just doing their standard survailance sweep is all.

But hey yeah, apperently the UAP is trying its damn hardest to stay in the path of the camera not matter what.
Because thats what UAP's do, right?

They colour change is in the entire frame. Has none to do with the smudge alltogether. Its just the camera sensor adjusting for a new light situation and having a tiny bit of problems with at first, as is normal.

Also the change in dimensions (sometimes it looks like a 2D ghost, sometimes it looks like a well pronounced 3D object ... thats the light falling in from way different angles and shaping the object differently-

And so on and on and on ...

Stop being so gullable people.
Just stop.

[T.T.LovesAmbience]

Weird looking thing. I would say it was a drone or a balloon, but it's highly unlikely that a drone or a balloon would disappear under water for 17 minutes and then pop back out and take flight again. That is one strange object.

[mabrams]

This is a nighttime recon of a location using night vision camera. Cameraman is viewing through a chopper door window. You will notice the camera sways slightly left/right as it is handheld. Camera zooms in/out slightly - but the interest is NOT the “jellyfish”, they are looking for subjects on the grounds. This is either a bird dropping or insect smear on the window (not camera lens).

[graphite]

It would go an incredibly long way if anyone knew what the wind speed and direction was when the footage was taken? Is it propulsive or drifting during the time shown? Did any radar systems capture the ultra-high velocity departure later?

[roccov]

The most potentially amazing thing they could have shown (going into and out of the water) is not in the video. Without it, we are left with more prosaic explanations. Mine would be a balloon (or balloons) with some kind of loose foliage or netting draped over it. It only floats. It doesn't speed away and make sharp turns, or any of the 5 Observables in this video.

[matth]

Last year while on a cruise south of Cuba I was up on the open decks one night when I noticed a similar looking object that was following the ship at roughly the same speed. Suddenly it ascended to a very high altitude while beginning to glow while making very rapid movements and finally vanishing.

[MrKsan]

It is not turning hot and cold. The Marines running the camera are adjusting the thermal temp, it is the camera making it look hot and cold.

[SurlockGnomez]

The location of it on the screen remains the same until the camera moves and then it moves at the same rate. My guess it's a squashed bug on a piece of glass that is protecting the moving camera inside. Also it's brightness only changes when the background brightness is changed but a higher amount, indicating it's closer to the lens.

[CohnmanTheBudbarian]

Always makes me laugh when weird unexplainable stuff happens and then some expert comes along and tries to sound logical or has answers....
We don't know much about anything in this bizarre reality.

[shawnm]

People thinking the camera guy was following this smudge when he was just doing his surveillance duty.

[NineSeas-vs]

Drone cameras are usually behind a protective piece of glass. When the camera moves or zooms a smudge on the glass would appear to move as well. If the camera looks up the smudge would appear to descend and if it looked down quickly the smudge would appear to shoot up! The smudge is not on the lens but the glass in front of it. I love Jeremy's work but think about what this is more likely to be.