Credit to reddit user dhr2330 for finding this video.


A passenger aboard a commercial airliner captured this footage while traveling from Bogotá to Salento in Colombia, the video is very clear and crisp, what looks like your classic flying saucer is flying through the sky, I can’t determine the distance of the craft, or its size, but it is very clearly seen in the video, also I don’t know what is being said by those observing the strange object.


Edit:

A balloon is the most plausible answer unless further evidence warrants a different answer. Here is a video of common balloons in Colombia and how they might look from a commercial airliner.

  • intensely_human
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    1 year ago

    Parralax cannot account for the object’s movement in the video

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      1 year ago

      You mean its distinct lack of movement? The object in the video is largely not moving in relation to the airspeed of the plane.

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        1 year ago

        Based off of what…? Your assumptions on what it should be?

        Parallax can’t work without a frame of reference and you’re assuming at least one of them.

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          1 year ago

          The object if it’s a balloon should be essentially stationary with regard to the clouds. It is not. Despite whatever parallax effects this person is referring to, the object is not stationary with regard to the clouds, in the 3D space around the plane.

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        The object’s movement across the two dimensional video is not accounted for by parallax, which is a projection from 3D space into 2D space.

        I am telling you that the model of an object stationary with the clouds, being projected onto this video via the moving point of view of the plane, does not produce the motion of this object’s image across the two dimensional plane of the video.

        I grok what is supposedly happening in the parallax claim. What I am saying is that parallax does not account for the motion of the object in this video.