Post by VALIS on Jun 27, 2009 21:24:50 GMT -4
Hello everybody
Last Wednesday was the National holiday here in Montréal. I spent some of those precious hours reading a Turtledove book on my balcony. At some point I noticed a dark spot in the sky. I looked at it for a while, trying to figure out what it was, but without success. So I took a few pictures.
It was around 2:45pm and as you will see the sky was cloudy. The object didn't move with the clouds but there WAS some movement; the last picture was taken about 5 minutes after the first and the location is noticeably different. I got the impression that the movement was faster in the first minutes and then slowed down. I moved around a little bit to see by parallax if the thing was very close (a bug above the tree) or very far (something in the clouds). It's hard to judge distance from something when you don't know the size but by this experiment I could rule out that it was very close. It seemed to be as far as the clouds but as I said, it's hard to judge. I even made an .avi to try to show this but it's big (34Mb) and I don't know how to compress it
This is a general view taken with no zoom. I circled the interesting area. Yeah, I know, we don't really see anything. I just wanted to show that the object was small and we also see its location relative to the tree.
I enlarged the circled area
I took another picture, this time using maximum optical zoom (6X)
A cropped area from the same picture
Here is another picture, still maximum zoom
A cropped area of the same picture
And a final picture. At that point, a smaller object had come on the scene
Here is a cropped area. The smaller object is in the upper right corner
Finally, I cropped on the main object
Does anybody have an idea as to what it could have been? At first I thought maybe it was a weather balloon but from the pictures it's a bit too angular for that. It looks a bit like a bug but from the distance I estimated it would have been a massive bug and anyway it moved too slow for a bug. Maybe it was a kite? But I have the impression it was very high... From the fact the object was dark I rule out Venus and streetlights.
For the record, I don't think it's an alien device. I just hope somebody can help me satisfy my curiosity and identify what it was. Hopefully some of you will get some entertainment out of that exercise too. If no one can find out the solution I'll stay with the kite hypothesis, for now it seems to me to be the most plausible. I can email the original pictures to anybody interested, just PM me.
Thank you!
Last Wednesday was the National holiday here in Montréal. I spent some of those precious hours reading a Turtledove book on my balcony. At some point I noticed a dark spot in the sky. I looked at it for a while, trying to figure out what it was, but without success. So I took a few pictures.
It was around 2:45pm and as you will see the sky was cloudy. The object didn't move with the clouds but there WAS some movement; the last picture was taken about 5 minutes after the first and the location is noticeably different. I got the impression that the movement was faster in the first minutes and then slowed down. I moved around a little bit to see by parallax if the thing was very close (a bug above the tree) or very far (something in the clouds). It's hard to judge distance from something when you don't know the size but by this experiment I could rule out that it was very close. It seemed to be as far as the clouds but as I said, it's hard to judge. I even made an .avi to try to show this but it's big (34Mb) and I don't know how to compress it
This is a general view taken with no zoom. I circled the interesting area. Yeah, I know, we don't really see anything. I just wanted to show that the object was small and we also see its location relative to the tree.
I enlarged the circled area
I took another picture, this time using maximum optical zoom (6X)
A cropped area from the same picture
Here is another picture, still maximum zoom
A cropped area of the same picture
And a final picture. At that point, a smaller object had come on the scene
Here is a cropped area. The smaller object is in the upper right corner
Finally, I cropped on the main object
Does anybody have an idea as to what it could have been? At first I thought maybe it was a weather balloon but from the pictures it's a bit too angular for that. It looks a bit like a bug but from the distance I estimated it would have been a massive bug and anyway it moved too slow for a bug. Maybe it was a kite? But I have the impression it was very high... From the fact the object was dark I rule out Venus and streetlights.
For the record, I don't think it's an alien device. I just hope somebody can help me satisfy my curiosity and identify what it was. Hopefully some of you will get some entertainment out of that exercise too. If no one can find out the solution I'll stay with the kite hypothesis, for now it seems to me to be the most plausible. I can email the original pictures to anybody interested, just PM me.
Thank you!