This is fairly strange. The cropped screenshot in the thumbnail looks to me like it has had a sharpening filter applied to it, however. Possibly an AI sharpening algorithm was used, which a lot of professionals use. Possibly a de-noise algorithm has also been applied. These filters can improve the overall appearance of an image, but they do not faithfully recreate the small details as they are generative and not reconstructive, and so distort the original appearance when closely cropped. I suspect the raw screenshots cropped to the same degree will show a different appearance.
It doesn't really look like a kite, as many commenters on the video have suggested. It does remind me of the appearance of insect swarms I occasionally see near where I live above trees at certain times of the year, probably related to mating behaviour. However, they appear in very close proximity to the trees, and they are not quite as dense as this appears.
But in this day and age, how do we even know that it records something that actually happened?
That's a good possibility of an insect swarm, or could it be birds?...I tried to find a video of something similar in insect swarms to compare but the closest thing I could find thus far was a video of a tightly formed starling flock:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztEEGSJv0I
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The trouble with the idea of it being a murmuration of starlings is that the birds require a significant airspeed in the forward direction to stay aloft. Occassinally the flock will coalesce into a dense swarm, at least when viewed from one aspect, but it will quickly spread out again because they are all moving fairly fast. The objecct in the video in question does not do that.
It's not just a question of the distance to the camera. The UFO does not move enough relative to its own apparent size. If you look at the starling video, and picture an imaginary boundary around the outermost starlings as the flock appears in each frame, and consider how the shape of this imaginary boundary changes and moves throughout the video, then it is apparent that it is not the same type of movement as the UFO video. From further away, or less zoomed-in, the movement of the shape of the boundary around the starling flock would appear the same, just smaller in the frame.Could the distance be the illusion we see of the object appearing to not move as fast as expected for birds or insects?...
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I highly doubt the Holy Grail of UFO material is to be found on Facebook or YouTube.
Photographs and videos will be automatically suspect.Correct, however in this day and age we should be able to get at least decent photographic or video evidence of UFOs, and from there determine if the objects are terrestrial or not...
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I live on Vancouver Island