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in 2017 a navy pilot was widely reported

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as describing a ufo he saw

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as a big tic tac and a white 40-foot

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long

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tic-tac-shaped object this description

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caught on and numerous sightings since

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then have been described as tic tacs

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when they might in the past have been

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described as cigar shaped or oval

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one of these tic tac sightings from june

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last year was recently recycled on ufo

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twitter

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i tried to explain it was just a plane

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but some people thought that the fact

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that it seemingly had no wings and was

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moving oddly behind trees

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proved it was not a plane

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so to illustrate what was happening here

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i waited for a suitable plane

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here's alaska flight 2425

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firstly the lack of wings if we zoom in

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on the video we can see there are

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actually no visible wings

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but if we get a better camera and zoom

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in we can see that there actually are

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wings

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you just can't see them in the phone

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video because of the low resolution and

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the use of digital zoom

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wings are nearly always in shadow so

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they fade into the sky

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far quicker than the brightly lit

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fuselage secondly the odd movement

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this is camera movement if there's trees

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nearby and you are filming a plane then

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it will eventually go behind a tree to

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keep it in shot you move the camera

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this makes the plane move relative to

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this effect can be compounded by digital

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zoom which applies image stabilization

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to the video

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keeping the tree from moving around in

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some portions of the shot

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and enhancing the illusion that the

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plane is rapidly moving around

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since this plane here has a contrail we

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know it's not rapidly moving around

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and the tree certainly isn't so all this

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motion comes from the camera

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of course not having the contrail just

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makes the illusion even more apparent

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here's a small plane at ten thousand

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feet

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here's the shot with the big camera note

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the wings are dark as they are in shadow

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here's the iphone video on full digital

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zoom

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i'm moving the camera and the camera is

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stabilizing so it's minimizing the

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movement of the tree

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creating a very dramatic apparent motion

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for the plane that you could easily be

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forgiven for thinking with some kind

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but it's just a plane lit from above and