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hello here's a fun little uh ufo case

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this one here tic tac ufo film from a

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plane over lake michigan october 2021

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uh it's

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interesting because it looks like a

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tic tac shape kind of an oval shape and

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i thought at first that it was a fake

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because it kind of looks like

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the classic

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ufo that they have in this ufo app on

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the iphone where you can add in a fake

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ufo to videos

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but you can kind of see if you keep

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watching it it

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actually changed shape and you can see

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it's kind of flying away from the plane

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off into the distance and now the good

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thing about this video and this is a

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little bit unusual actually is that we

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actually have some good information

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about when it was taken and uh what what

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plane it was and uh and this description

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here on let's see

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latest ufo sighting is that what it's

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called i guess so

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uh we have this description here tic tac

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ufo scene from airplane while flying

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over lake michigan over grand rapids

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area was on flight united airlines 267

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from boston to denver on october 17 2021

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seating in a window seat looking north

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as we flew over lake michigan at 8 50

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local time spotted below the plane and

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several miles away a tic-tac-ufo

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the object was flying east which is in

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the opposite direction because they're

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flying uh towards the west towards

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denver

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flying east and had no features no wings

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no windows no tail no exhaust no flight

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services etc etc white and cylindrical

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recorded it for a minute disappeared to

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the east because it was going behind

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them obviously it would just disappear

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it doesn't mean it disappeared it just

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means it

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was going in the opposite direction

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it did seem to change elevation or speed

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i think that means did not because they

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put ore speed

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all right so uh what is this this um

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this took me

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15 minutes or so to track down and it's

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it's a plane

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which is kind of surprising because you

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know you look at this it doesn't look

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like a plane it looks like some kind of

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weird um egg shaped tick tic tac shaped

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thing isn't this it's uh but it is in

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fact just a plain now the reason it

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looks like this is that it's a very low

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resolution video

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and it's digital zoom

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and we have a bright object lit by the

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sun and experience has shown that when

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you have a cell phone uh zoomed in as

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far as you can with digital zoom on a

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white bright white plane it just shows

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up as a kind of cigar-shaped or

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tic-tac-shaped object and there's lots

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of examples

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of this

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but

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which plane is it now we can actually

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figure that out and the way i did it was

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the most useful information was the fact

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that we know what

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what plane uh the camera guy is on he's

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on united airlines 267.

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so what i did was i went into this site

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flightaware.com i went to

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united 267

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and it's going to show me that flight

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now

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this is just showing me the flight from

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today and we want the flight from uh was

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it october the 17th

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and so let's go down scroll down find

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that one keep going down stops october

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21st but we can click here view more

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flight history

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october the 17th right here you can see

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i've already clicked on it

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click october the 17th it will give you

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that particular flight so here he is

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from boston to denver and this is the

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region we're looking at here grand

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rapids

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uh we want that so

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[Music]

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what i like to do is grab this into a

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format i can view in google earth now to

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do that it's a little fiddly on here but

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you go to

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and this shows you the track log

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position you know the coordinates and

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the altitude and everything but then you

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can click on this little google earth

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uh link here and it will download the

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actual flight track in google earth

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which is very handy

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so

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i took that and stuck it into google

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earth and here it is

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e9267 from boston to denver and what we

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want is when they're going over the

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grand rapids area here just about to go

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over that and

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they said the time was um

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8.50

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now they didn't specify

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uh they said local time but they didn't

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say which time zone that was but you

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figure it out just moved it to here it

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shows up 8 50. it's actually pacific

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time for some reason i'm not sure

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exactly why they considered that to be a

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local time perhaps they were going

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uh to california but it's it was 8 50

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local time they were in this location so

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what we want to do is find out what

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other planes were in this location and

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specifically planes that are at a lower

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altitude than this one and to do that i

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use flight radar 24 and we can replay

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now i've got a

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business account which i get for free

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just for running a

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um adsb listening station on an old

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raspberry pi computer but you can sign

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up for a free trial if you want to

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give this a go yourself and i think the

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the standard playback is he's not too

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expensive or get yourself a raspberry pi

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anyway so you go to playback i'm going

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to go to

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and we need to convert that time into

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utc because this uses utc and it's

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in utc this is a little fiddly and

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you've got to double check you've got

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the right time but in this case this is

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the correct time so let's just pause it

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there and let's find our plane there it

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is right there united airlines 267.

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it's just backing up a little bit here

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this is it flying oh we're just starting

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to fly over the lake and we see another

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plane right here

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so let's just pause right here now this

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plane here is delta airlines two four

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seven four this is our playing with the

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camera united two six seven

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two six seven which is at what is it

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it's at uh thirty five thousand feet

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and this plane is at 23 000 feet so

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they're actually looking down on this

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plane which means a very good candidate

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also look at the plane itself it's

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bright white it's got a long fuselage

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and it has this fairly

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essentially short smaller wings it's a

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small plane it's uh boeing 717 200.

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so this is an ideal candidate this is an

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ideal candidate for the the what we

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might be looking at and if we continue

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to play this is a guy looking out to the

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window he's looking down at this plane

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and he's looking back and he'll be

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seeing these fields and things

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over here and then they'll eventually

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lose sight of it as it just gets too far

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behind him so now we can go back to

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flightaware.com and we can do the same

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thing and we can get the

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track log for that light

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so let's

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bring that up

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and we see them cross over there and we

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can move back the time so that they're

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like this and we can see

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there we have

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both planes

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just crossing and you can see

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if we're up on this plane we'll be

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looking down at this plane and we'll see

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some fields behind but you know which

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fields which fields will be looking at

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let's uh look at the video again

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so this is right at the start of the

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video and there's some fairly

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distinctive things here

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if we just play through the first few

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seconds of the video

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we see it kind of zip over this this

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region here

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and it looks like a

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field or it's actually i think a

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reservoir

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and it's divided into two halves and you

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a very distinctive shape and then

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there's some

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circular irrigation fields

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behind it over there so that's like a

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very handy thing we can use to actually

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kind of geolocate exactly what we're

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looking at and it turns out

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that

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is right there

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that is this

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set of

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and these fields over here are these

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right

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and we can uh if you want to you can go

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in and see exactly what lines up with

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everything but the fun thing we can do

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here is if we go back to

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where the united flight is and then we

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lined up the two

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flight tracks

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like this you see here so they're both

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lined up you see

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the ground track which is you know where

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if you think of the two tracks being

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lined up any line drawn from one to the

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other will show you where you're looking

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at on the ground it goes straight over

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this reservoir in exactly the same way

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as uh this little

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tic tac

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apparent thing actually does

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so uh that's that's essentially it

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really it's

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it was a it was fun because when as soon

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as i found this little lake it was it

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was obvious because

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you can tell that it lines up with the

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two tracks you know this

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going straight down there

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and it's fairly obvious from just

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looking at the plane and looking at

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other planes this is what planes look

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like when they're in low resolution

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so there you go ufo video solved it was

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in fact delta airlines 2474

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flying in the opposite direction and