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this UFO video is very unusual looking

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the filming out of the plane window when

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suddenly a huge streak of light flies

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past at incredible speed what the heck

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is it

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people quickly notice that the ground

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was moving way too fast it's actually a

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time lapse movie running about eight

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times as fast as normal

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so the streak of light is probably the

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motion blurred lights of another plane

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flying in the opposite direction but

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which plane flaky contacted the video

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owner and they gave him a flight number

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Air France 179 and time about 520 UTC on

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October the 8th this allowed him to

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track down a good candidate for the

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other plane FedEx 1273

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the two planes cross at a shallow angle

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and the FedEx plane is just one thousand

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feet above the Air France plane which is

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perfectly legal but looks odd when the

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planes are so close

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I downloaded the adsb GPS tracks of both

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planes and dropped them into sit rack my

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situation Recreation software I adjusted

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the video to play a 1 8 speed and

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adjusted the view to match the lights

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from the cities seen in the video then

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Bingo we've got a match it is the FedEx

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plane so what are the lights

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there's four visible

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we can tell how long they flash for

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based on the motion blur the length of

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the streak this white one was a short

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flash of a bright white strobe it's so

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bright it makes these Reflections in the

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The Thin Red Light is the port side

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wingtip nav light then the thicker red

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light is the red anti-collision light on

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the belly of the plane then in the last

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frame we see the white wingtip nav

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lights on the backs of the Wings

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so that was fun looked amazing at first

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and quite confusing but turned out to be

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something fairly straightforward

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sitrec is an interactive tool and you

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can play with the scenario yourself I'll

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put a link in the description