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a few days ago a Twitter user called

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Mark sent me this video of a UFO

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now it's not one that made the news or

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anything it's not an important case just

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something the court marks attention

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he asked me to take a look so I

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downloaded the video watched a couple of

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times and gave my quick opinion either a

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bird in the light or a football someone

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has kicked down the pitch mark quickly

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responded that it was definitely neither

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because he was actually there the ball

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was in the goal mouth and birds don't

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leave trails

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I might have left you there but I just

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been thinking about birds leaving trails

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and how to explain to people that it's

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just long exposure so I found a bit of

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the video that showed the boys hand

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leaving a trail and dm'd that along with

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a very brief explanation the trail is

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just long exposure motion blur you can

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see it in his hands when they move fast

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Mark was again adamant that it was not a

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bird as a boy would not have looked up

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at a bird during such a celebratory

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moment

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he'd already eliminated it being the

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football as that was in the goal area he

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suggested a fireball or a meteor I

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thought it wasn't though so zapath it

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took was too curved I thought for a

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second that might be due to a fisheye

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camera but then I realized the stadium

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roof lines were straight so it wasn't a

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fireball or a meteor I used Adobe After

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Effects to apply an echo maximum filter

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to get the actual trajectory and

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realized it looked very much like a

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parabola with perspective so I went back

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to the football hypothesis did someone

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kick the ball high and down the pitch

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Mark again was adamant this did not

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happen

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but my UFO research has taught me that

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people sometimes make mistakes and

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sometimes misremember things I wondered

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if there might be more video from

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another angle

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oh there you go ball kicked down the

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pitch case closed I posted a timestamp

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link to the video and a screenshot with

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the ball circled

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Mark was again unmoved the thing I'd

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circled was apparently in the stands not

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in the air

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a little frustrated I got a bit too

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saying this is it 100

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so I sing to other two videos which

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clearly show that it was the football at

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least I thought so but Mark again said

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it wasn't

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I realized at this point that Mark had

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not watched the video at least not

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carefully so I suggested he watched the

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ball on the left in the synced video

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a few minutes later he agreed that it

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was the ball then he went quiet for

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when he returned he'd watch the videos a

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few times and realized it was indeed the

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football being kicked down the pitch

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Mark was previously a hundred percent

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convinced it was some kind of UFO but

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now realized exactly what it was he

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thanked me and agreed to let me use the

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discussion in this video

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Lessons Learned

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from my perspective keeping polite is

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the most productive path I nearly gave

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up as Mark initially seemed unwilling to

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consider anything that disagreed with

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his recollection of the ball being in

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the goal area

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challenging memories is difficult and is

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best done indirectly I never told Mark I

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thought he was misremembering I just

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said what the video looked like to me

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that way it's my mistake so less

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contentious

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when new evidence arrives presented in a

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neutral Manner and if possible let

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people figure it out for themselves show

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from Mark's perspective he learned that

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footballs can leave trails in videos

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perspective can be misleading and memory

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can occasionally be unreliable

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for everyone else out there these things

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don't necessarily apply to other cases

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but sometimes they do and it's best to

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keep an open mind keep unlikely seeming

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options on the list in case new evidence

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or new analysis points you in that