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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by earthtourist on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:19PM (#26245841)
Besides the U.S. Navy videos, there's only one video (out of hundreds I've seen) that has me genuinely wondering if it might be real evidence of an advanced vehicle (aliens or not). It seems to match this American Airpline pilot's description in some ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-91Nobn2xk

Anyone have any guesses?

Best guess I've seen was that it was a supply canister or drop tank. But it seems to pause in mid-air at 0:32, travel horizontally, and is over a civilian area where it seems unlikely that something would be dropped. It does look somewhat like a cruise missle but a lot slower.

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by hcrisp on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:07PM (#26246161)
The pause at 0:32 looks to me like a parallax effect [0] which would have occurred if the person holding the camera moved slightly right, counteracting the object's natural movement. I don't know why there are no contrails or seemingly no wings but the movement is less mysterious.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by micksabox on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:55PM (#26246094)
Looks like the tic-tac, similar to what Cmdr David Fravor saw off the coast of San Diego in 2004. The well known USS Nimitz incident.
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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by jml7c5 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:02PM (#26246131)
Looks like something near the camera. Note that its movement (particularly at 0:32) is correlated with camera movement.

It somewhat resembles the reflection from a strand of spider silk. Maybe something caught on a long strand of spider silk?

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