Valentine's Day UFO over OKC

[MagzOK]

Anyone else catch this? It's making the rounds of the weather community.

https://x.com/aaron_brackett/status/...4625?s=46&mx=2

[corwin1968]

As a person who closely follows the UFO/UAP subject, this is interesting. More than likely there is a prosaic explanation but I would love to see some analysis on it. Seems too fast to be plane and seems to move too far to be a searchlight on the clouds.

Anyone who follows the subject closely is probably familiar with the "five observables":

1) Instant acceleration
2) Hypersonic velocity without signatures (ie, sonic booms, contrails, etc..)
3) Low observability, up to and including invisibility
4) Trans-medium travel (ie, moving equally freely in the air, the water and in space).
5) Positive lift (ie, no normal means of staying in the air, like wings, rotors, etc.... Basically anti-gravity).

Lots of weird stuff in the sky but unless it displays one or more of the five observables, it's hard to get excited about it. This object, if it's really there and not a glitch or illusion, might display observable #2, but I don't know what a craft at hypersonic velocity looks like and I'm sure it looks different, based on a lot of different variables (ie, size of object, distance from object, angle of observation, elevation of object, etc...).

[Plutonic Panda]

Could be a fourth dimensional object. With some sort of extra terrestrial piloting a drone. I’m not really sure how much I believe all that stuff but I do love a good conspiracy theory. It’s always fun to think about. But usually there’s a rational explanation behind it. I’ve always wanted to see a UFO. I drive a lot in the desert at night, especially. Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen was a cluster of lights. It almost resembled something like a kite at night over Moab. But then again it could’ve just been drones or a satellite launch from Starlink. Can you guys in Oklahoma see the launches when they take off from south Texas at elons place?

[VeggieMeat]

Probably re-entering starlink junk

[Bellaboo]

There was another man who had his drone in the air around 23rd and May. He got pictures of it and a lot of weird things happened to his drone. Like the battery life etc. He and his neighbors watched for a few hours. I believe I heard the story on KOCO 5. You can probably find the story there.

[Urbanized]

There was another man who had his drone in the air around 23rd and May. He got pictures of it and a lot of weird things happened to his drone. Like the battery life etc. He and his neighbors watched for a few hours. I believe I heard the story on KOCO 5. You can probably find the story there.

His incident was actually in January, so likely not the same thing seen on Valentine’s Day. Here’s the story on KOCO: https://www.koco.com/article/oklahom...swers/63800857

[Bellaboo]

His incident was actually in January, so likely not the same thing seen on Valentine’s Day. Here’s the story on KOCO: https://www.koco.com/article/oklahom...swers/63800857

LOL... Time is flying.

[mugofbeer]

has someone asked Pete where his drone was about that time???��

[bombermwc]

Those tower cams have some weird issues that happen with bugs in the view all the time. They get in just the right place at the right distance and it looks like something very weird. Unless someone on the ground also saw that, then i'd chalk that up to a bug.

[Urbanized]

It honestly looked to me like a bird in the middle distance, including the quick variations in altitude and even a suggestion of wing flutter.

[jn1780]

There was already condensation on the camera. So I would guess it's kind of liquid movement. The temperature inside that camera housing is changing as they use that camera and there is heater in there as well.

[Bunty]

My guess is that the aliens behind the UFOs have made it clear to high up government officials that they must keep it a secret about who or what they are as well as their intentions. As long as that is done, we'll always be safe from them and the harmful impacts of their advanced technology. But we certainly need more of their peaceful technology to be reverse engineered for the benefit of the earth's people. Some people think the sudden discovery of the transistor had to do with successful reverse engineering of alien technology, possibly gathered from secret recovery of crashed saucers.

[corwin1968]

When this all comes out, and I believe it eventually will, many people are going to be shocked by the explanation of what UFO's/UAP really are. Hint: not many people still believe they are E.T. The popular theory now is that they are a consciousness based phenomenon that represents something mostly beyond our understanding. The great religions are probably manifestations of our trying to make sense of it.

"Ontological Shock" is a popular term in the field. It means "A profound sense of disorientation or existential crisis that arises when our fundamental understanding of reality is deeply challenged or shattered".

Jacques Valle's "Passport to Magonia" is a classic in the field. Here is Amazon's summary of the book:

It is readily acknowledged that our time has surpassed all epochs in history for the accumulation of technical knowledge, physical power over our environment, and economic might. It is less often pointed out, however, that our age has generated, and continues to generate, mythical material almost unparalleled in quantity and quality in the rich records of human imagination.

More precisely, people have very frequently reported the observation of wonderful aerial objects, variously designated as flying saucers, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and so on; among these narratives descriptions of landings made by these craft are commonplace; and that quite a few accounts purport to inform us of the physical characteristics, the psychological behaviour, and the motivation of their occupants. But investigators have neglected to recognize one important perspective of the phenomenon: the fact that beliefs identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer's country, race, and social regime. If we take a wide sample of this historical material, we find that it is organized around one central theme: visitation by an aerial people from one or more remote, legendary countries. The names and attributes vary, but the main idea clearly does not. Magonia, heaven, hell, Elfland - all such places have in common one characteristic: we are unable to reach them alive, except on very special occasions. Emissaries from these supernatural abodes come to earth, sometimes under human form and sometimes as monsters. They perform wonders. They serve man or fight him. They influence civilizations through mystical revelation. They seduce earth women, and the few heroes who dare seek their friendship find the girls from Elfland endowed with desires that betray a carnal, rather than purely aerial, nature.These matters are the subject of Passport to Magonia, Jacques Vallee's seminal master-work that changed our understanding of the UFO phenomenon. An instant classic when first published in 1969, the book remains a must-have resource for anybody interested in the topics of UFOs and alien contact, as well as those fascinated by fairy folklore and other paranormal encounters.