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The video looks fake..?

It's an Infrared camera video, taken from the Super Hornet's IRST system which can slave / gimbal independently of the aircraft's manoeuvring, hence why it's centred.

I see.

I guess I'm just kind of disappointed that never seem to be a good-quality video to look at when we're talking about UFOs.

With those low effort conspiracies that are popular today, creating a fake like this would be a overkill.

How so?

I don't know, the clouds don't look real to me.

I also wonder why resolution mist always be this low, my cell phone ($250) can shoot 4K and a plane that costs millions can't shoot video that is detailed enough to investigate the phenomenon.

Avionics are always way behind consumer electronics due to safety and reliability certification requirements, as well as tiny production volumes. How well would your cell phone hold up to thousands of hours of intense vibrations, freezing temperatures, hard shocks, and hydraulic fluid leaks?

I think that video is from 2004, or at least the article makes mention of that, although the caption doesn’t date it.

>I also wonder why resolution mist always be this low

"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. " -Mitch Hedberg

It’s from a moving fighter jet at night at a significant distance.

Not saying it’s ET, but that seems like a bit unreasonable beef.

I don't think you grasp the distances and relative velocities involved here. Your phone would capture a speck, if anything at all.

Because it's a FLIR (thermal) camera, which is a technology that has practically nothing in common with your phone's camera. You're comparing apples to oranges.

how many hours in the air do you have that you've used to make that decision?

Aww, give me a break! Do I need to have a degree in it to have an opinion?

There was a question mark, I'm not stating a fact.

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