The star one kind of reminds me of the kill vehicle: https://youtu.be/KBMU6l6GsdM?si=O1jl4aQfaX_POY4T
In the 90s there was a wave of diamond-shaped craft in Europe. All were taken by cheap disposable cameras with four-bladed aperture. The current trend now is fuzzy moving images. They are fixed points like stars and the "motion" and color changes comes from the digital camera's algorithm trying to make sense of a one-pixel signal from the ccd. (See flat earth videos claiming that stars/planets are actually spotlights.)
This theory is the one of yours least easily dismissed, but requires further evidence to be more convincing, I believe.
Re the counterpost - i admit it's a good effort to match the graphics - but it still looks markedly different. Thermal overexposure seems less likely given paucity of other examples - what about active jamming? IR laser pointing? Hunch just now: sth about polarized light? Idk.
There's not really much ambiguity here regarding these factors now:
- it's a small bright infrared light source attached to a parachute
- the star shape is a camera artifact
My hope was you'd be actually interested to discuss in depth - but seems like you want to end the conversation here. That's okay, no worries. Just a little disappointing and surprising (or maybe not - 100% certainty is not exactly compatible with "willing to update beliefs" ;)).
If you are another is open tho - take a look at this: https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2052769793321975945
How that 8-pointed thing moves around and the cold trail it leaves. What could it be?
I don't see the intense source artifact angle because the pattern is distinct from examples of the class.
I'm unconvinced here but curious :)
Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.