Mother’s Day Sighting

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I captured this image yesterday afternoon at about 5:30 PM PT.

It is a still from a ~35 minute video shot in the highest resolution possible on an iPhone15ProMax.

I was filming into a cloudless/high altitude haze sky (more on that later).

This object was observed for around 5 minutes after it flew in, loitered in place and changed locations a few times before going behind some trees. I estimate the object is about 200-500 meters away through the video. Far enough that, from the camera, a full-size car would appear small at minimum.

It behaved as though it was surveying - it moved from one spot to the next silently. No noise. It was also invisible to the naked eye. It was without adding contrast and light filter did the “clear sky” become anything but.

I don’t view this as a chance find as I set up the video intentionally to see if I could spot something on review - and did.

I live in a not really all that special place. There’s nothing here that I can think of that’s terribly notable. The entire flight, for instance, was over a set of neighborhoods with one exception being two plots of land amongst the neighborhoods that are large and have very run down houses on them. Probably the most vacant piece of land in the immediate area. There may be something to that.

The rest of the area is again unremarkable - suburbia. There are no major landmarks, the closest power substation is at least 1.5 miles away, no ranches or herds. No power plants. The only thing here is a lake but a pretty unremarkable one at that.

I’ll post more about my observations from this find later today.

I’ve seen these before but never for this duration - which gave me a big opportunity to study behavior.

There were many other smaller objects caught on the video that I rule out being birds, drones or insects (though I did capture birds and insects, too) and this object is not a drone - way too big - and way too rectangular.

Suffice to say, the watchers are watching.

Here’s a few more images you a sense of what I mean by being over the trees - and happed to capture another object in the image, too.