I make a mixture of iron filings and microspheres by grinding an old steel dumbbell and directing the sparks towards a very strong magnet under a sheet of paper. The resultant dust contains many small microspheres of iron, mixed in with a lot of other debris. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-_iUaJXh0I

The "Gimbal" UFO is the poster child of modern UFO videos. Leaked in 2017, and officially released in 2019, it's considered by many to show a genuine anomalous craft, exhibiting flight characteristics beyond current human technology. But is it? There are four observables in the video, four things you can check yourself, that demonstrate that the most likely thing we are looking at is actually a camera artifact. It's probably an infrared glare, hiding the hot object behind it, and rotating only because the camera rotates when tracking the target from left to right. This does not mean it's not a "UAP", or that it's not unidentified, or that it's not an amazing craft - it just means it's not actually exhibiting any incredible behavior, and so this opens the door to more mundane possibilities, like a distant small jet, just flying away, the heat of the engines (viewed up the exhaust) creating a large glare in the thermal camera. Simulator: https://www.metabunk.org/gimbal/ 00:00 Introduction 00:22 The Four Observables 01:18 What's going on 01:59 What I'm not Addressing 02:27 A full 3D recreation 03:01 The ATFLIR camera 03:25 Field of View less than the Moon. 03:55 External Gimbal Axes 05:05 Tracking left to right 05:45 Why the rotation? 06:45 Incorporating Bank in the sim 08:15 Rotating the camera rotates the image 08:47 Derotation 09:07 Real world derotation 09:22 Glare examples 10:21 Glare does not rotate 10:43 Glare derotated "rotates" 11:06 Dero does not rotate it alone 11:27 Differences between sim and video 12:05 ATFLIR's inner mirrors 12:51 Minimizing roll 13:23 Incorporating the glare angle in the sim 13:46 Observable #1 - No rotation while banking 15:23 Observable #2 - Bumps before rotation 16:01 Observable #3 - Rotating patterns 16:24 Observable #4 - Derotation match 17:12 Implications if it's not a glare.... 17:58 Background information 19:23 Patent limitations 20:06 Credits Metabunk Discussions: Investigation the role of pitch and other facts in the glare angle, Markus. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/calculating-and-visualizing-gimbal-angles.12237/ Edward Current's work on a full 3D model of the object's movement: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-blender-simulation-with-clouds.12209/ realityseaker and Edward Current on the initial lack of rotation during banking. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/does-the-beginning-part-of-gimbal-debunk-the-claim-that-the-object-rotates.12068/ Using OpenCV to track the cloud motion https://www.metabunk.org/threads/automated-motion-tracking-in-videos-like-gimbal-and-gofast.12299/ Credits: Many Thanks to Markus Pitch, Graphs, Data, etc Edward Current 3D Path analysis Chris Lehto Early Feedback Mendel Analysis Robert Hildebrandt ATFLIR Model jplaza Analysis jarlrmai Analysis dim ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

Michael posts on Twitter as "UFO Today". For most of his life, he's had experiences that seem to him to be some kind of alien visitors. We talk about these, starting with his first experience of lost time when he fell off a slide. I compare them to some experiences I've had myself, which I don't think are due to aliens.   This is the first part of a two-part video, with the next episode focussing on Michael's experiences with the QAnon topic. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIu_Y1itJg

I was out in my backyard when I saw a mysterious flashing light hovering between two trees. What could it possibly be? If I only had a cell phone camera the mystery might never have been solved. I might have zoomed in digitally, perhaps "enhanced" the footage, maybe theorized about a few possible explanations, and then decided it was an unidentified flying object. Luckily I had a bigger camera with a good zoom, so I got closer. I zoomed all the way in. But still the mystery was unresolved. A flashing light hovering. Now you might have guessed what this is because of the context. But suppose the same thing had appeared while you were looking up. Against the backdrop of the sky you might have imagined it was something very different, a mysterious flashing light, high up in the sky. But, I finally got the focus right, and the mystery was revealed, it's a leaf, dangling on some spider silk, illuminated by the setting sun. Like all UFOs if you can zoom in close enough you can tell what it is. But if I didn't have my big camera, of if I didn't figure out the focus, or if the spider web snapped and the leaf vanished, then it might have forever remained a mystery, another piece of evidence in the UFO database. But it was just a leaf. Unidentified does not me aliens, or advanced technology, or even an aircraft. It just means that you can't identify it. Generally all that's needed to identify it is a bigger zoom. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmI2gMw8j2c