UFO over Russia- 23 DEC 2011

[Spectrism]

Multiple videos. Could possibly be airplane landing lights with coronal glow from atmospheric ice crystals. What think y'all? Anyone speak Russian here?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snLj2C_wbzY&feature=related

[Blink]

Looks like the empire has finished the Deathstar.............

[gunDriller]

too easy to synthesize using simple 2D computer graphics tools - to be anything besides eye candy.

i'm not saying that UFO's don't exist - just that first person accounts of uniformed service personnel, and some civilians, is more clear documentation of existence than videos.

it's 'easy' to synthesize effects that seem real.

the technologies to create photo-real and real-sounding audio have been in existence for 6 to 12 years, depending on how one counts - and tens of millions of people are trained in their use - and millions of people are highly skilled at synthesizing video - and hundreds of thousands of them work for defense contractors & other government agencies with an ax to grind ... and hundreds of thousands work for the various Hollywood/ sci-fi media organizations.

the US gov. has been hiring computer graphics people to work on UFO-related special effects since at least 1994.

[Ponce]

That was St Nickol and his raindeers trying to make on time for his deliveries of toys on the 24 of Dic.

Only 3 & 5 appears to be traveling at the speed of a very high and far jet plane.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Could possibly be airplane landing lights with coronal glow from atmospheric ice crystals.


If my understanding of physics are correct, this would only occur when the ice crystals are backlit, i.e. it would only work from one general angle. Since the video seems to cover from many angles and is always maintaining the same size halo, I'm not sure this is it.

[Spectrism]

If there is an electrostatic field, we could see ionizing effects resembling this halo appearance.

I don't think it was faked. It looks like actual footage of some event. Might simply be light from a plane.




A moon ring, also known as a winter halo, is a phenomenon that usually appears in conjunction with a full moon. There appears to be a whitish ring, approximately 10 to 20 times the size of the moon, surrounding the moon and centered on it. It is caused by refraction of the light from the full moon in the ice particles floating in the clouds, as opposed to a rainbow, where light refracts in the water vapor that makes up the clouds. Since this happens most effectively at a certain angle, this ring appears at the bottom of the clouds, and since similar triangles must form between the moon, the refracting surface, and the observation point, the "highlighted" clouds are at approximately the same distance from the moon, creating the image of a ring.
In ancient beliefs it is believed that a moon ring means very warm days before the winter storm. It is also said that the number of days can be counted by counting the stars inside the ring. If you count 15 stars then you have 15 days before a winter storm is to come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_ring

Rings around moon on ice-vapor nights....





http://www.coona-astro.org.au/images/MauriceCopeland/moon_rings.jpg

[vacuum]

The moon ring phenomena you describe is not ionization, but as you quoted refraction.

From what I can see, it appears to be a luminous sphere around a white light, and the luminosity is highest in sort of a half moon shape, opposite in the direction that the object is moving. Another observation is that the object is not stationary but seems to be moving rather fast. One guess I have is that perhaps the object is moving faster than the speed of sound and creating vapor cloud around it. The light is already coming off the jet in all directions, and the vapor cloud just causes it to diffuse, lighting put the entire cloud.

http://serriaphoto.smugmug.com/photos/354717772_i2L2Z-M.jpg