Sun Dogs

[casper]

Linda from Sudbury, Ontario Canada caught the phenomenon on tape on January 5, 2016.
According to Linda, the object is a massive unidentified flying object that stood still in the sky. She said “at first I thought that it was a cloud and then I saw that it was something else.”
What do you think?

https://youtu.be/sH--kkZ3Fc4

 

[clerck de bonk]

Re: Second sun or a massive UFO?

A sundog?

 

[Laura]

Re: Second sun or a massive UFO?


Yeah. Sundog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dogs

 

[casper]

Re: Second sun or a massive UFO?

Thank you for your answers clerck de bonk and Laura :)

 

[Mikey]

Re: Second sun or a massive UFO?

What do you think?

Filmed through a double glass pane window. Every object will in theory be doubled, but only bright objects (on dark background) will create an easily discernible double. You can see it with your own eyes when the conditions are right. See my attached diagram. The apparent 'offset' of the double to the original is approx. proportional to the angle between the object-eye ray and the window normal, as well of course to the zoom factor of the camera.

Added: To fully judge the validity of the 'sighting', one would need to know all observation parameters, as detailed as possible. Calling it "massive UFO sighting" helps nobody except the sensationalists.

 

[Laura]

I edited the thread headline; don't want google carrying that around.

Here are a couple recent articles about sightings of sun dogs:
http://www.sott.net/article/309848-Mystifying-sun-dogs-appear-in-Galo-Belarus

Check out the video in this one and notice how there are numerous other refractory images caused by the camera itself.

Another one:
http://www.sott.net/article/309845-Three-suns-in-St-Petersburg-Russia-thanks-to-frost

There are many reports of this sort of thing in ancient texts when people did not have the science to understand what they were seeing.

You can scroll through that category on sott.net and find quite a few additional articles about recent sightings. That should make us worry a bit because the ancients experienced them usually in concert with quite cataclysmic events.

 

[Beau]

The Strange Skies category on sott.net is a good one for tracking incidents like this: http://www.sott.net/topic/29-Strange-Skies

 

[casper]

There are many reports of this sort of thing in ancient texts when people did not have the science to understand what they were seeing.

You can scroll through that category on sott.net and find quite a few additional articles about recent sightings.

Thank you Laura for the tip, I will

Thanks Heimdallr , excellent articles, I read some, fascinate me always the beauty of these images

 

[Chad]

Sundogs in Antarctica
By Strange Sounds -
Sep 6, 2016

Sundogs, these rainbow colored splashes of light on either side of the sun, are seen around the world on a daily basis.
Ice crystals in the air around Antarctica are “diamond dust.” And when they catch the rays of the low-hanging sun, the results can be spectacular like in the following pictures:

Picture by B SUDARSAN PATRO on September 5, 2016 @ Bharati Indian Base Station, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica

Sundogs are caused by ice crystals in high cirrus clouds.

Picture by B SUDARSAN PATRO on September 5, 2016 @ Bharati Indian Base Station, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica

Ice crystals in the air around Antarctica, however, are special. They are “diamond dust.” These tiny, jewel-like crystals of ice form on cold days in the air near ground level.
http://strangesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sundogs-antarctica-2.jpg
Picture by B SUDARSAN PATRO on September 5, 2016 @ Bharati Indian Base Station, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica

When they catch the rays of the low-hanging sun, the results can be spectacular, with sundogs that glitter intensely as the dust drifts by. Look at this effect in action:

Picture by B SUDARSAN PATRO on September 5, 2016 @ Bharati Indian Base Station, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica

Each speck and circle of light in this image is sunlight glistening through an individual crystal of diamond dust.