UFO flyby over Brazilian protests

[paralleloscope]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiEqvQdvq8I&feature=player_embedded

 

[Windmill knight]

The video seems to have been removed due to copyright claims, but this other link is working (at the moment):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWAE2POdI8

 

[Niall]

There aren't many UFO videos that impress me these days, but this one is like WOW! I guess certain parties would be very interested in seeing how global revolution unfolds.

 

[Redrock12]

There aren't many UFO videos that impress me these days, but this one is like WOW! I guess certain parties would be very interested in seeing how global revolution unfolds.

"Somethin's happenin' here."

 

[Gawan]

One local TV station and the newspaper Fohla de S. Paulo declared that it was their drone (type "Phantom DJI", with LEDs, ~600gr.) to make unconventional recordings of the demonstration. The Leds are for orientation, so they claimed.

I personally don't know, if in this hight are any lights are useful, or they forgot to switch it off?

Here is a good video of this drone with light attached:

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvwaa4B4av8

And here is a source, with the night and day-flight of the drone:

_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/ufo-over-brazil-protest-2013-drone_n_3474842.html

Plus again the video with the supposed UFO, cause it got removed again:

_http://youtu.be/YyijEizwRsc

 

[Iron]

Drones can stop in midair, and travel that fast?
I am really asking because Im not familiar with this technology.

 

[Joe]

Drones can stop in midair, and travel that fast?
I am really asking because Im not familiar with this technology.

I'm not aware of any drones that can move like that. That video of the UFO shows the main characteristics of other alleged UFOs.

 

[Tigersoap]

Quite impressive. I don't think it's a drone but I am no expert on this.

Edit : Around the 4 to 6 seconds there air disturbances (?) around the object or so it seems to me.
I wonder why these videos get removed by the user

 

[paralleloscope]

Look at the drones used for the protest here : _http://www.openminds.tv/protesters-film-ufo-while-drone-films-protesters-video-1057/
They look nothing alike. Plus the projector light (which doesn't correlate either) would have to be massively large and powerful, OSIT.

 

[Gawan]

Look at the drones used for the protest here : _http://www.openminds.tv/protesters-film-ufo-while-drone-films-protesters-video-1057/
They look nothing alike. Plus the projector light (which doesn't correlate either) would have to be massively large and powerful, OSIT.

I agree and as well with what Iron and Perceval stated. I find it interesting, that they used a drone as an explanation – it is simple and logical in a way and almost everyone is satisfied, kind of a "brain easer".

 

[Ariadna]

The previous links don't work. I found this video, not sure if it the same quoted above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6hDQB_WG8w

 

[Chris]

One local TV station and the newspaper Fohla de S. Paulo declared that it was their drone (type "Phantom DJI", with LEDs, ~600gr.) to make unconventional recordings of the demonstration. The Leds are for orientation, so they claimed.

I personally don't know, if in this hight are any lights are useful, or they forgot to switch it off?

Here is a good video of this drone with light attached:

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvwaa4B4av8

Here is another test video of the same quadcopter model called 'Phantom DJI'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-lYJzZgow

At around the 2:52 min mark there's a shot of the quadcopter flying high in the air. Being painted almost wholly in white, it's reflecting a lot of light and also seems to be moving a lot like the alleged UFO, in that video, over the Brazilian protesters.

Plus there is also the video that's been taken from the quadcopter itself. (second video at http://www.openminds.tv/protesters-film-ufo-while-drone-films-protesters-video-1057/ )

So this was most probably a quadcopter like it's being said, in this case.

Having said that, it would have been better if the quadcopter's four arms could be clearly identified in the video taken by the protester. That is not the case, even though the quadcopter's altitude may have been a factor here imo. :/

 

[paralleloscope]

So this was most probably a quadcopter like it's being said, in this case.

I don't think that drone footage from a cloudless sky with reflective snow cover beneath and still recognizable as a quadcopter, comes nowhere near the circular halo light filmed in Brazilian cloud covered dusk.

even though the quadcopter's altitude may have been a factor here imo. :/

The Brazilian UFO seems to fly into the clouds around 0:45, wouldn't that make its altitude higher than reasonable for a helicopter type drone?

 

[Tigersoap]

Here is a video of a Phantom DJI at night to compare.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbfPkxz30_4

Not sure it clears it all up.

The Phantom DJI has a limited control distance, it seems to fly higher up in the protest video ?
I can't really estimate the distance though.

The 2.4 G ISM frequency makes the effective control distance up to 300 meters (can be impacted by the specific flight environment)

Product page :

_http://www.dji-innovations.com/feature/phantom-features/

 

[Chris]

I don't think that drone footage from a cloudless sky with reflective snow cover beneath and still recognizable as a quadcopter, comes nowhere near the circular halo light filmed in Brazilian cloud covered dusk.

Hmm. You're right. It cannot be due to reflection alone, considering that the sky seems to be pretty dark at the time the video was shot.

Here is a video of a Phantom DJI at night to compare.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbfPkxz30_4

Not sure it clears it all up.

This video does a better job of explaining the drone's strange "glow".

The Phantom DJI has a limited control distance, it seems to fly higher up in the protest video ?
I can't really estimate the distance though.

The 2.4 G ISM frequency makes the effective control distance up to 300 meters (can be impacted by the specific flight environment)

Product page :

_http://www.dji-innovations.com/feature/phantom-features/

That would make the official control distance upto around 1000ft max. In one of the reviews for this quadcopter listed on Amazon's website (here : http://www.amazon.com/DJI-Phantom-Aerial-Drone-Quadcopter/product-reviews/B00AGOSQI8), there's the following

ADDENDUM: Quick note, but I was dead wrong about the maximum altitude the Phantom can achieve. On my second flight, it just kept climbing as it disappeared into the clouds. I lost visual, and was sure I'd never see my Phantom again. I didn't notice the the throttle stick does not revert to center when you let it go. It stays where you leave it, and for me, that was full throttle. From calculations based from DJI's web site that it climbs 6m/second, which means it attained an altitude how somewhere between 5000 and 7000 feet. I didn't realize until I got the video back. This is *not* good, though, since untiI I saw the video, I didn't realize I was in controlled airspace. Do *not* do this. Keep you Phantom in visual range at all time, or risk getting arrested, or even worse, causing a flight accident. You should not fly it at over 400-500 feet.

Now I know this guy has not used an altimeter and is making this claim based on his calculations, but assuming the lowest clouds to be at a height of <6500 ft (the clouds in the video look like Cumlus/Stratus/Stratocumulus, http://nenes.eas.gatech.edu/Cloud/Clouds.pdf), the drone may be able to make it up to the low-level clouds.

Even then, the video is of pretty low quality and I am not really sure if the quadcopter actually does fly into the clouds. It just seems to be moving away at an increased altitude but at that distance, and due to the video's low quality, it may give the impression that it's flying up into the clouds.