Videos of planes vanishing, pausing, motionless--in mid-flight!

[JGeropoulas]

Over the last several years there has been multiple witnesses and a plethora of videos emerging over a phenomenon of planes either frozen in mid-air or glitching out of existence. Due to the sheer number of videos taken from random people all over the world really rules out whether or not this is actually happening. The question is how and why?
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The following are a few of the amateur videos caught around the world at various times of planes either hovering in mid-air or completely vanishing. There really is no way to explain this paradox through the written word, you have to see the videos for yourself.

Propellers not moving:

Plane pauses in mid-air:

Plane vanishes:

Planes hover in mid-air:

So how could this phenomenon be occurring? One theory is that the planes are holograms used to disguise other types of aircraft (sounds like something the C's once said). The article concludes with documentation of research and development of hologram technology by the military, including the following patents from the 1970’s:

Holographic Scan Converter US3630594A
Apparatus for reconstructing an image of an object which image has been recorded in holographic form US3810687A
Holography using multiple diffused object illumination beams US3782804A
Holographic multiple image formation with astigmatism correction US3653736A

Patent here:

US3653736A - Holographic multiple image formation with astigmatism correction - Google Patents

An apparatus for imaging an illuminated or light-emitting object is discussed by which the image is simultaneously formed at many predetermined locations in space, whilst a hologram of a point array which corresponds to the desired spatial distribution is used as an image forming means and...

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[Chad]

In the first video where it's claimed the propellers aren't moving i've read, and it sounds fairly reasonable, that it's to do with the shutter speed of the camera matching up with that of the propellers. I suspect similar things may be involved in at least some of the other claims too.

Here are 2 other examples but with helicopters:

Added: Here's a video that explains the effect:

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Helicopter Blades Look Weird On Video Thanks To Frame Rates
September 23, 2016


If you've ever seen a helicopter flying on camera, perhaps you've noticed something that doesn't look quite right. The blades of the helicopter can appear to be moving backwards, very slowly, or not even moving at all. The blades really are spinning around pretty quickly, don't worry. The frame rates and shutter speed of the camera are to blame. Learn the details in the video below.


Why Helicopter Blades Can Look Strange On Video

Sometimes they appear to be moving weirdly slow.

 

[Jones]

One theory is that the planes are holograms used to disguise other types of aircraft (sounds like something the C's once said).

I saw something weird like this last year. I had a mobile touch up/paint repair guy come to the house to do some paint repairs on my car and he was talking about seeing a weird plane earlier that morning. As we were talking I saw another one and pointed it out to him - no sound, an out of the ordinary flight path, no discernible markings or identifiers, out of the ordinary altitude for the speed it appeared to be travelling at, and something odd about the wings - like they were too thin or something. He said it was very similar to what he'd seen that morning and on the same odd flight path.

 

[RedFox]

For the 4th video with the plane over the bridge, there is the following explanation (which can be applied to the 5th video too) - it's a parallax illusion based on movement and position of both the plane and the car:

The 2nd and 3rd video could easily be CGI, but if they have witnesses then that's quite interesting.

 

[Agron]

I dont know about these videos but two hours ago I was walking home from my grocery-store (second time today I had to go run an errand) and I noticed a really low-flying plane. I looked at it closely (it was beneath a half mile altitude, Id say 500 meters and few kilometers to my right side) precisely because I saw your post @JGeropoulas and I slowed down but continued walking. It struck me that it was flying really really slow. No blinking lights on it. The sound of an aeroplane was there altho it seemed kind of a strange sound, hard to describe. And then a building came into my view. Building was rather close to me so it took me 10-15 seconds to go by it and when I looked where that aeroplane should have been there was nothing except chemtrails (today the sky was criss-crossed to the max). I went up a side street to get a better look and then I noticed that the sound that should have continued even if I didnt see the aeroplane also was gone! I could not see or hear a slow moving plane that was very close. Whats more, the chemtrails seem to vanish quickly and 10-15 minutes later there is a clear sky with only a sporadic small cloud.

Just wow!

At first I said to myself that my brain is playing tricks on me. But then I wondered if it is the case or not. And I felt whatever my decision on that will be It would be cool to describe this here. I dont have a video and I had my phone but my hands were full and I doubt I would have filmed it because it was all over in about two minutes.

If that aint a synchronicity I dont know what is!

My thoughts on what it could be: Either I saw some technology that my brain couldnt interpret and it made an aeroplane out of it or that was some "alien-aeroplane/UFO" with a holographic cloak to make it look like a smaller jet plane. The sound was there, the picture was there, but something was out of logical and "normal" behaviour. And then, soon after that, I saw chemtrails vanish.
I was on a walk earlier and did a nice round of a 6 km and the dirty sky bothered me. I must add that I had a strong and positive-constructive dialogue in my head about them and I prayed that some natural entity that guards our skies clean them up and return to sender. I said thank you and sorry for being stupid and dumping poisons in the sky. Im still under the impression.

Regards

Agron

 

[Bosphorus1982]

Nice captions. I'd witnessed this first in my childhood, anyway had thought of it as optical illusion or some kind of delusion. I believe these are UFOs with holographic addition. There are messages in Lacerta files talking about this

 

[Michael B-C]

I'm with itellsya and Redfox. First two optical illusions, the other three high likelihood of CGI/interference Not that such instances don't/can't have a higher dimensional aspect (I automatically check any plane I see close flying in case of signs or glitches) but in these instances I think other explanations more likely fit. The never ending problem of YouTube videos with difficult to verify chain of custody.

 

[JGeropoulas]

For the 4th video with the plane over the bridge, there is the following explanation (which can be applied to the 5th video too) - it's a parallax illusion based on movement and position of both the plane and the car:

The 2nd and 3rd video could easily be CGI, but if they have witnesses then that's quite interesting.

The author of the original article, found here Planes Hover Mid Air, Even Vanish. Holograms Disguising Aircraft? Could CERN Be Behind This? , introduces it with the following:

Before we get into the evidence presented, I would like to clarify that I am fully aware that artificial intelligence is capable of generating any YouTube video to the point where even the most educated cannot tell it’s a fake. Open AI, a project backed by Elon Musk, has openly stated they have created an AI so good at writing, they claim to be holding it back for fear of unleashing fake news on steroids. Everything you see or read on the internet needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

What initially got me interested in this topic and why I give it validity was when I repeatedly began to experience that when I pointed out what I thought were drones in the night sky to people around me, I would witness them vanish once I verbalized that I could see them. Some were instant, others would fade out over a few seconds. It was as if they knew they had been spotted.

 

[JGeropoulas]

In the first video where it's claimed the propellers aren't moving i've read, and it sounds fairly reasonable, that it's to do with the shutter speed of the camera matching up with that of the propellers. I suspect similar things may be involved in at least some of the other claims too.

Here are 2 other examples but with helicopters:


Added: Here's a video that explains the effect:

I learned about this phenomenon long ago concerning wagon wheels in westerns appearing to move backwards. That said, it seems quite unlikely that a camera shutter speed would equal exactly the rotation speed of helicopter blades or airplane propellers needed to give the appearance of zero movement. A little research of these various speeds would likely show a narrow range of speeds would produce the illusion of j

 

[Chad]

I learned about this phenomenon long ago concerning wagon wheels in westerns appearing to move backwards. That said, it seems quite unlikely that a camera shutter speed would equal exactly the rotation speed of helicopter blades or airplane propellers needed to give the appearance of zero movement. A little research of these various speeds would likely show a narrow range of speeds would produce the illusion of j

If i'm understanding you correctly, you think that something else is going on in these videos? If so, can you share what you think might be happening?

I'm no expert, but for anyone who's interested, i came across another example - and there seem to be many on YouTube - of a helicopter taking off and you can see the blades coming into sync with the shutter speed:

Also, the second video in my first post explains for the layman like myself how some of these bizarre optical illusions occur quite well, i think. Obviously high strangeness phenomena does happen but these videos seem to have a simpler explanation.

 

[RedFox]

What initially got me interested in this topic and why I give it validity was when I repeatedly began to experience that when I pointed out what I thought were drones in the night sky to people around me, I would witness them vanish once I verbalized that I could see them. Some were instant, others would fade out over a few seconds. It was as if they knew they had been spotted.

That sounds like John Keels work where the same sort of thing would happen when spotting UFO's that regularly turned up at certain locations. Which is why I think topics like this are important to systematically untangle.

We have likely UFO sightings (night-time intelligent lights), mixed with optical illusions of planes appearing to stand still added theories about 'government holographic' etc. It's similar in flavour to the chemtrail conspiracy theories - you have a bunch of data with no context, a bunch of misunderstandings and wild theory involving the government.

I learned about this phenomenon long ago concerning wagon wheels in westerns appearing to move backwards. That said, it seems quite unlikely that a camera shutter speed would equal exactly the rotation speed of helicopter blades or airplane propellers needed to give the appearance of zero movement. A little research of these various speeds would likely show a narrow range of speeds would produce the illusion of j

It should be noted that when we are talking about shutter speed, a more technical definition is fps (frames per second). In most digital cameras (and all cell phone cameras) their is no shutter. The camera just takes multiple still image snapshots.
Most cameras operate at 24, 30 or 60 fps.

Video frame rates: 24FPS vs. 30FPS vs. 60FPS explained

Which format should I use, and when should I use it? What's the difference anyway? This used to be easy.

www.androidcentral.com

With your typical high def video camera (cell phone or otherwise) running at 30 fps, due to data bandwidth issues.

Why do phone cameras have to reduce resolution in order to create high FPS video?

Answer (1 of 3): Pretty much all cameras do, though the specifics depend on one of three bottlenecks. Each bottleneck in the system is going to set the maximum data that can pass. Smartphone cameras are ultimately just cameras, and have the same basic issues. The Image Sensor Every camera, obvi...

www.quora.com

Time for some maths.
Helicopter blades in flight are typically running at 440-460 rpm (revolutions per minute) - How Does It Fly? | Helicopter Joy Flights & Much More
This works out at 7.3333 - 7.666 rps (revolutions per second).

So those numbers don't match - is the point you're getting at?

You should take into account that the rps could be x2,x4, half or a quarter of that of the cameras fps and it would still appear static. We are talking about 4 blades in the above examples, that may turn a full rotation or a quarter rotation, or any other number of partial/full rotations as long as the position is approximately that of the last frame.
So taking the helicopters 7.666rps and multiplying this by 4 we get 30.4 - meaning a camera with running at 30fps would see the blades as static, capturing each snapshot at a quarter turn of the helicopters blades.

Let's have a go at planes (although this is more difficult, as we'd need to identify the plane to get the correct rpm).

What is the RPM of a blade propeller airplane?

Answer (1 of 5): I’ll add a bit to this discussion, addressing only small, single-engine Cessna-type airplanes. Several Quorans have said the propeller tip speed cannot exceed the speed of sound. They are approximately correct; what they mean to say is that the tip-speed cannot greatly exceed the...

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The maximum rpm is limited by the propeller tip speed it is usually below the speed of sound. On most general aviation single engine aircraft usually below 2700 RPM. On longer propellers such as on a king air around 2000 RPM due to the length of the propeller. Props are more efficient at lower RPMs. The closer to the Sonic barrier the less efficient they are.

2000rpm is 33.333rps - so already very close to 30fps.

 

[JGeropoulas]

That sounds like John Keels work where the same sort of thing would happen when spotting UFO's that regularly turned up at certain locations. Which is why I think topics like this are important to systematically untangle.

We have likely UFO sightings (night-time intelligent lights), mixed with optical illusions of planes appearing to stand still added theories about 'government holographic' etc. It's similar in flavour to the chemtrail conspiracy theories - you have a bunch of data with no context, a bunch of misunderstandings and wild theory involving the government.



It should be noted that when we are talking about shutter speed, a more technical definition is fps (frames per second). In most digital cameras (and all cell phone cameras) their is no shutter. The camera just takes multiple still image snapshots.
Most cameras operate at 24, 30 or 60 fps.

Video frame rates: 24FPS vs. 30FPS vs. 60FPS explained

Which format should I use, and when should I use it? What's the difference anyway? This used to be easy.

www.androidcentral.com

With your typical high def video camera (cell phone or otherwise) running at 30 fps, due to data bandwidth issues.

Why do phone cameras have to reduce resolution in order to create high FPS video?

Answer (1 of 3): Pretty much all cameras do, though the specifics depend on one of three bottlenecks. Each bottleneck in the system is going to set the maximum data that can pass. Smartphone cameras are ultimately just cameras, and have the same basic issues. The Image Sensor Every camera, obvi...

www.quora.com

Time for some maths.
Helicopter blades in flight are typically running at 440-460 rpm (revolutions per minute) - How Does It Fly? | Helicopter Joy Flights & Much More
This works out at 7.3333 - 7.666 rps (revolutions per second).

So those numbers don't match - is the point you're getting at?

You should take into account that the rps could be x2,x4, half or a quarter of that of the cameras fps and it would still appear static. We are talking about 4 blades in the above examples, that may turn a full rotation or a quarter rotation, or any other number of partial/full rotations as long as the position is approximately that of the last frame.
So taking the helicopters 7.666rps and multiplying this by 4 we get 30.4 - meaning a camera with running at 30fps would see the blades as static, capturing each snapshot at a quarter turn of the helicopters blades.

Let's have a go at planes (although this is more difficult, as we'd need to identify the plane to get the correct rpm).

What is the RPM of a blade propeller airplane?

Answer (1 of 5): I’ll add a bit to this discussion, addressing only small, single-engine Cessna-type airplanes. Several Quorans have said the propeller tip speed cannot exceed the speed of sound. They are approximately correct; what they mean to say is that the tip-speed cannot greatly exceed the...

www.quora.com

2000rpm is 33.333rps - so already very close to 30fps.

thanks for your calculations. they make that explanation a lot more credible then I had imagined.