4 articles tagged “infrared”.
Six scientists measured the brightness flicker in a declassified Pentagon infrared video. All six objects pulse 7.1 to 7.9 times a second — the rate at which birds flap.
A US military infrared clip of a six-pointed object over the Yellow Sea is going round again. The file is real, the label is real — and the star shape is a known property of the optics.
Gimbal, GoFast and the Tic Tac video all came from the same family of military infrared sensor. Understanding how that sensor actually works — and where it lies to you — explains more about these cases than any amount of frame-by-frame squinting.
In 2013, a US Customs and Border Protection plane filmed a small object skimming over Puerto Rico, dropping into the sea, and apparently splitting in two — all on thermal infrared. It is one of the best-documented modern videos, and one of the most argued-over.