Mick West | How To Geolocate and Identify a Typical Tic-Tac UFO @MickWest | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A common "UFO" type is a white blob, often longer than it is tall, slowly moving across the sky. Described as a "Tic-Tac" or "Cigar" shaped white object, what these things most frequently turn out to be are planes. At a high altitude or long distance away it's hard to make out details. The underside of the wings is not in sunlight like the fuselage, so they do not stand out.
Here I go through the process of identifying one of these planes. You need to find three things:
1) Where is the video taken from?
2) When was the video taken exactly, and what's that in the UTC timezone used for tracking planes?
3) (Optional but useful) What direction is the camera pointing in?
With those three things in hand, it's a relatively simple matter of plugging then into FlightRadar24.com, and running a replay of the air traffic at the right time and place.
In this case, I was able to easily identify the plane as Air Moldova Flight 834
A common "UFO" type is a white blob, often longer than it is tall, slowly moving across the sky. Described as a "Tic-Tac" or "Cigar" shaped white object, what these things most frequently turn out to be are planes. At a high altitude or long distance away it's hard to make out details. The underside of the wings is not in sunlight like the fuselage, so they do not stand out.
Here I go through the process of identifying one of these planes. You need to find three things:
1) Where is the video taken from?
2) When was the video taken exactly, and what's that in the UTC timezone used for tracking planes?
3) (Optional but useful) What direction is the camera pointing in?
With those three things in hand, it's a relatively simple matter of plugging then into FlightRadar24.com, and running a replay of the air traffic at the right time and place.
In this case, I was able to easily identify the plane as Air Moldova Flight 834
