Sutter Buttes UFO Solved & Balloon Identified @MickWest

Mick West | Sutter Buttes UFO Solved & Balloon Identified @MickWest | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 58 minutes ago.
This was pretty obviously a balloon. But people were confused by the weird shape and the dark regions. Making it brighter and stabilizing it made it a lot clearer and eventually let us track down what the balloon was. Crowdsourcing works again!

And no, it's not the most serious UFO case. But it was a fun little puzzle and a great showcase of how crowdsourcing is often the best way of figuring out little mysteries like this.

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$Hovering Boats are Usually Not Mirages, they are beyond False Horizons Perfect images of boats hovering in the sky are not mirages. Mirages distort and invert images. Even non-mirage refraction effects like looming will not create this effect (as they raise up the water as well as the boat). Its a false horizon. The surface of the water is just taking on the color of the sky because of a combination of lighting, clouds, the calmness of the water surface, and a little haze. In this video, I show how to use my refraction simulator to see whats going on with mirages, and why this is not a mirage. Refraction Simulator: https://metabunk.org/refraction/ Metabunk discussion: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-fata-morgana-or-mirage-hovering-boat-images-false-horizon.9112/ Similar thread on floating cities https://www.metabunk.org/threads/floating-cities-are-generally-not-fata-morgana-mirages.6922/$

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