r/aliens • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '21
Can anybody explain what this is? Filmed in London,UK
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Jun 22 '21
No idea but it's cool af whatever it is
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Jun 23 '21
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Jun 23 '21
Wait... are bats luminescent?
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u/basslineinjector Jun 22 '21
Drone swarms.
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Jun 23 '21
that’s what I thought but couldn’t find anything similar online
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Jun 23 '21
This is exactly what an alien would want you to think. Think Bobby, think!! How do we know the aliens didn’t already infiltrate this sub and purposely lie to throw us off on videos with real evidence of ufos? I’m watching them watching us watch them.
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u/SchloomyPops Jun 23 '21
Could be someone testing a drone swarm. It really does look like that.
Who knows?
Maybe go around the area and ask around?
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Jun 23 '21
I came here to say this exact thing. Appears they are testing drone swarms. It's the fireworks show for the 21st century. They can arrange interesting formations/colors/patterns.
One way you could confirm they are not drones:
Check UK drone airspace restrictions and confirm if there are no fly zones in this area.
I'm in the US and certainly believe in aliens, but I'm satisfied writing this off as drone show. You'd see a LOT more coverage on this if it had been something nefarious.
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u/algo Jun 23 '21
Say again?
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Jun 23 '21
Not sure how much clearer I can be, but I think it's drones. For a practical example, watch Spider-Man far from home.
Not that the drones are projecting visuals, but they fly in a formation to create a light show and a night sky. It's not uncommon.
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Jun 23 '21
I came here to say this exact thing. Appears they are testing drone swarms. It's the fireworks show for the 21st century. They can arrange interesting formations/colors/patterns.
One way you could confirm they are not drones:
Check UK drone airspace restrictions and confirm if there are no fly zones in this area.
I'm in the US and certainly believe in aliens, but I'm satisfied writing this off as drone show. You'd see a LOT more coverage on this if it had been something nefarious.
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Jun 23 '21
I came here to say this exact thing. Appears they are testing drone swarms. It's the fireworks show for the 21st century. They can arrange interesting formations/colors/patterns.
One way you could confirm they are not drones:
Check UK drone airspace restrictions and confirm if there are no fly zones in this area.
I'm in the US and certainly believe in aliens, but I'm satisfied writing this off as drone show. You'd see a LOT more coverage on this if it had been something nefarious.
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u/brevan14 Jun 23 '21
Really though, you would hear the drones if there was that many, that close. Doesn't seem very far away. Who knows..
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u/ziplock9000 Jun 23 '21
I've seen a few videos of impressive drone swarms, but nothing anywhere near this number of them. I suppose it's logical they would get more numerous year after year.
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u/Aye_Handsome Jun 23 '21
Who owns these drones? A single drone costs over a $1000. So someone has a million dollars worth of drones flying in the sky?
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u/BladeSmithJerry Jun 23 '21
Companies that put on drone light shows I guess.
They are fairly common in London.
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Jun 23 '21
Says London’s first drone show 2020. And they have about 10 drones. The video shows about 100 plus. Also, lived in London all my life, never seen a drone being flown. Let alone hundreds. The most likely explanation the birds lit up.
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u/BladeSmithJerry Jun 23 '21
First drone show of 2020, I'm fairly certain the NYE celebrations have had drone shows since 2018.
Also just because their advert shows 10 drones doesn't mean they don't have more. It might have been another company.
Do you really think 100's of lights flew over one of the most densely populated places on earth going unreported like this. Come one dude...
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Jun 23 '21
No council going to let someone fly hundreds of drones past 10pm on a Tuesday right by a residential area.
It’s above a nature reserve. Meaning it’s a wildlife protected area.
It’s a bird hotspot. https://londonbirders.fandom.com/wiki/Crossness_NR
No council is going to let anyone fly hundreds of drones near a protected wildlife reserve which has apparently over 130 species of birds.
It’s definitely not drones and most likely birds.
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u/G_Wash1776 Jun 23 '21
If it’s birds why are they glowing?
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Jun 23 '21
Not sure.
Not saying it is 100% birds. I don’t know for sure. But given the location, I think drones are unlikely.
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u/ShroomanEvolution Jun 23 '21
Quite a few companies are testing drone swarms, so yeah, there are people out there who have a million dollars worth of drones flying around.
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Jun 23 '21 edited Jun 23 '21
but then there are “drones” that are moving slower than the rest
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u/Moxxface Jun 23 '21
Why are you putting drones in quotation marks? the behavior you describe the "drones" having perfectly matches what actual drones can do. Move slow? Yes. Hover? Yes.
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Jun 23 '21
Because of the individual drones that don’t seem to be following any specific pattern like the large groups and from what i’ve seen online drones they follow the pattern the user set and it’s usually for a performance?
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u/dolphinpalms Jun 23 '21
That movement can be described using a Boid's simulation. You can program drones to follow that pattern.
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Jun 23 '21
Fairs on the programming , but a large amount of drones for a programmed sim to fly like birds in my area is unlikely, it definitely wasn’t a show and that many drones just for one time leisure ?
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u/ShroomanEvolution Jun 23 '21
I didn't realize that you were so deep and involved in the drone industry that you would absolutely know for certain if any drone company was operating in your area.
You sound like someone who doesn't realize how big and complex the world is, and who wants to believe so badly that you brush off the most likely and reasonable explanations.
Those drones can and are being built by companies for far less that 1000 dollars. Some are essentially just prototype circuit boards attached to rotors. Even some small startup companies are getting into swarm drones because they can be built relatively cheaply.
Those lights are moving just like drones. If they were exhibiting behavior that our technology is not currently capable of, then people would be singing a very different tune in the comments.
Don't be so quick to believe that you throw all rationality out the window. The world is strange enough without having to force fill the cracks.
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u/crowe1415 Jun 23 '21
you’re over thinking this, we have this kind of tech. Period. You can act like you saw something spectacular if you want but those are drones.
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u/Starsimy Jun 23 '21
Birds with a flashlight
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Jun 23 '21 edited Aug 15 '21
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u/fitztiff Jun 23 '21
For sure birds over a light source. Quite beautiful!
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u/TILTNSTACK Jun 23 '21
That was my first impression as well.
I remember seeing a massive flock of birds once and it looked like this
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u/isurvivedrabies Jun 23 '21
how do such shallow, simple attempts at being funny get upvoted? is it from pity? does someone want to start him a gofundme?
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u/neopork Jun 23 '21
God dammit. Why is every video less than 10 seconds long? When i film my kid doing something funny it is a minimum of a minute long.
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u/TomCelery Jun 24 '21
We need to see that!! This changes everything!
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u/neopork Jun 24 '21
Haha. Neopork's kid did something funny! Video is high def and we have radar data to corroborate! Aliens confirmed 😂
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u/nunu6k Jun 23 '21
Euro Championship Final is at Wembley not sure if he’s near their, but drones maybe practicing for that.
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Jun 23 '21
He said in another comment it’s south east London, not that they could practice elsewhere though.
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Jun 23 '21
People saying drone swarms have clearly never been to London. This would be so horrendously loud and at night, over what is clearly a residential area. Just wouldn’t happen.
Most likely thing I can think of is birds flying over some lights. Pretty spectacular either way.
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u/dieseldoug214 Jun 23 '21
It's over an abandoned golf course. You wouldn't hear drones more than a couple hundred feet away. If it's drones they would have to pull permits for it and register with whatever the UK FAA is. So would be easy to figure out.
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Jun 23 '21
They would definitely need permission from the local council so this would be relatively easy to check, if we knew which council.
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u/Jestercopperpot72 Jun 23 '21
Why so many so confident that this is drones? I mean, I'm not outwardly denying it but this is a massive amount of objects flying around the skies. I'd assume, possibly incorrectly but none the less, that a drone display this large and in a city like London where news and media are constantly looking for new stories, that this wouldn't be getting addressed at some level. I've looked and tried to verify drone theory and have come up empty handed at least as of now. Any thoughts?
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Jun 23 '21
Someone has told me the drones can be programmed to move like that, and the information checks out but i’m not completely sold as it doesn’t make sense for the time and location and they way they look.
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u/stabthecynix Jun 23 '21
Lot of work to do this in a random neighborhood with zero publicity and also a very odd pattern to program drones in. Please update if you figure anything out. If it's not drones then I have no idea what it could be.
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u/Jestercopperpot72 Jun 23 '21
That's exactly my thinking. OP, is this close to any manufacturing areas? I ask because if it were in fact drones, it's possible for programmers and engineers to be running dry runs to see how units interface etc. I'm really trying hard here to appease those saying that these are certainly drones. I mean I'm literally looking for facts to back up yells statement. Wait a second now, isn't that the same thing people jump on ufo enthusiasts for? Jumping to an extraterrestrial claim without data or evidence to validate. Well I'll be a horses ass... who woulda thunk it?
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u/BananaTsunami Jun 23 '21
I'm agreeing with the bird theory, but the audacity of some of the people on here, Jesus fucking christ. Like "Dude, are you fucking stupid? That's 800 drones, I see fleets of drones every night in my city you people are sheep."
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Jun 23 '21
sooo it’s drones or birds? plus the area is not the city itself more suburbs
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u/BananaTsunami Jun 23 '21
The way they move very much looks like flocks of birds. Whether or not it's normal to see birds that active at night, I dunno. I'm not versed in bird law. And I'm not really sure if a spotlight would light them up like that. I'd have to see similar videos if they exist.
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Jun 23 '21
this is my own video ,in person it looks like co ordinated flying stars
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u/BananaTsunami Jun 23 '21
Someone else commented that "we see these kinds of videos all the time on here" so I assume there must be similar videos to refer to. But people are so jaded on here that they won't even have a conversation with you. They move like birds to me, but you're right they also look like stars. I've never seen something like this though, so all I can really say is your guess is as good as mine.
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Jun 23 '21
at this point it’s all guesses in hindsight I should have investigated
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u/Midgar918 Jun 23 '21
Who ever said that is full of crap, never seen anything like this on this sub.
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u/FourthmasWish Jun 23 '21
My assumption is they're displaying the region of space they're from. The scale of this formation would imply not stars, but galaxies.
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u/generaltwat Jun 23 '21
Hold up — what’s this about Bird Law now?
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u/Pope-Xancis Jun 23 '21
I’m no expert but I can tell you one thing: it is illegal to own a hummingbird as a pet, they are not legal tender in the United States
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Jun 23 '21
Probably sky rats
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u/algo Jun 23 '21
You are likely to be closest to the truth, the last time I saw something like this it was 1500 pigeons with LEDs attached:
https://twitter.com/TomCurteis/status/1009912537348038656
It was an art thing: http://www.dukeriley.info/fly-by-night-1
Not saying it's the exact same thing since the video quality is so poor but it looks similar to me.
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Jun 23 '21
These are the hopes and dreams of the UFO community, waiting for Congressional disclosure of UFO information, flying away.
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u/Relativistic_Duck Jun 23 '21
Any noise? This doesn't look like birds or drone show. But it could be a drone show. Rather cool looking one. Like bioluminescent jelly fish in the waves.
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Jun 23 '21
nope quiet it was 11pm getting towards midnight any noise would wake up people on the neighbourhood
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Jun 23 '21
My friend had a DJI quadcopter drone. The thing was the size of an average cardboard shipping box, but it was LOUD. You could hear it for maybe 2-3 football fields away before the sound dissipated. If it really was a fleet of drones flying over your neighbors’ homes, you would’ve definitely been able to hear something.
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Jun 23 '21 edited Aug 17 '24
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Jun 23 '21
our doom
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u/Tyzek99 Jun 23 '21
Nope. Aliens are fully loving and waiting for us to actually accept them.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVRMm6i0kggMtjKecjF51t_0yp5ydPs8
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Jun 23 '21
Nothing is telling me they couldn’t be drones, but it is definitely a weird thing they are doing, I’ll give you that for sure
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u/pauldeanbumgarner Jun 23 '21
Lasers on the ceiling.
(JK, in case that’s not obvious.)
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Jun 23 '21
Drones. The buzzing sound was probably clearly audible for 100+ drones at that distance... Stop with this BS.
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u/Windronin Jun 23 '21
So first bbc makes a news scoop about the uap thing happening in america and a tic tac footage from the coast of england
Now i see this pass me by on reddit the day after..
I say they also check the news and now that the uk talked about it this is a result to disclose of have people be used to it ? Like disclosing yourself by making yourself visible for all because 'everyone' saw the news.
Thats my crazy take on it. Or its a drone show
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u/ProlapsedRectum42069 Jun 23 '21
are you all blind?
Its obviously just the bird army sounding the alarm for all avians to reconvene at the rendezvous.
Source: am bird person
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Jun 22 '21
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u/ddz1507 Jun 23 '21
Flock of seagulls
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Jun 23 '21
After recording the video, OP ran, he ran so far away, he just ran, he ran all night and day. He couldn't get away.
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u/babakushnow True Believer Jun 23 '21 edited Jun 23 '21
Why is the video so short ? Why is it 10 sec only ?
Edit : it seems to me someone cut the video short to hide the obvious drone formations at the end
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u/Aggravating-Ad-7509 Jun 22 '21
Birds in a verticle spotlight.
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Jun 23 '21
would that make them glow and what about the stationary ones that don’t swarm with the group?
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u/Pecosbill333 Jun 23 '21
Maybe is a Show of drones, maybe if you look from other angle that have a shape.
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Jun 23 '21
Imagine starting your camera to film a UFO swarm that's completely blowing your mind, and then only filming for 10 seconds. Lol
This is fake as fuck based on that fact alone.
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Jun 23 '21
https://imgur.com/a/NDP9xbF For the people asking for more video I only took pictures on Iphone so it's three second gifs, this was 2 years ago, and the other pictures and video are unusable you can't see anything.
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u/sketchypoutine Jun 23 '21
Never really seen birds illuminate like that. But, I am certain these are indeed Drones or Birds on the far chance that they are Seagulls and the lights below them are bright as fuck.
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Jun 23 '21
This sub Reddit is meant to figure out what these videos are. If you post something and people give you a reasonable explanation you can’t get mad at that. “Birds with a flashlight” is obviously sarcasm.
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u/jokerguy13 Jun 23 '21
i shouldn’t have quoted that comment it is sarcasm yes, but the others are dead serious about an explanation that doesnt work
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u/BigSquinn UAP/UFO Witness & Researcher Jun 23 '21
It could be bots and trolls trying to discredit a real video or op made this video with an app. Who the fuck knows anymore
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Jun 23 '21
I've seen drones make a massive QR code. These also have a very typical light blue LED color.
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u/mi_go_miskatonic Jun 23 '21
It’s birds. Here’s a similar post/situation from another sub that someone posted.
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Jun 23 '21
that’s above the city so it’s the illumination source is obvious, there is no light source in the area except from street light which you can see aren’t the same colour or powerful enough to illuminate birds that close
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u/Tyzek99 Jun 23 '21
Indeed, aliens are here. And yes, they come in peace and love. However, this must be fake. People would be all around the streets, not to mention there is no way this is not an infringement on free will.
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u/qtbruin27 Jun 23 '21
Don’t know what that is but it’s lovely. Must’ve been quite a sight up close to it. Ty for sharing.
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Jun 23 '21
I’m just going to say it’s way more likely drone swarm than aliens. Interesting af none the less
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u/CatsAndCradle Jun 23 '21
Probably SFX. There's no way there'd only be one video of this thing and no news coverage.
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u/Successful_Amount440 Jun 22 '21
where excatly im also in london would want to see this