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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/RevolutionaryFox6029 on 2024-11-29 17:00:15+00:00.

Street light photo:

30 seconds in GIMP and I made this. I’ve seven seen variations of this photo shared which are cropped and removed the lights to leave doubt, which is not in good faith. The convex glass of the lens is reflecting the lights as you can expect, inverted and mirrored.

Now that this Capital photo can easily be put away as unrelated, the vail can be pulled back. Next, we have the infamous light video. After cross referencing the angles with surrounding buildings, I overlayed the video with as close to the POV as I can get without doxxing this persons appartment with the glideslope of Runway 01. The aircraft above the glideslope and much higher, are in their upper descent coming in from further East inland, right to left, and will make a descending left turn to line up with the slope. When aircraft are on final, they are flaps down and moving much slower, around 160knt. It’s like seeing a satellite at night and thinking it looks like it’s moving slow, but considering the distance, you realize it is moving at 24,000+mph. Speed, heading and distance are all relative.

Glideslope based on Navgraph data: https://navigraph.com/airport/KDCA/Ronald-Reagan-Washington-Natl

Runway 19 is also used for landings, but on this night of the video, for whatever reason (weather, traffic, etc) Runway 01 was used for approaching aircraft. Alternating runways is common.

Next we have the lights themselves. Most critical of this take fail to understand landing lights are incredibly bright, are not turned on until around 18k feet on the descent (explaining why the highest one “appears”), and are not meant to be seen from any angle other than from the front. Seeing them from the front, or even near head-on will explain why they appear to hover, especially at such a far distance. That distance and/or brightness of landing lights will blow out any visuals of the navigational lights, which are much dimmer. The aircraft are just flying towards the perspective, so appear to ‘hover’. The one closest to the camera can be seen on final and nearing touchdown, clearly moving right to left, towards the runway piano keys. Landing lights and navigation lights/beacons differ in that landing lights act a projector light illuminating the flight path, but so it doesn’t blind pilots who are not in front of the plane, they are embedded in the wings, so you can’t see them when you are under or behind the aircraft.

Considering the video is taken from an area facing the planes on final, sure we can see them. But when people say “I live in DC and don’t see this!” they fail to share where in DC they live, as that information is critical to being able to replicate the video.

Since I have been called a fed, bot, misinformation agent, whatever, by the galaxy brains over at r/Alien (shoutout to Doyle!) because I was using 1 day old account on my phone, I couldn’t help but just invest twenty minutes into putting this to bed, because quite frankly they are driving me nuts. Like, I certainly believe clips like the Manchester one should be investigated further and that there are a ton of videos which warrant attention, but watching people belittle and put down ‘sceptics’ (ie. people who don’t severely lack observational deduction skills but also want to believe) just brings us all down and look like donuts.

Can we please stop flagging people as bots for offering reasonable conclusions? I want videos of dots zipping around as much as the next person, but this video and photo have nothing in common, and are sensationalized by the NYT to garner clips. The same people calling people bots are willing to give NYP the benefit of the doubt, which is not in good faith and simply hurts our credibility.