Hi Everyone,
I have just joined this forum for the only purpose to see if anyone can help me find out what kind of drone was captured by my surveillance camera.
Basically, there is a construction going on in my backyard (reason for the mess) and the back gate was removed. Since there is no gate now, I have used my mobile phone (connected to a laptop via USB and OBS was recording) as a security camera to record any night activity there. For a few seconds a drone appeared with poor visibility, and then after a few strange manoeuvres it disappeared. I have two captures so far from different days, but it might have visited on other days as well, just I did not notice it when playing back the recording at 64x speed.
To me it doesn’t look like a standard commercial drone, but I am not familiar with this field, so I might be wrong with this one. Also, the strange quite expert way it flies makes me think that the operator must be a professional.
Is there anyone who can identify the drone, or offer any input about the thing we see in the short video clips I attached?
Alternatively, if this forum is not the best place to ask for this kind of assistance, can you please recommend any other online platform where I might have a greater chance to get the right answer?
Thanks in advance,
Joe
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I have heard this opinion elsewhere, but as far as I know moths don't fly in winter during the night when the temperature is below freezing.
I was more open to the idea that it is a small bird, but again after studying the clips frame by frame, it is not plausible.
The object appears to be composed of 4 distinct blobs connected to each other with either wings or propellers at their top. I have concluded this from a frame where the 4 blobs faintly appear in the next frame but still strongly visible in the previous frame. Then in the 3rd frame the ghostly image of the 4 blobs becomes firm.
This can be possible only if the object moved from the location of 1st frame to the location in the next frame very fast and it was there for only a short while before the shutter closed for the second frame. This resulted in a pale ghostly image of the 4 blobs there. But then the shutter opened again and the object remained in that position for a short while just enough to render that new position opaque white again, before moving to a new position.
If it was a moth or bird it supposed to move toward to the end of the new position then fly back along the same trajectory, then turn back again and fly to the end of then position again to strengthen the 2nd frame image. This is not possible. The 4 blobs are separate features on a single object.