Time: 8pm on June 22, 2025
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Unknown object changing speed and direction.
I stay 2 miles from Lake Michigan. I watch the satellite and airplane radars often. Many of the objects I see do not appear to be apart of the flight charts. Which makes me curious.
There are 3 total clips here. The first one IS a Satellite. These second two shows a definitive difference between them
I’m always welcome to send the raw footage as well! On the computer or hdtv/ 4k tv, you can see shit better
Hmm are u sure it isnt low flying birds? You should get thermal binos.
Here in Sweden I never see those slow flying satellites that’s even stranger for me.
This is a canon EOSRP. I would just have to get some zoom lenses. And they weren’t birds. I see birds with my eyes at night all the time. I stay two miles from the world’s largest lake systems. Lake Michigan area is host to so much amazing wildlife and birds. However, at the altitude of these objects, the speed and the fact that when I moved my face away from the view finder, I saw no objects flying, I was lost.
Plus they aren’t low. They are veeeery high up. The gulls fly low all night in the summer. Bats too. You can see them. These you couldn’t see if you didn’t have a digital camera.
Really looks like a bird/bat to me from the movement.
The problem is there is so much camera movement.. The side to side movement isn't so bad, but you're also rotating the camera at times.
I tried to find a spot that I could stabilize to get a better sense of its movement. Best spot so far is this ~3s. https://imgur.com/mWjYjSV
It's fairly linear with some swoop type movement you'd expect from flapping wings.
They couldn’t be seen by the naked eye. And at the rate of speed it hey fly, it couldn’t be a bat. We’re talking something coming from the east off the lake and being west a multitude of miles within a small videos amount of time. Like I hear you and I’ve recorded bats in the area. I’ve recorded birds that luminaire from the sunset and other factors. It didn’t display natural features.
Why can't these just be slightly higher than the ones you see with your naked eye?
They don't see very high to me.
Because if I can see a satellite in space, I should see these. Which is why I showed the satellite at first to debunk
We can see satellites reflecting sunlight with the naked eye. You said you couldn't see this with your eye which suggests to me that it's much smaller and closer to the ground reflecting street lights.
Again, I am willing to send anyone raw footage so that they can view it in high definition at full resolution so you can better see how far I am from said object from ground level.
Sure. If you can cut them down to a couple of 10/20 second clips or so and post them somewhere, I'll take a look.
Once again, posting them loses the quality of what i captured. The raw footage does better justice. Just pull Reddit up on a cpu. Get a better idea of what i experienced. Regardless of anything, I kno what ive experienced on multiple occasions. The maneuvering, the sky lighting up. Things disappearing and reappearing. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what I’ve captured. Cheers to you tho mate
I'm saying post a link to the raw files so they can be downloaded. Like on google drive or something
That’s not what that suggests. It I can see something from space, I should for sure be able to see an object CLOSER to me. The streetlights point downward. Your inference is a bit backward.
Chicago from space: https://i.imgur.com/2kgTnQH.png
Light pollution is real.
Which is also why I sought out to purchase a quality camera to capture space objects I can’t see with my eyes from here.
I understand that but these diversions have nothing to do with the object at hand.
The fastest most agile bird here is the Peregrine Falcon. They don’t display movements like this but they move pretty fast. And brown bats are native to Chicago and most of North America but I just looked and they don’t fly high at all. Only along treetops and near the water for insects. There aren’t many insects that high at night in the dry summers of Chicago mate.
They reach incredible speed by diving to bomb their prey from above. Not through normal flying.
Which is why I can’t see it being any birds because that’s the fastest but at diving and agility wise one could say it’s a bat but bats do NOT fly that high. I literally just looked it up
If it was at high altitude moving that fast, it would be something.. I would expect it to be more linear as well.
I don't think it's that high.. and the movement is bird/bat-like to me.
Your expectations are just that. In reality things sometimes are not what we expect them to be. You may not think it’s that high. However at :33 seconds I was looking straight up. The object was very high up. It flew from east to west(many miles) in seconds. I’m not sure what bird or bat you can that flies that fast but you got it mate. If you google the common bats to Chicago closer to lake Michigan it will tell you they only fly around 6-100 feet. We both can agree the object is higher than that. My condos balcony in that same clip is 3 stories high which is roughly 40-60 feet. I cannot convince you of anything. I can send anyone the raw footage if they want to see it and pull it up on something larger than our phones.
Unless you actually know how high it is, you can't know how far it traveled. You're guessing it's at very high altitude.. Obviously I disagree with that.
This looks like a bird/bat chasing insects. https://imgur.com/KVrdA7o
That looks like a very high object doing circles. Then shooting off very far
Nice catch. I agree, seems too erratic with random acceleration for it to be a bat or bird.
i disagree, they can turn on a dime. especially small ones.
Sure, but I don’t think they’d have as much of a stuttering acceleration. Hard to say one way or another.
they have to be able to catch insects like mosquitos. They need to be able to basically match their agility.
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Yeah they don’t have any of those in the hood my boy. And also, they still have lights that have to abide by the fan or it ain’t happening mate.
So we go from bats to birds now to human tech. I feel you guys. Thanks. But I’m aware of what I witnessed. What i experienced multiple times. Not here to argue or debate. Just here to display some cool findings. I’ll have my guy analyze it and gather some actual height and speed data and post in youtube soon. Cheers mate
I’ve seen something extremely similar to this before in the night sky. I took off work early with a friend and we went out away from town, in a spot that is pretty secluded. We were watching the night sky, and saw what we thought were stars start moving at rapid speeds across the sky and start flashing blue, red, or white. There were three, and after about 20 minutes of them zipping around and rapidly changing direction, two changed color, one to blue, one to red, and the red one began chasing the blue one amazingly fast across the sky. There was also a fourth one that was bright orange, my friend and I thinking it a star at first, until it started moving almost in a circle, staying in the same spot despite the stars moving, for about an hour before it zipped away and disappeared after the other two chased each other and disappeared.
It looks like the footage is sped up. Not because of how the light moves, but how the camera moves to follow it. I know sped up footage when i see it. Do you have straight out of camera clips avaliable for download?
Way too fast to be drones!!
There’s drones that can fly really fast that are used for racing around obstacles. Those are really super fast.
Luke Maximo Bell's Custom Drones: Holds recent unofficial records with speeds over 360 mph (585 km/h) using custom builds like "Peraggreen 3," showcasing rapid innovation in the field.
DRL Racer X: Once held the Guinness World Record at 163.5 mph, a benchmark for professional racing drones built by the Drone Racing League.
XLR V3: A previous Guinness World Record holder, reaching speeds of 224 mph officially, demonstrating peak performance.
Yeah my boy flys them. And they cannot make maneuvers like this and at that altitude. These things are flying near altostratus clouds. 10-20,000 feet. I’ve seen these drones you speak of in person. I work with videographers who look for the best hardware for their craft. And these, sir, are not fvp drones.
Wait! My bad, I meant the one that he says is a satellite but satellites don’t have blinking lights.
Way too high and way too agile.
I totally agree. There are fast drones, but none of them can go that high up and move like that.
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Naw they looking for chupis
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