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The $85 dome camera that saw right through the plasma ball hoax
Back in 2019 I got into the whole drone footage of strange lights over Phoenix thing. Spent $85 on a cheap dome camera with night vision to try and capture my own evidence from my backyard. Figured if I could catch something weird on a low light sensor it would prove the tech was real. Instead I ended up recording a neighbor kid playing with a plasma ball through his window, which looked exactly like the 'orb' videos people swear are alien. The distortion from the dome lens made it look like the thing was bending space, honestly fooled me for a full day. So that camera saved me from sending my own fake clip into this forum, but it also burned me into trusting anything shot on a wide angle lens going forward. Anyone else ever spend cash on gear that ended up debunking the very thing you hoped it would prove?
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pat7811mo ago
Reckon the real lesson here isnt about cameras at all, its about how badly we want the mystery to be real. We buy gear hoping it'll prove we're special, but the cheap stuff just shows us how boring normal physics can be. The plasma ball thing hit home for me when I pointed an old webcam at my own reflection in a chrome toaster. Same bendy light effect, zero aliens, just my dumb face staring back. That $85 was probably the best money you ever spent, saved you from becoming the forum's laughingstock. Trust nothing with a wide lens until you've pointed it at a streetlight first.
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