Pro tip: Try the infrared camera trick for finding UFOs at night

I spent three years staring at the sky with binoculars and saw nothing. Then last fall I borrowed a friend's FLIR thermal camera and pointed it at a field near my house in Tucson. Within 20 minutes I caught a shape that was way too hot and moving way too fast for a coyote or a deer. The thing climbed straight up and vanished above the clouds. Has anyone else tried thermal imaging for this or is that just a lucky fluke?

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aaronsullivan1mo agoMost Upvoted

One did a 90 degree turn at a speed no drone can match." Whoa, hold up. That part about the 90 degree turn gave me chills. I've seen videos of military drones and they can't pull that off either. That's some physics-breaking stuff right there. Makes you wonder what the hell is actually out there when things can just change direction on a dime like that.

irisowens1mo ago

Tried the same thing last year. Borrowed a thermal monocular from a friend and scanned the hills behind my place in New Mexico. Caught three objects in one night that were way too hot to be birds and moved with no sound. One did a 90 degree turn at a speed no drone can match. It works because heat signatures don't lie like eyeballs do. Keep doing it, you're onto something.

samk771mo ago

Woah, thermal doesn't really work through clouds though, clouds block heat signatures.