Incredible Stabilized California Drone Video (A Must Watch)

In this 3 minute presentation, we will take a closer forensic look at this brief video footage that appears to show several UFOs in the sky. The video carries a brief description stating the footage was “Captured with a digital camera along highway 41 near Lemoore, CA. September 11th, 2009.” The original video was posted on Youtube on September 14th, 2009.

All I have done is taken a raw copy of the 16 seconds worth of footage and applied “Image Stabilization/Shake Reduction” and some other rudimentary enhancement techniques to it in an effort to improve the viewability of the scene. In these motion-corrected examples, I elected to use portions of the power/utility pole located in the foreground as the target feature to match and mount each successive frame of raw footage to. Because the utility pole is a known stable object and is visible throughout the duration of the scene, it serves as an excellent target feature to anchor each successive frame to.

In these stabilized enhancements, I elected to only correct for camera motion along the X and Y axises (up/down and left/right) because as you will see, the rotation influence of the camera in the footage is negligible and excluding those Z corrections does not negatively influence the interpretation of the scene. This presentation shows the original raw footage followed by multiple enhanced examples with “Image Stabilization/Shake Reduction” applied. Each example is labeled to inform the viewer of what other basic enhancements were applied - namely contrast enhancement, playback speed, and magnification criteria.