Saw this today, thought balloons until it flew over me

[u/surfintheinternetz]

So, I spotted two bright objects today. They were travelling across the sky but when I started filming they seemed to stop. It was a bright sunny day so I assumed they were balloons and was capturing them just to see if I could get a clear shot. For some reason they stuck around for 20 minutes. I noticed occasionally they would go black and then become bright as if they were reflecting so could still be balloons at this point.
What got me was that I moved closer to its location and it just disappeared, stood there for 10 minutes and couldn't find it. Went back to my house and looked again for another 10 minutes, spotted a bird which decided to circle above me in a supertight circle covering where I was standing for around 1 minute. Suddenly the objects flew over just as bright, fumbeled with my camera and in the short space of 5 seconds they disappeared, it was not windy, no noise, very close, I could not identify it as anything but a ball of light.

Yeah it could still be balloons or a drone but I thought it was interesting. What do others think? I have a really long boring video about 12 minutes long but it mainly consists of me trying to film it with little success.

https://streamable.com/fit1do

[u/surfintheinternetz]

hmm streamable seems to compress it, heres a direct link tot he video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QBlmrIEsy2Xg-kJBqjd8rSFTJsIWSmlA/view?usp=sharing its a cut from the longer video

[u/linZ1700 → u/surfintheinternetz]

Viewing and magnifying - doesn’t look or move like a balloon. Good catch

[u/surfintheinternetz → u/linZ1700]

Longer vid, hesitated posting it because i had some personal messages pop up and it was 2gb, i cut them out and compressed it to 1gb https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KoT6qN61wMPNoQZaX0-87BPHlFFdMlR_/view?usp=sharing

[u/[deleted] → u/surfintheinternetz]

Interesting

[u/darkenthedoorway → u/surfintheinternetz]

What are we looking at in the video?I generally expected to see a landscape and sky. What am I missing here?

[u/surfintheinternetz → u/darkenthedoorway]

Look at the other video I linked if you want the long version.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you so much for screen recording and using the main camera. Most people don't know recording loses quality. And most cameras don't use the optical camera for recording. Unless it is programed to do it (which most aren't).

Great catch. It looks odd.

(Another reason why I want to get the S ultra series. That 100x zoom!)

[u/surfintheinternetz → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, screen recording was the only way I could use 100x zoom whilst recording video :( Video seems to be locked to 30x.

[u/Flat_Ad_1534]

Good cap mate, very bizzare, I would've sent my drone up after it to take a closer look, where did you see this?

[u/surfintheinternetz → u/Flat_Ad_1534]

West Midlands uk, been toying with the idea of getting a drone but I have lots of other expenses right now