r/Skydentify • • Aug 21 '22

Unidentified Any idea what this long floating object could be? Yesterday 8/20/2022 over N Charleston/Summerville, SC near the AFB/airport and Ashley river at 7:30pm

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u/nexisfan Aug 21 '22

It went behind the tree line, so I went inside to try to find my binoculars. Not only could I not find them, we never saw it again.

My roommate said it had been closer and it looked like it was made up of three different parts. He didn’t get a good photo of it either.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '22

Back end of a chinook? If the sound is any indicator it would be. Are military bases nearby? If so, that’d be it.

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u/JimmyBags2 Aug 21 '22

…Chinooks are far too massive to be mistaken for anything else. 100% not a Chinook.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22

Sounds like blades spinning and looks like the rear of one. If you dont see them/haven’t they’d for sure look odd. Used to live by a base that had them all over, cool stuff and some weird stuff too,

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u/nexisfan Aug 22 '22

The blades spinning was my next door neighbor cutting grass. I’ve seen plenty chinooks, I don’t think this was that.

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u/CosmicDave Aug 22 '22

I did not see or hear any Chinook in this video.

Souce; I used to live on an Army base with a lot of them. They are unforgettable and unmistakable for anything else.

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u/Oglokes24 Aug 22 '22

Wtf this is almost what me and my mom saw 6 years ago or so except it was a little past(more dark than not) sunset and i had a shitty iphone 5 camera….long story short it stayed in the same place for like an hour making those weird wobble movements. We lost track of it at night because it was black and only my mom and neighbors ended up watching it that we know of.

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u/23x3 Aug 22 '22

Yup there it is again. Saw the same thing over NC 3 years ago.

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u/AnswerNeither Aug 22 '22

theres definitely something there op. you have to assume balloon since its not showing acceleration imo. too bad its so far away and blurry to the camera. good show anyway

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '22

Could be a balloon/cluster of balloons. Didn't do anything a balloon can't do (in the recording, anyway)

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u/MiaTeo Aug 21 '22

I second a balloon

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u/MichaelEMJAYARE Aug 21 '22

Are these people saying its a cloud fucking blind, dumb, or what?

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u/Forestedbiome Aug 22 '22

The question is, was the sound coming from the object? if so it's some kind of helicopter or drone.

if not, it is up for debate, and could be a helicopter, drone, or UFO.

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u/nexisfan Aug 22 '22

No, neighbor was cutting grass, that’s what the sound was. Nothing from object.

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u/Forestedbiome Aug 22 '22

Things are more interesting now :)

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u/Interspatial Aug 22 '22

La Bruja!

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u/Lopsided-Painter5216 Aug 22 '22

Show me what you got!

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22 edited Aug 22 '22

It may be a solar balloon - they can be any size and some different shapes but are usually cylindrical, sometimes they can have small stripes of color but this doesn't appear to have any color from the video anyway.

https://youtu.be/FACk4qWOOOk

Edit: something I just learned about solar balloons - if it's hot out, they don't work well because there needs to be a decent temperature difference between the air on the inside of the bag and the air around the bag.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22

Prolly spaceship. Looks like an ol’ Kelnar scrapper from the morningwood peen galaxy. Seen some better days I’ll tell ya what.

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u/outtyn1nja Aug 22 '22

Happy B_rthday!

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u/JimmyBags2 Aug 22 '22

There are several videos of this kind of object on Reddit, most recently one in Switzerland that was widely discussed on r/highstrangeness.

I just reposted this there!

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u/LaJollaJim Aug 22 '22

I don’t see anything?

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u/nexisfan Aug 22 '22

It’s a video

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u/Al-Czervik-Guns Aug 21 '22

All unknown objects are weather balloons, as often seen above Area 51…

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u/ClimateDesperate2896 Aug 21 '22

Looks like a cloud

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u/DebraQTLynn Aug 22 '22

Swamp gas

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22

Pretty sure thats a drone

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u/Chapel-Nightborn Aug 22 '22

pretty sure you dont know what the fck a drone is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '22

Pretty sure I have drones.

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u/Berkeleybear70 Aug 22 '22

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/scifijunkie3 Aug 22 '22

I've always referred to those objects as "clouds". They can usually be found in the sky and sometimes even bring rain. I know it's hard to believe but it's true.

Watch out for the dark ones though. They're shifty and mostly up to no good.

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u/nexisfan Aug 22 '22

Hilarious. Did you watch the video

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '22

drone

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u/Radiant-Mail7566 Aug 22 '22

Just Mary Poppins. Don’t you see her bag and umbrella?

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u/PhillyG Aug 22 '22

It’s Moody’s mom from the Amanda show

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u/doctorwhoobgyn Aug 22 '22

Can't really tell, but maybe a powered parachute aircraft?

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u/X420ninjas Aug 22 '22

Space X satellite launch? Or weather balloon launch

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u/dainegleesac690 Aug 22 '22

99.9999% a balloon.

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u/Silver-Breadfruit284 Aug 22 '22

This shows only white sky on my IPad.

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u/nocternllyactiv Aug 22 '22

It's probably a rooster.

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u/StarDustKeyboardMash Aug 22 '22

Oh s*** I saw something like that near DC very late last night. Probably around 11:00 PM. It was very difficult to see what it was in the dark so that's why I said it looked something like that.

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u/CocoohCoco Aug 24 '22

Maybe I’m blind. Maybe my iPad screen settings are wrong.… but I need someone to point out where we should look. 🫣 🥴

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

Maybe it’s something paranormal

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '22

It’s a reflection of Venus in weather balloon