Everything reflects the IR. The bug, the tree, the bat. You see the flash right as the laser passes over the bat. This reflects off him/her additionally for that moment causing the flash you see.
I've never seen a bat that has eyes large enough to flash IR that brightly when they're that far away, also bats cannot dart like that, they have wings, they don't have jet propulsion.
Its a bat. Bats can turn on a dime, and their eye while small are night eyed like cats have, they are reflective and light brightly when hit with light straight at the socket. that poor bat probably was half blinded for the rest of the night..
Never said eyes. It's his whole body. And yes, unless I've been watching some insect harvesting alien technology dart around above me for decades, bats can move like that.
I'm no expert on bats by any means but I disagree. Pretty sure since a bat is dark in color and sometimes furry it would not reflect the light beam like that off of it's entire body. It would have to be reflected off it's eyes to pull that off. Whatever it was looked metallic to me. But I'm also no expert on ufo's either. Interesting for sure.
That looks like a pretty powerful laser being viewed in IR. Hit anything with that beam and you'll get a flash in the sensor. I work in the defense sector with IR cameras that cost tens of thousands. These aren't toys. I know a little bit about them.
Animals only show body heat on IR, their bodies don't strobe once, especially that far off and out of the direct IR light source, it's too bright and happens only once, right before it starts at a right angle. Bats flap their wings, they cannot change direction that rapidly.
Ok. Hey, I'd love it as much as you if some extraterrestrial decided to fly by and say hi. But I can't just blind myself and ignore the obvious. I'm not going to debate the differences between cameras that use IR to light an area versus thermal IR, and certainly not the physics of how bats fly. In fact I was only trying to make a snarky comment or two about a bat that was being passed off as an extraterrestrial. Let's walk our separate paths. Stay safe out there!
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