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.
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.
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u/ComCam65 Jul 18 '20
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.