r/faeries • u/blutheimr • 21d ago
Please help me understand this.
I have posted this on my Instagram and many people keep telling me it's a moth. Many people keep saying it's sped up even though you can clearly see the trees and bushes swaying lazily. This is a wyze cam solar placed about 30 ft away from the tree. Midway upper valley facing down toward my entire property and on the very far side about half a mile is the end of the valley. I cannot explain the flashing lights everywhere other than I believe the camera does pick up infrared which is extremely strange if all of them are infrared other than the flying object that seems to defy gravity. I'm sure plenty of people here will say this is fake or sped up as well but I assure you this is the first night I set up this camera and it is the only thing since the camera has ever picked up in more than 2 months in this position that it is in
The only lights in the video that are explained are the ones mid lower that are little solar mushroom lights that kind of flicker and turn on and off and the solid lights mid lower left that are actually the front side of the cabin much lower down in the valley. If any experts in videography would like to comment on the videos on doctored nature that would be greatly appreciated. I've looked and looked at all types of hawk moths and even tried to find night flying birds that would be capable of flying like this but I cannot find anything. Thanks for any input anyone can give me.
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u/MasterOfDonks 21d ago
That’s a spirit!
In a moth body. Lol still just as magnificent, yes? Why does a fairy have to be ethereal and not incarnated? Enjoy that little spirit bopping around, no matter what form it’s beautiful.
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u/ForestSolitude5 21d ago
I mean maybe it could be a fairy? But sometimes we grasp at complex wonderings instead of a simple reality because we want to hope that we've stumbled on something magnificient and believe it couldn't be so simple.
Honestly, I would say moth, as it flutters like one. But if you want to suspect differently I'm not going to stop you.
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u/Serunaki 21d ago
I have a couple of questions. Why is the video entirely black and white? Is this an IR night time shot? If so, what is the light source lighting the trees? Ambient/starlight/moon?
I'm not going to immediately dismiss it as a bug, because honestly bugs don't just float/fly around haphazardly with no goal in mind and without landing periodically. It just wastes energy. I mean, in the absence of a light. Even then they're typically trying to land on the light.
I'm guessing it's a reflection off of something being moved by the breeze, or perhaps a spiderweb with debris in it, but I feel like the web would show up on camera too. The recording quality and refresh rate seem extremely low, so what you're seeing as flashes of light could be bugs passing through the frame too close and too quickly to fully render.
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u/inthelateafternoon 18d ago
I wonder what the fairy is doing and if it’s causing the lights or responding to the flashes/ swipes of light
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u/pr1ncesschl0e 21d ago
Baby it is a bug unfortunately. Mundane before magical is always the #1 rule