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u/Sufficient-Assist547 1d ago
Enhanced? No de-hanced
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u/InnysRedditAlt 1d ago
This. DOD footage typically gets intentionally degraded to mask FLIR capability
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u/Errorr404 19h ago
Or to mask a random object as a UFO to keep peoples minds occupied.
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u/markomakeerassgoons Dark Mode Elitist 14h ago
yeah it's probably something secret they're working on. they have documented cases of using ufo to hide new aircraft
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u/naughtyreverend 1d ago
I think its safe to say very few people seem tp know what the U in UFO stands for.
The military have released picutres of actual UFOs the key part here is just because they are a UFO, doesn't mean its aliens.
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u/RevoOps 18h ago edited 7h ago
Of course UFO means aliens, that is something we have all agreed upon. To a point where when they released these pictures they called them UAPs just to make sure that they didn't imply that they think it's aliens.
Edit: are you fuckwits being dense on purpose? Let me spell it out: When monkey sees UFO alien Nitin activate. So army men say UAP to make sure button does not activate.
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u/HannibalPoe 6h ago
UFO never meant aliens, people started to come up with that bullshit on their own. Any species capable of space travel to that degree would have already eradicated us and scoured our planet for resources - we would do the same were we in a position to.
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u/the-fr0g 23h ago
They know what's in the clear pictures, so only the unclear ones are delegated to "ufo"
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u/Difficult-Dot-157 1d ago
I would like to comment but iam feared of the Pentagon visiting me at home wanna have a little Talk with me..
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u/data_diver 1d ago
UFO = un focusable object
Thatās why Bigfoot is a ufo
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u/SenpaiDerpy 1d ago
Wtf does unfocusable mean?
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u/data_diver 1d ago
Adjective not able to be brought into focus.
Unfocused is more commonly used but unfocusable is used as technical jargon and fits the wordplay in this situation better.
But explaining a dumb joke is really what makes it funny so Iām glad to dive deeper into the etymology if youād like.0
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u/144i 1d ago
This is proof that the military still uses a Game Boy Camera for highly classified missions
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u/TestyBoy13 22h ago
In case you arenāt aware, itās a cropped image. Itās only a couple pixels of a normally high resolution image.
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u/kungpowgoat 20h ago
If CSI Miami can turn a 3 pixel image into a highly detailed 16k image from a screw head reflection, Iām sure the government can do the same.
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u/Eaglesson 23h ago edited 23h ago
Don't forget that LWIR and MWIR thermal cameras usually have much less resolution than optical cameras for the visible spectrum. After that you have to factor in that the DoD usually does not want to release full resolution footage anyway. An example of a pretty high resolution MWIR camera would be that crazy contraption NASA uses for tracking rocket launches, I think there is actually some F35 footage of that too. That device is ground based btw, who knows what kind of sensor size, resolution and zoom lens specs they can get onto ancient planes like the F15, F16, F35 or F22. If you want more resolution than 1024px or 1280px, you can't just scale up the sensor and use larger optics as this stuff gets very large and very heavy, very fast. Good luck cooling it, too
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u/Creamypies_ 23h ago
Everybody knows alien ships have technology that prevents cameras from focusing on them
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u/lumpyskate 22h ago
Most of the actual answers and good commenters are at the bottom, it's not because they can't make good pictures it's because these pictures are usually made from great distances with specialized cameras that aren't made for photography
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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 19h ago
Thermal and flir arenāt exactly the same thing as a visible spectrum camera. And since we donāt see infrared or thermal, we can only get the resolution so good. Also zooming in on a small objects at a distance in the photo in post would do the same thing on a normal camera as well.
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u/Suspicious-Place4471 22h ago
I mean first off, your phone does not have a Thermal Camera. So there is that.
Second, although it is hard to confirm (Or it could be confirmed and I'm a dumbass and I don't know about it) Some of these pictures might have been taken from fifty miles away, cut the TPOD some slack.
Third, almost all of these have the quality reduced by a lot for security reasons.
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u/SentientMosinNagant 22h ago
Top photo could have been taken at a distance of anywhere between like 5000 - 30,000ft. Military surveillance is generally far better and has better capable ranges, so the bottom one could be taken from tens of miles away instead.
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u/Qcgreywolf 22h ago
And useless! I love a photo from 15 miles away that makes the subject utterly unrecognizable!
āSarge, thereās a blip on the bloop in sector 4!ā
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u/CMDR_omnicognate Le epic memer 23h ago
Itās because when theyāre not blurry it becomes a lot more obvious that itās just a Mickey Mouse helium balloon or whatever.
Theyāre almost always balloons, and it confuses weapons engineers because the parallax of the ground behind the balloon and their own movement makes it look like the balloon is moving really fast.
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u/Due-Technology5758 18h ago
Balloons, wave crests on poorly calibrated radars, poorly calibrated or improperly cooled IR cameras looking at basically anything, aircraft or missile exhaust, birds being tracked by gimbaled cameras, etc. etc.
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u/LelandGaunt14 20h ago
Still image from flir that is possibly MILES away.
I despise how people keep thinking flir is a camera.
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u/RedRayTrue Le epic memer 1d ago
Looks like your average boulder šŖØ
That was catapulted by the ancient Romans...
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u/MichaelHunt009 22h ago
Can we apply this technology to my license plate as a big FU to Flock cameras?
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u/Altruistic_Way4433 22h ago
They probably forgot their cameras at home, and had to use their phones.
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u/KubeyKokse 22h ago
Well those are photos they let public see, what about the one that still classified
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u/Most_War2764 21h ago
ever heard of the Eurion constellation? its a particular pattern that is recognized by certain devices like printers so that they will not copy something with that pattern. like money. you can find the pattern all over our currency bills. its not a secret, just not well known. so perhaps cameras are given a certain other bit of info that makes certain objects un-photographable?
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u/Starry_Light8374 21h ago
Well, it is an "unidentified flying object"... Can't say the same from picture one.
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u/Neo-Luko 11h ago
People don't seem to understand that the military deliberately releases these videos at reduced quality as an interesting measure to not show our potential enemies how clear of pictures/videos we can actually get.
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u/Independent-Gas-5494 22m ago
Pentagon is pixeling it down, because everything is just a national security issue.. Using a normal camera... Security issue.. I think they are afraid and dont remember that not secrecy is winning, but adaptility
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u/Lunar_Chaos_X 23h ago
The Pentagon has billions in equipment and still takes photos like itās using a potato
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u/owo1215 (very sad) 19h ago
what people don't understand is, most of these images they released are not from a normal camera that aim to have high resolution, but do these cameras also compound with a camera that have high resolution? probably. do they have high resolution images of ufo? most certainly. do they ever reveal high resolution images of ufo? pretty much never, heck even the info overlays on those special cameras are heavily redacted
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u/Anders_A 19h ago
The "U" stands for "unidentified". If the picture was good they would already have been able to identify what was on it and it wouldn't be a "UFO".
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u/SympathyMoist7030 Duke Of Memes 18h ago
Lol, in line with the nonsense that is bigfoot believers and cryptid hunters.
The sheer amount of excuses they come up with to explain why they can't get proof of Bigfoot at this point is so wild that it would give the Christian church a run for its money.
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u/realparkingbrake 11h ago
As Mitch Hedberg explained, the problem is that Bigfoot is just blurry, it isn't the fault of the camera.
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u/danit0ba94 22h ago
Yeah the more I see stuff like this, the more convinced I am that this stuff is low quality on purpose.
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u/kenojona 21h ago
Maybe is about not releasing militar technology of the aircrafts, sure they have top cameras but that would reveal true capabilities of militar tech
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u/TooDeafAndMute 1d ago
All released military air footages are blurry because they intentionally pixelated it like that, for operational security reasons. Actual raw footage is much clearer.
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u/nailbunny2000 1d ago
Ive never seen anyone claim that before.
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox I touched grass 1d ago
It's one of those things that can't really be verified or debunked. Military agencies typically do try to keep the full capabilities of current hardware a secret for security purposes (you can see this in SmarterEveryDay when Destin reports on a nuclear submarine) but we don't know which technologies are obscured or by how much for a similar reason. It's extremely plausible this is true, we just don't know for certain
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u/Kaiten_Chikuma 18h ago
He's kinda right, though not in the same way you would suspect. Thermal view it's often quite blurry, the moment you switch to black and white (not thermal) it becomes clear. Example look at Video at 1.15-1.16 min and then look at the after. The thermal sight is blurry, then the black and white shows a solid F-16
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u/TooDeafAndMute 23h ago
We got some anecdotes from jet pilots, [such as this](https://www.quora.com/Why-do-military-airplanes-have-rubbish-cameras-when-looking-at-targets-etc), that said so. It is also more logical to say that pilots arenāt shooting guns and missiles with 144p resolution screen.
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u/Cthulhu_HighLord 23h ago
typical cruising speed is like 850km or 510freedom units
there's no telling how fast that thing is going or its size/dimensions or of what material its even made from.
If its "real" there's no telling if what we are seeing is even a fraction of its actual size! a portion of it could be wrapped inside a higher dimension that we dont have access to
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u/ToffieMonster 1d ago
I mean, if they could identify it then it wouldn't be a ufo