Floating "blob" on barn cam video. What is it?

tman1020 · Dec 19, 2014

I think it's a spider that is wrapping up his latest catch in his web

ovrszd · Dec 19, 2014

This definitely needs to be posted on the current "UFO... what do you think" thread that's running rampantly. It would qualify.

milkman636 · Dec 19, 2014

ovrszd said:
This definitely needs to be posted on the current "UFO... what do you think" thread that's running rampantly. It would qualify.

........or maybe it's the spawn of a new pallet formation???????

PapaPerk · Dec 19, 2014

ovrszd said:
This definitely needs to be posted on the current "UFO... what do you think" thread that's running rampantly. It would qualify.

I certainly agree!

Very odd video! If it's water... Why is it moving upward and fluctuating in shape so much?!

It would certainly be easy to simulate the water hypothesis by putting a water droplet on the lens. (0:

KiotiKowboy · Dec 19, 2014

PapaPerk said:
I certainly agree!

If it's water... Why is it moving upward and fluctuating in shape so much?!

A breeze

tman1020 · Dec 19, 2014

It's not on the lens the light is wrong. It is out far enough for the ir flash to illuminate.

Logan · Dec 20, 2014

CNN would call it a policeman beating a nun with the butt of his shotgun because he thought she was a black nun.

PapaPerk · Dec 20, 2014

KiotiKowboy said:
A breeze

That's one heck of a breeze! If you look carefully it appears that it is snowing or raining. If it was that breezy the rain drops wouldn't be falling straight down would they?

PapaPerk · Dec 20, 2014

lhfarm said:
http://youtu.be/dRomVn1nWbU

Was looking through the security files today and saw this little clip from one of the barn security cams. Below is the normal boring view. Any ideas of what might have caused the "blob"?

You should try to recreate this by placing a drop of water on the lens.

lhfarm · Dec 20, 2014

PapaPerk said:
You should try to recreate this by placing a drop of water on the lens.

Would be hard to do, to get the same conditions. The camera is mounted on the front of the barn and maybe 11' or so high. Pointed downward and in a southeasterly direction. It does have a lens hood. Guess I could point a spray bottle at it and see what happens.

We don't get a lot of weather from the SE, but the clip does show the rain/snow being blown from that direction. It could be an ice pellet stuck to something, just don't get the upward movement.