By Tom Rose
February 14, 2012 06:45 PM EST
A UFO video has popped up on YouTube with a slightly suspicious origin, but nevertheless has enough going for it to ask the question: what is it?
Some of the tip-offs include a YouTube user who has posted other unidentified flying object videos in the past and the fact that the UFO in question is merely a streak of light obscured by a cloudy day over Troy, Michigan.
There's no audio on the video, and the camera is locked down at tire level in a nondescript parking lot. Don't most of these videos suffer from shaky-hand syndrome? In fact, for more than half the video, it appears as if the scene is actually a still photo with some trickery added.
But then traffic in the area starts to move, and it's clear that the scene is videotaped and not a static picture. Then it comes to the OVNI itself.
A spherical streak of light flies across the sky, making a straight line through the horizon. Easy enough to fake, perhaps, but it doesn't explain what the object is. It does rule out what it isn't, though.
It isn't a plane, jet, helicopter or Chinese lantern. It looks very much like a meteor, but it's flying too straight and even-keeled for that. So what is it?
