Each object below was located by hand-tagging its position across a clip, then locked frame-by-frame and processed three ways: isolated from the scene, played back at fixed position, and combined by super-resolution or lucky-imaging. The point is to show what this analysis can and cannot recover — not to assert what the objects are.
Honest limits: isolation cleanly removes a uniform background (sky/sea); over terrain or where HUD graphics overlap the object, the scene can’t be fully separated. Faster playback can reveal temporal structure (rotation, pulsation, periodicity) but adds no spatial resolution — a blur stays a blur. These are lossy single-band infrared frames; absolute size, temperature and distance remain out of reach.
Round orb — resolved over desert
DOD_111720883 · 150 frames locked
Round orb, clean desert pass — the highest-quality view of this object in the corpus. Once the sensor crosses off the cluttered terrain onto uniform desert it resolves: a single lucky frame (the form varies frame-to-frame, so stacking blurs it) shows a dark, cooler-reading rounded body with a compact bright, hotter-reading core — internal thermal structure, not a uniform blob. Genuinely resolved here (finite angular extent). Limits still hold: IR brightness is not temperature, a single view gives no absolute size, and no surface markings are visible. A later, more distant pass (~150-196s) shows the same object as an unresolved bright point.
The clean desert pass, magnified and centred on the object. A cool (dark) round body with a compact hot (bright) core is visible directly. False-colour is a perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature; the apparent diameter grows slowly as range closes, and no periodic rotation or pulsing survives testing.
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 74 tags over 216s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 112 frames kept, 38 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111720883 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Angular extended object
DOD_111719800 · 718 frames locked
The one extended, non-round object — angular/diamond form, broader top + notched base. Silhouette varies frame-to-frame (rotation/aspect).
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 275 tags over 644s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 501 frames kept, 227 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111719800 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Winged silhouette
DOD_111688816 · 140 frames locked
The winged silhouette — a small bright form with two protrusions; among the more distinctive point-source shapes, though at ~10 px it stays near the resolving limit.
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 15 tags over 28s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 120 frames kept, 20 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111688816 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Dark elongated object
DOD_111689133 · 48 frames locked
Dark elongated object tracked inside the reticle gate (black-hot); compact, no internal structure resolved.
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 5 tags over 8s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 40 frames kept, 8 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111689133 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Compact bright source
DOD_111720827 · 140 frames locked
Largest of the remaining unresolved objects (~28 px). A compact bright source; the extra pixels do not resolve internal structure.
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 12 tags over 28s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 85 frames kept, 55 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111720827 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Bright point over terrain
DOD_111689030 · 352 frames locked
Bright compact source over terrain (~15 px); no resolvable airframe, rotor or exhaust.
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 39 tags over 88s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 248 frames kept, 104 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111689030 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Compact point source
DOD_111719809 · 280 frames locked
Compact thermal point source, actively sensor-tracked. No resolvable structure; stays a blob (resolution-limited).
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 120 tags over 258s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 168 frames kept, 112 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111719809 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Trailing object
DOD_111719709 · 48 frames locked
Short clip: a dark compact core with a one-sided bright extension. The trailing emission reads as along-track smear, not a clean exhaust plume (see the asymmetry test).
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 5 tags over 8s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 33 frames kept, 15 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour
DOD_111719709 — stabilised, false-colour (perceptual, not temperature)
Stabilised isolate, false-colour — perceptual remap, not calibrated temperature
Comet-trail object
DOD_111719726 · 944 frames locked
A bright object that brightens and trails at points in the clip; its form varies frame-to-frame. Watch the fixed-position playback for whether the trail is coherent.
speed
Fixed-position playback — object centred, scene moving behind it. Speed it up to test whether the form-change is coherent (rotation) or random shimmer.
Isolated still · combined (super-resolution / lucky-imaging) — click to zoom
Apparent path across the sensor frame · 115 tags over 236s · start → end. Gimbal/operator-relative — shows maneuvering relative to the aim, not a trajectory through space.
Experiment · stabilised + cleanedobject centroid-locked to centre · 557 frames kept, 387 missed-lock frames dropped · toggle false-colour