UPDATE: 06/28/07

I haven't captured any more as of this date.

I'm still weeding through the 33 clips to

compile the best of them. Could take awhile when time allows.

Update:

I finished the compilation of the best out of the 33 clips.

This one is all enhanced only segments.

At 20 seconds the one traveling down makes a turn

before it reaches the bottom of the screen.

The segment at 23 to 42 seconds is one clip with at least 4

objects at different distances going in different directions at different speeds.

All of these have also been slowed down to 1/4 to 1/10 speed.

Here's another compilation with some the left-over captures from the 33 clips.

Some of the better ones from the first compilation are included.

All of these are also enhanced only segments.

Some are from the same clip showing them at different distances again,

going at different speeds and directions.

After analyzing some of the new extracted frames, the hole seems to open and close

a little and undulate within the circle. I'm not discounting the possibility

that these may be live entities of some kind.

Bird Drops Dead In Mid-Flight

Something else I've never seen before.

It's about 3-5 miles out, over the bay and about 1000

feet altitude, basing that on the angle of the scope.

We have three large birds prevalent to the area.

Seagulls (Wharf Gulls being the largest), Crows that get a half times

larger than the gulls and Sea Hawks about the size of the Crows.

Pelicans seem to have disappeared over the years.

This looks like a Crow to me. It's wings seem limp and is flipping the bird

over in erratic tumbles from air resistance. What knocked it out of the sky?

I saw this on the screen and looked up and didn't see any planes.

And the 30 second clip had 13 more seconds that didn't show a predator following it down.

I emailed it to the Ornithologist Society and I'm waiting for a reply. (update below video)

Update:

I received a reply from a person at the society who wishes to remain anonymous.

(understandable considering the subject of some pages)

I always ask for permission to quote anyone and have the party check out the site first. This is the reply:

"That is an interesting video. Birds drop from the sky all the time, although I've never witnessed it or even seen a video of it, until you sent yours.

Birds must (obviously) die at some point, and it's not unusual for them to die while in flight or to succumb to an illness while flying and lose their ability to fly, resulting in death upon impact with the ground or drowning in the ocean.

These scenarios are probably especially true for birds that spend much of their time in flight, such as sea birds.

The comparable situation is when a person keels over while walking down the street, one doesn't witness it very often, but it certainly happens all the time".