Tsunami Cryptid?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 13th, 2011
Do you see a Sea Serpent or watery cryptid in this video at the 2:06 minute mark, moving in the lower right hand corner? Click to watch it full screen.
The black object that goes from apparently near the shore to the right hand corner is quite obvious. But as opposed to a creature swimming rapidly away from the shore, it probably is a bird flying over the water, away from the land and out to sea. Similar imagery has been recorded for Loch Ness, which at first looks like it is an animal in the water but upon closer examination is seen to be a bird over the water.
Due to the probable aerial nature of the object, even a bird is not necessary to explain the object. It, no doubt, is a helicopter or the shadow of a helicopter.
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I think it’s a helicopter. Right shape and its trajectory is very straight.
I saw a lot of those watching various aerial footage of different areas and I think it’s either a bird or a helicopter
…or a helicopter’s shadow?
Just based on the speed alone it is probably a helicopter. Unless it is a supersonic cryptid – maybe a turbo-charged nessie.
Yeah, the dark spot moves too seamlessly across the water, and not through the water to be any animal like thing.
However this brought to mind a sighting (maybe WWI?–don’t have my books handy to check the dates) where a boat or u-boat went down and when it exploded a sea monster was supposedly thrown to the surface (yeah, that’s pretty vague on the details, but again, see above. :)).
And I would guess even sea going cryptids could get caught in tsunamis, though on the other hand, animals seem to have a much better handle on mother nature for sensing that kind of thing.
looks more like a shadow of an object moving overhead. If you watch it as its crosses over the water edges and beach edges, its image wavers. Consistent with a shadow cross over edges to me.
Yeah, helicopter shadow…that’s my first thought.
And in addition to that, it starts on land and then swiftly crosses the water without leaving any sort of wake or traces of water disturbance.