Why Can't Science Identify This Dragonfly-like Insect Emitting Strange Substance?

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The red-vein darter doesn't have a helmet like transformation just before flying though. How do you explain this in the OP video?
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What do you mean a helmet like transformation before flying? Did you ingested a hallucinogenic drug prior to viewing the video?
 
common_sense_seeker said:
Silent, Glowing Dragonfly-Shaped UFO Photographed Over Asheville, North Carolina
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So there was a reflective craft high up in the sky at jetliner height moving at jetliner speed. It seemed to be composed of two glowing/reflective wings joined by a less reflective body, with a vertical tail rising from it. Could be two things I guess:

1) A dragonfly UFO with a dragonfly pilot whose head expanded and contracted in and out of its helmet, and who ejects web-like glowing substances from its body

2) A jetliner

Which is the more likely explanation?

(If that answer does not satisfy, then do some mushrooms and ask yourself again.)
 
Captain Kremmen said:
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Looks a bit like this one. Brown Hawker, but the end of its tail is fatter.

The shape changer is just a bit of cobweb blowing in the wind.

Here's a really weird video I found when looking for cobwebs.
A graveyard with everything covered in sheets of cobwebs.
It is horrible.
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Okay, thanks for the intelligent response Captain. I think any dragonfly looks similar but the crucial differences are the three seen in the OP video.

(i) The two-pronged 'appendage' above it's back which appears just before the dynamic web-like structure and appears to detach from the body and transform into it
(ii) The bright white circle structure at the top of each compound eye to give a 'car headlight' appearance.
(iii) The eyes moving to the side and another double-domed eye structure coming up from between them before flight. This can be seen at 6:00secs.

These three unique characteristics makes it a new species imv, currently unknown to science.

P.S. Compare the two bright white circles near the top of the two bulging compound eyes with the image of the terrorizing entity depicted in this video reconstruction from eyewitness accounts: New Delhi Helmeted Bugman
 
The video is blurred and shaky.
Where's my big rubber stamp?
Here it is.................

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Is there anybody on this site with a scientific degree qualification in biology perhaps? Entomology would be asking too much I'd imagine.
 
A giant dragonfly eyewitness account:

San Marcos, California

Wade stopped at the beach in Del Mar, California, on his way home from San Diego to San Marcos, on a lazy summer afternoon. He spent the rest of that June day surf fishing and arrived home after dark, around 9 p.m. “I relaxed, had a beer or two and went to my covered drive to clean my catch,” Wade said. “I completed that task and looked to the north at the rocky mountainside in the near distance.”

He didn’t expect to see what was there. “Above my neighbor’s homes across the street something was shimmering and moving rapidly side to side in a space of maybe 60 feet at 20 feet altitude,” Wade said. “I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me from the time earlier in the day when I spent time on the beach in the bright afternoon sun. I was wrong.”

Two shimmering, nearly transparent parallel lines about three-feet wide in the air moved silently and quickly side to side in the faint glow of a streetlight. “It was just wings and eyes,” he said. “The wings didn’t flap like a birds, it was more like a dragonfly, but dragonflies don’t grow three-foot wingspans, fly at night, or display what seemed to be some kind of intelligence like this thing did.”

The entity’s side-to-side movements encompassed about 60 feet in what Wade estimated was only a few seconds. Wade said the entity seemed to know he had seen it and it stopped in the air. “Whatever it was, it halted its side-to-side movement and seemed to focus on me,” he said.

Fear gripped Wade and he felt his hair rise from his scalp to his ankles. “I was sure it was a real thing, then I noticed the thing had big black eyes,” he said. “They weren’t friendly eyes at all.”

The entity quickly shot across the street toward Wade. He dropped to the pavement and it swooped over his head. “The thing was interested in me,” Wade said. “It was staring me down when it was across the street and either attacked or was trying to intimidate me, or who knows what, when it came at me.”

Wade moved from under the covered part of his drive to get a better look at the swooping thing. It was directly above his head. “I felt great fear,” Wade said. “I said to the thing out loud,’ I see you.’”

It moved again.

“It zipped back into view from the direction it had gone, and was looking directly down at me with the weird unblinking eyes,” he said. “It realized I was looking right at it, and it took off in a flash. It’s gone. For good, I hope.”
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You're ignoring the eyewitness account then?

P.S. A couple of interesting facts:
Of course, when griffenflies ruled the air they really ruled the air. Flying vertebrates, birds, bats, and pterosaurs, would not evolve for at least another 100,000,000 years, so the skies were free of more active fliers that might have preyed on griffenflies.
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A sub-species could have evolved to fly at night. This would have meant that it was free from the predation of early birds. It would have been too big for the later bats perhaps.

When you step on a cockroach, there is a pleasing crunchy sound, made by the compressing and cracking of the hard exoskeleton. However, the exoskeleton of insects is not always hard and not all parts are equally hard. In dragonflies it is the wings that are the most resilient body part and the part most likely to be fossilized.
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This softer outer-body would allow for trachea tube numbers to increase and the joints would still be flexible which isn't the case for maximum size of beetle development analysis.

Dragonflies can fly at speeds up to 35 miles an hour chasing prey or hover motionless over a pond. They can even fly backwards! Their large spherical eyes, covering most of their head, provide excellent vision for hunting prey --- mostly small flying insects (especially mosquitos) – by flying, catching them between their legs,and eating them on the run. Although they may live several years as an aquatic nymph, flying adults have a short life of between one and six months.
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This fits with cattle mutilation details which show that they are moved from the place of initial attack as well as UFOs flying forwards and backwards.

There are a few complete or nearly complete griffenflies that provide much information about the overall anatomy of the group. They have large, robust, toothed “jaws”, large spheroidal compound eyes, and strong legs with large spines. Their wings are large, strong, and directed sideways from the body. All these are dragonfly adaptations for aerial predation and griffenflies clearly had a similar lifestyle.
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A 29 inch wing span is damn big for an insect --- but not big enough for some. Although often repeated in the popular press, websites, and books, griffenflies NEVER achieved wingspans of FIVE or SIX feet. There is absolutely no evidence for that and such a size is almost certainly above the mechanical capabilities of the insect exoskeleton, especially for flight. Nevertheless the myth continues to be repeated as though it were a well established fact.
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The thick veins in the wings could be large to hold oxygenating-blood from fish and then mammals and not needed for flight if trachea-tube air propulsion had evolved!
 
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common_sense_seeker said:
“Above my neighbor’s homes across the street something was shimmering and moving rapidly side to side in a space of maybe 60 feet at 20 feet altitude,” Wade said. “I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me from the time earlier in the day when I spent time on the beach in the bright afternoon sun. I was wrong. "Two shimmering, nearly transparent parallel lines about three-feet wide in the air moved silently and quickly side to side in the faint glow of a streetlight. “It was just wings and eyes,” he said. “The wings didn’t flap like a birds, it was more like a dragonfly, but dragonflies don’t grow three-foot wingspans, fly at night, or display what seemed to be some kind of intelligence like this thing did.”
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Let's see. Flies at night, flaps wings rapidly, flies around streetlights where the bugs are, about a three foot wingspan. Swoops and dives, flies over his head, and appears more intelligent than an insect. I guess there are two options:

1) A dragonfly UFO with a dragonfly pilot whose head expanded and contracted in and out of its helmet, and who ejects web-like glowing substances from its body

2) A bat or an owl

Which one is more likely?
 
Here's an excellent site worth reading: THE MAGNIFICENT, GIANT (AND UNFORTUNATELY EXTINCT) GRIFFENFLIES, BOTH EARTHLY AND EXTRADIMENSIONAL and here The largest complete insect wing ever found

When Harvard curator of fossil insects Frank M. Carpenter dug up this wing in an Oklahoma prairie in 1940, he held a piece of the first evidence that insects had once been gigantic. The wing belonged to an ancestral dragonfly, Meganeuropsis americana, with a wingspan of almost two and a half feet.

This formidable creature lived during the Permian period, from 290 million to 248 million years ago, before birds existed, even before dinosaurs, when amphibians were the dominant life form. Parts of Oklahoma and Kansas were a tropical coastal wetland, alternately brackish and then fresh as the epeiric sea withdrew. Meganeuropsis swooped over the swamps, snatching insects from the air and seizing small amphibians. (Were it still extant, it would be a terror to mosquitoes.) The Permian ended abruptly with the greatest mass extinction ever known, perhaps caused by a blow to Earth by a comet or asteroid: 70 percent of all land dwellers were goners, Meganeuropsis among them.

Perched on the fossil wing, for a spot of color and to provide scale, are modern-day descendants known as Blue Darners or Southern Hawkers (Aeshna cyanea). Like others of their kin, they spent their larval stage in water, eating whatever they could get their mouths on. As adults, they could beat their two uncoupled pairs of wings independently, an ability that makes the dragonfly a marvel of flight engineering and a master of the air. It can pursue insect prey at high speeds (35 miles per hour or more, in some species). It can change course 180 degrees in a flash. It can hover.

The respiratory biology of the dragonfly, the way it diffuses oxygen through its body, puts an upper limit on body size, a limit Meganeuropsis appears to have ignored. A controversial theory scientists have proposed is that the Permian atmosphere must have been richer in oxygen than ours for this giant to fly; it could not have negotiated today’s thin air. This wing is at rest on permanent exhibit at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History.
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Here's another:

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Giant Frog/Alien Hybrid

Again notice the disappearing right side. Trying to avoid detection?
Also, the "Frog" is holding something to its ear.
Probably some communication device.
It is warning other Cryptofrogs to stay hidden.

Note its resemblance to this fossil from the early Cretaceous.
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You're still ignoring this as well as other first class sightings:

San Marcos, California

Wade stopped at the beach in Del Mar, California, on his way home from San Diego to San Marcos, on a lazy summer afternoon. He spent the rest of that June day surf fishing and arrived home after dark, around 9 p.m. “I relaxed, had a beer or two and went to my covered drive to clean my catch,” Wade said. “I completed that task and looked to the north at the rocky mountainside in the near distance.”

He didn’t expect to see what was there. “Above my neighbor’s homes across the street something was shimmering and moving rapidly side to side in a space of maybe 60 feet at 20 feet altitude,” Wade said. “I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me from the time earlier in the day when I spent time on the beach in the bright afternoon sun. I was wrong.”

Two shimmering, nearly transparent parallel lines about three-feet wide in the air moved silently and quickly side to side in the faint glow of a streetlight. “It was just wings and eyes,” he said. “The wings didn’t flap like a birds, it was more like a dragonfly, but dragonflies don’t grow three-foot wingspans, fly at night, or display what seemed to be some kind of intelligence like this thing did.”

The entity’s side-to-side movements encompassed about 60 feet in what Wade estimated was only a few seconds. Wade said the entity seemed to know he had seen it and it stopped in the air. “Whatever it was, it halted its side-to-side movement and seemed to focus on me,” he said.

Fear gripped Wade and he felt his hair rise from his scalp to his ankles. “I was sure it was a real thing, then I noticed the thing had big black eyes,” he said. “They weren’t friendly eyes at all.”

The entity quickly shot across the street toward Wade. He dropped to the pavement and it swooped over his head. “The thing was interested in me,” Wade said. “It was staring me down when it was across the street and either attacked or was trying to intimidate me, or who knows what, when it came at me.”

Wade moved from under the covered part of his drive to get a better look at the swooping thing. It was directly above his head. “I felt great fear,” Wade said. “I said to the thing out loud,’ I see you.’”

It moved again.

“It zipped back into view from the direction it had gone, and was looking directly down at me with the weird unblinking eyes,” he said. “It realized I was looking right at it, and it took off in a flash. It’s gone. For good, I hope.”
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That is either a sighting of a giant Dragonfly, or it is an hallucination.
I believe it is the latter.
 
Here is another one. The largest camel spiders have a leg span of about 5 inches so what the heck are these things?

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Well, they are camel spiders that look like, at first glance, that they are a big as a mans leg! But of course it is just a trick of depth perception in a photograph. If you look at the top right side of the picture you see the guys hand and sleeve that is holding the spiders. So the distance between the sleeve cuff and his arm is maybe 3 inches or so, which means the spiders leg span is at most 4 inches or so.
 
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