Todd! The video is awesome. So awesome in fact we are sharing it in our newsletter next week. So YES! We are sending you something. @UserCustomerGwen will connect with you to get it sent out.
Thanks!!
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@todwatts, I am happy for you, truly! But I will admit that I am a little envious. 
@WyzeDave any chance of showing me a little love too for my “shooting star” videos?
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Yes, when you get 3 of them in a choreographed line… Keep looking through your footage!
J/k 
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Mike, Gwen is also in the process of reaching out to you! You are also featured in the newsletter and won a free Wyze Cam v3 haha. This was already planned, sorry I didn’t realize you were on this thread too.
Thanks for the awesome videos!
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@WyzeDave, that is AWSOME! Thank you. If you look through this thread I had posted a few of the better videos. But nothing as spectacular as Tod’s.
I do have a “double” in this video. Actually, there are 3 events. The first and last are meteors (but the second streak is pretty feint and short, look for it in the upper right of the screen). Right after the first is a flash of 2 bright lights and I had no idea what they are. It looks better if you go full screen and manually slide through the video.
Let the guessing begin.
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Thanks for the tip to manually move the playback slider. The first time through I thought your two bright lights just teleported through a wormhole to the top right, then did the manual playback and saw the trajectories a little better.
Pretty cool.
I think the double light flash was just heading directly toward the camera, so it didn’t appear to move from our vantage/angle, but appeared to change brightness fast.
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You are also featured in the newsletter and won a free Wyze Cam v3 haha.
@mvb Congratulations, great catch! Your many efforts paid off. 
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I manually moved the timeline to see the other flashes and you can see them much better. The first brighter flash at 12 o’clock. The next flashes in the center looks like a double flash or two side be side. Then another flash at 1 o’clock.
You caught a lot of action in this video.
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@WyzeDave Thanks! Look forward to seeing the newsletter.
But I feel a bit guilty. I feel Wyze should get all the praise, not Mike and me! I’m so excited that Wyze made this V3 camera which made all this possible.
Without having access to a Wyze V3 camera, none of these captures would have happened!
All I did was lay the V3 on its back, point it into the dark night sky and let the camera do what it does awesomely well, continuously record what is happening in the heavens.
And as far as I concerned, our Leonid meteor captures are just the “start” of Starlight Sensor things to come.
What really excites me now is wondering what other Wyze V3 owners are going to capture in the future. 1000s of owners, 100,000s of owners and many more are going to be able to capture better videos.
On a camera that costs $19.99. No, I’m not awesome. My video captures aren’t awesome.
Wyze and all its employees are the awesome ones for producing the V3.
I do have to give credit to @WyzeDongsheng. I was inspired by his time lapse star video. I couldn’t wait to try it with my own V3. (FYI … I soon learned that time lapse isn’t worth a darn for capturing meteors)(But still, he inspired me)
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Well said @todwatts! I couldn’t agree more. My next 4 V3s are due for delivery on Tuesday. One thing I’m looking forward to are some time lapse recordings from the Southern Hemisphere! Cause you know these cameras are going to be spread around the world. 
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Mike, looks like International Space Station is going to be bright and high in sky on nights of Dec 5th 6:19 pm and 6th at 5:31 pm for me. Bet there are going to be lots of Wyze V3 pointed up by then! Can’t wait to see what others catch!
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Really cool …!
I agree with you freelancertech.
The way those three lines curve at the top, and get farther and closer to each other, and the length of time they appear on screen, they cannot be meteors.
Meteors travel in straight lines, and small ones like these are visible for a split second only. Even large ones that light up the countryside are visible for only 2-3 seconds at most.
Now as to what they actually are, I haven’t the faintest clue.
Just saw these in the email newsletter! Great job guys!
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This is great! The worldwide recognition needs to go like this though:
- @todwatts was the first to record the aliens and gets a Noble prize, huge monetary reward, sponsorship, and protection from alien retaliation.
- I was the first identify that they were aliens (see documented evidence of this in post 5 & post 12 in the other thread), so I get to name the new species. I am open to suggestions, but I am leaning toward Wyzits at the moment…
Or blame Russia and China as usual…
(Waiting for MIB’s to visit @todwatts flashy-thingy him (neurolizer), take away his V3 and tell him he never actually received one…sure am glad I use an alias on here…)
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Ummm, what videos? And why is there a USB cord dangling from my roof?
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@freelancertech @gkerovecz Appreciate the input. I don’t claim to be an expert in all things sky. I don’t think I even looked up at the sky until I won a Wyze V3 camera.
I sent a number of meteor video captures to a local tv station. The Chief Meteorologist chose to feature the trio video. They later told me a number of other CBS affiliates picked up the feed.
I, like @mvb, caught close to 30 meteors (or UFOs) during the Leonid Meteor Event with the amazing Wyze V3 camera (and possibly many more, since brief bright dots could have been meteors headed directly at the camera).
But the Leonid Meteor shower event is old news.
I wish the moderators would lock this thread so that we can move onto what fellow V3 owners are going to capture. In December, there are several opportunities (ISS, Geminid meteor shower, Jupiter/Saturn Conjunction) to capture some more neat Starlight sensor events!
I’m less excited about what Mike and I caught with our V3s … and more excited about what other V3 owners are soon to be capturing and posting.
I will say this. I am strangely compelled to head out to Wyoming and climb up Devils Tower in time to catch the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. I’ve even built a model of Devils Tower in my living room. I’m planning on taking my V3, synced to my iPhone’s hotspot. Not 100% sure what this means, but I have to do it.
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It’s not easy being green. But the green soon clears up and the video plays.
That is so cool to get that national exposure for Wyze and the whole Wyze community. I am going to set up one of my V3s for permanent star gazing duty.
It your model made out of mashed potatoes? Or more like this:
@todwatts, I’ve noticed something comparing our videos. A lot of times we capture meteors at close to the same time. In that last video (which is spectacular, I might add) is just a few minutes apart from a very similar video I captured. See the timestamp on the photo below.
I am not suggesting they are the same meteors. But, I bet they are part of the same group that entered the atmosphere as group. Just spread out a bit.
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