S3/E6: Your Brain Wants That to Be a Portal. It's Lens Flare.

A video of what appears to be a shimmering oval aperture above a car park in Ohio has forty million views. I've watched it eleven times. It's lens flare off a wet surface interacting with a telephoto compression artefact, and I can show you exactly where it originates. This happens every few months; someone films something genuinely strange-looking and the dimensional rift crowd gets there before anyone with an optics textbook. Today we're looking at why cameras lie, why compression makes it worse, why our brains are specifically bad at evaluating visual anomalies, and what a genuine optical impossibility would actually look like if one ever appeared. In fact, let's journey into the hiding place of Area 51and try to find one.

Thank you NICHOLAS57 for the fine cover art @Pixabay