Andy Stone has posted a video of a bright cigar shaped object flying over York, UK dated 19 January, 2021 The actual day of the video is not known, but is not the 19th as it was pouring with rain that day.
Andy says "Saw this moving across the sky at school home time. Baffling parents and children. It was around 20 000 feet I would say and looked a bit bigger than a passenger jet"
Analysis
If we take an enlarged screen-shot of the image we can see the object is a cigar shaped, with a darker undulation midway - just in the place an aircraft wings would be.
If we look at flight tracker sites, we see there are several aircraft which fly to the north of York during January 2021.
Aircraft flying in the 30,000 feet mark would leave contrails, so lets look at aircraft flying lower. A typical example is Eastern Airlines Embraer ERJ-170 flying from Humberside airport to Aberdeen, a smaller plane passing York at just under 9000 feet.
We can see the aircraft has an all-white livery - just like the object in the video. What would this aircraft image look like if taken on a handheld phone, with the aircraft so far away it is only a spec and slightly out-of-focus?
This is the same image of the aircraft but put through a blurring effect in photoshop. The resemblance to the image in the video is quite compelling.
Conclusion - Object is probably Eastern Airlines Embraer ERJ-170 flying Humberside to Aberdeen.
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