Someone on Reddit suggests an Israeli F-35 was seen over Daraa, Syria on the night of 26 October 2024. Its widely reported the Israeli military was conducting aistrikes against Iran on that date, so the claim seems pausible, but is it really an F-35?
Applying the Sagan standard (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence), lets assume "no" and instead do what the military does and refer to the unidentified aircraft as a a "bogey" for the time being and see if can extract the answer from the video.
Original bogey video downloaded from Reddit.
A bit of Googling suggested the following exiftool would extract any metadata from the file. None expected, but you never know...
Spoiler: Nothing useful from the source video.
$ exiftool bogey-orig.mp4
ExifTool Version Number : 13.00
File Name : bogey-orig.mp4
Directory : .
File Size : 908 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2024:10:27 15:52:32+10:00
File Access Date/Time : 2024:10:27 15:52:32+10:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2024:11:15 15:05:17+10:00
File Permissions : -rw-r--r--
File Type : MP4
File Type Extension : mp4
MIME Type : video/mp4
Major Brand : MP4 Base Media v1 [IS0 14496-12:2003]
Minor Version : 0.2.0
Compatible Brands : isom, iso2, avc1, mp41
Movie Header Version : 0
Create Date : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
Modify Date : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
Time Scale : 1000
Duration : 23.45 s
Preferred Rate : 1
Preferred Volume : 100.00%
Preview Time : 0 s
Preview Duration : 0 s
Poster Time : 0 s
Selection Time : 0 s
Selection Duration : 0 s
Current Time : 0 s
Next Track ID : 3
Track Header Version : 0
Track Create Date : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
Track Modify Date : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
Track ID : 1
Track Duration : 23.30 s
Track Layer : 0
Track Volume : 0.00%
Image Width : 480
Image Height : 534
Graphics Mode : srcCopy
Op Color : 0 0 0
Compressor ID : avc1
Source Image Width : 480
Source Image Height : 534
X Resolution : 72
Y Resolution : 72
Compressor Name : AVC Coding
Bit Depth : 24
Color Profiles : nclx
Color Primaries : BT.470 System B, G (historical)
Transfer Characteristics : BT.601
Matrix Coefficients : BT.601
Video Full Range Flag : 0
Buffer Size : 0
Max Bitrate : 173252
Average Bitrate : 173252
Video Frame Rate : 30
Matrix Structure : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Media Header Version : 0
Media Create Date : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
Media Modify Date : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
Media Time Scale : 48000
Media Duration : 23.45 s
Media Language Code : eng
Handler Description : SoundHandler
Balance : 0
Audio Format : mp4a
Audio Channels : 2
Audio Bits Per Sample : 16
Audio Sample Rate : 48000
Handler Type : Metadata
Handler Vendor ID : Apple
Encoder : Lavf59.27.100
Media Data Size : 880898
Media Data Offset : 27065
Image Size : 480x534
Megapixels : 0.256
Avg Bitrate : 301 kbps
Rotation : 0ffmpeg can turn the MP4 video into a bunch of JPEG images using the following command.
ffmpeg -i bogey.mp4 -qscale:v 2 bogey_%03d.jpg
