Hypothesis To Test
The approved leads ask two related questions: whether the contact is approaching the camera and whether it vanishes in the next frame. Both questions are source-grounded because a small bright mark is visible in the relevant windows. Both also require controls before promotion. For approach, the critical missing data are range, field of view, platform motion, sensor pointing, and target identity through every native frame. Image-plane growth or drift in this clip cannot be converted into physical motion toward the camera without those values. For disappearance, the critical control is separability. Around 11.059s, the mark is visible against a changing cloud/aircraft-relative background. By 11.202s, the field...
