To not see anything meaningful in this home security footage

[OMGMyLifeIsCrazy]

Just wondering if anyone can see anything I'm missing in this home security footage. It's from a couple of years ago but what it shows has been an active debate for me and my ex-husband. Back story isn't important. Just curious as to what others see in the footage. Note: It's blurry because it's pointed towards a street light. For context, the camera is at the front door pointing into the front garden.
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It looks like someone walks in from the left to the right then back again near the end. But it also looked like something smaller was wondering around at the beginning

Why are you still seeing him as your responsibility? You split up years ago.

I’m going to go with a car moving from right to left at the start

The white blur under the light sort of looks like it’s moving and then from there something (an animal presumably) moves from there to the right of the screen at the end

Not sure why anybody would choose that location to go at it, but why on earth would YOU?! In front of your front door and your ring doorbell??? Jesus Christ. What a waste of a marriage.

@OMGMyLifeIsCrazy, what sort of contact does he have with the children? Is it court ordered?

It’s not your responsibility or job to try fix this. By engaging with him over this recording you are colluding with his delusion. There is nothing of enough note worth discussing on this clip and even if there were something less nebulous talking to him about it would I fear, confirm in his mind that the story he has built up around it, has some worth. It doesn’t. It’s a minute of blurry, inconsequential footage and as worthy of discussion as the existence of the tooth fairy.

You can’t make his delusions go away and you shouldn’t be trying to. That’s a job for the professionals and even for them it will be an ongoing and very difficult task to keep in a containment situation. I hate to be negative but your time and energy shouldn’t be taken up with an impossible task.

Does he think he can see eyes blinking and looking straight at the camera? There is something that resembles, but common sense would say is just droplets sparkling in the light, two eyes, to the right hand side if the screen.

I can see what is maybe a person followed by a dog walking from right to left and then dog reappears walking from left to right?

Sorry, OP, I had typed that up earlier, then got distracted. Accidentally ended up posting it, when I got back to the iPad. I’m sorry, you’re going through such a difficult time and I think you need to step right back from him and protect yourself emotionally, never mind any other way. You’ll never convince him that he’s wrong.

Someone walks across from the right to under the brightest splodge. Stays for a few seconds then walks back from where they came from.

Thanks for filling us in OP. Sorry to hear that, it sounds so sad and hard, but the fact you’re helping him sounds lovely.

Yeah I could definitely not see two people going at it in that footage! A blurry blob of a car at best.

Must be very frustrating but you know your ex will see what he wants to see to “prove” that he is right.
I’ve watched the video several times and more certain than ever that it is a dog following his owner, dog takes a shit out of shot, dog walks back the way they came, owner is still bagging the poop out of shot at the end of video.
Not that this is relevant - I hope your ex gets the right help that he needs, but he isn't your responsibility.

OK, I haven't read the whole thread, but have watched it about 20 times. The first time I saw nothing, but having watched more I see two things move from right to left, spend some time on the left then definitely one, if not two things move to the right (at 24seconds ish just after the dog barks) . The thing moving to the right, to me, looks like a man running back into a house.

Got distracted by the moonwalking pony under the light and only just caught the beast running towards the house.

My money would be on foxes. I’m sorry your going through this. Op

At 22 seconds in something darts from under the light across shot to the right

I really cant see anything.

I do think your Ring needs a good clean though OP. My friends have it and their recordings are very clear even in the dark.

I am dumbfounded at what everyone else can see - couples making out, dogs being taken for a walk, car driving by.
If the camera is pointing into a garden then I’d suggest some kind of animal/s moving around (dog, cat, fox).
I think you need to distance yourself Op.

I see something deer sized moving from right to left. Then it turns into what looks like tow people of deer fighting or rolling around bottom left. During this a person (two legged and upright) runs away from the melee. The rolling or fighting carries in bottom left.
This is what my brain struggles to make sense of what is really just blurry. Other than the person running left to right which is pretty clear.

My teenage son said that a lot of young people in our area go onto people's front porches looking for cigarettes. I thought it was either headlights, a dog or some young person prowling around. I guess we'll never know. Thanks again everyone for your thoughts.

I do think your Ring needs a good clean though OP.

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Sorry, OP, but I had to.

I took the camera when I moved out and it works perfectly. I think we'd had a couple of days of rain and he kept moving the camera to different spots. I know at one stage there was some moisture in the lens, but once that dried up it was back in business. :)

You need to let him go op. He's mentally unwell and clearly unwilling or unable to accept that. There's not a single thing you can say or do to fix him.

My mil was delusional and psychotic with all sorts of weird ideas and "realities". There was no point trying to argue with her or help her see things as they really were. It fact trying to rationalise it probably makes it worse for everyone. Save your energy for something more productive op.

DS and I both think there's a fox.

Someone moves from right to left, to be where the blob under the light is, then goes back again towards the right.