A good UFO report

[KhyronTheBackstabber]

Check out this report for a day time UFO sighting.
http://www.rense.com/general29/astn.htm

What do you think.

[Nick]

What do you think.

"Name withheld by request"
Bad start - no way to check reliability of source.

"No evidence of digital tampering"
The main problem I have with this statement is the first two pictures. With the way the focus is in those pictures, that camera must have an extraordinary depth of field. I'm not a photography expert, so I'd be very interested in seeing what a reliable professional had to say about those shots.

"Did anyone else see it? No."
Yet another black mark. Amazing coincidence no-one else was looking up at the time.

Opinion:
I suspect deliberate fakery, either by throwing a silvery object around (gets around the sharp focus, and apparent speed problems because it is a small, near, slow-moving object, rather than a large, distant, fast-moving object), or by playing with an image manipulation program like Photoshop or the GIMP.

The UFO people should be concerned about the prevalence of digital image maipulation programs these days - unless a large number of credible sources all agree on a sighting (i.e. news crews and professional photographers all seeing the same thing), then it is going to be dismissed as fakery by someone either tweaking the nose of the UFO twits ("Hey, you know that image you've all been going gaga over? Well, I created it on my PC in 20 minutes!"), or else a misguided enthusiast manufacturing evidence for their own cause.

[Mr Bean]

Its been super-imposed that much is obvious on two of the pictures, third the scallings off, if it where real it must be staying at EXACTLY the same distance though its obvious from his pics it does not


That or its a very tiny space-ship just 100 feet away

[salm]

i like the enlarged pics on which you cant see shit. hasnt this guy got this xfiles programm which can on some magical way transform the shitties picture into a high res image?

[Nick]

i like the enlarged pics on which you cant see shit. hasnt this guy got this xfiles programm which can on some magical way transform the shitties picture into a high res image?

I kinda like the 'speculative rendering' myself. . .

Want to bet that's the original that was used to manipulate the others?

[NecronLord]

it looks very close, and seems to be a set of childrens ballons taped togeter. some of them have clearly been digitally enhanced. e.g. number two, there is an offset in light scource position between it and the cloulds, so wither it's digital, or made of that self reflecting stuff amidala's ship is made of in TPM, oh wait, tht IS digital.

[weemadando]

Whinges:

Scaling is waaay off. Its size relative to its environs could be the result of a special lense effect, but seeing as he was using a camcorder and had come straight out of an event where he would have been holding a close focus on the foreground, this is highly unlikely. This also would indicate that the object was either absolutely massive and way in the background in shot 2, or barely behind the light post and teensy weensy.

Lighting is fucked. The reflections off the craft don't match with cloud illuminations in several of the pics, notably 3 & 4.

This guy is a hack.

[C.S.Strowbridge]

If it is a real object and not digitally added then it looks like a weather balloon.

[Wicked Pilot]

I don't know. I have a friend whose friend has an uncle who has a cousin, who has a former roommate who has a brother who knows a friend who works at Area 51. My friend said that he heard from his friend, who heard from his uncle, who heard from his cousin, who heard from his roommate, who heard from his brother, who heard from his friend that the government has UFOs just like the one on that web site.

Did I mention that I have a fire breathing dragon in my garage?

[Evil Jerk]

What a total hack! Who does he think he is posting up photos of my Evil Mind Control Spaceship!
I mean, does anybody know the meaning of privacy any.. more...

Uh.. shit.

*runs away*

[Spanky The Dolphin]

All he did was just put the rendered image into the video stills and tried to match it to the blur and grain.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Check out this report for a day time UFO sighting.
http://www.rense.com/general29/astn.htm

What do you think.

I'm still skeptic. If they want to prove that it's a real UFO, they should show the photos to scientists to scientists, track it, and focus in closer. It just might be a balloon they released, or something like that. They should stick to black and white pictures of blurry objects.