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(Lawwalk) I love to take photos of the Texas clouds these days and in some of the pics there are objects that don't appear to be bugs, birds,or airplanes. This photo I took is of a jet and has 3 sets of 2 objects around it in roughly a triangle setting. It was taken with a Kodak DX4530, 5 mega pixel camera. I cropped out the objects into three pictures for your inspection, plus I'm sending you a copy of the original. I think, and this is just my opinion, these objects are travelling so fast, we can't see them, but the camera catches them. Don't get me wrong, I see some of these objects as you well know. (B J) I downloaded the photographs, and looked them over. As I did, I noticed in the bottom right hand corner of picture #3 what appeared to be a structured, disc-shaped object. I blew up and enhanced this section of the photo.(top left) See what you think. Thanks a lot to lawwalk.
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all images © lawwalk
source & references:
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UFO Casebook online report
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4-5-05-During an early morning skywatch, members of Ciufos-LaPampa” were able to capture images of a strange object in Earth’s upper atmosphere flying across the solar disk.
At the time that the sighting took place, the skies over Santa Rosa, La Pampa (Argentina) were covered by stratocumulus clouds, which allowed for intermittent glimpses of the sun. This sort of natural filter allowed viewing the sun in plain sight and to detect the presence of an object in front of it, which remained static for a few minutes. This unexpected and highly unusual event allowed researchers to record the event for some two minutes, after which the object in question disappeared. Having made the corresponding vidcaps and digitized them, they reveal the presence of a triangular object with greater volume in its central part. A JVC camcorder was employed in this recording. The materials obtained remain in the possession of Ciufos-LaPampa. Translation © 2005 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Raul Oscar Chaves, CiufosLaPampa. Photo copyright © 2005 Raúl Oscar Chaves. source & references: CIUFOS-LaPampa From Scott Corrales
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INEXPLICATA-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology-April 7, 2005. This report was received earlier today (04-07-05) from our correspondent in Mexico CIty, Prof. Ana Luisa Cid: Images from April 5, 2005: Juan Antonio Lopez, a young man from the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, managed to obtain excellent footage of unexpected UFOs over his city. Upon viewing the film, strange shining structures can be seen moving around at high speed. Vidcaps are attached. I myself managed to photograph two unknown objects flying in the Tlanepantla region of Mexico State on April 5, 2005 over Mario Colín Ave. The time was approximately 13:00 hours. Our readers will recall that Prof. Cid has obtained video of strange objects flying over this vicinity in previous occasions. © Juan Antonio Lopez
source & references: Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology, www.inexplicata.us Planeta UFO DATE: April 6, 2005 |
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I've been kicking this theory around in my head for the past five years and thought I'd pass it on here on the board to get your thoughts on it, (and if it's been already posted somewhere on the board, my apologies as I've not had a chance to peruse thru every topic/post yet). So please feel free to give it some thought and inform me if I'm on to something...or completely off my rocker!
Since I first got interested in the aerial phenomena I was always in 'detective' mode (so to speak). You know, utilizing the five "W's". Who, What, Where, Why, and When. I've also had to include sub-groups such as How and 'Compared to' (using Occam's Razor- "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." or "when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better.") And of course I always liked Sherlock Holmes quote: "When you have removed all else, whatever is left must surely be the truth"! Now that you see how my mind works overtime and prevents me from sleeping at night..... Let's get to the theory. I've been videotaping, photographing and filming aerial phenomena for more years that I care to remember and one thing that always bothered me was how crafts moved once they're within our atmospheric restraints. Obviously they are unable to move as freely around as they would be able to in space, (radar, air traffic, etc). Not all crafts seem to be able to remain or maintain a stealth/cloak mode (whether by choice or the initial lack of). So how would one move about without being seen while still executing reconnaissance missions (or whatever their goal is/was)?
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Well one idea I have, (yes, I'm finely getting to it), is that they are using the contrails of jets and just hiding near the jets tail to avoid radar detection. How many times have you looked up in the sky and seen the crisscrossing of contrails. Now if you were a craft that wanted to fly around fairly undetected you could utilize these contrails to get to wherever you needed to go. Think about the literally hundreds upon hundreds of jets flying globally, not to mention nationally. I could show you 40 to 50 video clips just in the past couple of years where you can see objects flying into and out of contrails at great speeds (and some at slower speeds). Once they're inside, they simply piggyback following the jet till they intersect with another contrail/jet and off they scoot over to trail behind that jet, and on and on.
So that's my theory,,, what do you think,, does it sound plausible or crazy?
When I first witnessed these craft entering the contrails I thought it was a form of hide & seek or some kind of game being played at the technologically inferior aircrafts expense (our jets). But after watching numerous footage stepping thru them frame by frame, I started noticing a large amount of these entries into the contrails were happening within 2 or three frames per footage second's. Broken down that equates to the following: Film is shot at 21-22 frames per second, video is at 30 frames per second, (I'm a former TV broadcasting savant, thats how I know these mundane things). So that means that these craft are entering these contrails somewhere between 800-1000 mph (if not faster in some cases). You can watch the same footage at regular speed and never notice these events happening, watching at quarter or half speed isn't slow enough either to see this phenomena (most of the time).
The concept of hiding from radar stretches back to WW2, as planes would intentionally get as close to one another as possible, therefore they would appear to be one object rather than a squadron full. This would make the radar operator believe that there was no threat from just one object. So if close enough, another object can and will trick the radar into believing it's seeing only one object rather than two (or more). Now of course today, our radar systems are far more sophisticated, but I've talked to a few air force pilots that have told me that the "hiding" can still be achieved. And of course we all know the maneuverability of these alien (or terrestrial) craft are able to turn and fly on a dime.
I just reviewed some footage I shot yesterday afternoon and I have three frames that clearly show a object entering a contrail. That's approximately 3/10th of a second and you would never see it at regular viewing speed (30 frames equals 1 video second). So I'm going to toss it over to the PC workstation and grab those frames and then I'll upload them later into this topics thread, so everyone can get a better idea about the theory I have. Visuals have more of an impression and impact than just simply talking about it, (IMHO).
Continuing onward (and looking upward) I've taken 3 frames of yesterday's event (April 4th, 2005) from about 3:00pm in the afternoon.
And there you have it, remember one second of video is equal to 30 frames, so broken down that equates to the event happening in 3/10th's of a real second. One of the things that a lot of people ask me is why these objects sometime appear as two or three within a single frame? The reason is actually rather simple. Your camera can only perceive a certain amount of data at one time. To compensate (at least in digital and video) they created what's called fields (a upper and lower) which reads each in a number of scanned lines. The upper and lower both are made up of 30 fields apiece, and together they make 60 fields combined. If an object is moving faster than what the camera scans at the time, then you will get multiple images in one frame. If you had some shaky footage or were to turn real quick, the camera would simulate this exact event, creating a off-set image of two or more in the same view. As unfortunate as this is, it can also be of great help while trying to determine the speed of an object by the number of multiple images it creates. Since there is way too much math involved to explain how to deduce the speed factor,, I'll ignore trying to explain it (wipes sweat off his brow). So I hope that helps a bit in discerning that query... One other small thought is that I believe that these crafts also use cloud cover to get around, but my general idea/theory is based around a cloudless day of commuting to and from one spot to another...
source & references: written by Johnny Anonymous UFO Casebook Forum http://ufocasebook.conforums.com
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BJ, attached are two jpegs from Kingsport Tennessee, April 1, 2005.
The witness(Justin Sluss) no anonymity requested, was outside taking pictures of the sunset when he saw this strange cylinder shaped object cross the sky. It stayed in view for some 15 seconds before moving off behind his house. Subsequent checks with the FAA found no reports of anomolous radar returns and no other reports of the object. More coming soon??!! I hope. Thanks old friend, Kim Shaffer MUFON Tennessee Director
source & references: Kim Shaffer, UFORA member Justin Sluss, eyewitness UFO Casebook online report
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BJ,
I just watched this video three times and I see nothing in it that is that unusual. What I do see is a video taken by a camera that was unable to focus on such a high fast moving object. Depending on the focusing system this is not at all unusual, even my Konica Minolta 7D with a very sophisticated focusing system has trouble if there isn't enough contrast difference between the target and the background. Btw, it will, with a 300mm lens, focus on planes at extremely high altitudes because I tried it out one evening when the planes making the contrails were just barely visible; probably around 30 - 40,000 feet. As for the curved contrail, I think that is nothing but an optical illusion because I saw nothing remotely like this. I would also suggest that anyone who is serious about taking videos of high flying craft, known or unknown, invest in something comparable to a Canon GL-2 or XL-2 series video camera with a minimum 20x optical zoom lens with image stabilization. Sure it will cost somewhere between $3500 and $5000 but they will be able to see what is being photographed. Respectfully, Morris Coller source & references: Morris Collier UFO Casebook online report |
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The UFO Casebook received a very interesting photograph from D. who give us this account of the sighting and photograph of an unknown object taken on March 26, 2005. The location I took the picture was southeast of the intersection of County Roads 950 North and 300 east in Delaware county, Indiana. I was in a field hunting Indian artifacts that also was beside the Norfork and Southern railway. I took my camera along to also possibly photograph a passing train which is another one of my hobbies. I took the photograph of the train without knowing that I had also captured this object until a week later I started enlarging the picture, I noticed this on the photograph, I determined that it was triangle shaped and just wandered what it was that I might have captured, I still have not come to any conclusions. The photograph was taken on March 26, at about 11:30 am, it was cloudy and overcast day. I was the only witness but as I stated did not notice this until a week later. I just kind of wandered it anyone had reported anything strange in the area that was closer to the object that I may have been, or even if I have captured an object in the sky. Thanks for everything, I just hoping maybe someone saw something else in this area. I don't know if it is anything or not, but I think it is kind of strange. By the way this is in western Delaware county, between Interstate 69 and the Madison county line.
source & references: thanks to D. UFO Casebook online report
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The UFO Casebook received the posted photograph with an unknown object from Germany. Eyewitness Valuca explained his sighting and photograph; I took this picture when I was outside for a walk and I saw a small ball in the sky but very far way so I took a picture in that direction because I knew that the digital camera will get somenthing anyway. After some seconds I couldn't see it again. Taken in Germany, 01-16-05 at 1:25 P. M. Valuca source & references: A big thanks to Valuca UFO Casebook online report
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2004: countries
around the world experience a sudden wave of UFO
sightings. Mexico’s Air Force videotapes anomalous objects in its
airspace and its Department of Defense officially recognizes the UFO
phenomenon. In the USA, two men, hundreds of miles apart, videotape
multiple UFOs over their California homes and are suddenly thrust into
a quest for the truth.
Ufologist David Sereda takes you from Los Angeles to Sonora, on an extraordinary journey - interviewing these men, examining the UFO footage, exploring new theories, and expanding the boundaries of familiar reality. A UFO adventure you don't want to miss! For more information go here. |
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Some claim this is a photograph of a UFO. Can you identify it?
Click on the picture for the answer.
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I received an email report of a UFO incident from the witness involved. The sighting reportedly occurred on Sunday, October 20, 2002, near Tyrone, PA in Blair County. The man forwarded details concerning his experience, as well as two color photographs that he took of the object before it departed. The witness indicated that he had also forwarded this material to the National UFO Reporting Center.
The witness is very concerned about being ridiculed, and requests not to be identified. Due to his concerns, my only communication with the witness has been via email. He has responded to my request for additional details concerning his observation. Due to computer problems, I am unable to post the photographs at this time. I have talked with Peter Davenport at the National UFO Reporting Center, who is expected to post the pictures as soon as he completes his sighting report updates. Sighting report narrative: The witness was hiking in the woods on Ice Mountain near the town of Tyrone. The man had stayed out longer than he expected that day. He estimated that it was about 7:30 P.M. (local time) as he was walking back to his vehicle, when he noticed a bright light south of his location, moving towards him in a northerly direction. His first impression was that it was an airplane. The light appeared similar to the brightness of a normal aircraft light when first observed. He then noticed that the light suddenly stopped, then began to pulsate and appear to brighten and dim. The witness then noticed a faint haze that was orange-red in color, and which encircled the object. The pulsation pattern of the light began to increase, and it started to flicker very rapidly. The light became might brighter as it pulsated. Suddenly a thin beam of very bright blue-white light was emitted from the bottom of the object to the ground.The witness points out that this was not an ordinary searchlight. The witness stated, "This was no searchlight. Even a well focused searchlight tends to diffuse with distance, but this light was a tight, bright beam from top to bottom." The man tried to describe the appearance of the beam with the following statement. "Imagine a piece of dental floss held at arms length, and you'll have a good idea of the beam's apparent width from my location."
The witness said that the pulsating effect suddenly stopped, and the beam of light went out. The observer commented, "As far as the form, I couldn't see any craft or object per se, just the bright light itself and the beam that came down from it, as it was pretty dark at the time." The object at first appeared to be circular in shape and orange-red in color. When the object stopped moving and began pulsating it seemed more oval or egg shaped. The object continued to hover in the sky, and the witness ran to his vehicle which was about 100 yards away, to get his Olympus digital camera. The witness took one photograph as the object hovered, then a second picture was obtained just as the object was beginning to move around slowly in a tight circle. As the man prepared to take a third picture, the object, "suddenly shot straight up in the air at fantastic speed and was gone from sight."
The sky conditions at the time of observation were described as partly cloudy. The witness did not detect any sound, or odd smells during the sighting. The witness estimates the total incident lasted about 5 minutes or less. The witness commented that at the location where the light beam appeared to meet the ground, he estimated that he was about 1/4 mile away, or farther from the object, and that it was about 1,000 feet in altitude. The witness also mentioned that there is a large microwave relay tower at the top of the mountain, and, "the beam appeared to be hitting the ground close to the tower." The man couldn't see the exact spot where the beam hit. In closing, the witness had these comments to make. "I don't know what this thing was, but I know I've never seen anything like it before." and "If anyone else saw this object, please let me know. If for no other reason, so I can stop questioning my sanity." source: Researcher: Stan Gordon www.nuforc.com
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| QUEEN CREEK -- My husband and I live in a farm community with lots of land out there, and away from the city lights of Phoenix. My husband saw a possible UFO in the last week of March, while in the backyard having a cigarette at 1 AM. He looked into the northern sky to see a strange light in the shape of a 'triangle'. He watched it for a few seconds waiting to see if it would move but it did not. The light was quite bright. He did see the lights of a plane pass near by. Then the triangle shaped lights slowly faded out until it was gone? I told him it was probably a UFO, and curious to see if anyone else in Arizona saw this same sighting? www.nationalufocenter.com |
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PLYMOUTH -- Lead Operations Specialist (name deleted) was driving home from work on Highway 494 northbound at 9 PM, on March 2, 2005. He states, “I saw this huge, white, bright light that was more like three really bright, white lights that just ran together in the sky. It was flying very low only 500 feet high or so and I thought a plane was going to crash??? It wasn’t moving, made no noise and I was approaching it quite fast. The lights were so bright! And I was now about to drive directly underneath it and as I looked up I could see from directly below that it was triangular shaped. Like a scalene triangle, but symmetric. I could see it was black on the bottom with some sporadic little lights on it. Creepy! The weirdest thing is after I drove under it, I saw this dark object in the air behind it. It looked like the bottom of what I had just seen. The lights were so faint; I barely saw it moving through the air. This aircraft was actually moving, but had no lights on. There was a lot of traffic on the highway too so others saw it. There was no mention about it in the news. Thanks to Brian Vike |
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| UNION -- A UFO sighting report has been received from MUFON. John states, “I went out for a moment in front of the house and saw a beam of light travel from one side of the sky to the other. This just happened at approximately 7:27PM, March 10, 2005. The sky was partly cloudy at the moment this occurred. Thanks to John Schuessler Director MUFON www.mufon.com |
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WATKINS GLEN -- A few years ago I was traveling north on Route 14, having just left Watkins Glen, NY. My niece, who was in her late teens in the summer of 2000, was accompanying me in my vehicle. I looked to my right and spotted a dark grey colored object in a stationary position above Seneca Lake. It appeared to be shaped quite like a derby hat with a dome shaped top and rim around the bottom. Because Seneca Lake is a large body of water, even at its narrowest point, I could discern the object was quite huge because it loomed large over the water. I alerted my niece to look and she spotted the object and I asked her to describe what she saw. She described the object in the same manner as I viewed it. We watched the object for about 15 seconds when it simply disappeared. We did not see it fly off; it just vanished. Having been a resident of the Finger Lakes region for nearly 38 years, I have been intrigued by UFO sightings in the region. I had heard of a large triangular shaped object that flew silently over a field and heard of a UFO landing to the east of Watkins Glen. I always wondered if UFO's were spotted in the region because a facility called the Seneca Army Weapons Depot was located on the east side of the lake and is a high priority target. Thanks to Brian Vike hbccufo@telus.net New York - Diamond Shape UFO LATHAM –The witness reports, “I am a 43 year old lawyer, with excellent eyesight. I was standing outside of my vehicle at 8:10 PM, on an unlit area near Latham Circle, between Route 9 and Interstate 87. I am an avid sky watcher, and I was facing east towards the Hudson River, which was about four miles to the east. I saw movement and saw a black diamond lit at each corner with a dim orange light flying at an altitude of 3,000 feet. There was good visibility and each of these four dim lights marked each point of the diamond. These "corner lights" did not blink or flash. The vehicle blocked the stars behind it as it passed with absolute silence. I was lucky to see it, as the entire presentation, while flatly unmistakable, was quite subtle. It was huge, a couple of hundred yards long and a hundred yards wide. It was gliding to the north at a constant speed of about 100 MPH, and seemed to be following the Hudson River. There was a fifth, and possibly sixth light of the same size and color weaving between two of the leading corner lights. This more rapidly moving light spun apparently random circles and figure eights around the leading (northern) corner light and the around the western corner light. I have never seen anything manmade move with such speed and maneuverability in the sky as did this fifth light. All of the lights moved ahead together as a unified group, not withstanding that there was internal movement within the group. As the vehicle drew away from my position, all of the lights drew together into a tighter cluster, and eventually a single point of light that I lost among the stars. This pulling together of the lights was not merely a function of increasing distance from my vantage point. It happened more quickly than that. A truly amazing, and awe inspiring experience. Thanks to James Bouck Jr. NYMUFON State Director 518-356-6367 |
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| ROSEBURG --. Witness states: “I took this picture off my balcony in Roseburg, Oregon at about 9:30 PM, on Sunday, January 16, 2005.” I noticed the lights before they started moving. They were very dim at first but when it started moving they brightened up considerably. It took about 20 minutes to move out of sight over the mountains. I could not tell if it was round or triangular, but I got the impression I was looking at a triangle from the front because of the way the lights were placed. http://www.ufocasebook.com/ |
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SOUTHERN SCARBOROUGH --On April 1, 2005 at approx.6:20 PM, in Southern Scarborough, at Kingston and Birchmount Roads at a recreation center parking lot, I observed a strange object over Lake Ontario, about a mile out from shore. The conditions of the sky were also strange in that direction over the lake. The clouds were streamline, like, different lighted veins of cloud running west to east. I noticed this object about 2000 to 3000 feet above the lake in a crack of these clouds. In description of what I saw with the naked eye, it appeared as if there were two round objects hovering vertical in a tight formation and appeared to have a slight reddish light field around both objects. Well, as usual to confirm a sighting, one would need the aid of witnesses. So I asked two young teenaged females, if they wanted to see a UFO. They said sure, slightly suspicious and of course I pointed it out to them. It took me, about a minute for them to see it. They saw it for about a minute.
MISTATIM, SASKATCHEWAN -- On March 23, 2005, the witness was driving on Highway #3 at 10:20 PM. He states, “I was about a kilometer west of Mistatim, heading east toward Hudson Bay when I happened to glance out toward where Vega was in the sky, and noticed a very, very bright light about 8 degrees above and a little to the east of the star.” The light was extremely bright, like looking at the bright headlight of an oncoming car. After about 15 - 20 seconds, it began to dim and slowly faded into the darkness of the night sky during another 25 seconds. There was no motion to it - it stayed in the same place in the sky throughout the sighting. I suppose it could have been a satellite, particularly an Iridium satellite, but I was struck by it's lack of movement. I checked with heavens-above.com to see if there were any satellite passes at that time. There were no objects in the heavens-above database for that time (the nearest being at about 4:30 in the afternoon). It could have been a satellite, I guess, but who knows? To view the video clip: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2541 Thanks to Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research |
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| NUFORC, MUFON database, Filer's Files, UFO Round-up, HBCC UFO Research, canufo@yahoogroups.com, www.nwsurc.com, and the UFO Casebook. These are preliminary reports, and many will be investigated further. Any updates to these of any significance will be posted at a later date. Thanks to these great sites for their information and cooperation. |
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"UFOs defy worldly logic...The human mind cannot begin to comprehend UFO characteristics: their propulsion, their sudden appearance, their disappearance, their great speeds, their silence, their maneuver, their apparent anti-gravity, their changing shapes."
Earl of Kimberly, who was former Liberal Party spokesman on aerospace, and member of the House of Lords. |
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