Do UFOs Hide in Contrails and Clouds?
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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.

Clip-1...object starting to slow down to enter the contrail

Clip-2...object is more visible as it is almost in

Clip-3...object is now in the contrail almost hidden

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...

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