jpg photos are the bane of modern ufology!

[Capnkumquat]

I keep looking on the web for decent historical and modern photos of UFO's. Most currently available photos are low res 1-2mpxl photos (or less) in a jpg format that have either been shot on a crappy cell phone camera (with a lens the size of a pin head), or been shot on a digital camera in jpg, then cropped out and saved again in a jpg format.

Where are the good photos? Does no one use a camera that can save in a .tif or raw format?

Seriously, does anyone know where a body can find untouched, high res ufo photos to examine?

 

[fitzbew88]

I keep looking on the web for decent historical and modern photos of UFO's. Most currently available photos are low res 1-2mpxl photos (or less) in a jpg format that have either been shot on a crappy cell phone camera (with a lens the size of a pin head), or been shot on a digital camera in jpg, then cropped out and saved again in a jpg format.

Where are the good photos? Does no one use a camera that can save in a .tif or raw format?

Seriously, does anyone know where a body can find untouched, high res ufo photos to examine?

Here's a wild crazy untestable theory I'll throw out just for its potential recreational value: The phenomenon that causes the UFO (and possibly other paranormal activity) has mastered time travel and whenever a good photo is taken, "it" travels back in time and avoids the photo. Thus, "they" are able to stay on the perimeter of our social consciousness.

So, if this theory is true there are no "good" pictures.

 

[David Biedny]

You will not find high-resolution UFO pictures on the web.

Only the folks who have taken the photos have the full-res images, and they're not sharing them with anyone.

dB

 

[Capnkumquat]

I suspected as much. Seems that people who were truly interested in "full disclosure" would be disclosing.

Seems about par for the course in this field.

 

[dorkbot]

You will not find high-resolution UFO pictures on the web.

Only the folks who have taken the photos have the full-res images, and they're not sharing them with anyone.

dB

I'll just use this as an opportunity to restate my opinion that some organization should take it upon themselves to start a torrent network dedicated to making available digitally signed copies of source images and video or high resolution copies of such.

For example, MUFON obtains a videotape taken by an eyewitness. MUFON gets an affidavit from the the eyewitness or compiles something like a .nfo file containing relevant detail about time,date,location and equipment used. There would be some provision for allowing the witness to remain anonymous if they wished. MUFON scans the affadavit, makes a bit-perfect dupe of the source file in it's native format and zips the affidavit/.nfo and source file(s). MUFON PGP signs the zip and hosts it as a torrent.

This presents something like a chain of custody and makes available high quality files for anyone to examine. The PGP signature can be referenced against one hosted by the signing organization or investigator. This of course doesn't necessarily turn photos and videos into "proof" but I think it would be hard to argue that this would not be an enormous step in the right direction and help move us away from debating fuzzy and relatively anonymous youtube videos. People presenting photos and video that refused to enter them into this free chain of custody type system would then naturally garner a base level of suspicion from the start.

The cost of doing this is negligible with bittorrent as the distribution mechanism. The only issue here seems to be one of motivation. I for one would be delighted to participate in such a torrent network and permanently dedicate say, 5kbps of my 50kbps upstream to hosting such files and I have little doubt that you would be able to find several hundred if not several thousand people willing to do the same.

I'd love to hear some critique of this idea.