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BrandonD

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For anyone who has an opinion, I'd be very interested to hear what you think on this subject:

It seems there's a pattern showing up in every major ufo event - somehow the amount of photos that turn up are almost non-existent.

It happened in the Phoenix incident (there are only photos of the later lights, and none of the earlier craft that I know of), it happened in the O'Hare incident, it happened in the Stephenville incident.

This seems to happen over and over again. People have brought this subject up, but I don't know if there's actually been an active discussion about it.

People take photos of everything these days, so why are so few pictures appearing to help support these mass sightings?
 
UFO events are unpredictable, and often, over in moments. Speaking from a personal perspective, none of the UFO-type events I've experienced, have lent themselves to taking photographs. The first one I saw terrified me so utterly I hid - I was only 12 at the time. Other times, I've been too startled or curious to even contemplate taking a photo.

I actually forgot I had a camera in my bag when I saw a black triangle earlier this year. I was so surprised to see it, I just watched, and forgot about everything else for the minute or so it was in sight. As it was almost dark, and the triangle seemed quite high up, I doubt my little Kodak C360 could have captured much of value anyway.

Although everyone seems to have a camera or camera-phone with them these days, most of these cameras aren't especially good at capturing images of distant, or fast-moving objects. Also, I should imagine most people who find themselves in close proximity to a UFO, may well have other priorities than taking a photo, e.g. how to get the hell away from it.

That said, in this age of digital manipulation, CGI, etc - is a photograph really worth anything? Would you believe a clear, close shot of a UFO, or would you just say, 'this is too good to be true'? I tend to be very suspicious of UFO photos, simply because I know people can and do fake them.
 
Siani said:
That said, in this age of digital manipulation, CGI, etc - is a photograph really worth anything? Would you believe a clear, close shot of a UFO, or would you just say, 'this is too good to be true'? I tend to be very suspicious of UFO photos, simply because I know people can and do fake them.
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Yea I've considered that stuff, and I'm not really bringing up the subject because I think there would be a value in more photographs. As far as my opinion is concerned, there is a physical reality behind the phenomenon and I'm not looking for more evidence to "prove" that to me.

I bring the subject up because it's a puzzle to me that there are not more photos, it seems there should be, just through the law of probability. I mean, think about that Mexico city ufo flap... there were dozens of photos. And yet with every single one here in the states... we're lucky if there is even a single photo.

Even that story in the 50s where all those military people were firing on the ufo. There is only 1 photo documenting it.

So I'm just wondering what the reason behind this might be. Do these craft have a disorienting effect on those nearby? Are there forces working behind the scenes to remove evidence? Are all the mass-ufo sightings in the US just hyped-up hoaxes?

I don't think any of that stuff is necessarily true, it's just a strange puzzle and I wanted to hear other people's ideas on it.
 
BrandonD said:
Even that story in the 50s where all those military people were firing on the ufo. There is only 1 photo documenting it.
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Would you mind expanding on that a little? In particular, how can I find out more about the photo?
 
fitzbew88 said:
Would you mind expanding on that a little? In particular, how can I find out more about the photo?
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I think there's a paracast episode where the guest talks about it... it was dubbed "The Battle of Los Angeles"

Here's a link w/ the photo: http://wanderling.tripod.com/la_ufo.html
 
BrandonD said:
I think there's a paracast episode where the guest talks about it... it was dubbed "The Battle of Los Angeles"
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Oh, I see I thought you were talking about some kind've air-to-air engagement.

The L.A. event was in 1942.
 
BrandonD said:
Even that story in the 50s where all those military people were firing on the ufo. There is only 1 photo documenting it.
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There is? Is it in the public domain?

edit - nm.
 
This is a mystery to me too.

In the O'hare case, there were supposedly lots of people with cameras and camcorders. Yet, the only two photos I've seen that were possibly legit are so vauge and fuzzy as to just as easily be randome cloud fragments or dust on the lens or somesuch.

This leads me to think that most ufos are not so much material things as some sort of hologram bleedover. At its base, reality is composed of information, and the paranormal is probably a recurring system glitch or error alarm of some kind.
 
In the most well known Phoenix lights event from 97 March 13th, video was taken by either a volunteer fireman, or the firechief. I've seen it a few times, but it's hard to come by, for reasons I don't understand.
 
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