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posted on 10/7/2006 at 05:19 AM (post id: 2535449) - single REPLYQUOTE
wheres all the experts when you need them?
wheres all the believers most people who replied were sceptics i want some ideas peoples
like this sceptic
"Guys look at the pictures again - carefully - objectively. This guys takes pictures of condensation on his camera lens. It is absolutley and once you look again, obviously condensation.
Vance"
Originally posted by Apass
OK CYRAX, here's something I could do to your pictures.
But first of all, I noticed that all pictures, according to the EXIF tags were taken with the same focal length (63mm) and this can't be true. So either your camera doesn't save correctly this kind of data or the images were processed.
I tried to figure some scene details from the pictures but there is not enough information to do that, only some guesswork - the tilt angle, the filed of view angle, distance to the power pilar and to the house corner... So...I couldn't figure out the distance that the object covers between succesive frames.
Now, using these pictures:
i54.photobucket.com...
i54.photobucket.com...
i54.photobucket.com...
I got this one
You can clearly see the path followed by the object (and knowing the field of view, the tilt of the camera and assuming a certain height of the object in the sky you could determine the distance covered between frames and hence, its speed).
But like I and others said, this object looks like a plane with contrails.
From these pictures
i54.photobucket.com...
i54.photobucket.com...
I got this one
Combining the pictures I saw that you moved a little bit from one frame to the other. But anyway, you could see that this object is moving approximately the same path as the object in the second set of pictures. So my guess is that this also is a plane. It could be a propeller plane or the atmospheric conditions didn't allowed the formation of contrails (the other object had quite short contrails). I bet there is an air route (I don't know exactly how it's called) or a major airport in that area.....Do you often see planes in that area?
Combining the pictures I saw that you moved a little bit from one frame to the other. But anyway, you could see that this object is moving approximately the same path as the object in the second set of pictures. So my guess is that this also is a plane. It could be a propeller plane or the atmospheric conditions didn't allowed the formation of contrails (the other object had quite short contrails). I bet there is an air route (I don't know exactly how it's called) or a major airport in that area.....Do you often see planes in that area?
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
I would draw a line between the images, that would be the arc of travel.
It is in same attitude indicating if it hovered, the time is the movement
of 360/24 or 15 deg of arc per hour.
Hovering jets do exist.
Thats the best explanation if you don't care for ufo stuff.
Originally posted by cjb
Cyrax, unless someone can refer you to a Scientific law that states why discs can't create contrails (or shows you a pic of an obviously similar plane..) I would give little credence to the opinions on this thread about your pics. I, too live in Sydney and have been photographing what looks like the same kind of activity...chris
www.surfin.com.au...
Still frame from clip
www.surfin.com.au...
Originally posted by Apass
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
I would draw a line between the images, that would be the arc of travel.
It is in same attitude indicating if it hovered, the time is the movement
of 360/24 or 15 deg of arc per hour.
Hovering jets do exist.
Thats the best explanation if you don't care for ufo stuff.
But those pictures don't offer any information about the angle of the field of view. It could be 60 degrees or 10 degrees. Yes, the EXIF data contains the time stamps when the frames were taken, but without any hint about the field of view that's useless. Those 15 degrees per hour are true for the Earth's rotation. To use that value, the object Cyrax photographed should be fixed relative to the stars and the images don't say that.
Originally posted by JackofBlades
The first few (of the light) look to me like you have taken a photo through glass and snapped a reflection of something behind you. The object could then appear to move either if you change the angle of the glass (which would leave the background the same) or moved the light source.
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
I would ask CYRAX about how far away those line are from where he took
the pictures.
Don't care if he was not standing in the exact same spot.
And the time between photos.
Originally posted by Apass
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
I would ask CYRAX about how far away those line are from where he took
the pictures.
Well...I did asked him in a U2U but he didn't answer.
Don't care if he was not standing in the exact same spot.
Not quite. If the power lines are 2 meter away, changing the position only a few centimeters (moving his head) would affect dramatically the perspective.
And the time between photos.
the time between the pohots is writen in the EXIF data. It is about 15 seconds between frames.
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
Well I was thinking distance from the power lines, not where he lives or
or coodinates. But even that might tip off the power company and ruin
the next photos or the like.
Hight of the lines and width or vertical span since the object appears in different
sections. Still think if he was walking around a bit might not do much if
some of the bigger dimensions were known.
In 15 sec. it traveled that much, I thought the sky conditions indicated the
assertion the object stayed all day in one position. That would make the
arc time of first and last photo and dependent on the earth's rotation.
In any case, CYRAX takes the photos he's not into making all the
measurements. He just wants to know we think of the photos.