Accidently Photographed UFO Over Washington DC 4/4/07

Phantom,

I'm going to give you a bit of a boost to your story. Last Wed. 630 a.m. in D.C. airs the Sean Hannity show. I'm going to say if I recall a blip coming up on the local radio about a possible object spotted flying around the capital. I didn't think much because A. I heard nothing more after the 5:30 new cast. You might want to call them and see if they can recall that news report and make a comment on it. Just an idea?

That's just freaky.
I'll have to look into this further.

As for the pictures.. you're Still saying this isn't a bird?

What brings you to the conclusion its a bird, Ill say its a dark elongated part of the photograph.

I dont see any wings, beak or feathers. Am i saying its not a bird??no, but what brings you to the conclusion it is a bird??

Originally posted by tsloan
Phantom,

I'm going to give you a bit of a boost to your story. Last Wed. 630 a.m. in D.C. airs the Sean Hannity show. I'm going to say if I recall a blip coming up on the local radio about a possible object spotted flying around the capital. I didn't think much because A. I heard nothing more after the 5:30 new cast. You might want to call them and see if they can recall that news report and make a comment on it. Just an idea?

You should be able to get a transcript of the show on the CNN website to confirm that. That is a CNN show right...or is it fox? I can't remember, but either way you should be able to get a transcript of it - that way you can get more detail and see if its acurate (time / date / location / etc).

Cheers -

zeeon

EDIT - I think i'm a moron. Your saying you heard it on a radio news report when hannity and colmes was airing?

[edit on 8-4-2007 by zeeon]

I think Hannity is Fox, the Hannity, from Hannity & Colmes???

Was that 630AM radio or 6:30 A.M. time...

[edit on 2007/4/8 by JacKatMtn]

Originally posted by redseal

As for the pictures.. you're Still saying this isn't a bird?

What brings you to the conclusion its a bird, Ill say its a dark elongated part of the photograph.

I dont see any wings, beak or feathers. Am i saying its not a bird??no, but what brings you to the conclusion it is a bird??

I'm not trying to be cocky here, but the obvious bird like features brings me to believing, without doubt, that this it is a bird.

What I guess I didn't say in my first post was that anyone could see this, and it is therefore not interesting. It is my claim that there are no UFOs in these pictures. Simple as that.

www.wmal.com...

This is the 630 WMAL site. I'd give them a call and see if they can comment on the local news broadcast Wed. around 5-5:30ish. It wasn't much more than a strange object they didn't ref. UFO just strange object if I recall right. Thats why i thought nothing more cause at 6 P.M. nothing more was said cause i left my lab at 6 and I remeber the last broadcast giving a preview of the next mornings Grandy and Andy show? I wish I can remeber more..sorry guys just didn't kick off anything.

In our post 9-11 world, if the object was of a size large enough to be an aircraft or even a drone, I would expect that it would have been surveyed by aircraft or someone. Seems hard to believe that an unusual object over DC would not gather more attention.

Pretty-cool shot phantomm

Fast shutter speeds usually capture crafts at a given speed which the human eye can't detect. 1-200 sec is pretty fast.
There many reports of people capturing something unusual that they did not see when taking the photo graph.

I think then best result (less fuzz) is if the craft is coming directly toward or away from the camera when the pic is taken.

Dallas

Nice photo.

To me it looks like a bird swooping down off of the building? But im not expert on detecting what a spot on a picture is either. The left of the object looks like the head and the right of the object looks like the tail.

By the way, this will be the only time I tell you that it is a bird, unlike others

Good eye catching it on the photo, even if it is or isn't anything important

the 2nd picture is just a plane?

My personal opinion of the photo is that it is a bird. There are two things I'm basing my opinion on:

1) I've seen sideways shots of birds before, and this is what they look like.
2) The object's contrast level does not fit in with the humidity fading of the building behind it, suggesting that the object is in the foreground of the building, not above or behind it. It doesn't have the dynamic range of the people in the foreground, so it is not that close, but I am guessing closer than the building.

That's my layman's opinion. We need to hear from the pros.

[edit on 9-4-2007 by Ectoterrestrial]

Originally posted by Ectoterrestrial
My personal opinion of the photo is that it is a bird. There are two things I'm basing my opinion on:

1) I've seen sideways shots of birds before, and this is what they look like.
2) The object's contrast level does not fit in with the humidity fading of the building behind it, suggesting that the object is in the foreground of the building, not above or behind it. It doesn't have the dynamic range of the people in the foreground, so it is not that close, but I am guessing closer than the building.

That's my layman's opinion. We need to hear from the pros.

[edit on 9-4-2007 by Ectoterrestrial]

It COULD be a bird. the whole thing is only 21 pixels long, and for the most part doesn't exhibit much contrast above background. The really contrasty part is about 8-10 pixels. I've been experimenting with low resolution bird images lately, and if their wings are spread and your aspect angle is right, they're clearly birds at 20 pixels size.

For example: A dark 15 pixel bird against a dark background seen well above the wing plane. Clearly, it's a bird.

A 20 pixel bird against a blue sky with its body headed into the image plane.

I'm still looking for a good edge-on example. Here's something about 20 pixels seen from a fairly oblique angle that I decided was probably a bird,
and here is something I can't identify that has about as many dark pixels as the subject image. So much depends on the background and lighting conditions. This photograph is looking East in late afternoon, so is basically front-lit, but not with much direct sun, as far as I can tell.

Originally posted by Netami
the 2nd picture is just a plane?

He explains..: 2nd is a plane and 3th is a bird..Just for comparison..The issue is the first one.

Originally posted by manastin

Originally posted by Netami
the 2nd picture is just a plane?

He explains..: 2nd is a plane and 3th is a bird..Just for comparison..The issue is the first one.

When I blow up the first one using cubic interpolation - it looks like a plane:




Our view is a little fore and to port of this ostensible aircraft. The wings and tail have very little contrast with respect to the cloud background.

Not conclusive, I know.

Very interesting posts, all of you. I really appreciate the input.

It's important to point out, I never claimed this is a flying saucer. I labeled it a UFO because it's an object, it's flying, and I can't figure out what it is.

I noticed that in my original post, it seems the image was resampled, so some detail was lost.

I'm working on getting a higher res photo uploaded for you all.

I'm going to have to agree with some of you, it looks like it may indeed be a bird. Ok, so here's a challenge. What type of bird?