BBC World News - Unidentified Objects

All right, I have several captures from each video. I fiddled around with a photo program on my computer, but I'm not having any luck. I can send the files to someone who knows what to do with these.

When the two larger objects pass by the building behind the man, I agree--they almost disappear or blend in and what you see is what looks to be their reflection on the glass of the building. In the third video, I'm still not sure what that is. I think it may very well be a bird, though some of the frames seem to call that into question.

Someone mentioned taking a hardrive out of my DVR or providing the serial number so that someone could "hack" my DVR and get the video from there. I'm leery about breaking open my DVR player, as I don't know what I"m doing in the least and I do not want to damage or lose the video. The same goes for allowing someone to hack my DVR. Couldn't they then delete the video if they wanted to?

I opened the video in Quicktime to get the stills. Has anyone else tried this, perhaps someone who knows how to clean up and/or zoom in on the images?

I have two questions for you and I think you should answer carefully.

1 Why is there an audible hiss when the objects pass the screen in the first video you linked and not in the second video which is otherwise the same clip?

2 Why have you turned off the post comment option on it? This needs tight scrutiny.

My opinion is that this material has been edited and unless someone else can corroborate this I call this highly suspect.

Here is the links again

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[edit on 14-10-2008 by ANTHONY33]

Birds? Come on, if they are birds, they are faster than peregrine falcons. There is no motion that even looks close to wings flapping, and they disappear behind the building on the right, within a second or two, so what bird can fly the distance in 1-2 seconds? The distance appears to be 2-3 blocks, so the bird theory is out, to me at least.

I'm in the London area, and yes, we have plenty of these objects around here. We usually call them pigeons.

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Not to mention, can you imagine how big that bird would have to be?

Good post, I'm following it as fast as it is posted up. I'm waiting for the stills before I make my judgment.

As for the objects transparency, it might be caused due to the objects velocity.

Perhaps this is caused by some kind of artifact as is commonly seen with Interlacing? (High Speed + Interlacing technique is known to produce artifacts.)

As for cleaning up the still shots and zooming in, it's easy to do with photoshop, there should just be an option to enlarge.


Also paperplanes:
add &fmt=18 to your three links, it produces sharper images. (It's youtube's ''high quality'' version of everything.)

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Just compare if you want, it *is* sharper. (On the first one, the third one looks crapped out lol.)

EDIT: After additional ''analysis''. Is it just me or does it seem like the lower of the main 2 silver objects in video 1 and 2 ''bends'' a bit when it passes the building just left of the man's head?

Almost looks like it's a reflection of the top object rather than a seperate object.

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Here I took screenshots.

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Originally posted by ANTHONY33
I have two questions for you and I think you should answer carefully.

1 Why is there an audible hiss when the objects pass the screen in the first video you linked and not in the second video which is otherwise the same clip?

2 Why have you turned off the post comment option on it? This needs tight scrutiny.

My opinion is that this material has been edited and unless someone else can corroborate this I call this as Hight Suspect.

Here is the links again

www.youtube.com...
www.youtube.com...
www.youtube.com...




[edit on 14-10-2008 by ANTHONY33]

The comment/rate/etc. question has been covered previously in the thread. This was my response: ThePowerOfOne: The ratings and comments and everything else is disabled because I want the video to be discussed here rather than on Youtube. I do not want to have to flip between this website and YouTube to keep up with the discussion. It really isn't a problem, though, if it is really important to you that they are instead enabled.

Regarding the hissing sound, I have no idea. I did not hear the noise myself until it was brought up by another ATS user.

Edit to add: I watched the video again, and I think that the sound we're hearing came from the area around the camera rather than from the TV. That would explain why I did not notice it until someone here mentioned it--I did not listen to the sound of the video on YouTube, only the sound of the video on the DVR as I recorded it. It sounds like something brushing across the floor or table around me.

[edit on 14/10/08 by paperplanes]

Originally posted by shoeshiner
Here I took screenshots.

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If you could take a screenshot of the full part where it passes the building just left of the man's head please? If I am right the shape shows some kind of bend just before diving downwards.

Just thought I'd chime in and say that if anything, those are DEFINITELY not birds. They leave a 'wake' behind them (most visible in video 1), meaning that they disturb the air behind them through high heat, high velocity, etc. Regardless, not something any bird on this planet does.

After looking at the footage once I have come to the conclusion they are either weather balloons or venuses reflecting off the suns rays Nothing to see here please move along

* AND /> Well done for being on the ball.

Originally posted by TheOracle
Can someone explain why the 'ufo' is transparent? I can see the building BEHIND it.
Poor CGI

It's because the shutter speed on the TV camera is too long to freeze motion in this case. When this happens, you get motion blur, and a semi-transparent subject.

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if you send the images to me i can clean them up. email them to [email protected]

Hmmmm....the more and more I watch this, the more it looks like birds to me. The top two objects appear to exhibit a fast wing-flapping motion to my eye.

The bottom object appears to be the same shape but we only get to see it for a very short time, but I would presume it is the same type of object as the top two.

The main thing that bothers me with this theory is what happens to the top two objects once they have emerged from the other side of the presenter's head...they appear to vanish, rather than fade out in to the distance or turn away.

My gut is saying birds.

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I'm sending them to you now. There are more than 30 captures, so it will take a few emails.

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no problem, i'm at work with some spare time though i may be taking lunch soon

also i'm not sure you notice but your avatar is not working, the url it points to is broken

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Does it seem strange that the 4th object seem to appear going in the exact same direction that appears approximately 3 minutes after in the 1st video? If you count the third object that appears right after the first two in the 1st vid, that would technically make it the 4th object

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This is by far the most intriguing clip I have ever seen recorded from an actual tv program.

That said, I really would like to think that this is a joke from the network. The only thing is, if it is a joke, it is illegal. The networks do not have permission to lie, deceive and show things that are not true.

All jokes aside, if it isn't cgi, it really is something. The last clip with the small one, I don't know, could be a bird. BUT, the other two clips, with sound and everything in it, come on, if anyone says that is a pigeon(?), I'm calling Magoo. The movement, the trajectory, the sound, the look of the material. All these things gets processed by my logics department and tells me that these are flying crafts of some sort. Is there really nothing on the web about this? Nobody at the station saw this? Nobody in the world saw these? They almost jump in your face for gods sake.

Starred and flagged, my friend. Very positive about this footage indeed.

Pigeons, yeah, and I just married my sister... doh de doh de doh...

Joe

Removed...never mind.

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