posted on Oct, 25 2010 @ 02:56 PM
Quick discussion on lights and illumination (and luminaries)... Video can only provide us "temporal" information .. location, velocity, duration,
date, geometry, color and intensity (and changes there within). A video is incapable of shedding light (pardon the pun) on the actual composition of
what ever it is generating or reflecting incident illumination.
Without over-indulging the patience of the good reader allow me to suggest the following potentially fertile avenues of investigation .. in effect
enumerate on necessary tools in the forensic kit-bag of every self-respecting UFO hunter - worth his or her pinch of crash debris.
First off: A polarizer. Place a polarizer (or two) in the optic path and rotate them with respect to one another...See what sort of an effect this
has on the image (may have to increase the gain as the polarizer necessarily cuts the incident energy - landing on the camera sensor - in half).
Conducting this quick test allows one to assess the degree of polarization (or lack thereof) of the incoming light. A flare source (any chemical
ignition source) would remain unaltered under various rotations of the polarizer pair. Unusual light sources might well respond in a specific manner
to the P-test - this allows us to assess the degree of polarization. It's certainly a viable forensic finding. I see application in assessing
high-altitude aircraft reflections as reported with the Chemtrail phenomenon. Sunshine as reflected off metallic surfaces (glare) adopts polarization
i.e. becomes highly polarized. So twisting or introducing a polarizer into the optic path will support or categorically discount the garden-variety
glare slash glint hypothesis/explanation. It can be rather dramatic the high-altitude glint - so it's important to be able to nicely pin it down -
as just that - glare.
How about conducting spectrographic analysis of various flare-type phenomenon? Do an image search for CCD spectroscopy or read up on home-made
spectrometer here
IceInSpace Spectroscopy Intro (might skip to the bottom re: testing and
reference light sources) And here - some additional
DIY optics articles - good stuff!
Meteoritic fireball spectra have been captured and analysed to reveal the composition of the incoming bolide .. I can see the parallels (pardon the
pun). And finally this link for real
Do It Yourselfers (employing a discarded CD as a convenient diffraction grating.) And allow
me to introduce a quick technical point. It's important to have a reference light source (of known composition) .. have a small pixie-style neon
bulb and via thin fibre-optic cable introduce this calibration source into the business end of things i.e. into the diffraction slit (or grating).
Rather clever high-tech/lo-tech use of fibre-optic feed cable. IMO
These techniques could all be applied to the mysterious re-occurring Marfa or Brown Hill or Paulding lights. Youtube these - is my suggestion. There
was an attempt at just this very thing re:
Marfa Lights +Spectroscopy < fertile link - this one. Thumbs up! Trust this all as reasonable and well-received. Thanks for
sharing in this. Keep up the good work everybody. Together we can crack these historically rather tough-to-crack "mystery walnuts".