Lost photo of UFO found

Originally posted by gambon
reply to post by IAMTAT

 

ahh dammit , thank you for trying

Sorry to keep that back, but I didn't want to invade someones privacy by posting it online. Knowing Dad's penchant for scribbling on everything...I'm sure it has nothing to do with the photo or the writing above.

You know what I find funny about just about every UFO post I read on here? Even if the photo was real, no one would believe it, because everyone seems to be hell bent on a "My Way or the Highway" ego-tude. If aliens landed in your backyard, ray-gunned your dog, anal probed your cat, and abducted one of your siblings, all while waving right at you, the lot of you would still call out hoax. Can we just all agree that it is completely small-minded to believe that we are the only intelligent species in the universe. And I'm using intelligent lightly, because even that is a stretch these days.

reply to post by IAMTAT


So there are two different forms of handwriting on the back of the photograph. One is by an unknown person written with a blue pen and the second set of writing, which you covered up, was written by your father in black ink (hence the black ink marks above the piece of paper covering the bottom right hand corner of the back of the photo. And you are certain the name and number is your father's handwriting, as you said?

Could you give us the area code of the phone number? I see no reason why that would invade anyone's privacy...

Originally posted by Oreyeon
You know what I find funny about just about every UFO post I read on here? Even if the photo was real, no one would believe it, because everyone seems to be hell bent on a "My Way or the Highway" ego-tude. If aliens landed in your backyard, ray-gunned your dog, anal probed your cat, and abducted one of your siblings, all while waving right at you, the lot of you would still call out hoax. Can we just all agree that it is completely small-minded to believe that we are the only intelligent species in the universe. And I'm using intelligent lightly, because even that is a stretch these days.

sure! soon as you admit the bible, the mahabharata, the torah, the ancient egyptian texts, the texts of the greek and roman gods, the oral histories of the native americans and aborigines of australia, the texts of the assyrians, akkadians, ugaritic, phoenicians and sumerians, were also rife with examples of extra-terrestrials, and quit calling them old superstitious fairy tales.

I'm in my 50's now and I've been looking at UFO pictures and videos for many years and this one is the most compelling i have ever seen for one reason - the edge/rim. The reason I search for saucer photos is because I have never seen one that looked like the one I saw approx. 5 miles from Brownsville (where the OP's father is from and the area from which this photo may likely have originated).

Depictions of most saucer-shaped UFOs you will find have a sharp, or nearly sharp rim. Like the saucer I witnessed, this one appears to have a blunt, nearly squared-off rim. I think this feature is one that sets this disc apart from the rest - for me at least.

I have to say though, the rim on the disc I saw was definitely self-illuminated, as were the sides of the protuberance on the bottom of the craft. My sighting occurred just before dark though, so the ambient light was far less than is apparent in this picture.

While it isn't an exact match for the saucer I remember from my youth, I definitely got an immediate knot in the pit of my stomach when I first saw this picture.

Originally posted by Blaine91555
They use terms like lossless compression but it's not true. All compression is lossy and they play word games.

No, lossless compression is exactly that, lossless, that's why you can open a zip file with a compressed text document and read what was written on the original file.

The tiff file itself has no compression.

looks like the ship from District 9

reply to post by Oreyeon


There are plenty of yes men here who try to debunk almost everything that is posted in relation to UFO's, and the cosmos in general. Sometimes they are correct, Other times we may never know if they were correct or not. It's always prove that it is, instead of prove that it isn't. There are things that I have seen, and things that I already know were not of this World. I am a little skeptical about this one because I believe it easily could be a blimp, not a disc.

Yet again I could be wrong and to tell you the truth, I hope that I am. With advanced technology and everyone carrying cameras on their I-Phones ect. Sooner or later the truth is going to be revealed. Thus, The Government should probably hurry up with their false flag fake alien invasion last card operation before the real one triumphs them. ~SheopleNation

reply to post by phantomjack


Ah but wait friend. The heavy infestation did not peak until the late 70's early 80's when it was really bad and all the trees were being eaten. I remember walking through a park in upstate NY and you could actually hear them munching and their droppings raining down to the ground. I was with my now husband but we were only dating then and we married in 1981 so it was somewhere between 79-81. It had been getting steadily worse for several years by that time.

Originally posted by Schlotzkins
I'm in my 50's now and I've been looking at UFO pictures and videos for many years and this one is the most compelling i have ever seen for one reason - the edge/rim. The reason I search for saucer photos is because I have never seen one that looked like the one I saw approx. 5 miles from Brownsville (where the OP's father is from and the area from which this photo may likely have originated).

Depictions of most saucer-shaped UFOs you will find have a sharp, or nearly sharp rim. Like the saucer I witnessed, this one appears to have a blunt, nearly squared-off rim. I think this feature is one that sets this disc apart from the rest - for me at least.

I have to say though, the rim on the disc I saw was definitely self-illuminated, as were the sides of the protuberance on the bottom of the craft. My sighting occurred just before dark though, so the ambient light was far less than is apparent in this picture.
While it isn't an exact match for the saucer I remember from my youth, I definitely got an immediate knot in the pit of my stomach when I first saw this picture.

When did you see this object near Brownsville?

Originally posted by Dogdish
I'm only at page 12 here, but your post points to something everyone might want to consider here; that the most popular camera of that era was the 110, not the 35mm. Nowhere near the quality in the pictures of even the popular 127.

And I think the "guy" in the corner is the OP's thumbprint.

I suspected the same thing about the "guy" in the corner. Older photos will age naturally but attacks from skin oils can speed up the degradation process so I wondered if that's part of the effect in the corner....and look at where the OP held the photo when he took a picture of it...showing it's a natural place to hold it!

The photo looks badly degraded - sun damaged perhaps. Seems to be some fading at that edges of the picture and some darkening of the back indicating possible age. The object is very clear as is the background, which considering how "tight" the shot is, means the object must have been very very slow or completely static.

I've got to be honest... it looks like a somebody threw a knife into a picture.

Nice photo, amazed the flags this thread has got. It looks like an airship model photo taken in a clearing or park. Certainly doesn't look like it's any more than twenty metres away, nor considerable in size. I'm sure it's already been stated earlier in the thread, but there was a product called the U.F.O. model airship, I remember it well from my childhood (like to the one below) - and it looks very similar. I can't be certain though - so it's nice you shared it. There are definitely close encounter reports that support that this kind of photo should exist somewhere. Definitely got me thinking

Originally posted by IAMTAT

Originally posted by Schlotzkins
I'm in my 50's now and I've been looking at UFO pictures and videos for many years and this one is the most compelling i have ever seen for one reason - the edge/rim. The reason I search for saucer photos is because I have never seen one that looked like the one I saw approx. 5 miles from Brownsville (where the OP's father is from and the area from which this photo may likely have originated).

Depictions of most saucer-shaped UFOs you will find have a sharp, or nearly sharp rim. Like the saucer I witnessed, this one appears to have a blunt, nearly squared-off rim. I think this feature is one that sets this disc apart from the rest - for me at least.

I have to say though, the rim on the disc I saw was definitely self-illuminated, as were the sides of the protuberance on the bottom of the craft. My sighting occurred just before dark though, so the ambient light was far less than is apparent in this picture.
While it isn't an exact match for the saucer I remember from my youth, I definitely got an immediate knot in the pit of my stomach when I first saw this picture.

When did you see this object near Brownsville?

I'm guessing the year was approx 1968, give or take a couple. The town is called Penncraft. I was part of a group who saw the thing. It's something that tends to stick with you - as if time stood still for that brief moment. That said, I was only a kid and wish I'd have been more observant.
I mentioned it a couple years ago here: My saucer sighting

reply to post by Oreyeon


Challenging beliefs, even for those who are pretty sure that this kind of thing happens, creates feelings of insecurity that most find uncomfortable to deal with. We are still afraid of the dark and a different kind of boogy man.
It is self preservation to "qualify" with maybe, or perhaps and downright, no way Jose', because as long as we can hold on to the common belief we are able to explore the possibilities of what if from a comfortable position.
Few people will come on here and claim absolute on any photo. They will argue their points and oppose another set. All the while able to stay clearly in the, I'm not crazy just curious, category.
I know if I allowed myself to really believe this wholly within my consciousness I would be scared more than curious. Right now I can say, oh its possible certainly, and hopefully they are friendly. If presented with absolute proof, like the proverbial White House lawn scenario, CNN on the spot with Anderson Cooper reporting I would be very afraid, even if they were reporting that they were indeed friendly. Then another kind of self preservation would kick in and that would be "distrust"....

reply to post by zigguratvertigo


I am 54 years old. I remember photos of this kind needed to be held on the edge. Any finger touching the photo would leave a mark. Much like the one in the lower left corner. To me that looks like a fingerprint. This is still true of glossy print photos. In the late 70's they started printing on this other paper that was almost like fabric on the face. The paper had a texture that made the photo matt finished and fingerprints didn't show up. This pic is printed on glossy paper so would show any fingerprint. Also even a drop of moisture would make a mark with brownish yellowish edges due to the chemicals used to develop the picture.

reply to post by markymint


Really? Not even close and I'm not arguing that the photo is genuine in what it presents. I am saying no this does not look anything like that toy. Also just looking at the packaging I can clearly see that that toy was not made in the 1970's. Not that model anyway, there probably were toy UFO's from the 50's onward. Yours is 80's or later.

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I understand you may not want to go through with trying to contact the person listed on the back, but if you did... you can't make out the last number, there are only 10 possibilities.... 0-9

also, for area codes, unless your dad talked to people from throughout the country, there will probably only be 4-5 area codes that the number could belong to, assuming it is from an area near to where he lived in the past or recently... Might be worth a try, if you want to exhaust all angles, in trying to get to the bottom of the photo

After posting the pic with the handwriting that bled through, I followed this thread for the followups. After the Thread Theory was put out there I spent about 35 minutes putting the image through various filters and adjustment settings, but I could not for the life of me find a definitive "line" that would indicate a thread of any kind. I did, however, manage to resolve a little more of the "dome" shape at the object's top, hoping to see a more definitive depiction of the overall shape.

One thing I did notice was what seemed to be vertical lines running across the "dome", but nothing that I felt good enough to upload.

Maybe while I'm at work tomorrow I'll give it another shot.

Anyone else notice this?

Originally posted by zeeon

Originally posted by AwakeinNM

Originally posted by free_spirit_earth
Can you take another shot of it propped up, looks really interesting!!..thanks for sharing.

Seriously, have it scanned or something.

Incidentally, I grew up in NY state close to these mountains, and that is about the time period when I had my sighting. There was a UFO flap in that part of the country at that time. My family members witnessed 2 other UFOs in addition to the one I saw - all daylight sightings.

edit on 28-11-2011 by AwakeinNM because: (no reason given)

Honestly, you need to read more of the thread then the first page before posting. It's already been scanned multiple times. Please read atleast the first few pages of a thread before commenting.

WTF? You the thread police or something?