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[That the object was not noticed on film until later] is a telltale sign that whatever these blobs are, they are not spacecraft. No one present saw it. Now before you say "yeah but it was flying too fast", human perception is quite amazing and even an object moving fast enough to just appear in a few frames of a video would have been quite obvious to people on site.
Originally posted by greeneyedleo
so please explain why only ONE video was released while they hold that carrot out claiming there are more makes zero sense.edit on March 15th 2012 by greeneyedleo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TeaAndStrumpets
Above, someone wrote:
[That the object was not noticed on film until later] is a telltale sign that whatever these blobs are, they are not spacecraft. No one present saw it. Now before you say "yeah but it was flying too fast", human perception is quite amazing and even an object moving fast enough to just appear in a few frames of a video would have been quite obvious to people on site.
It doesn't matter who wrote that, because I see a few replies going in the same direction, and I'm not singling anyone out... but you all DO realize that 10,000kph is nearly 3 kilometers PER SECOND, right?
And isn't it funny how human perception is "quite amazing" this time around, when the skeptic needs it to be exactly that in order to most effectively deny. Yet why do I have the funny feeling that, were the facts a little different, the same people would be reciting the perils of eye-witness testimony and bemoaning the lousy observational skills of we humans....
It's sorta like how this statement:
"You'd think with all these cell phone cameras around that someone would have caught something by now"
...becomes THIS statement (several times per week):
"That video is evidence of nothing, it's just a blurry blob... and why all the camera shaking?!"
C'mon guys, why not just come right out and say it: "it can't be true, so it's not."
Originally posted by greeneyedleo
So im the only one who sees this as all a bunch of hooey (for lack of better word )
Originally posted by greeneyedleo
can you show us why it cannot possibly be a bug zipping about? im curious why the bug theory has not been debunked yet
what happened to a process of elimination?? or is that no longer needed? just blindly believe what anonymous people say?
until someone can show why it is not a bug, to me it walks, quacks and looks like a bug *shrug*
Originally posted by deometer
Since it "appeared" within the frame (rather than from outside the frame) and, seemingly, from behind the hill, it appears to be at that great a distance away, and just might rule out it being a bug.
Originally posted by deometer
That, along with the testimony of the "experts" and 6 other supposedly corroborating videos.
Originally posted by deometer
Also, some of the screen-grabs in the slide-show at Leslie's link are worth looking at, particularly the infrared analysis (18 of 19), which is also available here:
i.huffpost.com...
And alternatively here:
images.huffingtonpost.com...
Originally posted by Idonthaveabeard
What I find funny is the amount of people unwilling to accept that it could be something unexplainable.
Ive shown the video to a number of people and got replys back from all of them like oh its a bird, its a secret plane, it must be this it must be that. NO ONE not even people on here has gone like wow I really dont know what that could be???
Look at the video, its not an obvious hoax, not a lantern, not a weather balloon, birds and planes have been scientifically dismissed, its not 'obviously' a bug, its not really obviously anything. And there has been comments by the scientific community on the video.
This is a genuine unexplainable video, ripe for analysis and discussion, what this site is apparently ALL ABOUT!!! And all we get is a thread full of people saying its a damn bug!!?? What the hell guys??
If it isnt a plane, a bird, a lantern, weather balloon, then what the hell is it??
Call yourself a consipracy theorist? Tell everybody that you 'believe', then lets get this video analysed properly and with open minds and try to come up with better explanations than 'oh yea definately a bug'.
TBH while theres a chance it could be a bug, it doesnt really look like one........ So again, what the hell is itedit on 15-3-2012 by Idonthaveabeard because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by OGOldGreg
Originally posted by Idonthaveabeard
What I find funny is the amount of people unwilling to accept that it could be something unexplainable.
Ive shown the video to a number of people and got replys back from all of them like oh its a bird, its a secret plane, it must be this it must be that. NO ONE not even people on here has gone like wow I really dont know what that could be???
Look at the video, its not an obvious hoax, not a lantern, not a weather balloon, birds and planes have been scientifically dismissed, its not 'obviously' a bug, its not really obviously anything. And there has been comments by the scientific community on the video.
This is a genuine unexplainable video, ripe for analysis and discussion, what this site is apparently ALL ABOUT!!! And all we get is a thread full of people saying its a damn bug!!?? What the hell guys??
If it isnt a plane, a bird, a lantern, weather balloon, then what the hell is it??
Call yourself a consipracy theorist? Tell everybody that you 'believe', then lets get this video analysed properly and with open minds and try to come up with better explanations than 'oh yea definately a bug'.
TBH while theres a chance it could be a bug, it doesnt really look like one........ So again, what the hell is itedit on 15-3-2012 by Idonthaveabeard because: (no reason given)
Because you still haven't given a definite answer. It COULD be a bird, or a bug. Which is it? No one hs decided what is actually, so how can you decide what it isn't if you don't even REALLY KNOW what it is?
Also how many birds or bugs when zoomed in look like they're made of metal?edit on 15-3-2012 by OGOldGreg because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by OGOldGreg
Also how many birds or bugs when zoomed in look like they're made of metal?
Originally posted by tagasbob
Official scientists involved with the Chilean government have vouched that the videos do not show bugs or birds.
Scientists attached to an official government will hold more sway than a random internet stooge 100% of the time.
Don't you realize it hurts your credibility (if not destroys it)?
Originally posted by TeaAndStrumpets
... I can name a well-known journalist, a general/gov't official, a professional astronomer... among others. People who have a ton to lose on this. If you equate that all with the word "anonymous", then your skepticism is quite advanced!
Astronomer Luis Barrera from the Metropolitan University of Sciences in Chile, who has an asteroid named after him, was one of eight highly skeptical scientists who analyzed the footage. He was able to rule out a meteoroid, pieces of meteors or comets, space junk, a bird or an airplane.