You see it. You have no idea what it is, but you heard about this. It might be, it could be, it is! You are witnessing a UFO! You can't believe it, no one would. But wait! You just happen to have your trusty digital camera with you! You get some of the best pictures of what seems to be an alien space craft. It hovers silently, not one sound, over your head. Then as suddenly as it appeared, it shoots off at impossible speed. But you have the proof! You have clear pictures!
Unfortunately, those pictures you took of your experience will come under the utmost scrutiny BECAUSE they are digital. While digital photographic technology is convenient, it is also easily manipulated as most people know by now. At a glance they are very hard to tell from the real thing and therefore will be highly suspect no matter how factual they are. And with the advancement of technology in the field growing exponentially, even the experts find it hard to tell the difference.
In ufology, the burden of proof is often found in photographic evidence for lack of any other. Digital technology, often along with such internet visual forums as YouTube, has become the bane of legitimate and serious ufologists the world over. One widely distributed set of photos on the internet, what has become known as the CARET Drones, has set off a flurry of debates as to authenticity.
CARET stands for Commercial Applications Research for Extraterrestrial Technology and was said to have been fronted by the US Department of Defense according to an individual who only gave his name as Isaac. When the drone pictures, like the one in this article, began surfacing on the internet, so did Isaac. It was his claim that these drones were manufactured using alien technology and could appear and vanish due to invisibility secrets obtained from them.
Among those who believe that the photos are genuine are Emmy Award winning investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe and Whitley Strieber, best known as an abductee whose story was told in the motion picture "Communion". However, a preliminary investigation by MUFON has shown these photos to be CGI fakes.
"In one of the images, you can see that the faker used something called 'radiosity' to render the images. The technique allows for more realistic images and makes things look very good, as if lit by the sun in this case. You can see classic radiosity render artifacts in the dark shadow areas of the CG craft. They show up as mottling in the shadows instead of smooth transitions", says Marc D'Antonio, a CGI expert with FX Models Inc.
Kris Avery, also an expert in the field of CGI and with Kaptive Studios, says of one of the photos, "...the spires have a very jagged edge only observed as the result of 3D rendering, never on a photo...it is a combination of high light levels, angle of light and very thin geometry."
Will ufology survive the digital age? Yes, as long as there are checks and balances in the technology, I believe it will.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
UFO's - The Truth Is Here - Just Suppressed
When it comes to UFO's, the phrase "The truth is out there" has become synonymous with both believers and scoffers alike. Whichever one you happen to be depends on your experience with the subject matter. But no matter what your experiences, no matter what your belief, one basic truth must and does exist.
Many times you will notice in mainstream media that reports of aerial phenomenom are generally a "tongue in cheek" presentation with no hint of seriousness. And it is strictly untrue that sightings are reported by only the uneducated or only in places no one has heard of. Tens of thousands of reports are logged from around the world every year by police officers, government officials, doctors, lawyers and military personnel.
There exists, at this very moment, several hundred individuals from different organizations who wish to have their say. Many of these men and women worked in the military intelligence community and have "inside information" that they wish to make known to the world. These brave people are willing to testify before the Congress of the Unied States of America as to what they know to be true...we are being visited by intelligence outside the planet Earth.
In May of 2001, a media event took place at The National Press Club in Washington, DC, USA. This event, so important to the world, went untelevised and suppressed. This was organized by Dr. Steven Greer and attended by over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses who wanted to tell their story. These are just a handful of over four hundred more who wish to testify.
Consider Sgt 1st class Clifford Stone with the US army. A man with secret clearance within the nuclear program. "I could get the clearance that I needed to do whatever it was necessary for me to do at the time on special operations when I was called in on those", he said. Sgt Stone went on to say, "What I am refering to here is that I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of crashed saucers, for lack of a better term and debris there of. There were bodies that were involved with some of these crashes and also some were alive."
A complete cover up of the actual facts has been admitted by these people and now are willing to tell the truth. One must ask, why wasn't this revealed to us out in the open? Is it that the people are not ready? Or is it that the world governments are afraid that their hypocrisy will be exposed once and for all? I invite you to look up The Disclosure Project.org and see for yourself that historic media event, the one that was so suppressed and continues as such to this day.
Many times you will notice in mainstream media that reports of aerial phenomenom are generally a "tongue in cheek" presentation with no hint of seriousness. And it is strictly untrue that sightings are reported by only the uneducated or only in places no one has heard of. Tens of thousands of reports are logged from around the world every year by police officers, government officials, doctors, lawyers and military personnel.
There exists, at this very moment, several hundred individuals from different organizations who wish to have their say. Many of these men and women worked in the military intelligence community and have "inside information" that they wish to make known to the world. These brave people are willing to testify before the Congress of the Unied States of America as to what they know to be true...we are being visited by intelligence outside the planet Earth.
In May of 2001, a media event took place at The National Press Club in Washington, DC, USA. This event, so important to the world, went untelevised and suppressed. This was organized by Dr. Steven Greer and attended by over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses who wanted to tell their story. These are just a handful of over four hundred more who wish to testify.
Consider Sgt 1st class Clifford Stone with the US army. A man with secret clearance within the nuclear program. "I could get the clearance that I needed to do whatever it was necessary for me to do at the time on special operations when I was called in on those", he said. Sgt Stone went on to say, "What I am refering to here is that I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of crashed saucers, for lack of a better term and debris there of. There were bodies that were involved with some of these crashes and also some were alive."
A complete cover up of the actual facts has been admitted by these people and now are willing to tell the truth. One must ask, why wasn't this revealed to us out in the open? Is it that the people are not ready? Or is it that the world governments are afraid that their hypocrisy will be exposed once and for all? I invite you to look up The Disclosure Project.org and see for yourself that historic media event, the one that was so suppressed and continues as such to this day.
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