Ok I'm early in this as of yet, I just been busy with so much else...
In looking on Google Image Search for shots of O'Hare I found this shot, which shows an issue of airplane congestion on incoming flights:
You can see the image here, at this link from
Google
I was looking for shots that might have been manipulated, or I thought I might come across the same vantage point by some stretch of luck.
But, I noticed it was a little strange that certain angles matched the degrees of the Ohare UFO shot, like the bend in the runway. So I overlayed
them. This animation might take a couple secs to load but here's a dissolve on the two:
What I notice is there's either a slight bit of lens distortion IF they arent the same picture. OR, I just cant get them aligned right, which might
be due in part to being manipulated for making it into the UFO shot. I've aligned them as best I can right now. Again, there's certain angles like
the runway that line up so close it's hard to ascribe to luck in positioning. It's really, really close.
What I note is the wicked similarity of stationary objects, and the lights on the horizon area. We dont see them in the UFO shot. But, when you look
back and forth between the congestion and the UFO shot, the UFO shot seems to have dark areas around where the lights *should* be. Could they be
painted over? Cloned over with treeline? Seems possible to me.
This begs the question to me: If the UFO shot is overcast, and somewhat dark, and the congestion shot seems to be the same, why arent those lights on?
You'd think they'd be auto-eye controlled. Maybe the exposure of the cell phone doesnt depict the light conditions, but it was 4:30, reportedly just
before dark. I think those lights oughtta be on...thats just me.
Manipulated? I dunno yet. I can say the grain or noise of the UFO photo appears to be very uniform, but I cant say thats exactly out of the nature of
a cell phone cam.
I try to picture someone wanting to fake this shot, and coming across this picture (congestion) and thinking that this almost looks like a UFO shot
already.
Now, if it IS NOT the same picture manipulated into a UFO shot, then we're looking at a photo thats taken exceedingly close to the same position of
the UFO one. We're currently looking into finding a map of the airport so we can determine if this object was indeed over the gate area as desribed.
(unless someone has already done that)
Just an interesting shot I wanted to show, might be a clue. I'll keep diggin.
