the "solar airship" is an earthly toy. its basically a long black tubular bag that floats in the air. there are links in this thread to pics and such

At first glance I thught this must be a jetliner. But then I enlarged it and began scanning the image through the usual methods i.e. spectrography, negative image, etc and for the life of me I could not find any identifying markers that give it away. At this point this is an EXCELLENT daytime U.K. unidentified flying object. Who knows it might even be extraterrestial and or interdimensional. Of course there's also the option that this vehicle is manned by future man taking tourists back in time to view the human race in the various stages of our development. Oh the humanity!


---DENY IGNORANCE--

[edit on 9-4-2007 by carnival_of_souls2047]

IMO this is not a solar airship. they don't get that high nor are they that big. could be a manned or remote control balloon. is this craft of earthly origin... probably but we'll never know. it's certainly a ufo.

great pic by the way!

I have no really opinion about this - but somthing is up there in this photo.

Only thing I noticed - It's not infront of the camera, because it's inside some clouds - half visible.

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I made some contrast - in black and white - inverted it.

Next time - take all the images you can Ahtze - Afterall - we live in an age of digital data photo's - It cost nothing.


I took a picture of a jet - made it same size as the ufo-pic. 3264x2448 - and cut them both down to the objects.

Just to have somthing to look at.
or somthing.

EXCELLENT! Definately not a rain cloud. Very nice.

Like the previous poster ... I'd like to know more about movement and how it left etc etc ...

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The picture looks good. I like to think of myself as a "DEBUNKER" and their is nothing wrong with that. And I can't see where this photo could be faked. Now weither it was a hoax being played out on the general public then thats another issue. Meaning that it might be one of thoes balloons"solar ships" the other atsers keep talking about. Placed in the sky and you just happened to see it when you did. I my mind I cant see where if it was "aliens" then why would they be using earth technology "solar ships". Would they not be using advanced tech that we as earthlings have never seen the such? If it was an alien solar ship then would the ship be working in the void of space where their is no stars for light years away? probley not. What I think the object is just might be a secret government craft that is being tested through out the whole world. I have even seen cigar shaped craft in the skys and I live in the united states. Whats crazy about this pic is that it looks almost identical to what I seen over the skys of knoxville tennessee one winter morning in 1999 or early 2000. This thing that I saw left a chem trail but the trail dissapperd about 200 feet from the tail? of the cigar shaped craft. It also was not as high up as your craft appears to be, and was moving across the sky.

Keep your eyest to the sky, I bet this UFO will show itself again! You may want to buy or barrow a video camera so you can tape this craft in real time.

[edit on 9am4 30 200 by goddogo1]

First of all this photo has not been altered. I used non-destructive methods to remove most of the noise. I then used a forensics algorithm using a factor of two to increase the size without adding detail. The results are below.

What it is; I have no idea. Too bad you did not have a better camera.

I decided to see how much detail was actualy there. Here is the best result I could muster. Your camera likes Nikon algorithms. Is it a Nikon?

I guess I'll be the first to ask why on earth you only decided to take 'a couple of pictures'. If I saw that hanging out in the sky i'd take as many as possible (even if i couldn;t see it in my viewfinder), or call a local mate and get them to do so, or a family member, or a neighbour. But thats just me. If you have already covered this and i missed it, my apologies.

Still nice picture though...

I notice some differences in my image processing and some of it posted here. When I zoom or magnify the original posted image (page 1), using 3 different progs, my results do not show such a solid looking object. The right side is not solid and rounded. At least to my eyes. Does anyone else's work agree with mine?

EDIT: Ignore previous remarks. The original I got was a downsized picture. I went and got the full size original, big diff.

[edit on 4/9/2007 by roadgravel]

i just had a look by zooming in to me it still looks like a solid object and all the sides look the same, i think it because it behind in the clouds that it give that effect.

Originally posted by carnival_of_souls2047
Looks like a paraglider to me. Look under the shape and see if you see a faint image of a terran enjoying the day!

Very astute You must have a better monitor than I do at home.
I used a process normally used for photo restoration to see if I could pull out more detail. I'd say a paraglider is a good guess. That could well be a person under there and it is not a cylinder as I first thought. The way I did this; the edges would have survived. Looks like ones I see often here. They are shaped like a wing.

Originally posted by carnival_of_souls2047
Looks like a paraglider to me. Look under the shape and see if you see a faint image of a terran enjoying the day!

nope, object is still way too large to be a paraglider... you wouldn't be able to see it this well... I'm no expert but I would say above those type high clouds this thing would have to be pretty large, at least the the length of a 747.

i think its a shame that you couldn't get a better picture but o well don't worry, i don't think it is an solar airship because i wouldn't have though it would get that high into the sky unless it was taking up on a very windy day. i did some playing around with the photo and decided to invert the colours so if there was any object under the UFO it would have shown up in black and it hasn't so we hopefully have ruled out parglider.