If you think you saw a UFO..., page 1

Originally posted by TheExaminer
May we design a "if you think you just saw a UFO" read this? Providing some proper training materials to the common readers couldn't hurt.

Things like common FAA lights, known flare colors, a few charts showing examples and so on. A sideshow if you will.

Pardon my ignorance if I missed existing training materials here on ATS.

Good idea Examiner! Your wish is my command.

Did You See A UFO?
Commonly Mistaken Objects


AIRCRAFT

Many people often mistake common aircraft as UFO's due to the way planes sometimes appear in the sky.
Here is a chart that describes the light placement on typical passenger jets.


As seen from the ground, these lights can sometimes appear strange in the sky. There are also some strangely shaped aircraft that the military sometimes flies.

Here are some pictures and clips of objects genuinely known to be aircraft.






METEOROLOGICAL EVENTS

Sometimes clouds and other weather systems can look like or give the impression of a UFO. Lenticular Clouds can sometimes look like alien handiwork, but they are just clouds.






ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS

Meteors and stars often get mistaken for UFOs. Meteors race across the sky at high speed, and can look quite anomalous if you happen so see one at close range. Meteors almost always take a straight or slightly curved line, and rarely change direction and speed.

The following are pictures of meteors and stars mistaken for UFOs.






CAMERA ANOMALIES

Maybe you've taken a picture with your digital camera and later
found a possible UFO in the shot. There are many things that
digital cameras sometimes do that get mistaken for UFOs. We
call these anomalies "digital artifacts" and take many forms.
These artifacts are often caused by overexposing the CCD with
too much light, the camera lens can catch a glare, lens flare can
occur if the angles and light intensity are just right, etc. etc.

The following are pictures with digital artifacts.





So there are a few things for you to compare your UFO sighting to. There are many other things that are mistaken for UFO's as well, and I encourage other members to post examples. When I have more time, I'll post some images and videos of things that are pretty good examples of what really could be a UFO.

Very nice presentation damajicninja I have a few to add to this since you asked. A Sundog is one that is mistaken as a ufo.

An unusually pronounced sundog produced by sunlight passing through thin cirrus clouds. The true sun is located outside of the picture to the right.

www.youtube.com...

Ball lightning reportedly takes the form of a glowing, floating object often the size and shape of a basketball, but it can also be golf ball sized or smaller. It is sometimes associated with thunderstorms, but unlike lightning flashes arcing between two points, which last a small fraction of a second, ball lightning reportedly lasts many seconds. There have been some reports of production of a similar phenomenon in the laboratory, but some still disagree on whether it is the same phenomenon.

I always wonder, when someone says UFO it is 99% identified as an alien craft or a flying saucer. A ufo is an ( Unidentified Flying Object ) it doesn't mean it's an alien craft from outerspace or another planet. Come on, give the human race some credit, we did split the atom, didn't we. We have and had great minds such as Tesla, Einstein,wright brothers, edison, da vinci, Newton, Bell, Colt, Franklin,Galileo and on and on. Just had to get that off my mind.

The Government wants you to think it's one of these.













[edit on 5/13/2007 by Solarskye]

[edit on 5/13/2007 by Solarskye]

I thought you would like the swamp gas

How about stunt kites.



Here's a site with a list of things mistaken for ufo's. I like the Psychological one. ( hallucinations )

www.cufon.org...

I flagged your thread, I feel it's something people should see, especially the new members.

I put up a new PODcast tonight that talks about this thread. It also happens to be the debut edition of The NinjaCast This will be the first of many, of course. I'll be broadcasting The NinjaCast on a regular basis, and hope you'll listen in from time to time.

The NinjaCast - Episode 01

I would have to say that optical illusions are a big part of strange ufo sightings to. Perception and distance is illusional.This is a chalk drawing that you all have probably seen before. The amazing thing is that it's all flat. It's just when you look at it at the right angle your perception sees the illusion.

Is this picture really have moving parts or is it just the way we see it that makes it move ?

And last but not least a cool video of illusions.



I really hope that more people come in here to add more stuff to this thread. Maybe our life is just an illusion who knows?

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