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Originally posted by seeingevil
Interesting videos, a good post...
But am I the only one who's restless with clips of little shining discs in the distance, that have no detail and are just like all the other little shining discs in all the other videos?
I'm tempted to think that sooner or later there will be another Roswell of sorts somewhere and this time, civillians will be there with video cameras catching everything in splendid detail. The sooner the better!
Originally posted by rocksolidbrain
This made it to news over fox. TV is now obviously vocal about this stuff. I wonder why.....
To me, IMO, those 'storks' look like hot air balloons. Where is the visible (non-IR) footage? Why use only IR?
Originally posted by Tall Devil Man
This footage is old news. These Mexican "UFOs" turned out to just be exhaust fires from oil platforms in the ocean. The pilots were using infared and flying past the fires which makes it seem like they are moving with them, but in fact are stationary.
In a couple of the shots you can even see the fires reflection on the water below, and in others it's obvious the observers are looking down through the clouds at them.
Here's an article about this footage from 2004:
Mexican Oil Rig Fires thought to be UFOs
To quote one part:
"The objects (lights) are in a fixed position with a dark
background (the sea) while the camera on board is following the
lights that are showing in the screen as a very brilliant source
of light. There is a great distortion as there is no sign of an
object but only light. Take your time and repeat the video. Try
to focus as if the lights are STEADY and the camera movements
shows when turning in his axis that the clouds move sometimes
rapidly and then suddenly they stop moving while the lights
(UFO's) never changed their formation neither their speed."
Btw, long-time lurker, first post!
[edit on 13-8-2007 by Tall Devil Man]
Originally posted by rocksolidbrain
To me, IMO, those 'storks' look like hot air balloons. Where is the visible (non-IR) footage? Why use only IR?
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
reply to post by free_spirit
Well, I've read all the posts on this subject and as an Expert in Photonics and Optical Engineering I can tell you that those are definitely flares from oil rig platforms.