BBC World News - Unidentified Objects, page 18

Wow! Quite a few new posts this morning! Thank you all for contributing here.

Regarding the possibility of acquiring the footage directly from the DVR, I believe a DVD burner would be the way to go. I found a message board relating to DVR and TiVo systems, and a few members mentioned that they were able to burn DVDs directly from their Dish DVR players using a DVD burner. I assume I would then be able to upload the DVD onto my computer. I am going to try to find a compatible DVD burner today around lunchtime. I really hope it is successful, as the video is clearer and more impressive when viewed directly on the TV.

The whooshing sound has been discussed quite heavily in this thread, and we have been able to rule it out as part of the video itself. I did not even notice it until someone pointed it out, as I had left my speaker volume too low when I uploaded them to YouTube (I was pretty much wholly focused on the visual). The noise does not occur in the second capture, so I think it's safe to call it a disturbance in the environment around the camera.

Nola213: Someone else also brought up the possibility that one of the two objects is a reflection. In some of the stills we acquired, that looks to be possible, but others seem to suggest that the two objects are distinct from one another.

By viewing the video in Apple Quicktime, I was able to use the cursor to view individual frames. I used PrintScreen, pasted them into Paint and saved them as files. They were uploaded onto Flickr under account name ATSer--they are all publicly accessible. To locate, type "ATSer" into the search function and click on the "People" tab on the results page. For those who didn't catch it the first time around, the following is a set of still captures posted by shoeshiner. If you line them up side by side, there does appear to be a large shadow cast by the object onto the top of the beige building. I think it is worth a look:

Originally posted by shoeshiner

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This would have to be a very big bird and damn good CGI to make a shadow on that rooftop! Look;

[edit on 14-10-2008 by shoeshiner]

The BBC contact information was posted yesterday by another user. Someone called and was transferred to a BBC office, but apparently the responder danced around the issue and didn't really give any clear answers. When I called, I was redirected to another hotline that is ostensibly not working (I receive an error message each time I dial--even when having the operator dial for me). The telephone numbers are:

020 7240 3456 and 037 0010 0222

Just to reiterate, the footage was taken from the World News program on BBC America, not the U.K.'s channel.

[edit on 15/10/08 by paperplanes]