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One of the recent UFO shows (can't remember which one) had an airplane photography expert try to duplicate the Stephenville lights. His pictures looked similar, but only showed lights consistent with typical airplane colors and not the rainbow effect of the Stephenville lights. The expert was using long exposure shots in his photos.

Originally posted by easynow
what are the odds that everyone is making the mistake of getting long exposure shots ?

Most standard store-bought cameras these days automatically adjust their exposure according to how much light they're taking in. I found an example of this with my own fairly average digital camera simply by turning off the flash, and noticing how much fuzzier my images were unless I held it perfectly still.

So it seems to me that people are taking pictures of these UFO's, but with handheld cameras, so the shakiness combined with the long exposure creates these patterns. This is why you won't find a single UFO picture that's all stringy like that, but is taken during the day.

Another thing I've noticed recently is that, when zoomed in on a small point of light, cameras tend to have trouble picking a single color, so the result is a flashy multitude of rainbowy colors. A perfect example of this was seen during the recent UFO Hunters episode: At one point, the team was examining night-time footage of a small, hovering spot of light in the sky, which seemed to be flashing several colors when zoomed in. Then, a second light moved across the screen, which turned out to be a passing car (the UFO witness himself assured that this is what it was). But sure enough, when the footage was zoomed in, the car's headlights were ALSO flashing several colors. So it's definitely an effect of the camera, to get those colors. Anyway, the UFO Hunters didn't even seem to be interested in the colors of this footage to begin with... they were more interested in the fact that it seemed to be hovering in one spot.

Anyway, my current conclusion is: I personally see little reason to get excited over most of these images.

[edit on 14-11-2008 by Magnus47]

They could be long exposure pictures of the actual craft, but maybe not. It could be a firefly or a star, but we don't know that. So these are basically inconclusive.

[edit on 14-11-2008 by GrayFox]

Long exposure is the most likely explanation I think.

But who's to say there isn't something more to it? We weren't there.