Long Beach, California UFO 3/17/09

I did not see it but I am seeing a report on the webs about a pretty wild sighting last night. Can anyone corroborate this sighting. There is a photobucket link to an album.


LBUFO31709 - photbucket album




The source is another board so I don't know what to do but I am impressed.


MODS: please nuke the thread if I have erred in anyway. Just kind of blown away by the pictures.

or i am a sucker....

[edit on 3/18/09 by stikkinikki]
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[edit on 18 Mar 09 by Gools]

The photo was taken with an 8 second exposure time... hence the "trailing effect".

Too bad they didn't just take a "snapshot" at, say, 1/60th or so. Then again that might not have "provided" as "interesting" an image.



[edit on 18-3-2009 by 12m8keall2c]

I'm at work, so it won't allow me to see, someone please post pic

Originally posted by 12m8keall2c
The photo was taken with an 8 second exposure time... hence the "trailing effect".

Too bad they didn't just take a "snapshot" at, say, 1/60th or so. Then again that might not have "provided" as "interesting" an image.



[edit on 18-3-2009 by 12m8keall2c]

Just nuke the thread. I am embarrassed now. I could go edit the original post to say it's whack.

Originally posted by stereovoyaged
I'm at work, so it won't allow me to see, someone please post pic

That's silly. It's not nude or anything. Since it is someones photobucket page I will not upload their picture to ATS servers. They posted it on the internet so I think it's fair game but I am not going to go any further than drawing peoples attention to it.

Looks a lot like this shot:




And guess what that was?

A Plane


I don't think I need to say what the bloke in Long Beach photographed do I?



[edit on 18-3-2009 by Chadwickus]

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Its not that I wont look, I cant', security software blocks that site, cant get to a whole lot of sites, luckily this is one I can

Originally posted by Chadwickus
Looks a lot like this shot:




And guess what that was?

A Plane

I don't think I need to say what the bloke in Long Beach photographed do I?



[edit on 18-3-2009 by Chadwickus]

Oh man, rub my face in it. I am going to get some work done and let the experts do what they do best. That looks like a great campsite!

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Don't take it so hard nikki... We've all been intrigued by a report and got excited before really looking at all the details.

This is a classic case of either someone who doesn't understand photography at all and didn't realize that when you hold the shutter open on a camera for that long anything that has a light source and is moving is going to create "light trails" OR it's a pitiful attempt at hoaxing for attention.

Whichever it is, I would like to thank you for at least bringing it to our attention. Hopefully those who don't understand what they are seeing will find this thread, read the explanations and not get sucked into a false hope.

Springer...



[edit on 3-18-2009 by Springer]

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I was about to reply stating the same thing, namely if you didn't know what a long exposure shot looked like, it would be confusing.

The guy taking the photos though, probably did know what they were shooting and going by the rest of the photobucket gallery they seem to have been practicing their long exposure shots quite a bit.

So shame on them for perpetuating the hoax.