Californian "missile" event - Does a 2nd video source actually exist that is NOT being released ?

By now, I'm assuming that the majority of you have watched the video taken last week of some kind of aerial phenomenon that occurred just off the California coast. Despite many theories being thrown around, so far no clear cut, undeniable and indisputable explanation has been proffered to explain this phenomenon.

Now to the best of my knowledge, and please anyone correct me if I'm mistaken, but there is only ONE source of visual evidence currently available of this phenomenon ... a video clip. This video clip was allegedly taken by a KCBS employee aboard a traffic reporting helicopter. I have used the term "alleged" because I believe that I can provide convincing evidence that there may have in fact been TWO separate video sources taken of the phenomenon that were for some unknown reason, and deliberately, then combined and claimed to be the ONLY ACTUAL footage taken from that KCBS helicopter.

In the following series of images, I'm going to display an initial frame from the alleged video clip showing the object in flight at a considerable distance from the helicopter. Then I'll show a series of additional frames where the person recording begins to zoom in on the object.

Ok, here's the initial frame ...

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/17be673fab1b.jpg[/atsimg]

Now here are a series of frames zooming in ...

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/c0975a624bb7.jpg[/atsimg]

Now the reason for displaying the zooming in process was firstly to show clearly and indisputably that at no time did the helicopter change height significantly ... in fact, there seems to be no indication of ANY height changes at all ... and secondly, to show that at no point did any scenery, buildings or any other artifact come between the helicopter and the object to obstruct the line of sight recording. Also bear in mind that the helicopter was facing the open ocean during the entire recording of the event.

Ok, having demonstrated that the helicopter had unobstructed line of sight to the flying object - which appeared to be at an altitude above that of the helicopter and possibly climbing and the fact that to the best of my knowledge there is only a SINGLE video source being claimed (by station KCBS) ... I'm now going to display 2 frames taken from that KCBS video clip, then I'm going to overlay one frame on top of the other frame.
I've chosen these 2 particular frames because there is a very easily identified common point where the object passes through what I presume to be a cloud bank. This gives us a very specific frame of reference for comparison. I've indicated this common point in both frames.
Here's the 1st frame looking out over the ocean towards the object ...

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Here's the 2nd frame showing the same common point but in this frame, notice the sudden appearance of a tree covered hill directly in front of, and extending above the line of sight of the person making the recording !

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Now, to clearly prove that there were 2 recordings made concurrently of the object's flight path, here's an overlay of the above 2 frames.

You can see that there's a distinct and unarguable difference in flight paths beginning from the reference point and continuing to diverge as the flight progresses.
In my mind, the divergence in flight paths plus the sudden appearance of a tree covered hill clearly shows that there exist at least 2 separate recordings of the incident.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/31e015d6ae4e.jpg[/atsimg]

Now, the questions needs to be asked (and unfortunately I don't have an answer) as to why we, the public, are being continuously misled into believing that there is only a single source of video evidence (from KCBS) regarding the incident ... and why KCBS merged the clip taken by their traffic helicopter and that of the 2nd video source and then claimed it was completely taken by their traffic helicopter and the ONLY AVAILABLE source.


Edited to add:

Just occurred to me ... if there IS a 2nd video source, then who took it and how did KCBS become aware of it and manage to get their hands on it ?

That is a great catch

Would you believe that I've watched that clip oh, at least 10 times and never spotted that hill with the trees and what it means to the legitimacy of the KSBC claim to having the only video source.

I'm in complete agreement that there does indeed appear to be a second vid clip in existance.
So the plot deepens with more questions than answers.

S & F to you.

reply to post by tauristercus


perhaps the they lifted higher while they were zooming in?
I'll have to watch the video again and see where exactly you took them from to actually get a better idea.. but a few things could probably explain this... the "contrail", "rocket exhaust", moving with the wind... the heli lifting higher... your suggestion..

though surely they know someone would rip it apart.


eta.. somehow missed your last pic, but once again, couldnt the helicopter have moved to the right? or dropped lower?
I mean, decent hypothesis for ya.. once again, I'll have to view thuroughly.

Since this will probably go unnoticed in the depths of Boon's thread, check this out: www.abovetopsecret.com... Yet more solid evidence something isn't right here...

Originally posted by Myendica
reply to post by tauristercus

 

perhaps the they lifted higher while they were zooming in?
I'll have to watch the video again and see where exactly you took them from to actually get a better idea.. but a few things could probably explain this... the "contrail", "rocket exhaust", moving with the wind... the heli lifting higher... your suggestion..

though surely they know someone would rip it apart.


eta.. somehow missed your last pic, but once again, couldnt the helicopter have moved to the right? or dropped lower?
I mean, decent hypothesis for ya.. once again, I'll have to view thuroughly.

edit on 17-11-2010 by Myendica because: (no reason given)

I understand what you're trying to say but if you watch the vid again, you'll see that the helicopter is looking directly out to sea and that there are NO hills with trees anywhere within the vicinity of the helicopter ... none at all. I've even taken a close look at the location where the helicopter was recording using Google Earth and no sign of such a hill and trees.

Simplest explanation to account for the visual anomaly is that there were 2 video sources used to create the KCBS vid clip.

reply to post by afoolbyanyothername


you aren't the OP. wait, how many people been thinking there was more than one camera used for a single camera shot?

I'll check out your claims as well I suppose..

you ever think the heli came back and landed? I mean anyone on the ground could have seen it.. why fly?

I like being a thinker and uncovering stuff, and dont like being a skeptic. we will see, ill watch again.

reply to post by afoolbyanyothername


Hahaha ... 2 great minds ...

I did the same thing with Google Earth whilst I was putting the thread together and agree with you that the location of the traffic helicopter was nowhere even close to any large hills with significant quantities of trees on them. The only way I can see for them to appear in the KCBS vid clip is that they were "lifted" from a 2nd video source and combined with the recording made by the traffic helicopter.

Talk about weird ...

smells bad

looks like something really huge happened, but what ? cosmic menace ? china/us strength show off ? something spread on the atmosphere ?

this story has too many flaws from the official side... it makes me think it s a way to prepare some kind of disclosure, but about what ? war ? aliens ? 2012 ?

wait and see

Could it be the still with the tree line was taken when the helicopter was low and the other shots that show the tree line lower was when the helicopter was at a higher altitude. Just throwing that out there. Makes sense to me.

With the amount of mobile phones and cameras around nowadays, there must be loads of other videos of this Missile?

What's happened to them, are they now on YouTube?

You could say the same about 9/11, the Missile that hit the Pentagon must be on video somewhere, CCTV etc.?

reply to post by minkey53


I wonder if the planes contrail looked like that mainly because it was shot from a helicopter, Perhaps the view from the ground was far less impressive thus no one bothered to record it.

Originally posted by tarifa37
reply to post by minkey53

 

I wonder if the planes contrail looked like that mainly because it was shot from a helicopter, Perhaps the view from the ground was far less impressive thus no one bothered to record it.

Based on the frame of the ground view that I displayed, the observer appears to have been much closer to the object than the helicopter was and should therefore had a much more spectacular view of the event.
In fact, as far as I can determine, the only suitable location that the ground shot could have been taken from would have to be on Catalina Island itself.

But by far the most important question is WHY we're being convinced that ONLY the KCBS helicopter saw and recorded the event when it's plainly obvious that they used footage from a 2nd recording and merged it with their own helicopter footage ... honesty in journalism ???

Also, another give away in the KCBS footage is that the colour of the sky changes significantly from a pale orange to a deep red at random times. This obviously indicates that different recording angles were used (by 2 sources) and one of them was looking more in the direction of the setting sun then the other. I would say the Catalina source was looking more westwards than the helicopter source and consequently would have recorded a more redder background sky.