Not a single clear sharp photo of UFOs

NBitcoin said:

UFOs discussions have been in the news lately. Millions of cameras around the world and powerful cameras or telescopes by various agencies and yet, I can't find a really sharp photo of ET except for the Oumuamua asteroid. Do you have any to share?

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I capture extra terrestrial material entering our atmosphere all the time with my cameras. Here's one quite large event I captured for example.

That said, I would not call them "UFOs". A UFO can be almost anything. If someone sees something in the sky that they can not identify, then it is by definition unidentified.

So why no clear images of aliens/visitors? I think, if there was someone "visiting" us, that there would be evidence, be it photographic or not. In other words, there are no clear pictures, because there is nothing to photograph.

The UFO subject is a complex one to unpick, but after having looked at the evidence, and spent a great deal of time observing the sky myself, I believe it can basically be boiled down to a few points:

1. The sky/atmosphere is a more complex place than most people appreciate. Mundane phenomena can often behave/look different to what people expect, and less common (but still mundane) phenomena are often completely overlooked.

2. It's very difficult, if not impossible to judge distance, size, or the speed of an object (if it's moving) in the sky due to lack of visual cues, which our brains usually use in normal day-to-day life. When someone sees something like a light in the sky, the (subconscious) brain will make a judgement if that object is close, far, big, small etc, but without the visual cues normally present, the judgment can often be wrong, and misleading. For example a distant light may appear to be close if it is bright, and this is what we would call a classic optical illusion. Because our brain has made the wrong assumption, everything else if thrown off, so you WILL misjudge the true speed (if the object is moving). So we have a way that people can see something that seemingly defies all logic, in the way it behaves.

I have specialized in imaging meteors and atmospheric phenomena in general for over two decades now, and I have come across reports where people have observed meteors, and mistaken them for aircraft in the process of crashing, fireworks, and UFOs.

Often when I read the witness reports from such larger sized events that have been widely observed by witnesses separated by 100's of km, multiple reports will state "it came down near by", or words to that effect. Obviously this is not possible, and it demonstrates how BAD people generally are at observing (if judgment of distance/size/speed is not correct, then that in turn affects what people decide they are seeing). I'm not saying meteors are the cause of all UFO reports to be clear, but they do offer a window into the human psyche and what goes on in peoples heads when they see something unfamiliar/startling (some are genuinely scared when seeing a big, bright light in the sky).

So I do think most UFO reports are from people who genuinely believe they have seen something unusual, however, there are also liars, charlatans and hoaxers, and this tangles mess, is why the whole subject is so confusing to some. When you mix in the fact that many people subconsciously want there to be something else out there besides us (you only have to look at religion to see how powerful the effects can be on the human psyche), it becomes more of a mess, with people seeing "aliens" at every turn. One idiot I've come across thinks that anything round and fuzzy in an image (or that someone has seen), is an "orb". An out of focus light, lit up dust/crap floating in the air are all "them" to him!

Does this mean that aliens don't exist? No, we can't say that for sure, and we can't say for sure if we have ever been "visited", but I have yet to see a shred of evidence which holds up to scrutiny that points to ET having been here. On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence that what people see, even though they might claim it to be unusual, is actually fairly mundane stuff.

Most people do not realize that our vision works very differently to a camera. A camera will record what it "sees" reasonably faithfully, but our eyes are not like that at all. What we "see" is not what our eyes see, it's what our eyes see AFTER it has been manipulated by our subconscious. In short, you can't fully rely on what you are seeing.

As far as the recent news of further investigations into UFOs goes, I see it as simply going through the motions over and over (they already looked into it - multiple times - Project "blue book" is just one example), because they don't quite get it either.

The "it" they don't get, at least to me appears to be the fact that that they are possibly looking for a single phenomena/cause, when in fact there are multiple phenomena involved, and it requires investigators who have at least basic knowledge in many areas, including technology, human psychology/biology, astronomy, photography, and the very wide ranging natural and artificial phenomena which occur in our atmosphere. Where do you find someone like that?

Also, if they don't recognize that the phenomena "changes" along with people/culture (the UFO's of yester-years were "witches on broomsticks"), then they may be going into this thinking "what's changed, or what's new?", when nothing has really changes apart from people/society/tech, but the phenomena is still basically the same thing (or things). Of course, being the military, they can't take the chance that what they are seeing may be cutting edge tech being used by our enemies (on Earth), so there need to be an investigation. While there might be some classified military tech involved in this mess, I'm fairly confident that they will get the same result other investigations have come up with - probably mundane stuff that's been misidentified.

In short, UFOs are more about people than aliens, and that is why you'll likely never see a clear photo of one, but if you want to learn about photographing/observing extra terrestrial objects, you're in the right place.

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Leo S.

UFOs are alway unsharp.

If the image is not unsharp, then it is no UFO.

NBitcoin said:

UFOs discussions have been in the news lately. Millions of cameras around the world and powerful cameras or telescopes by various agencies and yet, I can't find a really sharp photo of ET except for the Oumuamua asteroid. Do you have any to share?

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You do know that's an artist's representation and not even an actual photo......

Just use Occams Razor. The simplest solution is always the best. There are no ET's, that's why there are no photos. In 60 years of observing the night sky, I have never seen anything that couldn't be identified.

swimswithtrout said:

NBitcoin said:

UFOs discussions have been in the news lately. Millions of cameras around the world and powerful cameras or telescopes by various agencies and yet, I can't find a really sharp photo of ET except for the Oumuamua asteroid. Do you have any to share?

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You do know that's an artist's representation and not even an actual photo......

Just use Occams Razor. The simplest solution is always the best. There are no ET's, that's why there are no photos. In 60 years of observing the night sky, I have never seen anything that couldn't be identified.

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Over forty years ago now, myself and some friends were coming out of a special tour of a nuclear research lab. It was night. Looking up, all of us saw a strange V-shaped “something” pass overhead, barely visible. One of my friends was absolutely certain that it was a “UFO,” by which he really meant an alien spacecraft. I agreed it was a UFO only in the sense that it was flying and unidentified.

I learned later that it was most likely a flock of Canadian geese, faintly visible only because of the illumination from the city below them. They often fly in a V-shaped formation.

Just to drive home how far from photographic reality that artist's reconstruction is, here's an actual telescopic image of Oumuamua: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/907/telescope-image-of-oumuamua/ Note that the reconstruction is derived from images like this, with just the variability of the imaged spec, its color, and calculations of its albedo to constrain the imaginations of scientists and the artist.

Objects that are photographed in great detail are identifiable and therefore falsifiable. The "U" in UFO is driven by lack of evidence - crappy images and videos. As your post's title suggests, that should tell everyone something about the phenomenon.

Somehow, there are no reports of Martians any more. That ended with the Martian rovers. But they used to be seen regularly. (*ROFL emogee*) No Moon men either.

As far as I know, the best they've got is a smudge in the sky seen by an infrared camera. The camera moves, and it's "OMG! Will you look at that acceleration!"

But there are a lot of fools out there. For proof of gullibility and your weekly ration of weirdness, read "Men Who Stare at Goats". Unbelievable.