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Post by auntym on Nov 1, 2011 12:28:39 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/ufo-nfl-game_n_1033966.htmlNovember 1, 2011 UFO At NFL Game: TV Camera Captures Strange Object In Flight During Broadcast Lee Speigel In this remarkable three-frame video sequence that moved from right to left and barely lasted one second, an illuminated object appears to streak behind the steeples of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans on Oct. 23, 2011. Explanations include an insect and an elongated object known as a ROD. For many football fans who watched the New Orleans Saints rout the Indianapolis Colts on Oct. 23, the most unusual thing about the game was the lopsided final score of 62-7. But for UFO aficionados and paranormal experts who tuned in, they may have seen something in the sky that was even more out-of-the-ordinary than the tossing of more touchdowns vs. incompletions. As NBC's cameras returned from a commercial break and focused on the historic, triple-steepled St. Louis Cathedral in the city nicknamed the Big Easy, a couple of lit objects seemed to streak across the darkening sky -- and they've yet to be definitively identified. Viewed in real-time, it's hard to see much more than something flashing across the screen. But a frame-by-frame scrutiny of the video reveals a rod-shaped object topped with brightly lit dots. SEEING IS BELIEVING, RIGHT? HERE'S THE NEW ORLEANS UFO VIDEO: CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/ufo-nfl-game_n_1033966.html
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Post by Steve on Nov 1, 2011 12:51:43 GMT -6
These are insects I am afraid. So called 'rods' are insects photographed with a digital image. The streaks are the result reflecting the amount of time to gather enough light for the camera, the groups of dots are the beat of the insect wings. This is particularly so in interlaced video recording such as here. The first clue to look for is right in front of you, is it day or night? Night, which means the camera is in a 'night mode', to gather in more light. Gathering more light takes time, the insects streaking the images. Aircraft at night (streaked lights creating suggestive shapes) have done the same thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(optics)I think IMO digital cameras tend to trick more than they prove anything. Steve
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Post by auntym on Nov 1, 2011 13:19:54 GMT -6
These are insects I am afraid. So called 'rods' are insects photographed with a digital image. i don't agree with that steve.... i don't think the bugs in your video look anything like the rods in this video..... i also think a professional camera man would know the difference.... this rod isn't as squiggly as the one in your video... there's also lights on top of this rod.... ...
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Post by swamprat on Nov 1, 2011 14:51:18 GMT -6
Here are Marc Dantonio's comments about the NFL video:
"I think these are insects that got caught in that interlaced video as they're flying through with a wing beat frequency, and the frames are being captured at a frequency... that causes that look," insisted Marc Dantonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.
Dantonio owns FX Models -- a Connecticut company that creates special effects and models for the government. He's one of many investigators who insist that when an object -- moving very fast, like a flying insect -- gets close enough to a camera lens with a slow enough shutter speed, it produces an effect called motion blur, making the insect's wings appear elongated, or rod-shaped.
"They're fascinating, but they're actually quite down to earth," Dantonio said.
But one little frame of the video may be the one little problem that could rule out the insect theory. Amazingly, the frame reveals the mystery object is moving behind one of the cathedral towers. But how could that be if it was only an insect?
"The object is not going behind the cathedral -- it's actually in front of it," Dantonio said. "But because of the saturated CCD [charge-coupled device used in digital imaging], it looks like it's going behind. And when you see those three dots or lights [on the object], I think they're wing beats."
But when Dantonio took a closer look at the single video frame in question, he began to bend a little.
"Yeah, that sure does look weird. I won't say it's not interesting, but I'll tell you right now: I'm sure that there's a conventional explanation and I believe firmly that this is something very close to the camera."
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Post by skywalker on Nov 1, 2011 21:44:50 GMT -6
That does look weird. I saw three of them flash by in the original video clip. Did anybody else see the others? I wonder if that is a real video of the church steeples? I remember recently there was an incedent where one of the television networks was showing some fireworks going off behind some historical landmarks and it was later proven that they faked the film by superimposing video clips of the historical landmarks over the live feed from the fireworks. Is it possible they did the same thing here, superimposing a film of the steeples over a live feed that just happened to have the weird insects flashing by?
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Post by auntym on Nov 3, 2011 11:53:00 GMT -6
www.livescience.com/16855-ufo-aliens-football-games.htmlDo Aliens Love Football? Two UFO Sightings ExplainedBenjamin Radford, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor Date: 03 November 2011 Who knew extraterrestrials were football fans? UFOs were spotted in the skies above two football games in the United States in the past few weeks. A fan at a high school football game in Scottsdale, Ariz., last weekend videoed several bright lights in the night sky. The lights weren't directly over the game itself; they were likely several miles away. Coaches, fans, and a few players saw the lights but kept focused on the game. About a week earlier, a bright light was spotted by a television viewer of "Sunday Night Football". The viewer, identified only as by his "reedickyaluss" YouTube profile name, had noticed something odd during the broadcast: During an intro shot of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, a bright light streaked across the night sky. He replayed the scene a few times on his TiVo, and posted the video on YouTube . At first no one thought much of the Oct. 23 video; perhaps it was a shooting star. But soon UFO buffs began examining the video. One writer, Tom Rose on Gather.com, stated that "freeze framing the clip definitely shows some kind of aircraft, with multiple flashing lights and a spherical shape, as it whizzes by at extremely fast speed. The stop-motion framing clearly shows a controlled flight of an aircraft, but it's not easy to identify it as any known kind." In fact, the video does not clearly show a controlled aircraft (nor one with multiple flashing lights), though with a little imagination you can make anything out of it. But what was that odd, elongated light streak? To Robert Sheaffer, a UFO researcher for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, the most likely explanation is a flying insect caught in a light. Moving objects stretch when photographed or videoed under low light conditions – for instance, the red taillight streaks in nighttime photos of moving cars – and a moving insect body can appear as a glowing rod or streak. The insect's wing beats are rendered imperfectly by the camera's equipment as "lights" (actually brighter spots above and below the main body). This explanation is supported by the fact that the "lights" are not in the same place on the body throughout its movement; they move up or down, front or back, depending on the position of the wings at the exact moment the insect is caught in flight. One weakness of that theory is that the UFO appears to go behind buildings, which of course it could not do if it were a nearby bug. But Sheaffer told Life's Little Mysteries that he believes that the illusion is "a consequence of how the CCD [charge-coupled device, used in digital cameras] and the camera electronics render faint objects against a non-blank background." In other words, a glitch created by the technical limitations of the camera. It's also worth wondering, if the unexplained light in the sky was not close to the camera (as an insect would be) but instead was above the St. Louis Cathedral, why no one else in New Orleans reported seeing it. [Why Ghosts Get Spooked by HD Cameras] Now, what about the strange lights over the Scottsdale high school? The most likely explanation for the bright lights seen in the Arizona desert seems to be nighttime skydivers. Skydiving at night is common, and sometimes skydivers attach burning magnesium flares to their boots. A video analysis shows that the lights are all continuously falling; they do not go higher or even maintain altitude at any time. Eventually the lights move more horizontally as they drift downward – just as you would expect after skydivers deployed their parachutes. CONTINUE READING: www.livescience.com/16855-ufo-aliens-football-games.html
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Post by swamprat on Nov 10, 2011 15:50:44 GMT -6
OpenMinds.tv
UPDATE: UFOs at New Orleans football stadium identifiedJason McClellan | Nov 10, 2011 On November 1, we reported a story about a video from October 23 that shows multiple UFOs streaking through the New Orleans sky during NBC’s broadcast of the New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts NFL football game. These strange objects ignited a minor media frenzy and left viewers scratching their heads, wondering what the rapidly moving objects could have been. In the November 7 episode of Open Minds Update, I provided my brief analysis of the NBC video, concluding that the evidence pointed to the strong probability that the mysterious objects in the video were either commercial or military aircraft approaching one of the nearby airports. I also stated that the video broadcast by NBC was a time-lapse video–something that most of the reports about this video failed to notice. And we now have confirmation that the footage was indeed time-lapse video, and that the objects in the video were commercial aircraft. Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post reports that NBC cameraman R.D. Willis contacted him after seeing the buzz/confusion created by the video. Willis is the photographer who shot the New Orleans video, and as he told the Huffington Post, “If you watch Sunday Night Football on a regular basis, you will recognize my time lapse videos throughout our telecasts.” Explaining his process, Willis explained, “I move and manipulate my Nikon Still DSLR camera with a computer controlled pan head and dolly. This technique makes my time lapse video motion seem more like ‘real time’ motion when, in fact, they are a series of still images played back very quickly.” Click below to watch a video showing how Willis’s camera rig works: www.openminds.tv/update-ufos-at-new-orleans-football-stadium-identified-828/The video broadcast by NBC lasted approximately thirty seconds, but because of the shooting process described by Willis, the actual shoot took more than an hour to complete. And addressing the UFOs captured in his video, Willis told the Huffington Post, “The flying ‘rods’ that are seen are actually single airplanes that happened to fly through the screen during each long shutter exposure . . . Because of the precise repetitive nature of my camera support rig, one plane pass seems eerily like a UFO streaking through the sky.” While this new information should put to rest any questions people may have about the mysterious lights in the New Orleans video, there are sure to be those who refuse to accept the airplane explanation.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 10, 2011 16:11:35 GMT -6
I could accept that as an explanation. It sounds reasonable and it would explain what the crazy things are. It also would explain why the three things are all coming in from the same direction and why they seem to level off when they get down low...they are planes coming in for a landing at an airport. Makes sense to me.
I don't understand why they use time laps photography to film images like that but I'm sure they must have a reason for doing it.
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Post by auntym on Nov 10, 2011 16:33:27 GMT -6
i don't buy it.... planes slow down when they are coming in for a landing... and they don't look like rods.... .... more government disinformation....IMO...
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Post by skywalker on Nov 10, 2011 16:37:25 GMT -6
They were probably moving slower than molasses flowing uphill in February but the time lapse photography just made it look like they were moving fast. The dude said it took him an hour to photograph it.
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Post by auntym on Nov 10, 2011 16:41:24 GMT -6
They were probably moving slower than molasses flowing uphill in February but the time lapse photography just made it look like they were moving fast. The dude said it took him an hour to photograph it. it took him an hour to film it.....that doesn't make any sense to me.... i think he caught something and the government paid him a visit....IMO now he'd backpeddling.... of course i would too if the government paid me a visit....LOL
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