Why Can't We Get A "Clear" Image of a UFO?
Its not as easy as it seems.
I've seen the comment over and over again...
An interesting UAP sighting video appears online, sometimes actually getting coverage on a major news broadcast.
A lot of people will marvel at it and maybe comment on a detail or two, but then inevitably someone gets a little inpatient and pipes up with something like:
"Yeah, but...when is someone actually going to get a CLEAR shot of one?"
While I understand their frustration, the answer to this question is a little more complex than somebody just not "trying".
I live in a "hot spot" and have had enough experience trying to capture the anomalous activity overhead that I could at least help to answer this question:
Why can't we get a really clear picture of a "UFO"?
But first…let’s talk psychology. (Or you can jump to the first sub-heading on how its difficult to use a zoom lens on a moving object.)
Alot of people's heads come close to imploding when talking about this. Let's face it, its not an easy subject to talk about.
Much of he foundation of this lies in the acronym: "unidentified flying object", which has been largely been construed as "flying saucer with little green man inside"... In actuality, it could be referring to a whole slew of things, but if you end of saying "UFO" to the wrong people at the wrong time, you can literally HEAR their hind quarters...well, "tighten".
Over the last several decades this has created nightmares for people who found themselves in positions where they are forced to describe these objects. Pilots especially, were between a rock and a hard place... Following regulations reporting safety concerns is a requirement...but what if it makes you sound like you're hallucinating?
So it follows that its quite common to watch people lose patience when they finally see an actual image. They often get upset that they are seeing yet another blurry blob, and then post comments as if the experiencer was too stupid or careless to post a ‘clear’ image.
This neurosis and paranoia even effects online enthusiast groups...people who deliberately engage in online discourse on this subject! No one wants to sound "crazy", so the term eventually morphed to UAP, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Sometimes you'll just hear, aerial anomaly. Then there are some SO afraid of sounding "nuts", they just call every UFO video they see a "drone" or a "balloon" (And I mean like EVERY one), and then spend the remaining time calling the experiencer a nut.
No doubt, I've had my share of people who won't even view my video before accusing me of posting a balloon. But when I press them to explain the physics and science of what they are accusing, they either reduce the conversation to insults and name-calling, or simply just disappear.
So much anger. If its so stressful for them why do these guys come to an online UAP discussion in the first place…?
Shouldn’t they be looking at something much more relaxing?
Like, say…puppies???
The point is, by the end of the day, the comments can largely disintegrate into endless drivel about balloons and cgi hoaxes...
No scientific contribution. No data. No analysis of flight characteristics, surface appearance or possible spectra data. You find you won't learn a THING about UAPs in many comment threads. Nothing but a swamp of balloon conjecture...and anger over blurry pictures. Seriously. This is a huge barrier.
So here is a deliberate effort to carry a discussion about UAPs past the uncomfortable "titter" stage and bring in some data from experience.
And this is a great time to remind people that there is not the mass of balloons flying over downtown Hollywood on a daily basis. In fact, they don't sell them in the neighborhood because being in the flight path of the Santa Monica airport, there are too many low flying planes overhead.
To be clear, this is not an article about "balloons", but about shape changing orb-UFOs...energy masses, and solid objects that appear all over the Los Angeles area and across the US, and the several reasons why its hard to get a “clear image” of one.
The first major hurdle is in our minds....
And I have total compassion for that. Watching some online videos are mindblowing…you only BEGIN to realize how odd it was for the person filming it, right?
But then you have logistical issues, like:
Its Difficult to Use A Zoom Lens On A Moving Object
After my first major sighting which lasted around 10 minutes at Red Rock Canyon in Nv, I decided it was time to get a video camera with a strong zoom lens.
I got a 720p Canon FS300 with 41x optical zoom. This was back in 2010.
Since then, I've captured several unknown objects with it, and when I didn't happen to have it on hand, I used an iphone 5 or SE.
Despite the zoom strength or resolution of either, I've only been able to get into an object, "so-close".
Why?
Because it's hard to do!
Try filming a faraway plane in flight with a powerful zoom lens, tripod or not. You'll find that the closer you zoom into the object, the less you can move the camera without risking completely moving it out of frame. If the object is moving, its even harder.
And yes, that’s even with a tripod. Even if its moving slowly. Try filming a simple heavenly body like Venus with a tripod and a powerful zoom. The closer you get in, the less time you have to film before it moves out of the way.
This was painfully obvious the day I was trying to capture this shape changing object with that same Canon in March of 2013. I had no tripod, and the closer I zoomed in, the less margin of error I had to let the camera move. The slightest movement would move the object shake or completely move out of frame. I was grateful to have gotten anything, because besides the zoom factor, I was also dealing with...
Nerves
Your heart-rate increases, the camera begins to shake a little, and that zoom shot is blown until you can calm down and try again. You breathe in deep, try to brace yourself against something large and steady...a fence, a gate, a tree, and try to keep the bright object in the viewfinder while zooming in.
While this is happening, your mind is fluctuating between complete calm to “what is that?!” over and over again. Eventually someone in the distance yelled they saw it. “Oh my God, a UFO!!!” Time felt like it stood still, and then sped up...back and forth, back and forth.
Even with a tripod, too many elements are coming together, and if you don't have a good sense of coordination, the sighting may well be over by the time you even get the object in frame.
Because You Can't Plan It
Another reason why its hard to get a good shot: You can't plan this!
They...whatever they are...show up when they want to...often when least expected.
After the March 2013 sighting, I tried to carry my camera with me where ever I went...and nothing would show up. I’d watch and look and wait and nothing anomalous would appear…at all.
Then when I least expected it, perhaps during a zen walk for instance, an object that moved ever so weirdly would appear, and I wouldn’t have the Canon with me. I would have no choice but to pull out the iphone and try to film what I could.
While I would love to have a tripod and an optical zoom with me at all times, its just not possible. Even if I did, trying to get “set up” in time to get the shot would be just as impossible.
Many to Most Don't Have Software To Analyze What They’ve Filmed
Often the person filming the object wont or cannot zoom in, so you'll just see a faraway dot moving in the sky.
With capable software, you can digitally zoom in to the object as well as slow down the frame rate. This allows you to get a better view of the flight characteristics and features that make it “anomalous”. Through the process of discovering this, we find that: Videos tell a better story than a few stills.
Why?
Many Of The Objects Spin, Morph, And Change Shape…Showing Motion Beyond Moving From One Point To Another
I mention this specifically because its quite common for people to post a still shot of their sighting, and then the viewer will have a rough time understanding what they’re looking at.
Before long the plastic bag, drones, birds and blob accusations start to fly…when if they were able to really look closely at things like motion, vector and changing surface texture, they might take pause.
With simple still shots, its very hard for the experience to translate because you really don't get a sense of the "movement" of these objects. Once you get a sense of how the objects are actually moving...oftentimes changing color and shape while they do, then it opens up even more doors to other data we might be able to analyze.
This is one of the most anomalous captures I’ve experienced filming. This object was immediately overhead as I walked outside. I filmed about two minutes before it flew out of eye-range towards the south.
Once again, I couldn’t have planned this if I had tried, and if I had not pulled out the iphone "right away" and used the optical zoom I never would have captured it at all.
A still appears to look like anything from a sphere to an angled looking orb.
A simple slow motion gif of the object changing direction shows more detail…featuring a sparking on the corner as it curves right.
But even the gif only shows part of the story.
When watching the entire video, which shows the long, medium and closeup views, you really get a sense of how anomalous this experience was. This object literally does the 90, 45 and 30 degree angle turns which are often observed with these objects.
Once again, no one can always be carrying a tripod and a large camera with them, and in this case they wouldn't have gotten it set up in time to get this shot. I’m grateful to have had something with me to film it at all.
Another thing to take note of: the majority of people writing about UFO sightings are referring to "night time" sightings, with the assumption that they never happen at daytime. This is a myth, and another reason to occasionally "look up" during the day. Many of these objects show up during the day as well.
A-lot of UFOs Are NOT "nuts and bolts" Objects
One significant thing I’ve noticed, at least so far, in terms of the daytime sightings I’ve seen posted online, there seems to be some evidence that:
A-lot of UFOs Are NOT "nuts and bolts" Objects...
Some of the most prevalent and unnecessary online abuse comes from people viewing a UFO video expecting to see a “nuts and bolts” craft.
Claiming to be coming from a "scientific approach", they will spend an incredible amount of energy accusing the poster of filming “balloons” (what else is new?) while completely ignoring the fact that the majority of anomalous objects filmed these days are probably are something much more complex…something more “biological” than nuts and bolts.
This is another fact which makes some people’s heads explode, so I’ll add a puppy here for good measure.
The fact is, over time, if you read contactee accounts where your average “Joe” has been taken aboard an ET spacecraft, the majority of them will say the ETs told them their craft are either biological or incorporate a huge amount of biological technology. (On the other hand, the ones who have encountered a nuts and bolts craft, and I mean literally with rivets and such, have probably seen a reverse engineered craft. Its just rumor, but good to be safe and not get too near it as several of those models have been known to be extremely radioactive! Just my personal speculation.)
Could these "orbs" be smaller versions of actual craft, or are they some kind of actual biological being we haven’t classified yet that can change form, colour, and opacity? Can they disappear at will, or are they crossing over into another bio field we can’t see with the naked eye? Are some of these objects actually intra-terrestrial as well?
It took me awhile to stop asking for help with investigating this from online groups who just wanted to talk about snark and balloons, and to really begin looking at a lot of videos….all data I could find…to see what "in common" people were filming.
I noticed most objects, at least ones captured in daytime, take on several forms of plasma. Some are light, some are orbs, some are dark orbs or energy, and some look metallic. (Indeed, since I had the experience filming the dark plasma orbs, I've seen them pop up in people's landscape videos having nothing to do with UAPs. In other words the person would be completely unaware they captured something until I pointed it out.)
When I finally tripped over the work of Jay Alfred, from his, Plasma Aliens From a Parallel Earth - Biological Ufos and Their Effects, I was elated to read his confirmation of my discoveries.
“Plasma UFOs can therefore appear shiny like metal (i.e. reflecting all the waves from external sources, including radio waves from radar which consequently appears “solid” to the radar), black (i.e. absorbing the waves and not re-emitting), translucent or transparent (i.e. allowing waves to pass through the plasma from external sources and/or light from within the plasma to emanate out from the plasma in the arc or glow modes). These plasma UFOs can therefore manipulate the de-gree of opacity and intensity of radiation of their bodies by changing their internal plasma frequencies (just as we can tense or relax our muscles) – allowing the bodies to apparently appear, disappear or fade away.”
So now we hve yet another “what if” to consider when trying to talk about supposed UFO captured on video. WE should always be asking “what kind”, and what the actual experience is like. So many of these encounters happen at synchronous and serendipitous times, there is no doubt a "conscious" element to them.
I am still trying to figure out how many of the "foo fighters" spotted by 40s pilots were orbs?
What about the sphere in a box UFOs as described by Navy pilots recently?
Several of the captures people are posting are of the “shape changing” orbs.
Once again, very difficult to translate or describe with still photographs…as in this experience filmed in West Hollywood in 2018.
A slow motion gif, even though not the best resolution, shows how this “orb” looked multi faceted, often manifesting with angular features, as well as flashing blue and red colours.
The entire video gives more of a context of the experience. I believe I filmed it for a little less than four minutes.
Its impossible for me to call this some kind of nuts and bolts craft, but its definitely unidentified and doesn't appear to be linked to any kind of earthlights from seismic activity or something like that. Those appear to last a much shorter time from what I've seen so far.
What IS common is a twisting movement to its field...a kind of torsion field in action, like this object filmed in Jan of 2018.
You can probably make out more details from the full video below.
Is it possible that the supposed "drones" spotted at Gatwick and other airports were the same as any of the "dark orbs" being filmed all over the world?
This gif shows an embossed version of a “dark orb” captured over Hollywood. Notice how the texture of the object changes as it spins, with an indention appearing on one side. This is no balloon, but a dark plasma orb changing shape. It actually changed colour as well.
The entire experience is posted above.
Some may be energy masses seeing as how they can go from opaque to translucent at will…but can they change or turn into solid objects?
I have no idea. But utilizing scientific methods includes looking at several of the characteristics mentioned above, while perusing many, many videos from all over. At one point we will naturally begin to put the clues together.
Some Of What We See Are Visual Artifacts From Phasing Between Dimensions
Okay, this is where it gets REALLY weird…
….so I’m going to insert a “puppy” here…just in case.
Believe it or not, there have been two contactees who have commented specifically on what they have been told about “UFO” images. They both have to do with witnessing/filming a phase shift between dimensions, and I find this completely fascinating.
We often hear about the “dimensions” that encase our collective reality. The New Agers have been speaking of an ongoing raise in vibration happening on the planet that will result into a collapse of dimensions, or an unveiling, or a collective raise in vibration depending on who you are talking to.
In one contactee account called The LaCerta File, the subterranean being interviewed is actually asked to analyze several images of UFOs. Of the one she deemed “authentic”, she stated…
“a levitating ship is generally hidden in a shifted-field condition that even distorts the colors or the forms according to alignment. It might perhaps sound strange, but hazy and spectrally-shifted photos are sometimes to be interpreted as an indication for a possibly authenticity.”
A well qualified video analyst touches on this possibility in this clip found thru the link below:
Why do objects filmed with phones vs high caliber imaging equipment look the same?
And then Andromedan contactee Alex Collier talks about “a shift” going on at this time, where the dimensions are in essence “collapsing” while the overall frequency is increasing.
Here he mentions “rods” and other etheric objects increasingly filmed by folks.
“Q: When is the dimensional collapse starting?
This “rod” was captured with a Nikon P900 (that I mention below) between two buildings, at least 75 feet away flying between a 12 foot wide area.
Is this some kind of blend-over from the neighboring dimension? And as usual, only so much ‘detail’ can be made out.
This just a question. I don’t have the answer...
…so here's another puppy just for safety. (There are still some out there who come close to cardiac arrest when they hear the word, “rod”, so this pup is very much for them.)
There Are Some Clear Images, But People Won't Believe They Are Real, No Matter What
I’ve seen and experienced this several times. The more vivid or clear an image is…just enough to show a clear object between phase, the less people believe it and the more they will try to identify it as something else.
People get all angry and scream cgi and hoax, they try to sabotage your video ratings, and once again, you want to just pull out the puppy photos to calm things down.
People’s “identifications” will be all over the place, going from a balloon to a fuzzy plane to a hang-glider (sorry...no hang gliders over LA), to Photoshop, to Venus. Yes...really...someone told me the photo below is a daytime image of Venus. The time of day I filmed this, Venus was right next to the sun, and I would have burned my retinas out had I attempted to film it!
I'm not claiming this is a "space ship"...I have no idea what this is.
But its none of the things I've been accused of filming and posting. And it looks like a solid object, even though the sighting started out as three orbs in a triangle formation.
Speaking of solid objects, look at this image below.
It took me several seconds to even realize I was seeing something anomalous that day. There was no wind…not even a breeze, so this wasn’t some runaway kite or blowup mattress floating in the sky. I would later find two other “like” captures from other people: one in Sylmar, CA and the other from Sacramento. The links are in the description field of the YouTube video of my sighting below. The Sylmar one shows the most detail by far, but its still far away. Could it be that most of these solid objects just don’t appear close enough to most observers to get a clear image? So far, that seems to be the case.
Maybe Its Just Not Time Yet - After Getting A High Zoom Camera
I got a Nikon P900. Of course I was very excited, living here in a UFO hotspot. I was looking forward to getting in closer to one of these orbs. I even had a tripod now. A good deal of the orbs I had seen were at a medium to low cloud level….all I had to do was “wait”...right? Surely I’d be able to zoom in close enough to get a ‘clear’ image at one point. Right???
Well, as I said before...you just can't plan this stuff.
It was a warm, clear evening and the sun was barely setting, so I grabbed the equipment and setup to film the moon. It was amazingly gorgeous, with a cobalt blue sky in the background, and the major zoom providing me with a view mostly relegated to telescopes. I never knew a camera would get in that close!
I filmed several passes...always taking great care to adjust the tripod so that it would capture most of the moon’s moving arc. At one point, there was a "feeling" that I might be filming just a bit more, but most of my focus was in keeping the moon in frame.
Once again...the closer you are zoomed in, the less "time" you have to film a moving object unless you have precision equipment you can follow it with. Even in this shot, there is a little shaking…coming directly from the breeze blowing on the camera. (Yes...I know I need a better tripod)
When I looked at the clips later that evening, I was astonished, amazed, a little intimidated, and humbled. Like kind of embarrassed…humbled. Like a joke had been played on me. I had been punk’d.
The view of the moon was spectacular...but, in one of the clips, some seconds in, an object enters the screen from the left, and transits the moon...for over a minute!
I was like, “come on” !
This IS a satellite, right?
But it wasn’t a satellite. I immediately checked the several satellite and space debris databases for that time...to see. No go... Even Stellarium showed that absolutely no satellites were transiting the area at the time.
And what’s more, all of our satellites move ‘in the other direction’! Even our craft in a polar orbit move in the same direction of Earth’s rotation.
So while I’m calling myself seeking a ‘clear image’ with a higher caliber camera and zoom lens, I still just got a blob of light. Sigh… But I’m very grateful to see and capture it.
So…to ask again…why can’t we get a clear image of a UFO?
Where? How far away? When? I couldn’t have planned this in a million years. Other than the issues mentioned above…maybe its not “time” to get a clear image yet(?)
I guess its back to square one... The best we can do is to keep accumulating and sharing grassroots data. This is obviously a collective "journey", and we should treat it as thus instead of expecting easy answers from one central authority figure. We ultimately all have a piece of the puzzle, so we’ll assemble the larger picture mostly with and through each other.
Gratefully, there are several others out there who are sighting these objects and sharing their experiences. All of these help as frames of reference for others when they start to have their own encounters. The number of sightings will continue to increase as time goes on.
I truly believe that the closer we reach that critical mass of working together…in all fields…not just the study of UAPs…”they” will very much get closer and clearer to us all…and what’s more, we’ll actually be ready for it!