Thomas R Morrison
Paranormal Adept
Here’s a fun recent case that I heard about in a recent interview with Jeff Krause, State Dirtector of MUFON Southern California, which features two photos and a 21-second video clip taken by a 9-year-old girl using her aunt’s iPhone looking out the car window. First she took this photo:
And then she got a slightly better image:
And then she took this intriguing video, and after the ufo moves behind a building, she rather matter-of-factly states “K, that space ship just went behind that building.” Check it out:
I think this is a good example of a key issue that we’ve discussed here lately: the resolution and clarity of images and video of an object in the sky taken at any significant distance with an iPhone. This object is about as close we can expect to see, and the clarity here is about as good as we can expect to get with an iPhone camera (without attaching a special telephoto lens or going into the settings to maximize the resolution). And here we can’t even be sure if this is some strange radiant alien device hovering in the sky, or if it’s an airplane in slightly foggy conditions coming toward us with its landing lights on. That’s my point: any images or videos that we’re likely to get from smartphones or security cameras aren’t going to be sufficient to discern what we’re seeing with any real confidence.
So that’s why I don’t buy the argument that the smartphone revolution should be yielding a barrage of compelling ufo photos and videos. And that’s why I still find radar cases and pilot testimony and multiple-witness cases to be more important than the images that people can get with a phone.
And then she got a slightly better image:
And then she took this intriguing video, and after the ufo moves behind a building, she rather matter-of-factly states “K, that space ship just went behind that building.” Check it out:
I think this is a good example of a key issue that we’ve discussed here lately: the resolution and clarity of images and video of an object in the sky taken at any significant distance with an iPhone. This object is about as close we can expect to see, and the clarity here is about as good as we can expect to get with an iPhone camera (without attaching a special telephoto lens or going into the settings to maximize the resolution). And here we can’t even be sure if this is some strange radiant alien device hovering in the sky, or if it’s an airplane in slightly foggy conditions coming toward us with its landing lights on. That’s my point: any images or videos that we’re likely to get from smartphones or security cameras aren’t going to be sufficient to discern what we’re seeing with any real confidence.
So that’s why I don’t buy the argument that the smartphone revolution should be yielding a barrage of compelling ufo photos and videos. And that’s why I still find radar cases and pilot testimony and multiple-witness cases to be more important than the images that people can get with a phone.