Posted on 05/22/2004 12:21:32 PM PDT by demlosers
Librarian Captures UFO On Film In Utah
To the naked eye, Tommy Woodard's digital photograph appears to be nothing more than a pretty picture of trees in Provo Canyon.
But zoom in, he says, and the purple glow of a saucer hovering at an angle above the tree line starts to take shape.
Woodard, 22, a photo librarian with the Utah Film Commission, took the photo that he believes represents an unidentified flying object.
He was in the canyon Tuesday shooting still pictures for a possible film location, and began taking pictures for himself on his way out.
At the time, he didn't see anything out of the ordinary in his photograph. But later, after noticing a black speck in the frame, he zoomed in and "the closer I got, the more impressed I got by it," he said Thursday.
"I was kind of skeptical but it's pretty obvious when you zoom in," said the self-described "sci-fi" fan, whose friends and colleagues are similarly impressed.
Woodard said he's a "believer" because the recent photograph is not his first encounter with mysterious flying objects. Once, playing baseball at the age of 10, he saw three blurry gray spheres rotating in the sky. Within a moment, they were gone.
Woodard contacted officials at Hill Air Force Base to ask if any planes were flying in the canyon area Tuesday but hasn't heard back yet. "They kind of laughed, you know," he said.
Hill Air Force Base spokeswoman Lt. Caroline Wellman told The Associated Press on Thursday she is awaiting response from the 388th Fighter Wing whether any of their F-16 jets were above Provo Canyon Tuesday.
Another skeptical reaction to the digital photograph came from a representative of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle -- he said thought the sphere looked like a bird.
"A bird?" asked Woodard in disbelief. "Come on -- I don't know how he could think it's a bird!"
Woodard discounted the theory that the image could be nothing more than a speck of dust on his film. Of the hundred photos he shot Tuesday, none contained a similar mark, he said.
The Provo Canyon photograph is not the first reported UFO sighting this year to immediately get debunkers.
In March, the Mexican air force captured images of bright blurs in the sky using infrared equipment. The videotape aired on television for the first time last week, with one scientist saying the objects could have been caused by gases in the atmosphere.
WATCH THE SKIES!
Definitely Swamp Gas!
Don't you just love it when those clouds of 'swamp gas' turn on a light in their midst and play tag with each other, making fools of hardened military types tasked with defending their country? ... It would be comforting if a simplistic explanation worked, but it doesn't.
Given how easy it is to fake things today, especially with computers, I'd be wary of any "digital" picture that claims to show a UFO.
I wonder if that saucer wobbled and swung back and forth as it hovered. It amazes me that a culture that can build an interstellar ship can’t come up with a control system that will allow a stable hover.
Dry cleaning bag filled with marsh gas.
"...........the purple glow of a saucer hovering at an angle above the tree line......... starts to take shape. "
Well, I hate to admit knowing this, but seeing things with a bluish to purple glow is a common side effect of using Viagra. Within 4 hours of taking this photo, the guy should be ok again.
UFO PING LIST
PONG
Im sensing their is going to another UFO phenomenon as another wave of UFO photos(?) surface left and right. (sigh)
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YOU MIGHT find Paul Hill's
UNCONVENTIONAL FLYING OBJECTS: a scientific analysis
has some discussion of the reasons for such.
I haven't read much of the book--not my science.
But from other docs, supposedly it has to do with surfing a gravity wave.
I do believe that the bunch of sightings going on these days are becoming more and more brazen--as though the ET's are determined that we take them more seriously and less in the realm of ridicule.
We shall see.
After a few more they go away.
Not to worry ... hic
Yeah, I was hit by a pitch once too.
Some of 'em were pretty good, too.
The rest of this story was on the Art Bell radio show. It seems that the saucer landed and two aliens got out near a gas station. One of them walked up to a gas pump and said "take me to your leader". Then suddenly, the alien shot the gas pump with his ray gun. His freind asked him why he did that. The alien replied: "I certainly wasn't going to mess anyone who could stretch his penis to the ground, wrap it around his body and still manage to stick it in his ear".
Yeah, well here's the movie I took of it this morning. You going to try to tell me this is fake too?
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