[jmacusa]

In an age of modern photography every picture and video of a purported ‘’ufo’’ is blurry and out of focus. It’s as if the person witnessing it said “Wow! A UFO! Let me get my crappiest camera and take a picture!’’.

[Rockingham]

Oddly, I have seen unusually clear and detailed UFO images challenged as "too good to be true." In practice, modern digital cameras have metadata attached to the image files. This information commonly permits experts to have confidence in the integrity of the image because the time and circumstances of its creation are thereby documented.

Ten or twenty years from now, the proliferation of high-quality cameras, new forensic techniques, hyperspectral imaging, and night vision cameras are likely to produce a flood of clear, reliable UFO images. Even now, enough odd things are captured on camera that an entire TV show is dedicated to such material as evidence of the paranormal. In addition, new forensic techniques will help to assure that UFO images are not fabrications.