UFO frenzy after Melbourne photo

The Washington Times ^ | 23 Jan 2004

[demlosers]

MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A mysterious photo has sparked a UFO frenzy in north Melbourne, Australia.

Roland Rozario, a council officer, was doing a routine survey of a railway level crossing with a colleague last week, taking 10 or 12 photos, reports the Melbourne Herald Sun.

[demlosers]

[chance33_98]

There's my missing hubcap!

[Inyo-Mono]

Those railroad crossing signals are on the wrong side of the road!

[Leroy S. Mort]

Wesley Clark in his Time Machine.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Everyone's on the wrong side of the road in Australia.

[FreedomCalls]

I think that image is fake. The "UFO" has a faint rectangular white outline around it. The color of the sky around the "UFO" looks lighter than the rest of the background. And the pixels are larger near the "UFO" than in the rest of the picture. The are only 12 months in a year, and the date stamp shows this picture was taken on the first day of the 15th month in 2004 -- and yet it's only 1.23.2004 so far. It's very crude. Too many mistakes.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Nah, that looks more like my tinfoil hat.

[JenB]

All but your last point are valid - this was taken in Australia, in many other countries they date day/month/year, indicating January 15.

[Leroy S. Mort]

this picture was taken on the first day of the 15th month in 2004

The common date format in much of the world is day/month/year.

[Revolting cat!]

"Xing" is misspelled on the sign!

[July 4th]

You most likely can change the date settings on your digital camera to day/month/year. Check out the date functions on your digital camera.

[Atticus]

[DMCA]

You are wrong.

It was take down under and should be upside down.

Duh!

[Leroy S. Mort]

The first and larger UFO on the left is obviously a fake. There's a definite box around it and it's all blurry.

[eddie willers]

The common date format in much of the world is day/month/year.

Boy did you ever miss the joke.

[eddie willers]

The first and larger UFO on the left is obviously a fake. There's a definite box around it and it's all blurry.

Now you got it!

[DMCA]

It was a joke. And YYYY/MM/DD is a much better system than MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY.

[demlosers]

It looks like a flying sombrero.

[PokeyJoe]

posted to put Michael Moore at the top spot in Google.

see tag

[Leroy S. Mort]

Boy did you ever miss the joke.

Everyone knows I have no sense of humor (or is it humour..hmmm)