Is this really unexploded ordnance?

CNN.COM ^ | 10-15-01 | me

[finnman69]

I wonder if this is really unexploded ordnance or is this maybe a drop tank? Any experts care to weigh in? The scale of this picture is a little misleading with that figure in the background, but on news footage i saw this weekend this object appeared to be 8' to 10' long.

[jonathonandjennifer]

I think you're right, both of same object. The guy in the second pic must be 60 feet down the hill behind the object.

Maybe it's a SCUD....... no, it looks too damm good.

[michigander]

Gulliver's Travels?

Seriously, the pictures are (without a doubt) taken from different (completely opposite?) angles and ground levels, and at (significantly?) different times of day (check out the shadow lengths).

Is it unexploded ordnace as claimed?
I'm not even an amature expert. But, IMHO, that is a jettisoned external fuel tank from some sort of aircraft.

Purposely done?!?

[jlogajan]

Seriously, the little leprechun guy is just down the steep hill from the tank. It is not a doctored picture, but it is exceedingly dishonest.

[Terrorista Nada]

OK... so where's the "steep hill" in the first pic where the people look 50' tall? I am a semi-professional photographer.

[ken5050]

Bingo!!!..It's a promo shot for the Discovery Channel's broadcast of "Raising the Mammoth"

[Delta 21]

Occationally the U.S. Military drops these types of devices in the hopes that during the jubilant celebration after the initial bombing, one of the celebrants will kick the device thus causing it to explode. This can dramatically increase the efficiency of the attack.

LET'S ROLLDelta 21

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

I believe it's the same object, I know that the following illustrations don't prove it, but it has me convinced.

[11bravo]

it looks exactly like an object last seen in Hillary's purse.

[Hillary 666]

It's a combination Taliban suppository and Roman candle. We decided not to wait until the 4th of July.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh they are absolutely of the same object....

But this PROVES there's a world-wide terrorist conspiracy against us.

See, now we have absolute photographic PROOF that the IRA has sent "leproafghanan's" against us, complete with seven-league boots. There's one "little-people" standing right there in the crater this drop tank made.

And, since the "leproafghanan's" are hiding the Taliban's weapns and antrack arsenal, we'll never find it now!

[Terrorista Nada]

I agree with you, it's the same object, but the lower pic is doctored to make the object appear much larger by placing an overlay small figure of a person in the pic.

For all you doubters, there is no slope close enough to the object to cause the altered depth perception you say makes the man looks small and the object so large.

I'm an avocational archeologist, a flint-knapper, and an amateur (semi-professional, award-winning) outdoor photographer.

The cobbles (rounded worn stones) in the lower picture are much larger in relation to the man, than they are in the top picture. The lower pic is doctored, if it is the same ordnance or fuel tank.

The question is? Who did it? Would the slime-ball liberal press stoop this low? It's very easy to do on a computer with a digital photo. But I'm not going to argue my point ad infinitum and possibly make a fool of myself :)

Either way, it definitely is NOT munitions.

[Salamander]

It's actually the cover from Erik Von Daniken's newest book "Suppositories Of The Gods".

[Cagey]

That photo was on the front page of my local newspaper yesterday and they too described it as "unexploded ordnance". I can't wait to see the retraction this morning. Yea, right.

[Terrorista Nada]

Dream on... TNN* is probably doctoring new pics as we speak.

*Terrorist News Network

[Nita Nupress]

Where did you originally see the photo that you posted -- the apparently distorted photo of the drop tank made to look like its a 25-foot unexploded ordinance? IOW, in what context was the photo and how did you come across it?

The URL for the distorted photo is http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/15/gen.attack.on.terror/story.koram.village.ap.jpg, and the URL for the story linked in #48 by Steve 0113 is http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/14/ret.koram.village/.

Did CNN run TWO stories on how the USA is bombing and maiming the poor innocent Taliban, or did they yank the distorted photo from the story after you posted this thread?

[michigander]

There's a new captions under these pictures at the Yahoo! News site here and here.
It reads:

EDS. PLEASE NOTE: ADDS TO XEM107, TRANSMITTED OCT. 14, 2001, THAT OBJECT IS THE SAME AS THAT PICTURED IN XEM110 TRANSMITTED THE SAME DAY. INCREASED SIZE IS DUE TO WIDE ANGLE LENS USED FOR XEM107--In this image made while under Taliban escort, a resident from a nearby village walks next to ordnance Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001, in the village of Karam, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Taliban officials brought a group of foreign journalists to Karam Sunday to show them the damage caused by what they claim was a U.S. air attack. Type of ordnance in photo could not be confirmed. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Looks like they may lurk here, eh? ;-)

[RedWing9]

Hola! Good to see you here, as always right on top of things!

See ya around :o)

[lly]

The guy is taller than the object. Compare their shadows.

[thescourged1]

I concur, I smell a hoax. Also note the gash in the skin towards the tip.