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In recent years, the internet has been bombarded with fake
UFO footage that is really simply out-of-focus shots of
commonplace objects, such as bright stars and light bulbs.
UFO investigator Tom King has analyzed some of these
images and found that they do not stand up to examination
by a knowledgeable videographer.
King says, ? The trick is the camera lens has to be out of
focus and you need just the right illumination. Millions of
people with these video cameras get these images on a
weekly basis trying to tape things at night. Very few end up
on internet websites as UFOs.? He shows examples of similar
shots he?s made by adjusting the focus on his camera.
King goes on to say, ?First off I made it my business to learn
as much about video cameras as I could?From my library of
hundreds of UFO tapes, I could post hundreds of out of focus
shots to nail this coffin shut forever on this blurry?stuff
that the UFO community just can?t seem to shake.?
He makes this offer: ?Take your video camera and record
Jupiter or other bright objects out of focus and e-mail me the
still pics along with your camcorder model number and I?ll
post them [on my website] to create a database on the end
result.?
To see videos and clips of UFOs believed by King to be
ordinary out-of-focus objects,
click here.
To read Tom King?s analysis,
click here.
Meanwhile, UFOs are flying around up north in incredible
numbers. From a strange funnel of fire in Alberta to a
triangle of light flying over Nova Scotia, reports of
unidentified flying objects increased 42 per cent last year in
Canada. ?We?re not sure [why],? says UFO researcher Chris
Rutkowski. ?We?re thinking that perhaps more people are
seeing something that?s really there or perhaps more people
are aware of how or whether they should report things.?
The trend started well before the terrorist attacks of
September 11 in the U.S., so that has been ruled out as a
factor. British Columbia was the best place to be in Canada
to spot a UFO. The province accounted for 123 of the 374
reported sightings and has led the country in sightings since
1999. Ontario was next with 87 sightings and Alberta was
third with 40 reports.
?All of the cases were investigated by researchers in various
parts of the country,? says Rutkowski. ?About 15 per cent
were left unexplained. The rest either had explanations or we
didn?t have enough information to make an evaluation.?
Included among the unexplained was the fire funnel that left
a crater more than 100 feet wide in a field near Etzikom,
Alberta. ?Some astronomers and experts in meteorites
investigated and decided that it wasn?t [a meteorite],? he
says.
Sightings were even reported in the sparsely populated north
of the country. ?There was a cigar-shaped object that
hopped
as it flew?over Whitehorse,? says Rutkowski. It was seen at
10:30 a.m. and left a vapor trail as it moved across the sky,
disappeared behind a mountain, then returned. ?Pilots flying
a supply plane in Nunavut saw a stationary light [hovering]
over the ground in an area that?s uninhabited and they
couldn?t explain it.?
Other sightings included six orange objects spotted in V
formation over Portage la Prairie, Manitoba and a luminous
object that hung in the sky over Hull, Quebec for two
consecutive nights before appearing to explode. Airline pilots
flying over Craik, Saskatchewan saw what they thought were
the lights of another aircraft until they were told by air traffic
controllers that there was no other plane on radar. Three
dots of white light ?played tag? with each other over
Richmond, British Columbia.
?There were a number of odd cases,? says
Rutkowski ?There?s a mixture of things that we?re seeing
from one end of the country to another. For a case to make
the list of the best cases, it?s not just the unusual quality of
the report but also how well investigated it was and how
reliable the source was.?
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