- Comment
Fred Gunn
- 9-4-6
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- Hi Jeff,
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- After reviewing the article and analyzing the photo of
the "UFO" at the Nepalese temple, I am of the opinion that this
is a kite. Kite flying is a festive seasonal activity in Nepal and is popular
around the temples as the social belief is that it sends a messsage to
the gods to remind them not to send any more rain. It's also a means of
contacting and honoring ancestors, and of guiding recently released souls
to the heaven. And if you look at the attached photos of Nepalese kites,
you'll see their shape differs from what I remember my father showing me
how to make here in America. The Nepalese kite is like two equal sized
pyramids inverted over each other, whereas the kite I learned to make had
a stretched out pyramid shape from the horizontal cross-member towards
the ground.
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- The UFO in the article has this same shape associated
with Nepalese kites and the color and sometimes cartoonish features. There
has to be someone on the ground behind the temple flying the kite but it
is too far away to show the string even with a blow up image. Looks like
the festival is just starting.
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- Anyway, this is my analyis for what it's worth.
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- Peace,
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- Fred Gunn
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- Comment
Name Witheld
9-4-6
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- Hi,
- I am a professional in photography and imaging. I would
love to see an image of a UFO and I'm sure that they exist, but I am very
sure that this picture does not show a real flying object.
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- As said in the article, there may very well have been
no *digital* manipulation, as this photo has not been taken by a digital
camera at all and is by no means an original image file. Proof:
- + size of the image is 1280 x 884 pixel. This is not
an original digital
- camera format.
- + No EXIF data in the jpeg file (which virtually every
digital camera writes to their jpeg files).
- + Look at the file in a hex editor and you see in the
first lines that it has been processed by Adobe Photoshop 3.0.
- + jpeg compression has been applied in *post-processing*
and is therefore obviously coherent throughout the image - masking any
revealing details.
- + there is a fine white border at the lower left and
upper right of the image, which shows that the image has been slightly
tilted to the left, with white background shining through.
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- (Note: some of the above info may be the result
of our resaving the file after cropping off a left hand white area. This
was the only change made. - webmaster)
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- My conclusion so far: I expect this to be a reproduction
(scanned or otherwise) of an image that has probably been printed on photographic
paper; it might also be the result of a film scan.
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- Attached, you find an enlargement of the "UFO"
and you see that it is not symmetrical, which I would expect. The right
half is somewhat longer (the difference shown in "b"), the vertical
axis is not at right angles with the horizontal "body". Look
at the significant difference in shape of the upper left and right parts
of the object. If this is a UFO, it has probably had a very bad accident.
;-)
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- This image does not give me any reason to believe that
this is a craft. If this has not been manually and intentionally applied,
I would guess that during the film development process, the then wet and
soft gelatin has been scratched and slightly shifted to the sides of the
scratch. This, of course, could very easily be seen with a brief look at
the original (negative or transparency) film.
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- I think it would serve the matter if you were more critical
with publicising images like this.
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- Thanks a lot for your brillant work though, which I am
very grateful for.
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- All the best,
- Name Witheld
- Germany
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- Thank you for your input, but we must disagree regarding
being 'more critical.' We've seen many non-symmetrical UFOs. We prefer
to present the evidence as is and let the people weigh in. - webmaster
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- Comment
David Sereda
www.DavidSereda.Blogspot.com
9-4-6
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- Hi James, I zoomed in on the pixels in the hi-res file
and it does not look like there is another layer added in photoshop. The
color reflections on the surface of the UFO are consistent with the grey-blues
in the sky-clouds. In fact they match perfectly. When a person adds a layer
in photoshop, the pixels from the new layer set on top of the primary layer
and you can see the displacement in color tone and squares.
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- The shading, color tones and light look the same as the
actual photo. I think this is another example of interdimensional photography:
the camera seeing what the human eye does not.
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- They are here!
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- Sincerely,
- David Sereda
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