Clark Kent reporting?

It was the Tupac Hologram flying the Tupacmobile

Is it that he looks like Wil ?

StaleCoffee: sycraft: PC LOAD LETTER: My 5dMkII with a 400mm lens was able to identify a stray balloon from a mile away. I guess no photographers are UFO buffs.

No, none of them are. Nobody ever shoots a UFO with a high quality camera. This is in part because alien believer types tend to be, well, not that monied and as such don't have good equipment. The other reason is that normally if you see a UFO and look at it with a good lens, it isn't so "U" anymore because you can figure out what it is.

Yep, using a high quality camera to identify the balloon usually dismantles the whole aliens idea.

Straight-on flash phone cameras, however, are renowned for their quality ghost and UFO captures.

There's a "haunted house" in Santa Fe who had this whole thing about how a ghost appeared in the photograph. After close examination, it was clearly the scratches on the mirror that happened to vaguely look like a woman with long hair. If I had the right angle for flash and the right exposure, I would be able to reproduce it fully. Reality is boring.

PC LOAD LETTER: StaleCoffee: sycraft: PC LOAD LETTER: My 5dMkII with a 400mm lens was able to identify a stray balloon from a mile away. I guess no photographers are UFO buffs.

No, none of them are. Nobody ever shoots a UFO with a high quality camera. This is in part because alien believer types tend to be, well, not that monied and as such don't have good equipment. The other reason is that normally if you see a UFO and look at it with a good lens, it isn't so "U" anymore because you can figure out what it is.

Yep, using a high quality camera to identify the balloon usually dismantles the whole aliens idea.

Straight-on flash phone cameras, however, are renowned for their quality ghost and UFO captures.

There's a "haunted house" in Santa Fe who had this whole thing about how a ghost appeared in the photograph. After close examination, it was clearly the scratches on the mirror that happened to vaguely look like a woman with long hair. If I had the right angle for flash and the right exposure, I would be able to reproduce it fully. Reality is boring.

Err "a ghost appeared in a photograph of a certain mirror". I seem to be doing the typing of the meow said the cat interesting character of the person.

sycraft: PC LOAD LETTER: My 5dMkII with a 400mm lens was able to identify a stray balloon from a mile away. I guess no photographers are UFO buffs.

No, none of them are. Nobody ever shoots a UFO with a high quality camera. This is in part because alien believer types tend to be, well, not that monied and as such don't have good equipment. The other reason is that normally if you see a UFO and look at it with a good lens, it isn't so "U" anymore because you can figure out what it is.

This. It's really not that hard to get a decent enough shot of something in the sky with a decent camera and lens, even if you don't have much warning.

For example, I was preparing to take some pics on the Columbia River while driving home from Spokane one day, and before I even had a chance to turn the camera on two F-18s on a training exercise came screaming by just a few hundred feet above the river. Even though I only had seconds to turn on my camera and focus, I was still able to get a good enough picture so anyone can clearly identify what it was:



That was on a cloudy day with an Olympus E-330 with no built in image stabilization and a 18-180 lens that only F6.3 when at maximum zoom. With newer cameras with IS and very good performance at high ISOs, it should be no problem to get a decent picture of even a fast moving UFO if they indeed exist.

jehovahs witness protection: Hi I'm Joel, and my camera sucks, so I made video of people with better cameras taking pictures.

Pretty much this---

PC LOAD LETTER: My 5dMkII with a 400mm lens was able to identify a stray balloon from a mile away. I guess no photographers are UFO buffs.

You sound fat.

JonnyBGoode: Is it ironic that he looks like Wil Wheaton?

Only if you are Alanis Morissette. Otherwise, no.

/ I hope this dude shows up for X-Day this year. I have been waiting to get off this planet and onto the pleasure saucers.
// 1998 my ass!

Kay: All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

Huh...

"U"nidentified -> We dont know what it was.
"F"lying. -> It was in the sky.
"O"bject. -> It was a thing.

They saw a UFO, proof in the definition.
They didn't claim to see aliens, just a "wtf is that?"

Beep boop beep beep boop.

Boop boop boop beep beep.

Beep beep boop beep beep.

;)

KrispyKritter: Bob's Big Boy

Well, in many ways, the Big Boy never left.