UFO over Indiana Pennsylvania (near pittsburgh)

[Athlon7]

PDW, Hallucinating because of being tired, sick, being excessively right hemisphere dominant... Or just attention seeking!

That image does look fake though :-/

Also, tr1kstanc3, if you're not joking, I'd suggest pulling out of reading books like you mentioned. Sagan's Demon Haunted World would be a far better book to read in that instance. I'd imagine that if you looked back at your childhood there was probably a TV show, a conversation, or some such similar incident that you mentally latched onto. Realize and research the source of your dreams, the reasons for your paranoias, and the biological explanation for your lucid dreams/out of body experiences. You will be much more mentally healthy.

[dougkinzinger]

Uhhh doug, then what was it?

Chicken.

[Schmoove]

You never hear about UFO sightings here in Europe (hardly...), maybe americans are mentally instable :p

[Sophism]

well one way to see if the imaged where faked are to see the video.. its hard to fake a video with an object zooming around.

[neufuse Veteran]

sheesh, sorry I shared the fact we saw this with you guys...

1) images on a tape a night like that all have a similar shape just freaking look at the rest of them, and if you saw the motion video you'd see that it moves up and down very quickly then vanishes just as quick

2) who ever said alien? I sure never did, i even stated it could be military.. gawd, who knows what tech we have that we don't know about, the stealth bomber wasn't declassified until the gulf war and before that people that saw it thought it was one too

3) I think a that a lot of you are very close minded, the fact taht you discredit things off the bat is so stupid.

and once again... I NEVER SAID THIS WAS ALIEN! gawd so give it up on that

Edited May 17, 2004 by neufuse

[jackwanders]

sure, they may have a similar shape but the lamp and your UFO consist of the exact same pixels. Even the same colors. Hell, even some of the surrounding pixels are identical. The chances that the UFO just happened to appear in the sky with the same color as the lamp and at the right distance so it's image on tape was the exact same size as the lamp and consisted of the exact same pixels, including surrounding pixels, are nil buddy.

So don't go posting some sob story to make us feel bad for not believing you. You want our sympathy, then post the video.

Edited May 17, 2004 by Jack31081

[darthfader]

and suddenly it droped straight down behind the hill (there is a hill off in the distance about half a mile and it has trees all over it)

when it came back it kinda snuck back from behind the hill and hid in the trees... we could see it behind the trees hovering (keep in mind this is about half a mile away)

If it was that close then go see what?s there, what was it on about. See you can find any burnings on the trees, ashes on the ground or something, make pictures or video.

Then we will belive you.

Oh, watch out for the reptiles.:ninja::

[icexswipe]

well u dont have to prove anything

some will believe you, some will not

do as u wish, thanks for sharing the story nevertheless (dony be sorry u did, coz some pple wont believe u)

fake or real

got me interested

be really cool if u can post the video tho

[ThePDW]

exact same pixels, including surrounding pixels

They weren't the "exact same" if you look closely there is an obvious difference in the pixels, namely at the top. Yes they were close but I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt...

[jackwanders]

you obviously didn't fully read my previous post. It would have been too blatantly obvious if he didn't erase the pinkish pixels on the top of the white light. We like to call that the 'eraser' tool in Photoshop.

Why should we give him the benefit of the doubt? Why?

[Hum]

out of the corner of my eye I saw this bight object a few hundred feet it appeard in the sky...

I must admit I am scared as heck...

;) Don't worry -- they won't hurt you.

Just my fellow Venusians coming to visit your primative Earth.

[Ivand]

I wish it wasnt so dark out... after it started acting wierd I grabed my sony dv cam and put it on the tripod to record the sky and i was just watching the tape and it appeared in about 40 of the frames... here is one of them... its a little hard to see being at night but the highest object in the picture is it.... this is looking out over our deck twards a few houses in a field (the lower lights) the higher light is up in the air...

Uhm, i dont believe in aliens, and that pic wont make me believe either ;)

[HPMCommander]

I increased the contrast...

[HPMCommander]

Zoomed in, they are clearly different.

[Ciderx]

they are not clearly different. The core of both images are not just both the same pixel shape, but exactly the same in terms of RGB of the pixel. The chances of two images having exactly the same RGB values in the same pattern in an ordinary photo are so miniscule as to be statistically inprobable.

[area91]

Huh....saw this on CNN.

[jackwanders]

Zoomed in, they are clearly different.

So you're gonna apply a filter to the image and then go on to say that the two lights are clearly different??? Are you insane, or do you just not understand anything about bitmaps and image manipulation.

Which comparison do you consider more legit? A comparison of the pixels as they were given to us by the photogorapher...or, a comparison after the image has been modified??

Look. It's really simple folks. You use the good ol' lasso tool to select the largest streetlamp. You copy it and paste it up in the sky. Then, you use the eraser in pen mode at about 5px width and erase just a bit of the pink glow from the top, just to make it look a bit different.

Look at the image again. This time, I made an animation that overlays the images.

Note: These are from the original photo. NOT some manipulate, enhanced version. Also, there is not transparency going on here. First you see the lamp, then the ufo, then back again.

[jackwanders]

they are not clearly different. The core of both images are not just both the same pixel shape, but exactly the same in terms of RGB of the pixel. The chances of two images having exactly the same RGB values in the same pattern in an ordinary photo are so miniscule as to be statistically inprobable.

thank you. I didn't know this concept was so hard for some people to grasp.

[Hankyone]

I increased the contrast...

theses are lamps

[imtoomuch]

Zoomed in, they are clearly different.

Haha... They are "clearly" different? I think not.

[x2cube]

my dad has told me a really weird story about an alien encounter he had, I'll tell you guys about it later if he tells me I can

[A.K.R.]

You never hear about UFO sightings here in Europe (hardly...), maybe americans are mentally instable :p

We rarely get them over here in Asia too...

[A.K.R.]

they are not clearly different. The core of both images are not just both the same pixel shape, but exactly the same in terms of RGB of the pixel. The chances of two images having exactly the same RGB values in the same pattern in an ordinary photo are so miniscule as to be statistically inprobable.

Yeah...

I did my own analysis after I got the photo and went offline. I blew up the picture 8 times and compared the detail of the UFO and one of the street light.

Here is the result of my analysis (may take a while to load if you have a slow internet connection like me):

[A.K.R.]

Zoomed in, they are clearly different.

No. There are still some very similar places if you look close enough.

[fishie]

you people are whackjobs