These two photos were sent to a UFO site a few years back. The sender, named Martha, said: The attached photos were taken about 4 seconds apart using a 400 speed film.The site host said: Notice by the gate. There is a human shaped anomaly in the first photo and four seconds later there is no human shaped anomaly. I cropped these photos to show only the gate, instead of the whole scene in front of the camera but in the original, there is a much wider view and in that, no body can move out of camera range in four seconds.
I now ask: What is your immediate reaction to this?
1] Wry smile of disbelief - such things can't happen;
2] Wry smile of disbelief - of course the figure moved out of range;
3] How can you trust either Martha or the conspiracy fanatic not to have doctored the photo;
4] Might be something in it - can't be sure - not enough evidence;
5] The evidence is there in front of you - what more do you need?
the first four, but not the fifth, though there was a time when I would have said that too.
ReplyDeleteLook - I mean, isn't it interesting anyway? Isn't the very chance of something else other than our sheer banality existing worthwhile pondering? At least I think so.
The trouble is, this whole subject, ghosts, ufos, etc - is so plagued by forgery, paranoia, moneymaking, mistakes, and downright stupidity that it makes disentangling the interesting from the crap difficult.
A good example of the interesting is the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, which has never been convincingly explained (which is not the same as saying that The Skeptic has done a report on it).
You're referring to this, I think, Tin Drumemr:
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