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A normally sane poster from another forum just posted this up.

He says the single contrail caught his eye.

He only altered it to bring out detail. ( from blowing it up that looks consistent ) He says he has other photos. ( trying to get more )

He thought it might be some kind of experimental craft. ( the "nozzle" at the back looks very weird. The contrail exiting looks strangely turbulent.

Now he called it UFO because he doesn't know what it is



Neither do I >:boggled:

It reminds me of a WWII buzzbomb....those front nacelles could be rotable as could the slot style nozzle which in theory then gives it attitude control

But realllllly...:eye-poppi
 
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It's pretty amazing what you can do with Photoshop. Look where the wings are supposed to be. Looks like they were "cut" off the normal position, shrunk, and pasted on the rear, i.e. doctored. Cut-and-paste the engines to the front of plane. Voila.

~Dr. Imago
 
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I've looked at the pixels around the fuselage ...I do this for a living....and I have no reason to discount the original poster the only alteration is sharpening - the pixels are even around the fuselage.

There is something odd with rear nozzle distorting the contrail.

What's the point of the odd details...???
He took 4 photos because the single contrail caught his eye.
He did not know what he took a photo of at the time - it was too far away.
He only noticed the strange configuration when he looked at it on the computer.
( I've done the same thing birding - found completely unexpected images - a bee drafting a swift which took a bunch of sleuthing to sort out )

Two photos were in focus but one was not at full zoom....this one was and is consistent with photos I've taken of planes with full zoom.

Say what you will, I have at this point no reason to doubt the original poster and he's puzzled as well.
He took a photo of something strange and he does not understand what it is nor do I.

If you have something useful to contribute by all means.

Being dismissive as a photoshopped image moves nothing forward.
 
macdoc said:
I've looked at the pixels around the fuselage ...I do this for a living....and I have no reason to discount the original poster the only alteration is sharpening - the pixels are even around the fuselage.
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So, are you saying that, based on your expertise, there is no possible way he could've faked this image?

~Dr. Imago
 
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Say what you will, I have at this point no reason to doubt the original poster and he's puzzled as well.
He took a photo of something strange and he does not understand what it is nor do I.

If you have something useful to contribute by all means.

Being dismissive as a photoshopped image moves nothing forward.
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Argument from I Know Better So Shut Up? I proffer the possibility that there may even exist manipulated photos that you personally do not *gasp* recognize immediately...
 
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I've looked at the pixels around the fuselage ...I do this for a living....and I have no reason to discount the original poster the only alteration is sharpening - the pixels are even around the fuselage.
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I dispute that.

Close-up where the wing would normally be:

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With a line for measurement:

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Now, whether the disparity is due to a shadow, a curvature of the fuselage, or not-quite-careful-enough Photoshopping (or more than one of the above), what it's not is even.

Being dismissive as a photoshopped image moves nothing forward.
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Unless, of course, the image is Photoshopped.
 
Kind of a jet- or steam-powered sperm whale flying several miles above a planet.

Reminds me of 42 things. But could be the 43rd.
 
It's a Panorama Disaster! Like those cats that end up being five cats long! Or the dog with one leg...
 
macdoc said:
A normally sane poster from another forum just posted this up.

He says the single contrail caught his eye.

He only altered it to bring out detail. ( from blowing it up that looks consistent ) He says he has other photos. ( trying to get more )

He thought it might be some kind of experimental craft. ( the "nozzle" at the back looks very weird. The contrail exiting looks strangely turbulent.

Now he called it UFO because he doesn't know what it is

[URL]http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m269/macdoc/UFO_zps5d25b3bb.jpg[/URL]

Neither do I >:boggled:

It reminds me of a WWII buzzbomb....those front nacelles could be rotable as could the slot style nozzle which in theory then gives it attitude control

But realllllly...:eye-poppi
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The contrail looks perfectly normal, except that it starts too close the the craft. There will normally be some slip before the exhaust cools to the condensation point.

I call fake.

Hans
 
It looks like a photoshop of an executive jet that somebody swapped wings and engine nacelle locations. And pasted it to a single contrail.

And swapping parts form the same pic would make pixel counts match, not like cut and pasting Hillary's face onto a jet liner.

Single contrail = single engine, multiple contrail = multi engine. Except that as the multi ages, it becomes a single too. Not sure if that model executive jet with twin engines located on each side of the tail would make one contrail?

I watched a contrail just the other day. Low enough/close enough that I could see the turbulence breaking it into individual cotton balls. Funny thing I noticed about it was that the cotton balls kept moving too, right along the path the jet had taken. All the way until the contrail dissipated. I don't know whether that always happens, or whether the plane was in the jet stream which transported the contrail along. ???
 
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