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Solar Obliteration

DaN K. StAnLeY

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Has anyone every heard of Solar Obliteration? Apparently, it's a method used to capture UFO's on film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpuGGWpWi-8

If you do a quick Google search for it you can get instructions on how to do it. I tried it myself and I definitely see several little objects buzzing by the sun, and I know they aren't spacecrafts.....so what are they? Any ideas?
 
Hmm, no idea. The "theory" is that teh UFOs fly so close to the sun so we can't see them. Well, why doesn't SOHO ever capture them?

Maybe the camera pros can give us some insight what they might be. Probably some sort of artifact.
 
anyone else questioning a method that requires you to unfocus your camera ?
:D
 
Why do people assume that, just because something's in the same direction as a distant object, it must be at the same distance as that distant object?

Insects and/or dust motes within a few metres of the camera are probably the most likely explanation.
 
Greedo said:
...Well, why doesn't SOHO ever capture them?...
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It does, but NASA, being in on the conspiracy, edits all the footage before it's available to the web and general public. :p

Seriously, it's insects, dust and lens flare. Even though the Sun is masked, they're still pointing at a bright sky. Solar masking isn't particularly effective on Earth because there's still a very bright area near the Sun. SOHO does a much better job. Probably why they put it there. ;)
 
Reminds me of the mysterious flying 'rods' that started appearing on video shortly after the first digital video cameras fell into the hands of uninformed and credulous hoi-polloi.

Apparently they swarm around beehives in huge numbers :D
 
I liked this bit

'm told that the reason the UFOs fly so close to the sun is so that you can't see them. Some people claim to have used image analysis tools to magnify and enhance the objects and, as a result, can resolve space craft.

The UFO's can't be seen normally because they're flying so close to the Sun and this guy thinks that he might be able to render the shape of a spacecraft in footage shot with an 8mm camera from the surface of Earth? Riiiiight.
 
"Foolish Earthlings will not see us if we stay close to the Sun!"

"But supreme commander, couldn't we just paint the ship black and stay out here where it's cooler?"
 
Bikewer said:
"Foolish Earthlings will not see us if we stay close to the Sun!"

"But supreme commander, couldn't we just paint the ship black and stay out here where it's cooler?"
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"No way ! Remember what happened at the inspection after we used all the shoe polish ? We're not doing this again."
 
"We can travel through space at incredible velocities, our fuel source is self replicating, our life support systems eclipse anything on earth by multiple factors of 10, therefore we will utilize a tactic which the earthlings employed in the early days of flight, in fact their president, John Wayne, used this while flying a naturally aspirated fuel burning plane called a P-40, when he was the leader of the Flying Tigers, those silly Japanese Zeros could not locate the P-40 when it was in a full dive, coming out of the sun."

'Yes sir'
 
I was thinking along the lines of insects of just even some random particles flying around but my buddy is a UFO enthusiast so I wanted see if anyone on "the REF" had ever heard of this term.

I tried the technique just using some polarized glasses and it was pretty neat looking. Prolly something i will use to scare my niece and nephew.:D
 
Bikewer said:
"Foolish Earthlings will not see us if we stay close to the Sun!"

"But supreme commander, couldn't we just paint the ship black and stay out here where it's cooler?"
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"We're flying too close to the Sun! Surely our wings will melt!"
 
I admit that I did not look at the technique. The first thought that came to mind is that my camera shoots pics that are 3,456 pixels on the long edge. The diameter of the sun is 1,391,000 kilometers. That means one pixel accounts for about 450km. These must be some pretty big ships.
 
Flo said:
"No way ! Remember what happened at the inspection after we used all the shoe polish ? We're not doing this again."
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I was talking to some US Army recruiters at the Mall couple days ago, and noticed their boots were unpolished... and really couldn't be polished, much less spit-shined.
I told them "Patton would be upset!"
 
I saw MIR pass in front of the Moon.
And the ISS is identifiable with a long lens.
 
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