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419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

I use StumbleUpon a lot, and today during one of my button-clicking sessions, I came upon a site called ufocasebook.com

I was under the assumption that this was a "serious" UFO site; that was until I read further and found myself on this page:

http://www.ufocasebook.com/unmannedprobeanalysis.html

Can these people seriously believe these images are real? Am I being baited?! Most of the images scream FAKE to me.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:35 am

It is just a trick by the US government to make you think that ufo pictures are too fake to believe, so you don't believe that the ufos are real. Dis-information plot. Don't fall for it.

The internet and iPods are really alien technology, you know. I think Starbucks is run by aliens as well. They put something in the coffee to make you buy M$ vista.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:56 am

That looks like an air filter or a ball bearing assembly with stuff glued to it. It could actually exist but on a smaller scale. It was probably assembled, suspended, photographed in a light box and chopped in.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:11 am

A reasonable Photoshopping effort IMHO - certainly better than what the lads produce for the HOS. I think most visitors to that site really "want to believe" so it's not like they're going to be overly critical.

Shiver, I was wondering how you were planning to work this into a bait? Last time I checked WU didn't have too many interstellar branches operating (yet).

419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

Believe me, I wasn't searching for non-existent (extra-terrestrial) UFOs! I found it during a brief stumbling session. If no one is familiar with it, I thoroughly recommend the StumbleUpon toolbar - http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:18 am

http://lawgoddess.stumbleupon.com/

Cool

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:05 am

@coronalight: those are absolutely brilliant photo's! My wife bought a canon 350 digital last year, and we are still fumbling with the manual, trying to get decent picutres. I know how much effort goes into it now, makes appreciate good pictures even more!
bow_down

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:31 am

Well from my other Hobby I have to say that this is quite a nice piece of Scalemodelling. Nicely photographed with good lighting and some good Photoshopping.

@Corona light. Those are indeed wonderfull pictures. In my own company I do a lot of Photography and always enjoy seeing other peoples work.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:14 am

The middle bit looks like it might be the rim of a washing machine or tumble dryer drum, looks like a model.
Could have done with a bit more greebling though.

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 2301

People will believe what they want to believe. Some will believe those photos are real, others won't. As for the subject, it's an interesting one. I'm still baffled as to *what* is so top-secret about 1940's weather balloon technology that it has to remain classified today. Laughing

** ACCOUNT CLOSED ** Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 766

Stargate wrote:

People will believe what they want to believe. Some will believe those photos are real, others won't. As for the subject, it's an interesting one. I'm still baffled as to *what* is so top-secret about 1940's weather balloon technology that it has to remain classified today. Laughing

It was much, much easier to let people believe stuff going in a military research facility is "t3h s3kr1t UFO" technology than actual work. You cannot buy a cover-story like that!

After all of these years, the UFO-fanatics have not found ONE single verifiable account.

--J.D.

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:31 am

An outdoor ceiling fan?... Shocked

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:42 am

You know Shiver, the way I look at it is, it is similar to these 419 letters. People want so hard to believe in something that they will overlook the signs that it is fake or not real. Then after they are so far into it, they don't want to admit they have been taken for a ride.

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:41 am

In my photography class I had a Corona bottle flying at the Efile tower. It looked very real - it was just placing another image over another picture in the dark room you can even have the "limbs" behind it by re burning the other original picture of it to make the limbs a bit darker.

Thats how the "trick" photograph was done before photoshop..

But to me that looks like a bad burn in of a ceiling fan!

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:35 am

It would have worked better if you used budlight. banghead

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 2301

@Doctor X - True. But, I'd still like to know what is still so secret about a weather balloon that it's still top secret. Hell, I can walk up and touch a F117 fighter, which was developed long after 1947. Also, don't we have satellites for weather and detection of missile launches. I'd hope we've come past the "weather balloon" technology with our military capabilities. However, we must not have. All I'm saying is that it must have been one hell of "balloon". Wink

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:09 am

DrWho wrote:

I think Starbucks is run by aliens as well. They put something in the coffee to make you buy M$ vista.

Starbucks is partly owned by Kenny G.... does that explain anything?

*** BANNED *** Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 3779

Stargate wrote:

But, I'd still like to know what is still so secret about a weather balloon that it's still top secret.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 2301

You can't be serious, TFI, can you? Project Mogul? It's not longer secret. We use satellites now, not weather balloons.

I don't think it was an alien craft that "crashed" in Roswell, but I also think that the weather balloon story is complete bunk.

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:49 pm

Why do people always equate "UFO" with "aliens"?

Although I didn't know it at the time, a couple of days ago the kid next door was playing with paper airplanes. One flew by my window. I only caught a glimpse of it and wondered what it was. I went outside to see. � voil�, it was a paper airplane.

Between the time it flew past my window and the moment I picked it up, it was a bona fide UFO, i.e. it was an object that was unidentified and flying.

I didn't suspect any involvement of aliens.

419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

Good point KD. I believe in UFOs, however only the terrestrial variety. The others, well..... don't get me started Smile

Master Baiter Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 125 Location: UK

I also use StumbleUpon a lot, but I think it's going to get worse now that eBay have bought it for $37m !

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:54 pm

Why did someone install such a huge fan outside? And what is it hooked to? Spooky.

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