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Leaked Government Photo Shows ‘Motionless, Cube-Shaped’ UFO
- Thread starter Forerunner
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One of the mylar balloons at my sons birthday party got loose yesterday. I think this is it. Sorry.
Could be a force field to make it impervious to space rocks and missile strikes?Enhance...
When you zoom in on the object in the original/"untouched" cockpit photo, there are clearly some sort of lines/strokes above the object, which for some reason are not visible in the cropped shot in the OP. (and I'm guessing the original article)
Cropped photo from OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Cropped/zoomed-in from original full-size cockpit shot in OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Now I'm not a digital photo forensics expert, but doesn't that look like a brush stroke someone made in Photoshop?
That, or some kind of energy field around the cube-fo/camp tent/dark knight or whatever the fuck that is.
Yup. It amazes me how much people on this forum love to pride themselves on being rational, but as soon as it comes to stuff like this they start entertaining conspiracy theories. It doesn't matter if many are half-joking. Normalizing this kind of paranoia is dangerous.
Enhance...
When you zoom in on the object in the original/"untouched" cockpit photo, there are clearly some sort of lines/strokes above the object, which for some reason are not visible in the cropped shot in the OP. (and I'm guessing the original article)
Cropped photo from OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Cropped/zoomed-in from original full-size cockpit shot in OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Could it just be compression when someone cropped it and converted to png or whatever.
Now I'm not a digital photo forensics expert, but doesn't that look like a brush stroke someone made in Photoshop?
That, or some kind of energy field around the cube-fo/camp tent/dark knight or whatever the fuck that is.
Why isn't one of the poll options U.F.O. This after all meets the very definition. Also the inability for people to simply say "yo I don't know what the fuck that is" is crazy to me.
Or that.
Edit: But the compression artifacts follow the object's outline a bit too religiously to be just random artifacts...oh well.
Why does you mind jump to anything other than "That looks like a balloon"? Like, I didn't even see everyone else's posts before I decided "Huh, that's a good balloon... where the fucking cube?"
If I unexpectedly saw something that looked like chair in the woods, I would think its a chair, not that it might be big foot.
Honestly, I'm just impressed that they were able to snap a decent pic of that balloon while moving so damn fast.
Uh.... the descriptions in the OP's quotes?
Maybe the balloon was moving equally fast, that would make it quite easy... 🤔
Probably. Anything to justify more military spending; aliens. Also hoping other countries waste money trying to find them. You want other countries to waste as much money as possible to keep your competitive edge.
The program referenced that this photo came from led to several back channels for private contractors. Essentially super easy way for certain shady fucks to bypass freedom of information requests while giving their buds huge uncontested government contracts.
I dont think these were actually meant to be released, wasn't it leaked? The ones they meant to release were the ones not so easily (but still totally) explained by youtube amateurs. The program probably had copies of all pilot reports, some more convincing/confusing than others. My guess at least. Which, if accurate means they basically just outsourced the real work of explanation to the public while keeping these secretive projects and contracts and backchannels free of accountability active.
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How is that a cube?
Not sure I'd trust someone who was disoriented enough that they couldn't tell basic shapes...
Not sure I'd trust someone who was disoriented enough that they couldn't tell basic shapes...
Post of the year. And I want to believe lol. People are just looking for stuff to fill their mundane lives with. It's usually stuff like this, anti-vax, Q-Anon etc.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. It used to be fun goofy whimsy to talk about UFOs and "Aliens built the pyramids" 20 years ago, but thanks to fucking YouTube and social media it's all bled into far more harmful shit now. You're only a few clicks away from some dangerous stuff and if you're already in the mindset to be "asking questions" that makes you a prime target. It all needs to be culled.
Enhance...
When you zoom in on the object in the original/"untouched" cockpit photo, there are clearly some sort of lines/strokes above the object, which for some reason are not visible in the cropped shot in the OP. (and I'm guessing the original article)
Cropped photo from OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Cropped/zoomed-in from original full-size cockpit shot in OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Now I'm not a digital photo forensics expert, but doesn't that look like a brush stroke someone made in Photoshop?
That, or some kind of energy field around the cube-fo/camp tent/dark knight or whatever the fuck that is.
This is just compression artifacting. Jpegs separate images into blocks (8x8 pixels I think) instead of rendering it all individually which results in jumbled pixels of colour and sort of a haloing effect. Just looks like a scaling of that compression or second compression artifacting and how it interpreted it.
That's just JPEG artifacts.Enhance...
When you zoom in on the object in the original/"untouched" cockpit photo, there are clearly some sort of lines/strokes above the object, which for some reason are not visible in the cropped shot in the OP. (and I'm guessing the original article)
Cropped photo from OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Cropped/zoomed-in from original full-size cockpit shot in OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Now I'm not a digital photo forensics expert, but doesn't that look like a brush stroke someone made in Photoshop?
That, or some kind of energy field around the cube-fo/camp tent/dark knight or whatever the fuck that is.
Graphic designer here.
....I can't be the only one whose ever zoomed in on a jpeg before, right? That's just from the image being compressed.Enhance...
When you zoom in on the object in the original/"untouched" cockpit photo, there are clearly some sort of lines/strokes above the object, which for some reason are not visible in the cropped shot in the OP. (and I'm guessing the original article)
Cropped photo from OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Cropped/zoomed-in from original full-size cockpit shot in OP (brightness/contrast-adjusted)
Now I'm not a digital photo forensics expert, but doesn't that look like a brush stroke someone made in Photoshop?
That, or some kind of energy field around the cube-fo/camp tent/dark knight or whatever the fuck that is.
I'm not saying it's aliens, but you guys thinking that the object in the picture is a birthday balloon when the object is probably miles away from the jet is ludicrous.
The eyes can see about 3 miles on the ground. But unobstructed vision while in a plane can be as much as 12 miles. That thing is a lot farther away than you think but it looks closer because you don't have a frame of reference with nothing else around it.
The eyes can see about 3 miles on the ground. But unobstructed vision while in a plane can be as much as 12 miles. That thing is a lot farther away than you think but it looks closer because you don't have a frame of reference with nothing else around it.
Exactly. That Batman balloon people keep reposting here is 40cm in size, that's the size of a PS5. For you to be able to snap a casually pic with your cellphone of a PS5 at that size like in the picture you would have to be around 2-3 meters (6-8feet) from it away. This object looks way further away than that, so it has to be something significantly bigger.
Furthermore, the report says that the object was completely motionless and didn't react to any ambient wind currents. They would know if it was a balloon, come on now people.
I'm not saying it's aliens, but Era saying its a batman ballon is equally ridiculous.
...but if you don't have a frame of reference, what makes you think it's farther away? It could be anywhere in that space.
Without more info, I fall on the "what's more likely?"question. And given it looks exactly like that balloon, and all we have is a blurry photo and a fallable human's word, I'm going to need something more to believe it's anything other than exactly what it looks like.
You do know how fast those jets normally cruise at right? That jet isn't standing still when they took the pic...
Maybe I'm getting trolled here i can't tell
