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	<title>Comments on: It&#039;s official: Post-Gazette has lost it</title>
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		<title>By: larry</title>
		<link>http://steelcityskeptics.net/2009/03/22/its-official-post-gazette-has-lost-it/#comment-282</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i read this useless bit of infomation.... makes me laugh that stupidity is still in this world.....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i read this useless bit of infomation&#8230;. makes me laugh that stupidity is still in this world&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: Geis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken in low light conditions, the &quot;shutter&quot; on the digital camera can remain open for a long time so that any movement in the frame streaks and trails. The background is fairly crisp so I suspect that the camera is on a tripod. The lack of reflection suggests that there was no flash used, only ambient light. The moving &quot;whatever&quot; clearly has five elements. A green light. A red light. A white light. A fuzzy blur. And a faint purple track. The tracks off all of these objects all leave similar tracks indicating that they are all connected. (the purple track isn&#039;t quite so obviously part of the same object as some of it&#039;s motion is off the frame) The white light fades away. The tracks have a certain amount of shake or jerkyness in their motion.

So my suspicion: The sweat shirted arm at the right is in the right position for that person to have held some sort of electronic device in the frame, wave it about and then move it out of the way. The jerkiness of the track suggests that the device is on a handle rather than in the palm. The blury area may actually the light reflecting off of the moving hand itself but there are some very straight elements in the blur that may be something other than a hand. Perhaps the device handle or some other part of whatever it is.

So, to someone who has access to the tools that were on site, it shouldn&#039;t be too difficult to find the device, perhaps with a long handle and a number of LEDs, that was used in this picture. The image in the digital probably also has a time stamp on it. It should be also simple to ask what the person with a grey sweatshirt what they were doing at that time. One couild also look at other pictures and video taken at that time to determine what else was going on.

And these are just my thoughts typed up while I&#039;m sitting here. There&#039;s a lot of other things I&#039;m sure that could be done to determine what exactly is going on in this photograph.

Maybe when I get home tonight I&#039;ll see if I can recreate this.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Taken in low light conditions, the &#8220;shutter&#8221; on the digital camera can remain open for a long time so that any movement in the frame streaks and trails. The background is fairly crisp so I suspect that the camera is on a tripod. The lack of reflection suggests that there was no flash used, only ambient light. The moving &#8220;whatever&#8221; clearly has five elements. A green light. A red light. A white light. A fuzzy blur. And a faint purple track. The tracks off all of these objects all leave similar tracks indicating that they are all connected. (the purple track isn&#8217;t quite so obviously part of the same object as some of it&#8217;s motion is off the frame) The white light fades away. The tracks have a certain amount of shake or jerkyness in their motion.</p>
<p>So my suspicion: The sweat shirted arm at the right is in the right position for that person to have held some sort of electronic device in the frame, wave it about and then move it out of the way. The jerkiness of the track suggests that the device is on a handle rather than in the palm. The blury area may actually the light reflecting off of the moving hand itself but there are some very straight elements in the blur that may be something other than a hand. Perhaps the device handle or some other part of whatever it is.</p>
<p>So, to someone who has access to the tools that were on site, it shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult to find the device, perhaps with a long handle and a number of LEDs, that was used in this picture. The image in the digital probably also has a time stamp on it. It should be also simple to ask what the person with a grey sweatshirt what they were doing at that time. One couild also look at other pictures and video taken at that time to determine what else was going on.</p>
<p>And these are just my thoughts typed up while I&#8217;m sitting here. There&#8217;s a lot of other things I&#8217;m sure that could be done to determine what exactly is going on in this photograph.</p>
<p>Maybe when I get home tonight I&#8217;ll see if I can recreate this.</p>
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		<title>By: mikhailovich</title>
		<link>http://steelcityskeptics.net/2009/03/22/its-official-post-gazette-has-lost-it/#comment-280</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does Johnson justify using the phrases &quot;it&#039;s official: ghosts&quot; and &quot;inexplicable digital images&quot; in the same article? He&#039;s just explained the inexplicable -- but that doesn&#039;t mean the explanation is right. Don&#039;t be afraid of UFOs...be afraid of FIFOs...the Falsely Identified Flying Objects.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How does Johnson justify using the phrases &#8220;it&#8217;s official: ghosts&#8221; and &#8220;inexplicable digital images&#8221; in the same article? He&#8217;s just explained the inexplicable &#8212; but that doesn&#8217;t mean the explanation is right. Don&#8217;t be afraid of UFOs&#8230;be afraid of FIFOs&#8230;the Falsely Identified Flying Objects.</p>
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