A photo taken in February 1965 has
sparked debate over a UFO seemingly seen in the background.
The official Defence Force photographer snapped the picture of the navy cruiser Royalist whilst the ship was on its way back from Waitangi celebrations.
The photograph was recently dug out for a new website for Devonport Navy Museum. The staff member who found it checked the negative, then called in a digital imaging expert, who established that the image was in the original.
Opinions on the identity of the 'UFO' differ.
Museum director David Wright said there was nothing to explain what it was.
The object appeared to be some distance in front of the ship and none of the sailors working on the bow was taking any notice, as would be expected if something was going on.
He said it looked to be too distant to be a dinner plate thrown from the bridge and the same would apply to a clay pigeon used as a shooting target. The angle of the object and absence of visible lines suggested it was not a parachute.
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However, Carter Observatory senior astronomer Brian Carter disagrees.
He said that when the object was enlarged it had a sharp edge to it. Under the same enlargement, the edge of the cliff on the right and the bow of the ship were not that sharp, he said.
That suggested the object was quite close and therefore quite small.
He believed it was something thrown from the bridge or some other part of the ship.
Comments
Kind of a dorky looking UFO. It looks like a flattened parachute.
It looks pretty shallow for a parachute, but that seems reasonable.
I'm guessing it's something small above the boat.
The fact that it seems to be in sharp focus is a pretty good argument that it's not big and distant.
Or, of course, it could be something small and close-up that fell off the bridge, or something else altogether.
Although I suppose all the old alien-sighting pictures would have that same problem by now. I wonder why this has never occured to me before.
It looks sort like the cap off a torpedo to me. Maybe they were throwing bits of ordnance around as a frisbee? 😊
*How did aliens land on the ship without being seen?
And
*Why did the aliens throw a bowl from the ship?
By the way, this photo just turned up in a museum, and no one is claiming a UFO sighting that was hushed up all these years, right?
No kites. No parachutes. No salad bowls. No aliens. Sigh.
"No kites. No parachutes. No salad bowls. No aliens. Sigh."
So, Wendy, how much DO you charge to poop a party?
Who says they have to be our size n_n
Heh, like in hitchhikers when they get eaten by a dog.
T.
Five thousand bucks. But I'm booked right through Christmas, sorry.
...no real ground for my comment, huh?
T.
Peace. 😊
T.
Cordially,
Almighty Toby of the Porlops
No kites. No parachutes. No salad bowls. No aliens. Sigh"
-- posted by Wendy
Ahh, but who chipped the negatives? It was the aliens, I tell you!!! They did it in order to cover over the Zarkon battlecruiser that would otherwise have been visible!!!!!
As per the original article, digital imaging expert Hans Weichselbaum "performed a high resolution scan. This established that the object was part of the original image."
This ruled out a blob of emulsion or other flaw on the photo.
If you look carefully at the photo, even if it was an object directly above teh ship, it would be at least trash can lid sized and looks far too high up for even a light object of that size to be thrown.
Also, surely somebody would be looking up at it if another sailer on deck had thrown an object above them.
Yes, it does resemble a parachute but that explanation does not exactly fit, either IMHO.
followed by a light generator rotating from inside to serve as an energy ... y do we used magnets ???
by connecting any kind of magnet form to each other can give us an output movements that we
can be used to manuever the craft we need to pointed the magnets change its nodes to get
the movements output ... y do we used light generator i also have some footage of ufo that it has many more lights can u explain that to me ??? we used it for receiving light coming into the sun and planets to maintain its power generated and also rechargeable it's a simple way of showing that there is a light generated inside not for the purpose of lighting some dark places because it's a spy craft from other planets ... y does ufo craft faster than our aircraft and maintain sometimes its balanced ??? because of its built-in magnet
the speed generated even much more faster than we expected if we transferred electric energy to it's magnets to force
it to move in unexpected light speed that cannot be calculated if the more electric energy apply into it, oval closed lid means of showing the balanced is in there a window from the top
purposed is not to rotate the craft because its's balanced are also right there ...
i have a hightech dreams related into itlight generated power and generated but its look like a tower ...