Air Force Officer Photographs UFO
Photo: Brian Fields/ World Net Daily
According to the World Net Daily, retired U.S. Air Force officer Col. Brian Fields recently snapped a picture of a UFO over Western Arkansas. While this is not special in itself, the fact that some claim to see a figure in the middle of the image of the light is remarkable, if true.
Whenever Air Force personnel, retired or not, are connected with controversial UFO information, I always get suspicious. But that’s my reality tunnel.
The report says in part:
“I believe these lights were not of this world, and I feel a duty and responsibility to come forward,” said Col. Brian Fields, who spent nearly 32 years in the military, piloting F-16 fighter jets. “I have no idea what they were.”
As Fields, 61, was at his Van Buren, Ark., home Jan. 9 when just before 7 p.m., he observed two intensely bright lights as he looked to the southeast close to the horizon. “At first I thought they were landing lights from an aircraft,” he said. “As I continued to observe them they began to slowly disappear, then suddenly one reappeared, followed by two, then three. On at least one occasion four or five appeared. Each time they would slowly fade and eventually disappear. This occurred several times and when they would reappear they might do so in differing numbers and in different positions, sometimes in a triangular shape, sometimes stacked on top of each other, sometimes line abreast, etc. When the objects appeared they might stay illuminated 10 or more minutes.”
“I’m certain it wasn’t an aircraft [from Earth],” said Fields, who also ruled out the possibility of flares, saying they didn’t descend like flares typically do. “It’s not anything I ever had any experience with . … They were some kind of energy or something.”
Fields snapped numerous images of the white, yellow and orange lights using a Canon digital camera with 6 megapixel resolution.
The story received heightened exposure after being posted on the Drudge Report yesterday, and became one of the most-viewed news reports in WND history. That prompted many others to contact WND, saying they witnessed the same or similar phenomenon.
Meanwhile, a digital-production expert in Columbia, S.C., analyzed the photographs taken by Fields, processing both the yellow-light image and the orange-light image through various filters using computer software.
“I was kind of surprised,” said Mark Kirby, president and CEO of EIC Research, Inc.
When Kirby did a black-and-white analysis of the yellow light image, he noted “it looks like a clean silhouette of someone sitting behind a console or flight control.”
Look for yourself. It looks like an amorphous blob to me. Is someone trying to front-load this image on our perceptions, or is it the old demon of human perception and the need to find patterns that support beliefs?
Like I said, when anything UFO-related comes from the Air Force, I wonder a bit, even if the officer is retired and makes no definitive statements. The skeptic’s solution was that the light could be a candle in a coke bottle suspended from a kite. This of course ignores witness testimony of at least five lights blinking on and off in random patterns. Self-lighting candles?
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Jan 20 2007 
January 20th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Greg wrote…
“The retired Colonel claims that he can see someone or something in the middle of the lightform. Look for yourself. It looks like an amorphus blob to me.”
Really?
As I read the article, it seems as if it is the gent from EIC that makes this claim and not the retired Colonel…from the headline:
“Others report strange phenomenon, digital expert views possible ‘pilot’”
Meanwhile, a digital-production expert in Columbia, S.C., analyzed the photographs taken by Fields, processing both the yellow-light image and the orange-light image through various filters using computer software.
“I was kind of surprised,” said Mark Kirby, president and CEO of EIC Research, Inc.
When Kirby did a black-and-white analysis of the yellow light image, he noted “it looks like a clean silhouette of someone sitting behind a console or flight control.”
When he examined the orange light, he said the result was “a bit scary,” as he perceived what seemed like a face looking directly ahead.
“You could literally see two eyes and a mouth,” Kirby said. “It looked like someone looking at you.”
Greg wrote:
“Whenever Air Force personnel, retired or not, are connected with controversial UFO information, I always get suspicious. But that’s my reality tunnel.”
I feel the same way when someone inaccurately interprets very clear information it in order to make a point.
~J
January 20th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Jonah,
My mistake. I have changed the wording.
Thanks!
January 20th, 2007 at 11:26 am
No problem Greg…I did want to edit the snippy ending to my post…apologies.
You still state this however..
“The retired Colonel claims that he can see someone or something in the middle of the lightform.”
Maybe I’m missing something. Can you provide the passage that indicates this?
January 20th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I have some decent image manipulation software and have enhanced the original UFO picture. The first image is blown up and enhanced in grey scale. The second utilizes a filter to bring out topographical variations.
The alleged “occupant” is probably the shape near the left hand side of the image. It has the appearance of something with 3 dimensional depth, so I deliberately tried to manipulate that portion of the picture to bring out something that resembled a person/alien.
To me it still just looks like variations in the saturation of the light rather than something with structure, but you can see for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
January 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Jonah,
I’ll have to watch myself when I’m home from a party, posting at 3:30 in the morning!
You’re not snippy, you’re keeping me on my toes, and that’s what the comments are for.
I also noticed that the WorldNet Daily site seems to have a definite political slant, but thankfully, this doesn’t appear to creep into the article.
January 21st, 2007 at 7:59 am
Hi Greg/Hi Jonah,
We’ve all gotta right to be suspicious of the Air Force, given what we know about their use of UFOs for various “shenanigans” over the years; especially as documented in Greg’s PROJECT BETA and Nick’s BODYSNATCHERS.
The WorldNetDaily site is a Right Wing site that skirts the political/parapolitical line. I was CERTAIN it was they who ran the news story about the Mexican Air Force’s UFO videos being American Stealth Fighters - just did an internet search and had to correct myself … it was NewsMax that I was remembering:
UFOs Gone Wild, Men From Mars Visit Mexico
by Charles R. Smith
Thursday, May 13, 2004
” … the sighting can be attributed to the Bush defense budget and not little green men. The unidentified aircraft that shadowed the Mexican surveillance plane are reportedly part of a squadron of new stealth strike craft operating from the U.S.”
NewsMax is a similar Right Wing site that skirts the same ParaPolitical line.
My Mom and step-Dad just recently moved to Eureka Springs, Arkansas (home of the long-running Ozarks UFO Conference) and to drive their from Austin we usually go thru Van Buren (which is South West of Eureka) where the sighting occurred.
If you go to this original URL for the beginning article in this series there is a bigger wider shot of the BOLs with red lights from a radio tower to the right in the same pic for comparison.
SMiles
January 21st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Regardless of whether or not the object(s) in the pictures is ever identified, it’s interesting that the Colonel immediately tries to integrate what he saw with his religious beliefs; the topic of an earlier discussion thread.
Religious beliefs are just that; beliefs. But there seems to be resistance on our part to be satisfied with beliefs. We want proof, even when the object of those beliefs is something beyond the scope of traditional forms of proof, like the concept of a Divine Creator(s).
It makes me wonder; Do we seek proof because our beliefs are so frail that they can’t stand on their own? Or is it because our belief system is so strong and our ability to confront unknown phenomenon so fragile that we have to force-fit it onto the structure of our belief systems?
January 21st, 2007 at 10:23 pm
One can sniff suspiciously at Air Farce (you can tell I’m ex-army, LOL!)materials regarding UFOs till the cows come home, but, as for me, Gordon Cooper’s superb memoir “Leap Of Faith” is a wonderful testament to the belief in the reality of these things and the ability of a questioning human being…Air Force “Jr. Bird” or otherwise… to put his cards on the table “before God and everybody” and say “This is what I think, this is what I know” to the world.
In recounting his life as a fighter pilot and an astronaut, “Gordo” lays it all out there, and doesn’t seem to worry a smidgin about what Uncle Sam thinks as he describes chasing “saucers” in aerial encounters, having UFO films taken of hovering craft at Edwards AFB seized and “abducted” by AFOSI and other alphabet soup organizations, and stating up front that he is himself a firm UFO believer who isn’t afraid to say so.
“Leap of Faith” showed me an AF Lt. Colonel and legendary astronnaut who seemed very much a kindred spirit to another “zoomie” of great integrity and zeal for the seeking of truth…Ed Ruppelt. Kudos to both of them….and to any and all other military types who step up and tell it like it is.
Maybe this newest one up is the same kind of fella. He sure doesn’t seem like he’s up to any particular disinfo “monkey business”.
January 21st, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Point taken Mr. Hancock.
I’ve heard (and seen video maybe?) of “Gordo” on the stolen footage. I’ve forgotten about that before.
Thanks for reminding me of that.
And Raven, I am equally curious about our various needs for proof and how we each quantify the value of “evidence.”
Looking forward to more conversations with UFOlks here at UFO Mystic.
SMiles
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:23 am
Raven,
Thanks for the photo work. You’re right. Still looks like an amorphous blob.
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:29 am
Bill and Miles,
I don’t know if he’s up to any disinfo business, I was making a point about the AF (specifically counterintel) and their usual tactics. I also read Col. Fields’ religious thoughts on his sighting. The fact that he interprets it in a Christian context may be further evidence that he’s not doing anyone’s earthly bidding.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:39 am
The USAF has come out with their explanation of what the Colonel saw.
Others also chime in on their take of the event. The Volkswagon logo explanation is must-read stuff. That’s it! VWs explain all UFO sightings! Now we can all focus our attention on Nessie, who is in fact a BMW.