Saucer Photographed Following British Military Plane
Credit: Telegraph UK/ SWNS.com
From Sunday’s perennially UFO-happy UK Telegraph online:
‘UFO’ photographed ‘tracking’ RAF Hercules
An amateur photographer believes he captured a UFO tracking an RAF Hercules as it approached RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire. John Powell, 56, claims an unusual silver orb was following the military craft as it came in to land at the base.
The retired school teacher was gardening at his home in nearby Westbury when he noticed the sun glinting off the circular surface. ”I don’t believe in things from outer space but that thing was definitely tracking the plane,” he said.
What’s up with Wiltshire? Crop circles, UFOs, anything else? Nick?
Although Powell said “I didn’t think the picture would come out as good as this” it looks pretty indistinct to me. Also, is it an “orb” or more “circular?” Where have all the clear pictures of the past gone? Even though many of those are still in dispute, at least there is something more substantial to examine, like this one taken by Paul Bennewitz at Kirtland Air Force Base/ Albuquerque International Airport in 1980:
The image was examined in the real/ disinfo leak known as the “Aquarius document.” Given to Bill Moore in February of 1981. According to the document, the assessment from the 7062nd Air Force Intelligence Group on what is believed to be this very image was “inconclusive.”
Hat tip to my paragliding buddy Jeff Parker.
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Aug 03 2009 
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
Digital cameras are ubiquitous, but they lack the image quality of good ol’ fashioned film.
And Greg, why didn’t you include that photograph in Project Beta?
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:13 am
Thanks for the hat tip.
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 am
RPJ,
Some digital cameras are better than film–it depends on the film speed and quality of the stock.
I sent the photo in, but the publishers picked which ones appeared in the book, since there were only a limited number of photo pages allowed. The text was unchanged from my submission, and I was allowed to do all revisions.
I have encountered problems with articles in magazines where the editor changed my text so much that it became factually wrong. It’s kind of frustrating sometimes to be blamed for mistakes that are made by others, but your name is on the work!
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:01 am
Greg
I do know that “drone” devices have been flown on Salisbury Plain (an area heavily used by the military) in Wiltshire in the last year.
A bit of a coincidence: when my good friend (and crop circle maker) Matthew Williams used to work for the British Government’s Customs & Excise in the 90s, he used to liaise with staff at Lyneham a lot.
August 4th, 2009 at 4:44 am
There does seem to have been a sharp
decline in the number of sharp “Craft”
images, really, since the late sixties.
That could point to (A) They were all
fakes or as I think Greg once suggested
(B)”They” have come and gone. This
new image is pretty inconclusive-though
its a pity the camera didn’t have
a ‘movie’ function. ( Most modern
digicams seem to…)
The Bennewitz image is interesting, but
I’ll suggest it might be an early
test flight of the F-117 Stealth
fighter. The plane’s roughly diamond
shaped body and swept wing might look
a lot like that seen from below.
August 4th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Craig, it would have moste likely been a training mission and not a test flight of the F-117 Nighthawk. The F-117 was fully operational by that time of the Bennewitz Incident. If some of the things told to me by fellow military members who were at Area 51 are correct, there were at least 5-6 other fighter sized, highly classified(SCI) USAF aircraft projects that were at Area 51 well into the ’90’s. We will likely not see these aircraft for possibly another 10-20 years. This is based on the military declassifying such projects anywhere from 15-30 years after those projects have been retired. Some will likely never be declassified due to their political sensitivities ie nuclear powered aircraft. The Kecksberg and Cash-Landrum UFO cases were likely two such aerospace craft.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:40 am
If that “orb photo” following the British plane is the best we have these days then it’s no wonder the majority of the human race doesn’t care about the phenomenon.
And that Bennewitz shot looks like a bird to me. It reminds me of this photo which was proven to be a bird on ATS (by Jeff Ritzmann):
http://img.rock-hosting.com/img/originalm6b.jpg
August 4th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Nick,
If the witness is to be believed, and it is a drone or UAV, it’s a pretty strange and/ or advanced one. Not out of the range of possibility.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Craig,
I don’t think that “they” have come and gone. That was the late Karl Pflock.
Maybe it’s a stealth fighter, but why would it be flying over Albuquerque in the middle of the day in 1980?
August 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
CRG,
Good points and insight from your AF days.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Gareth,
The photo you linked (the bird) to appears to look like a flying saucer due to the slow shutter speed. I don’t really think that the logic applies to the Bennewitz photo, since the image is more defined. Bennewitz claimed that he didn’t see the anomaly when he took the picture, and I don’t see him as the hoaxing type. He thought that his “evidence” was enough to convince anyone.
I have no idea what it is, but I don’t think it’s a bird.
The majority of the public doesn’t care about the subject because it’s not relevant to their lives. Much in the same way that dressing up as cartoon characters doesn’t occupy most of the population. Even if the picture was crystal clear, it still wouldn’t make much difference.
What is needed is some sort of revolution in science or philosophy that accounts for non-human intelligence (or at least the possibility, backed up with solid theory and persuasive data) and is easily understood by a majority of people, or at least accepted by those that most let do their thinking for them. If that happens, the standards of “evidence” will change. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, or it’s not in your model of reality, you won’t see it.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Greg,
Good point re: the shutter speed. You’re right, it’s a completely different situation in the two photos.
As far as the public, well I of course agree with everything you said. I just think it doesn’t help that no convincing photographic evidence from modern times really exists.
FWIW, I use a laptop and sometimes I dont realise that Im not getting as high a contrast as I should due to my viewing angle of the screen. I adjusted my laptop screen and the main photo linked in this article is better than I initially thought.
I must remember to do that whenever looking at photos like this.
August 5th, 2009 at 1:09 am
OK, well, I guess I agree with Karl Pflock, then. ( Pretty sure I read about it here, though-apologies for
the mis-atribution ) Lest some think
I’m a die-hard ETHer*, I don’t think the idea of an ‘alien drive-by’ is
incompatibale with an ‘ultra terrestrial’ prescence or vice versa.
Carlos-I was a little fuzzy on the
timeline for the Stealth. I knew it was flying( And crashing ) about then, but
didn’t know it was in service.
*God Hell! Quick! More ETHer!