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SUBJECT: A NEST OF INFO ON GULFBREEZE UFOs FILE: UFO1647
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PART 33
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Message #8792 - Gourmet Gab
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Date : 18-May-90 12:43
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From : John Hicks
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To : Don Allen
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Subject : Gallifrey
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> Did Ed tell you how he had managed to capture those "ghosts"
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> on film (recent Sentinel article showed a young girl at Ed's
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> house and the appearence of a ghost either behind or beside
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> her)?
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Yes, he described what he was doing and showed me some pictures. The ghost
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pictures are pretty much a disinformation campaign by Willy Smith. BTW, when
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the first burned area was found in the field, Willy Smith insisted he smelled
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gasoline while no one else did. Specific testing for petroleum products found
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none. Also, Willy Smith hired a photographer in New York to fake a picture of
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an Ed-style ufo in front of the Chrysler Building, ostensibly to show how it
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could be done. Smith then passed off that picture as one of Ed's pictures
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until the photographer contacted MUFON and let the cat out of the bag. So, I
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think anything Willy Smith says is highly suspect.
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Anyway, back to the ghost pictures.
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According to Ed, the game is that "The ghost is *in* one of you, and only
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the camera can tell which."
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Ed takes a couple of normal pictures of the kids, no ghost. Then he picks
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one, focuses the camera for long distance (called infinity, but he didn't know
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that) and takes a picture of the kid about four feet away. The out-of-focus
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picture shows the far wall sharp while the kid's a little blurry. The flash
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causes the eyes to go totally white in the same way that many pictures of
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people result in red eyes, or of animals result in bright green eyes etc. The
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"ghost" of course has totally white eyes.
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In the picture Willy Smith is trying to call a ghost picture, it was
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supposed to be a regular picture of the kid, no ghost. However, it was shot in
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front of a sliding glass door which Frances said she had never cleaned in the
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five or so years they had lived in the house.
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Maccabee said that he has confirmed in tests that fingerprints and smears
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can really reflect blobs of light while the angle to the glass is such that
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clean glass doesn't reflect light back to the camera. I've also seen this many
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times myself.
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Anyway, Smith claims that the photo which shows the blobs of light is
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supposed to be a ghost picture, but when you see Ed's examples of "ghost"
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pictures and the pictures that show the kid that the "ghost" is gone, you can
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see that Smith is taking little bits of information completely out of context
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in a debunking effort.
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Absolutely no signs of double exposure or manipulations other than
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intentionally wrong focusing can be seen in any of the pictures.
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> Total Non-sequitor: Since you're a photographer...what camera
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> setup
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> would you recommend and film,speed,etc to capture a UFO in
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> flight?
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I extrapolated a ballpark exposure based on the known exposure settings of
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Ed's pictures taken with the Polaroid 108 film. It comes out to a ballpark
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exposure setting of 1/60 at f2.8 with ISO 3200 film. This is for the craft
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itself, providing it's apparent self-illumination would be about the same. My
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gut guess was 1/60 at f2 with ISO 1600 film, which amounts to the same.
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Of course, if what you see is a bright light, you'd use less exposure, while
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if you see a dark disc you'd use more exposure. If you see lights on a dark
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disc you'd need to decide whether to go for the structure of the disc and let
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the lights overexpose or to go for the lights and let the disc go to black.
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In any case, you need to use manual settings rather than autoexposure
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because the metering system will see all that black sky and give an exposure
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of several seconds. This is what happened recently when Ed and several others
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tried to photograph a dark disc that had a dull red light on the bottom.
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Everyone's camera gave an exposure of three to five seconds and all anyone got
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was blurry blobs.
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jbh
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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