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Perhaps ‘Invisible UFO’ might be a slightly misleading term – but virtually none
of the apparent lights in these photos were seen by the naked eye! It is
recognised that the human eye is rather limited in terms of the range of light
it can see – some animals have much better vision. In recent years, an
increasing number of people, from various avenues of research, have been
recording more and more odd lights in nocturnal photos – equally dark objects
are captured on film in daylight.
Those of you who recall work by the likes of Ivan T Sanderson and Trevor J
Constable, might conclude that these photos depict the ‘Invisible Residents’.
They may be manifestations of the ‘Orgone’ discovered by Willhelm Reich.
Some of the photos may well be nothing more than quirks of the camera or film,
but we must ask ourselves – how would we describe these lights and objects had
we actually seen them with our own eyes at the time?
The majority of these odd lights and lightforms were
captured on
photographic film, rarely slides. Now as we move into the age of digital
photography, we still see the same sort of images, only now more often as the
digital medium allows us to take vastly more photos than before.
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These three photos were taken over a 30 second period in February 1995, in what
was my old back garden!
The photo (left) appears to show a solid, circular, possibly domed object very
close to the camera – it
was not seen at the time!
The two photos (centre and right) seem to show a pair of objects rising up from
the ground – these are suggestive of the ‘invisible resident’ described by
others. Again, neither of these were visible to the naked eye when taking
the photo - and the reason why I chose to trip the shutter at the
time is open to speculation.
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The
photo (left) was taken during a skywatch at Great Milton, Oxfordshire, after a
week of UFO activity. Perhaps needless to say that despite seven
consecutive nights of multiple UFOs being seen, the skywatch team saw nothing,
and the UFOs didn’t return – not so much a skywatch as a UFO-exorcism!
The light top right of the photo is not the moon or an aircraft light – it was
not see at the time. It is very common of a type of object seen over crop
fields, and is association with crop formations.
Given that crop fields in summer are dusty places, we cannot rule out the
possibility that this is nothing more than a speck of dust caught in the camera
flash.
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The photo (left) was taken at the Rollright
Stones in 1997. I was standing at the edge of the circle to take
this photo, looking towards Chipping Norton (the town's streetlights can
be seen). As I was taking the photo, I did see the flash reflect off
something, causing 'spark-like' effects, and the final photo showed these
tow orb-like objects. As much as I would like to think these have a
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Another photo taken at Rollright, this one (if
memory serves correctly) was on Midsummer eve 1996. Obviously I was
taking a photo of the sun as it slid down behind the trees behind the
stone circle - a scene which looks rather different now..
What is the almost bubble-like anomaly sitting
just in front of the stones? In this case it is a simple lens flare |
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Another Midsummer night shot - this time on a
skywatch at Wittenham Clumps (since Midsummer day is also the anniversary
of the modern 'flying saucer' era and Kenneth Arnold's sighting at Mt
Rainier).
This was a fairly normal skywatch, with low
cloud and drizzle and mist! Consequently the photos reveal hundreds
of these orb-like objects, caused by the flash bouncing odd the various
moisture droplets.
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A very recent photo - from the (Celtic/Pagan)
New Years Day - 1st November 2003. This photo was taken from the
West Kennett Avenue part of the whole Avebury complex.
Is the object top right of frame a UFO? No,
its a complex lens-flare, and unusual for this camera - a Casio QV3500
digicam - to create a flare with both green and pin elements. |
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Another very recent photo - from the
(Celtic/Pagan) New Years Eve - 31st October 2003. This photo was one
of several I took while in the small copse at Knoll Down.
Drizzle was blowing in the air with the
northerly breeze, and I fully expected these moisture droplets to appear
as these 'orbs', and they did. IF you look carefully at the main
'orb', it appears to have structure, but this is itself a false effect, as
the feint droplet is allowing a twig on the ground behind to show through. |
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A more unusual-looking 'orb', taken in what
was my old front garden. Unlike the other 'pseudo-orbs' seen here,
this one is much more intense. However, it was equally unseen at the
time of taking the photo. This was not a house light, car light or
torch, there was no form of light there - so what is this, could this be a
'real' anomaly? |
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The most recent photo here - taken on 22nd
November 2003, while on a photographic workshop. The venue is
the UK Wolf Conservation Trust at Beenham in Berkshire. I am a
member of the UKWCT, and the wolf in the photo is one of my adopted
wolves - Dakota, a North American female.
The weather conditions for this day were
awful for photography - low cloud, dark and gloomy and raining!
Fill in flash was being used constantly, and I was expecting to find a
number of 'orbs'. In all of the 160+ photos I took, I have (so
far) only seen obvious orbs in this one image. You can see one
orb above Dakota's head, but look closely and there a two more faint
orbs to her left (camera right). In common with all the
photographers that day, it was a constant battle to keep rain droplets
off the lens itself, and I'm sure the lens was clean when I took this,
so I'm fairly certain this is yet another example of a 'water droplet
orb'. |
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