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Old 09-13-2010, 08:57 PM
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Help w/ ID foreign object in pic

What could these be? Sorry that they're not in chronological order.

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Old 09-13-2010, 08:59 PM
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Looks like bugs darting across the way.
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:00 PM
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Rods?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(paranormal)
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:04 PM
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Yep- it's elvis trying to contact us.




Bugs.
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:09 PM
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Bugs or a photoshop. I'd actually lean towards a photoshop - there are NO other bugs in the picture which is very suspicious. Every place I've been is teeming with life at night with the exception of the dead of winter - there should be a ton more stuff on there. Also seems like the person who made the pictures is actually looking for these things..."Truthcam?" c'mon
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Old 09-13-2010, 10:52 PM
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Personally I don't believe in any of the paranormal BS, but!

I used to drive overnight delivery and on my days off could never sleep at night and as a result I was watching TV coverage at the start of the Iraq war and the attack on Baghdad, there was some very interesting video footage that appeared on one of the news channels that contained some really noticeable interesting phenomena which appeared to be some type of other worldly creatures flittering or buzzing around within the video frame. They where so distinct and there was so many of them in the frame it was amazing, the video was shot with what appeared to be ambient light intensification/amplification.

Weeks or months later driving overnight and channel surfing the radio and I heard either Art Bell or George Nori's program as I was switching around the channels and caught a bit of a conversation with someone on the show about "Rods" and whether they where some paranormal phenomena or perhaps some type of digitized video artifact. I instantly thought of that news footage the night of the Baghdad attack. From what I remembered it would be very difficult to believe the phenomena in that video was random or some type of illusion, it almost looked like you would imagine it could look like if you could capture microscopic multi-celled creatures moving about the CCD array while at the same time the standard full field video imagery was playing. I suppose that someone could do something similar to the effect created by double exposing film or the digital video equivalent, but as the video appeared in almost real time news reporting of the attack it seems like something of a leap to assume that someone would be fabricating a hoax at that particular time and place.

I’m going to Google around a bit and see if I can find something about it or the original video, whatever it was it was quite interesting and impressive. Not to in any way diminish what Deezl has posted but her stuff looks like smudges or light reflecting of something, these things I saw where very distinct.

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Old 09-13-2010, 11:06 PM
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How do you know it's a foreign object?? Were the eyes a bit squinty?
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Old 09-13-2010, 11:46 PM
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Here's the cam I'm using:

www.neobits.com/Primos-PRI-63010-Primos_Truth_Cam_35_p602392.html?atc=gbs

The pics haven't been photoshopped or altered in any manner. Some do look false, but I assure you they aren't.

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Old 09-13-2010, 11:59 PM
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zwei mehr

Just a couple more
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Old 09-14-2010, 12:56 AM
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the camera specs say it supports video.

why not run it on video and make a comparison.

I think they are bugs that are reflecting the light of the flash and the exposure is long enough for them to be so blurred they become lines.
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Old 09-14-2010, 03:21 AM
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Yep- it's elvis trying to contact us.
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Old 09-14-2010, 10:44 AM
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Old 09-14-2010, 10:49 AM
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Bugs. Low light causes blur.
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Old 09-14-2010, 11:21 AM
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It's Elvis re-incarnated as a excited bug.
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Old 09-14-2010, 09:16 PM
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Last night, the video mode failed to reveal any such weird objects. Bugs/moths etc. appeared flying normally. Fulcrum and JT and last guy who's name escapes me
were right on the money.

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