An Analysis Of The 8/2/65 Campbell UFO Photos

Introduction

The photographs taken during the 8/2/65 Sherman, Texas sighting by Robert Campbell are important due to what they show about the features of a UFO with a luminous extension and what they show about a UFO ejecting luminous material.

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The Luminous Extension

The object, contrast enhanced to better show the luminous extension to the left.	A closeup of the luminous extension, showing a notched structure at the tip. (Gaussian blur used to reduce artifacts from the original halftone source)

The following sequence of images is a brightness countour based on the contrast enhanced image. It selects areas of roughly equal brightness, starting with most bright to the left and working through to less bright on the right.

Ejected Material

Image showing ejection occurring. Note the newly luminous band around the superstructure. Also note the possibility that the ejected material is actually a disintegration of the extension shown in the images above.	A false color contour plot of the ejection source, showing details of the core and halo of the ejected material. Note that the source for this image was gaussian blurred to reduce halftone artifacts, but also that not all such artifacts were removed. Thus, some of the detail above is probably spurious.

False color close up of ejected material falling away from the object. Gaussian blur used to remove halftone artifacts and false coloring used to reveal shape. Notice that time since release does not appear to determine the brightness / size of the droplet, since the lowest (i.e. earliest dropped), seems to be brighter than the two above it.