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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 19:13:54 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 22:32:10 -0500
Subject: Re: 'UFO Sphere/Orb' over Brooklyn, NY


>From: "Tom Burnett" <burnettc@gte.net>
>To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'UFO Sphere/Orb' over Brooklyn, NY
>Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 08:52:19 -1000

<snip>

>I'm not sure of the significance of this thread.  If you say you
>saw an anomaly and photographed it, then you did as far as I am
>concerned. I think you can be taken at your word. Even so, if it
>is not lens flare, it is not identifiable as anything either
>terrestrial or extraterrestrial so what is the point? Everyone
>agrees that there are unidentifiable lights in the sky, and the
>fact that you and millions of other people have seen and
>photographed them is interesting.

>But the discussion has digressed to the point where people are
>suggesting that UFOs intentionally spoof camera optics to mimic a
>natural camera phenomenon while appearing as something else to a
>live observer. Is it that two sets of photons are on the same
>path but one set enters only the camera and one set enters only
>the observer's eye?  As my english professor used to state so
>eloquently:  "How do it know?"

>Has it come to the point when everything anyone sees is an ET
>craft?  And if it happens to look exactly like an airplane or a
>falling star, or a black helicopter or a lens flare, does that
>merely mean that the ETs have nothing better to do than defy the
>known laws of physics for the purpose of creating optical
>illusions on the off-chance that a UFO investigator with a camera
>might be looking up?????

>Apparently so.

<snip>

Tom,

Obviously if the object looks and behaves like some well known
object, it doesn't interest either a layman or ufologist as being
anything abnormal.

If an object that looks like a certain kind of lens flare flits
around the sky as reported by a reliable eye witness, then it's
of great interest to the layman and even to some ufologists!
(Most ufologists have heard of similar reports for so many years
that it may not interest them any more.)

For me, it's worth noting for two reasons: (1) It says something
about how far ahead the UFO-aliens' technology is from anything
we can understand, and (2) it says something about their strategy
or level of ethics in dealing with us, in that they provide a
certain measure of deniability to persons who can't accept its
reality and who don't mind ignoring certain aspects about the
object's description or reported behavior when latching onto that
deniability factor.

 Jim Deardorff