"Doc" wrote in message
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| I'm limiting this to what seem like technically oriented groups, not
| including UFO forums in an attempt to avoid slobbering tirades from
| the tinfoil hat brigade.
|
| I'm wondering why it is, in all the incidents of "UFO" sightings,
| including some that have made the news, any images that aren't obvious
| hoaxes (and many that are) are always grainy, shaky, indistinct blobs
| blurs, pinpoint lights etc.
|
| Okay, the conspiracy buff's default is always going to be that
| anything the gov't has is instantly going to be hidden and disavowed
| by the MIB. Maybe my perception is incorrect, but it seems powerful
| consumer photographic gear has been available for some time and there
| are legions of skilled photography and videography enthusiasts amateur
| and professional. How hard would it be to get that suped-up telephoto
| or zoom lens trained on the objects in question to get something
| resembling a clear shot in the case of something like this
|
| http://youtube.com/watch?v=MAox0pcZZxo
|
|
| where the objects are clearly visible for some time, seemingly plenty
| of time for someone who's skilled to get their gear onto a tripod and
| get a reasonably close-up shot.
|
| Or do I have a mistaken notion of how powerful the available optics
| are? The News stations show clear, distinct shots of the fast-moving
| Space Shuttle when it's well into its trajectory on launch days, I
| would guess from at least as far if not farther than these objects are
| from the cameras. The above link is an incident that occurred over a
| major city and apparently caused quite a buzz. *Nobody* there had good
| gear they could whip out to take some pics?
|
| I would think a major city has astronomy buffs and universities who
| have fairly sophisticated gear already set up to photograph distant
| objects. Wouldn't capturing something at airliner altitude be quite
| possible?
|
| Thanks

1) Most UFO sightings are over the Continental USA
2) These were excitable college kids
3) One is heard to say "anti-missile missiles".
4) The Newscaster was prepared for the helicopter explanation
and
5) (last and very least) if the lights WERE identified by the
method you suggest it would not be an unidentified flying
object, but an identified flying object. IFOs are not newsworthy.