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Old 01-22-2009, 07:22 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Daradon View Post
Honestly, it looks like a bug that flies close to the lens. It's path and the perspective makes it a bit of an optical illusion.
This is why we need 3D TV. Also, higher resolution and framerate cameras, monitors, and youtube.

Being really close to the camera would explain the transparency effect... It's also really close in colour to the monument so that might create a transparency illusion.

If it's not a bug, can anyone identify which direction the camera is facing in those?

Here's the monument:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&tab...ton%20monument

Here's the weather:

http://www.wunderground.com/history/...q_statename=NA

Since the winds were Northerlies on Inauguration Day, if that photo was taken facing West then the left-to-right movement of the UFO would likely indicated it was carried by the wind and not generating its own thrust. It would be funny if this "giant cigar" was actually a piece of ash from someone's cigarette. Whatever it is, it seems to be in front of the cameras focal distance.

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