Archive for November, 2012

Entomologist: “Denver UFO Not Insect”

Monday, November 26th, 2012

Experts:  This is not a bird, not a bug, not a plane … just what is it?

The UFO reported earlier this month in Denver stirred up a lot of controversy, with outspoken critics insisting that a mere bug was to blame for the hubbub.  Discovery News issued a token response on behalf of the skeptical standpoint, whitewashing KDVR’s report with a number of well-known, and sadly quite effective, debunking tactics designed to muddle public perception of “unorthodox” phenomena.

Correctly, Discovery News pointed out that KDVR should have consulted an entomologist to confirm that the UFO was a common insect – but the Discovery reporter subsequently avoids talking to an insect expert, instead reinforcing his baseless explanation by stating categorically that “if you realize that the UFOs look identical to flying insects, the mystery vanishes.”  The UFOs look identical to bugs?  Just what would an entomologist say, after all?

Heidi Hemmat of KDVR, the reporter who broke the story, last week aired a followup report to answer the critics by actually speaking with a professional entomologist about what was caught on video.  Still, after scrutinising the footage, the expert believes that the Denver UFO is not an insect.  Yet even this won’t satisfy the armchair detractors, who still insist a bug is to blame for the excitement.

Although consulting a “bug expert” is an important step, we must acknowledge that in the case of video evidence, even an entomologist’s opinion is just that – an opinion.  Without a full analysis of the available footage, which would require complicated calculations of speed and distance based on the assumption that the UFO is an insect, taking into consideration the number of frames per second that elapse between “blips,” we have to take the entomologist’s statement with a grain of salt.

The bottom line is that we still don’t have enough evidence one way or another to call this case closed.  I contacted Hemmat with a suggestion she probably received from a number of other UFO researchers as well:  simply set up two cameras, say 50 feet apart, both trained on the area where the UFO has been videoed before.  If bugs are to blame, each camera should capture images of different bugs at best – but if the Denver UFO is a larger, more distant object, then we should see the same UFO at the same time on both videos.  Hemmat gave a nod to this dual-video suggestion at the end of her report, and even invited others to pull together such a study, but she left it at that.

It seems prudent that KDVR at least make an attempt to substantiate, with stronger video evidence, what the entomologist has asserted.  In lieu of additional followup from KDVR, we can only hope that another reporting agency has the interest, time, and equipment to pursue the dual-camera test.  But with interest subsiding in the absence of new evidence, the case of Denver UFO may never be truly solved.

STACE TUSSEL COLLIGAN

Compelling! New UFO Footage from Colorado

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Does this video show undeniable evidence of a UFO presence in Denver?

Reported 8 November 2012 by Heidi Hemmat of KDVR Denver

Most UFO videos fall into one of two categories: they’re either real sightings that don’t translate well to video and so aren’t taken seriously, or they’re computer-generated fakes. But this one, just out of Denver, is neither. This one’s going to cause a stir.

The object in the video is no known aircraft, nor is it an animal – yet it takes off and lands unnoticed, many times over the course of many days, in a heavily populated urban area. The elusive UFO is practically invisible, in fact, because it’s moving so fast. But one man catches on and manages to get video of something that apparently never expected to be seen.

To test the man’s story, the reporters set up video sights on the same spot. Incredibly, they get the same UFO.

So it’s not a plane, not an animal, and it’s not CGI.

Whatever it is, the cat’s out of the bag. If the witness and KDVR both captured on video a secret manmade technology, the UFO will most likely promptly go into hiding. If, on the other hand, the UFO keeps showing up, as has been its pattern, we may be witnessing clear and indisputable evidence for an extraterrestrial presence in Denver – pretty big news.

Thanks to the investigative reporting of Heidi Hemmat and KDVR.

STACE TUSSEL COLLIGAN