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  1. Rory

    Claim: Original Calvine UFO Photo

    Got a handwriting sample? ;)
  2. Rory

    Claim: Original Calvine UFO Photo

    Yah, I don't think we've really talked about that. It's in the DI55 papers obtained in one of the FOIA releases. Pretty much everything that's pertinent is here: but I'll attach the whole thing. Reads: Attached are 5 (five) vu-foils of an unidentified flying object. Please produce line...
  3. Rory

    Claim: Original Calvine UFO Photo

    Okay, while we're on the subject of Harriers - what to make of the "retask" (secondary investigation of the photos) ordered in November 1991 where it's stated "Task already discussed with Ops 4 Sqn"? IV Squadron were stationed at the time at RAF Gütersloh, Germany (600 miles from Calvine) and...
  4. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    I'm pretty sure this hasn't been posted here yet - a neat animation (created in Blender) of how the reflection hypothesis might work: Source: https://twitter.com/RuanLotter/status/1559886354879848449
  5. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    Looks like your Twitter followers feel you've gotten behind the reflection hypothesis @Mick West - is that the case?
  6. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    1. That's not one of the witnesses' envelopes, it's the envelope used by the Record to send the prints to the MoD (thoroughly explained in the other thread). 2. The upside down address was also explained there a few days ago (but not posted for privacy's sake - it was the address of a former...
  7. Rory

    Nick Pope

    And that "man from the MoD" was...? Nick Pope by any chance?
  8. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    And when it's to do with aspects of the evidence that's one thing - but speculating on the possible financial motives of unknown people based on speculations on where they might have been from and what they might have been doing, which is in turn based on speculation seems not quite in the mb...
  9. Rory

    Measuring the Curvature of the Horizon with a Level

    I'm sure those images do show the curve and probably the string thing works really well. Just one thing: It's not always true that a line below mid-frame will curve convexly - some cameras actually have pincushion distortion rather than barrel distortion, so it's always good to know which...
  10. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    That's true. Though I will say when I worked in a restaurant (aged 21) I still had plenty of energy to get into activities after even a double shift (and the drive here was only 20 minutes - allegedly). Yeah, makes me think again some sort of "distilled thread/post" would be useful in a case...
  11. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    Yeah, I think I'd personally like to see a little less speculation. Floating out ideas to explain the photo is one thing but proposing backstories for the photographers and others involved doesn't seem very 'metabunk' - especially the more outlandish ones. But I guess all it does is create...
  12. Rory

    Claim: Original Calvine UFO Photo

    Useful to have your pre and post pictures there for comparison: here's what hotpot.ai (left) and imagecolorizer.com (right) makes of your b&w: Ie, they're colored and look all right - but there's nothing in the way of the blues and reds and yellows that your version has (and presumably were...
  13. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    How much are you thinking they would have been hoping for for these photos? My guess would be between £50 and £200. But perhaps I'm overestimating.
  14. Rory

    Claim: Original Calvine UFO Photo

    Do you rate any online colorization sites? Or can you colorize yourself? Seems like a good (or even "acceptable") colorized version would really answer the question of whether we're looking at a boatload of fog (supporting mountaintop hypothesis) or clouds and sky.
  15. Rory

    Changes to [EX] Tags

    Awesome! I got it. :) Things are like they say there are And also learned about noparse tags too. ;)
  16. Rory

    Changes to [EX] Tags

    Can someone please tell me how I should use EX tags properly - ie, so that my url goes where it says "content from external source" above?
  17. Rory

    Nick Pope

    Here's how some of his successors described the post: Speaking about the MOD's 'UFO Project' Linda Unwin, the Desk Officer in Directorate of Air Staff (DAS) responsible for dealing with enquiries about UFOs and for implementing Freedom of Information within DAS, said: "The first point to make...
  18. Rory

    Nick Pope

    Good guy I can buy, but "doesn't oversell himself" I'm not so sure on. Unless somebody else wrote "Best-known for having run the Ministry of Defence's UFO program" on his LinkedIn and "ran the British Government’s UFO project. From 1991 to 1994 he researched and investigated UFOs, alien...
  19. Rory

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    I think in the bottom half there's definitely something that implies the line you highlighted. But for the top half I think that seems more of an optical illusion, suggested by what we might expect to be there. In isolation I'm not seeing it at all:
  20. Rory

    Measuring the Curvature of the Horizon with a Level

    I know! It is a little sad - especially this one and a few others. Unfortunately I had another YouTube account (where I posted Tetris videos) and I received a copyright strike. Just as I was thinking of deleting it I received another copyright strike and they terminated that account and three...
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