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Apparently my affiliation with the International UFO Congress has concluded since I never heard back from the new owners, Open Minds Production after our meeting in Laughlin.  This is not at all unexpected.  I wish them the best of luck for the 2011 Congress in Phoenix.

 

I did pick up a small photo-analysis job at the IUFOC.  It was an interesting image with some unusual jet contrails which are most probably some sort of aircraft ‘pulse propulsion.’  There was also a ‘UFO’ in the image that had me stumped so I forwarded the image to Marc D’Antonio at MUFON.  Marc identified the UFO as a blurred bug.  That conclusion was educational because it’s outside-the-box thinking (for me).  You see, here in the mountains of Northern Arizona where I live we just don’t see a lot of flying bugs, especially in the winter.  Because of this, I wasn’t even thinking about the possibility of bugs.  So, a big thanks to Marc for his assistance (and education).  I reported the findings to the photographer and she was satisfied with the results.

 

An interesting thing about photo-analysis (not related to the above case) is that a lot of people with ‘UFOs’ in their pictures seem unwilling to accept hard-science analyses.  They become so enamored with their ‘UFO’ pictures that they lose objectivity and tend to reject findings of more mundane photographic flaws.  They really, really want to believe they’ve photographed something extraterrestrial and can even become angry when objective photo-analysis indicates a more ‘terrestrial’ object in their photos.  All I can say is we have to be very hard with the science and follow it where it leads us and photographers must not become emotionally attached to what they think or hope they’ve photographed.  Remember, UFO means Unidentified Flying Object; just because you don’t know what it is doesn’t mean it’s necessarily extraterrestrial.

 

The 2012 UFO & Cow Abductions Calendar goes to the publisher next month and is funnier than ever.  And the 2011 & Cow Abductions Calendar will be available this summer, check back in July.

 

Finally, my eBook guide to UFO Hot-Spots in the 17 Western States is almost complete and will be available from this website very soon.  For a while, it’s only available here http://www.scribd.com/doc/30401502/UFO-Hot-Spots

 

Dale

April 2010

 

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