Discovery, Document and Disclosure

Well, in light of recent discoveries how could we observe American Thanksgiving with anything but this clip from The People, giving us an alternate take on the origin of the holiday?



Or some faked UFO footage over a Thanksgiving Day parade, for that matter? Over the years of photography and film and now digital technology, the same rule applies to UFO footage- if it looks too good to be true it probably isn't. Prolonged detail and exposure is usually a good sign it's a fake. Why? Because it's very difficult to photograph fast-moving, distant objects with any degree of clarity.

Case in point- one day a couple years back I had come home from picking up the kids from school and as we got of the car three enormous red tailed hawks flew out of nowhere. They were literally ten feet above our heads. I'd never seen anything like it. 

I ran into the house, grabbed the camera, turned it on, took off the lens cap, ran outside again but the hawks were no longer circling in the yard- they'd flown off down the street. I tried to focus but the camera kept resetting (autofocus is your mortal enemy when photographing anything flying in the sky) and by the time I got a picture it was of three tiny dots, which looked considerably smaller onscreen than they had in real life.

OK, now that's of three birds. Multiply all of that times 10,000, when dealing with silver disks flying hundreds, if not thousands of feet over head, often traveling at thousands of miles an hour. It's a miracle anyone gets any photos of them at all. 

And yet, sites like Filer's Files put up UFO pics on a weekly basis from anonymous sources that are usually blurry and indistinct and most often at a goodly distance, but clearly not ordinary aircraft.

Don't forget that tomorrow is rumored to be Disclosure Day. I'll be addressing the "disclosure" issue in the near future. The preview snippet is this- there is no advantage to any government to disclose anything tangible about UFOs. Most of what we've seen in other countries is the release of various witness reports, often accompanied by dismissive, even mocking language. I'll explain why I don't believe in "disclosure" in greater detail in the post, but I very much doubt that any president would risk disrupting the most important shopping day of the year, especially in this economy.

We continue to see strange objects flying around up there, and there's no shortage of strangeness and chicanery when it comes to the ET issue. I'm just extremely skeptical that the government- especially the US gov't- would want to ever tell us the truth about it.

Bonus link: Buzz Aldrin writes a HuffPost column with the provocative title "In Search of a Real Spaceship."

UPDATE: Isn't this timely- Astronauts aboard the Atlantis are served Thanksgiving turkey dinner:

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts thought they were going to give thanks with pantry leftovers Thursday as their mission drew to a close, but found turkey dinners awaiting them.

OWL UPDATE: My wife had an interesting encounter on the way home from picking up Thanksgiving dinner fixings last night- a young white owl flew out of nowhere, landed on the street and stopped traffic. Shame she didn't get a picture of it...

UPDATE: Wow, the news keeps getting spacier...

The space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station are separately flying around the Earth until Friday, and they can be seen as a pair of bright lights in the sky at certain times over the next few days.

Weather permitting, the orbiting objects should be visible to the naked eye throughout the United States and Canada, according to SpaceWeather.com.