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Yes, they could be classified as shoddy or trashy U.F.O.s without hesitation.
Those are the results of a new wave of behavior of certain people.
They go outdoors, at any time, although preferably at night, and they start taking pictures to the sky, anywhere in the sky, it doesn’t matter.
Or they are on a place taking some pictures of trees, or a lake, birds or flowers.
The key thing happens later.
They go to their PCs or laptops, they download their pictures and lo and behold!, a mysterious dot appears in one of the pictures they have taken.
Or many dots in different pictures, specially if they were taken at night (they are technically know as “orbs”), and voilá! Once again they think they have been able to photograph U.F.O.s! And of course, for them “U.F.O.” is something totally identified as an extraterrestrial spaceship! They totally skip the “U” of the acronym.
These are enthusiasts of the ET idea, they are honest people, they don't want to lie on purpose, or to make business with their pictures. They feel that they have met the unknown.
Objectively, nevertheless, that is not the case. A couple of things, therefore, have to be said:
1) These people are not witnesses, because they have seen nothing.
2) Their interpretation of what afterward appears in some pictures is totally biased, irrational, and has no point of support.
Therefore, they are not in conditions to declare publicly that they have photographed an extraterrestrial spaceship, which is what they understand when they use the acronym “U.F.O.”.
The task to identify what has been seen or photographed, or to declare it Unidentified belongs to the investigators and scholars dealing with the issue.
Sí, pueden ser clasificados sin hesitación como OVNIs de pacotilla, o basura.
Son el resultado de una nueva onda de conducta de ciertas personas.
Salen al aire libre a cualquier hora, aunque preferentemente de noche, y comienzan a sacar fotos del cielo, de cualquier parte del cielo, no importa.
O se encuentran en un lugar tomando algunas fotos de árboles, o un lago, pájaros o flores.
Lo clave viene después.
Ellos van a sus PCs o laptops, descargan las fotos y ¡quién lo iba a decir! Un misterioso punto aparece en una de las fotografías que tomaron.
O muchos puntos en varias fotografías, especialmente si fueron tomadas de noche (se llaman técnicamente “orbes”) y ¡voilá!. Una vez más piensan que ¡han sido capaces de fotografiar OVNIs! Y por supuesto, para ellos “O.V.N.I.” es algo totalmente identificado como ¡nave extraterrestre!. Se pasan totalmente por alto el “N.I.” de la sigla.
Son entusiastas de la idea ET, son personas honestas, no quieren mentir a propósito o hacer negocio con sus fotos. Ellos sienten que se han encontrado con lo desconocido.
Objetivamente, sin embargo, ese no es el caso.
Hay que decir, por lo tanto, un par de cosas:
1) Esas personas no son testigos porque no han visto nada.
2) Su interpretación de lo que luego aparece en algunas fotografías, es totalmente tendenciosa, irracional, y no tiene punto de apoyo.
Por lo tanto, no están en condiciones de declarar públicamente que han fotografiado una nave extraterrestre, que es lo que entienden cuando usan la sigla “OVNI”.
La tarea de identificar lo visto o fotografiado, o de declararlo No Identificado corresponde a los investigadores y estudiosos que encaran el tema.
“When there are UFOs there is money!” could be the idea.
And it is something that really works for the organizers of annual congresses done not all the time in the same place, although there are places looked as “historical” that call for the repetition of such activities every year.
They are business with the excuse of “UFOs”, or more precisely, of the extraterrestrial myth and a rainbow of individuals that makes their living of that.
Those congresses are a pretext to promote tourism to one particular area. From organized trips to “special places”, to the percentage that the organizers will get after an arrangement with a hotel where a congress would be held, everything tends to satisfy clients, entertain public, and at the end…make money out of the UFO subject.
This is the truth behind the vast majority of those meetings.
Exceptionally there could be some of them, which really pursue to deal in depth with the UFO subject, and those kinds of activities are exclusively related to a very selective group of people specially invited.
Those are not public events, they are not open to the public at large, and those who participate are a limited number of scientists and or experts, who will deliberate for some days about the issue and come out with certain recommendations, guides for a future work, and an evaluation of the whole issue if it is possible.
Those are the serious activities that later could be known by the general public through a press conference, and or a book, etc.
An example of that was the First Colloquy of the River Plate, organized by C.I.O.V.I., in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1962.
Another example was the scientific panel convened in Pocantico, New York, in 1998, by Professor Dr. Peter Sturrock.
Outside of that kind of activities, the so-called “UFO congresses” in general, are activities to promote the personal infatuation of some people, and the way many of them are making money exploiting the UFO subject, selling magazines, books, CDs, DVDs, and many objects done by artisans, etc. On the top of all of that, the perpetuation of the extraterrestrial myth is a condition “sine-qua-non”.
Science and a serious approach to the subject have nothing to do with all of that.
Y es algo que realmente funciona para los organizadores de congresos, hechos no siempre en el mismo lugar, aunque hay lugares vistos como “históricos” que convocan a la repetición de tales actividades cada año.
Son negocios con la excusa de los “OVNIs”, o más precisamente, del mito extraterrestre y un arcoiris de individuos que viven de eso.
Esos congresos son un pretexto para promover turismo a un área particular. Desde viajes organizados hacia “lugares especiales”, al porcentaje que los organizadores van a obtener luego de un acuerdo con un hotel donde se llevará a cabo el congreso, todo tiende a satisfacer clientes, entretener al público, y al final…hacer dinero con el tema OVNI.
Esta es la verdad detrás de la vasta mayoría de esas reuniones.
Excepcionalmente puede haber algunas de ellas que realmente persiguen encarar en profundidad el tema OVNI, y ese tipo de actividades están esclusiviamente referidas a un grupo muy selecto de personas especialmente invitadas.
Esas no son actividades públicas, no están abiertas al público en general, y quienes participan son un limitado número de científicos y/o expertos, que deliberarán durante unos días sobre el tema, y plantearán ciertas recomendaciones, guías para un trabajo futuro, y una evaluación del tema en su totalidad, si es posible.
Esas son las actividades que posteriormente pueden ser conocidas por el público en general a través de una conferencia de prensa o de un libro.
Un ejemplo de ello fue el Primer Coloquio Rioplatense, organizado entonces por el C.I.O.V.I., en Montevideo, Uruguay, en 1962.
Otro ejemplo, fue el panel de científicos convocado por el Profesor Dr. Peter Sturrock, en Pocantico, Nueva York, en 1998.
Fuera de ese tipo de actividades, los llamados “congresos sobre OVNIs” en general, son actividades para promover la vanidad de algunas personas, y la forma en que muchas de ellas hacen dinero vendiendo revistas, libros, CDs, DVDs, y muchos objetos hechos por artesanos, etc. Al tope de todo eso, el mantenimiento del mito de lo extraterrestre es una condición “sine-qua-non”.
La ciencia y un enfoque serio del tema, no tienen nada que ver con todo eso.
Due to certain publicity given to a Congress that will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, during this month, the UFO Phenomenon has returned to the media.
After having contributed with other people and along many years to provide correct information about the issue through articles, speeches, conferences, interviews and so on, I have felt a sensation of bitterness when I see how this subject is dealt by the local media.
I realized that no matter how much it has been pointed out through the years, many journalists and a lot of people that took contact with the media do not have by themselves the clear meaning of what “UFO” strictly means.
Once again there have been mentions related to “believe or not in the existence of UFOs” suggesting that those could be artifacts of extra-terrestrial origin, without realizing the evident contradiction implicit in that way of defining them.
They are one thing or the other, but not both of them…
Would it be necessary to start explaining again these things? Regretfully it seems that it would be the case from time to time, because apparently these things are easily forgotten.
I also think that the media has not taken seriously the subject. It seems like if it is placed in the border between reality and fantasy…and there is a tendency to exploit the fantastic side. Evidently, may be it is more attractive and the one that gets much interest among the general public.
Also in this opportunity, there is not a contribution of the publicized Congress itself, according with its program .
I think that in that Congress there are certain issues that should not be mixed with others, if there were the intention to give to the event a serious scientific tone.
As an example, it could be said that on a scientific congress about Medicine there wouldn’t be included “sorcerers” and their experiences.
Debido a cierta publicidad que se le ha dado a un Congreso a realizarse en Montevideo, Uruguay, a mediados del mes en curso, el Fenomeno Ovni ha vuelto a aparecer en la prensa.
Luego de haber contribuido, junto con otras personas durante tantos años a informar correctamente sobre el tema a traves de articulos en la prensa, charlas, conferencias, reportajes, etc. he sentido una sensacion de amargura al ver como dicho tema ha sido tratado por la prensa local.
Pude apreciar que, a pesar de haberlo puntualizado repetidamente a traves de los años, muchos pèriodistas y gran cantidad de personas que se acercaron a los medios, no tienen claro el significado estricto del termino "ovni".
Se han vuelto a repetir frases como, "creer o no en la existencia de los ovnis", sugiriendo que estos podrian tratarse de ingenios de procedencia extraterrestre, sin darse cuenta en la contradiccion en que se incurre al definirlos asi.
O son una cosa o la otra pero no ambas...
¿Habra que comenzar de nuevo a explicar estas cosas? Lamentablemente quizas cada tanto haya que hacerlo ya que pareceria ser que estas cosas se olvidan facilmente.
Pienso, ademas, que la prensa en general todavía no ha tomado en serio el tema. Parecería que lo ubica en el limite entre la realidad y la fantasia...y gusta explotar el lado fantastico. Evidentemente quizas sea el más atractivo y el que interesa a más gente...
Tampoco, en esta oportunidad, colabora para darle seriedad, el propio temario del publicitado congreso referido al principio.
Creo que en el mismo hay temas que no deberian mezclarse sobre todo si se pretende dar un caracter rigurosamente cientifico al evento...
A modo de ejemplo se podria decir que en un congreso cientifico sobre temas de Medicina, no serian incluidos los "curanderos" y sus experiencias...
KCBS television caught the long exhaust plume on camera as it arced into the evening sky west of Los Angeles on Monday night, sparking reports of a missile launch. But The US military has so far been unable to explain an apparent missile vapour trail off the coast of California, and is still trying to determine its cause, a Pentagon spokesman said.
An AP cable dated on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, says among other things:
Pentagon officials were stumped by the event. "Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, issued a statement jointly with the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, saying that the contrail was not the result of a foreign military launching a missile. It provided no details.
"We can confirm that there is no threat to our nation," the statement said. "We will provide more information as it becomes available."
NORTHCOM is the U.S. defense command and NORAD is a U.S.-Canadian organization charged with protecting the U.S. from the threat of missiles or hostile aircraft.
And this Wednesday, on MSNBC an expert in Aeronautics commented that in that area of the West of the country they are always testing different kind of airplanes and other aerial artifacts, about which the general public is not informed.
An he added: “Someone knows what is it about but won’t tell.”
I concur totally with this expert and I would like to suggest that what was seen was a second test of the hypersonic X-51, which had its first test on Sping of 2010, and of which there has been no intention so far to give information to the public.
This video illustrates the test.
Or it could have been another test of the anti-ballistic missile Arrow for the Israeli Defense, which are tested in the United States, and precisely in California.
August 4, 2010.
An Arrow anti-ballistic missile is launched as part of the on going United States/Israel Arrow System Improvement Program (ASIPP). The missile successfully intercepted a short-range target during tests at the Point Mugu Sea Range in California. This was the twelfth Arrow intercept test and the seventh test of the complete Arrow system. The objective of the test was to demonstrate the Arrow system’s improved performance against a target that represents a threat to Israel. The test represented a realistic scenario that could not have been tested in Israel due to test-field safety restrictions.
Yes, they could be classified as shoddy or trashy U.F.O.s without hesitation.
