1971 Lake Cote / Lago de Cote UFO Aerial Photo

[Ann K]

Perhaps it was just an artifact of the filming and developing process, but it looks to me more like a deliberate creation. Either way, it seems to have been deliberately represented at some time as something that it's not, so it's still a hoax.

Metabunk and it's community are a great resource for examining and analyzing imaging problems and for worrying out the details of a given complex scenario. But sometimes when I read these threads it reminds me of a group of people in lab coats standing around trying to figure out how someone got a jackrabbit to mate with an antelope.

"It's a hoax", while sometimes true, is often the lazy way to dismiss a thing. That's usually what we DON'T do here. If it's a hoax, we want to know how and why it was done before drawing that conclusion. If it's a mistake, a misidentification, a genuinely strange thing, we want to know that as well. People throw their initial ideas into the ring for discussion first before they are "tested to destruction".

 

[JMartJr]

Perhaps it was just an artifact of the filming and developing process, but it looks to me more like a deliberate creation. Either way, it seems to have been deliberately represented at some time as something that it's not, so it's still a hoax.

It is not a hoax if it was presented in good faith and was not intentionally faked. It could still be any of several things, including a hoax. But just saying "It is a hoax" is not evidence that it is one! Earlier you'd posted about double exposure and a high hat cymbal. Can you walk me through how that would be done, using the system that was used to make this photo. |

I'd suggest being a bit cautious about conflating "it looks like a thing" with "it is that thing." It does indeed look something like a cymbal. It also looks rather a lot like a conchoidal fracture in a pane of glass -- when I first saw it, I was pretty sure that's what it was. Later evidence convinced me that was not the case -- but it still looks a lot like one!

Heck, it looks a LOT like this illustration of something to do with flint knapping:
https://www.chegg.com/homework-help...s-stone-tools-artifacts-due-resista-q36460622

I don't think that's what it is.

Metabunk and it's community are a great resource for examining and analyzing imaging problems and for worrying out the details of a given complex scenario. But sometimes when I read these threads it reminds me of a group of people in lab coats standing around trying to figure out how someone got a jackrabbit to mate with an antelope.

That may be an unavoidable side effect of the process, especially if you really would prefer a simple solution. But as you note, the technique does seem to yield results.