In his recreation, the "jet" is a person in a small row boat.
of a little island on Loch Etive from Ardchattan Priory Gardens
https://blosslynspage.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/floating-island-loch-etive-scotland/
Where did you see it noted the plane is depicted as a row boat?
It's from the same source that you got your visibility from in post #50. Doesn't seem entirely fair to bring up that one but go 'well if it's a hoax then the weather could have been different anyway' here. Which is a fair point of course but it also makes this entire debate redundant, because 'could have been somewhere else at some other time' is essentially a free get-out-of-jail card for any argument against this being a reflection.
Unfortunately that's the way things go when we don't have any evidence of the location, or even access to the witnesses.
would be much less disturbed leewards of a mountain/hill
wouldn't that also depend on the observer's location? the rock could look different from the usual observation spots
In the mock-up they indicated an axis of reflection of the "jet", meaning it's in the water.
Yeah, it's quite unfortunate. It would help a lot if there was more context.
Much less disturbed isn't going to cut it here, though. This needs to be an almost perfect mirror-like surface without any ripples. Note how in pretty much every photo posted here you can immediately tell it's a reflection because the surface is minutely disturbed.
Not that I know of but the sun was setting in the NW (300°) that day and with it being behind us in the photo we are looking roughly south.
If the object was anything but a huge airborne diamond-shaped craft being circled by jets, then the witnesses were lying. There's no getting around that.
Not sure what other thread you mean but I can't see how the lighting of the plane works out if the sun wasn't behind the observer. Even accounting for the diffuse lighting conditions of a heavily overcast sky I don't know what could make the near wing appear brighter than the one on the far side.
If the sun was behind, wouldn't both wings be lit up given the aircraft is banking? (I'm going with "banking" based on what someone else said and given the apparent near-horizontal angle of the camera).
The photo is not compelling hugely compelling, the reason for the attention is the historical story and "fame" of this photo. That's why there's a clamour to analyse it.
what do you mean? the seam around the waist is the most defining part.
because this is a debunking site and the claim by many is that this is best photo of an ET UFO or a secret us/uk spy plane.
which is why everyone is still "arguing"/disagreeing with each other in this thread on different details. If it was debunk we'd all say "yup that's what it is, we're done".
thats what's bothering me (as much as the bottom triangle is too pointy) with the lighter part on top. i know it's a super bad photo but "typically" reflections are a muffin top shape. the bottom is smaller than the top.
that would take a 1990s camera on black and white film someone gets developed. i doubt people were posting too many reflection photos with this quality of camera...because if you take a reflection photo you want it to look like a reflection normally.
actually i just found a tree branch (i had to snip off the limb which obviously looked like mirroring and i changed it from color to black and white
But not necessarily around sunset... not sure how much prior to sunset you can get this effect, though.
I've found several pictures too of sunset clouds that are darker on top. The orientation of the clouds (as evidence for a reflection, or for which way up the photo/reflection should be) is still up in the air for me.
What do you mean by "doesn't have any mirroring going on"? I straightened the object (rotate ~1 degree anti-clockwise) - and while it's not a mirror image, there is *some* mirroring going on - specifically the white marks and the black spot.
A person in a rowboat would be active, though, perhaps creating ripples distorting the reflection in a way that would not be happening over by the rock.
I got nothing for that one!
You can click to zoom in. Here are 5 areas of symmetry - the black circles are obscuring them but compare to a clean image.
I"ve boosted the contrast and made it vertical for easier comparison of the halves. See how the black spot near the center has a darker oval around and below (in this view) it, bracketed on both sides by a lighter area? The symmetry is easier to see here.
