Claim: Original Calvine UFO Photo

[Fritzkquzerk]

Driving through Calvine next week, any photo requests?

Yes! Take a photo of the diamond shaped things in the sky or suspended from trees around the town!

More seriously:
The possible location of the photo?
Can it be found?

 

[JMartJr]

Keep an eye out for that fence! I assume it is gone/replaced, or perhaps never was where it is claimed that it was. But you never know, maybe you'll spot what others have missed!

 

[John J.]

Driving through Calvine next week, any photo requests?

Photos of elusive local wildlife are always appreciated.

 

[Andreas]

Driving through Calvine next week, any photo requests?

Have a great trip! I don't think I have any specific photo requests, though. I think finding the exact fence would be an impossible task, since we don't even know for sure whether the photo was taken in the Calvine area.

 

[NoParty]

What someone should do, in Calvine, is set up a little 15 foot section of identical fence,
make a little photo set, complete with a line of magician's invisible thread already hanging down,
so tourists can quickly hook up whichever "UFO" they'd like for their custom photo:
Sure, you can do the no brainer "Calvine hoverin' diamond," or you could choose a classic hubcap saucer,
1940s-'60s gigantic cigar, Star Wars black triangle, engine-less white egg, or "Mothership" light fixture, etc.
Sky's the limit!

 

[JMartJr]

What someone should do, in Calvine, is set up a little 15 foot section of identical fence,
make a little photo set, complete with a line of magician's invisible thread already hanging down,
so tourists can quickly hook up whichever "UFO" they'd like for their custom photo:
Sure, you can do the no brainer "Calvine hoverin' diamond," or you could choose a classic hubcap saucer,
1940s-'60s gigantic cigar, Star Wars black triangle, engine-less white egg, or "Mothership" light fixture, etc.
Sky's the limit!

A very marketable idea, could work at lmost any famous UFO picture site where there is any foreground lanscape... the McMinnville farm would be easy to make in miniature, for example. Perhaps you could franchise the idea!

 

[Giddierone]

Photos of elusive local wildlife are always appreciated.

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Och aye!
Source: https://x.com/giddierone/status/1558528461609861121?s=46

I think finding the exact fence

I'm sure the answer is burried deep in the various Calvine threads, but what are the best estimates fir the location?

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Why are we expending so much energy on this obvious hoax? We've already said everything that can be said. Let it go.

 

[JMartJr]

Why are we expending so much energy on this obvious hoax? We've already said everything that can be said. Let it go.

I think we largely have, at the moment there is a little surge of chat about it, which I think is where we are unless new data emerges...

 

[Fritzkquzerk]

I think we largely have, at the moment there is a little surge of chat about it, which I think is where we are unless new data emerges...

Which it won't.
Unless the hoaxers come forward?

 

[Andreas]

Which it won't.
Unless the hoaxers come forward?

Yeah, perhaps we'll get a confession one fine day. But unless the hoaxer still has the negatives or the small UFO prop, I'm quite sure the believers won't be convinced even by a detailed confession.

 

[Giddierone]

Why are we expending so much energy on this obvious hoax? We've already said everything that can be said. Let it go.

Any energy expended is more than replenished with the appropriate (anti-gravity) foodstuff…

 

[Todd Feinman]

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Nice! All the Calvine speculation drove me to this, long ago. I've been losing weight since y'all stopped. It's my "Calvine 2Qt".

 

[Andreas]

Well, Andrew Robinson is currently responding to some of my findings. Interestingly, he concludes that:

https://anthologycouk.substack.com/p/string-theory-tangled-up-in-calvine

Building on Utrecht's earlier work, Zätterqvist's proposes that rather than hanging models from overhead branches or some other form of overhead support, the models could have been attached to horizontal wires which, if the models were of sufficient mass, would provide greater stability, offer greater control of their position, and thus produce far more believable results. He successfully demonstrates this using a UFO constructed from folded cardboard and a die-cast toy model of a Hawker Hunter producing a series of six digital images showing the aircraft passing the UFO in a believable manner.

But I'm sure he'll have some objections in his upcoming second post on the matter.

Therefore, I'm planning on recreating the whole thing using an old Canon AV-1 fitted with an FD 50 mm lens and loaded with Kodak UltraMax 400. I will create a series of six consecutive negatives for him to comment on. And I will also create a B&W repro photo to "investigate".

Yeah, I know I shouldn't spend so much time on this, but I just can't let it go. To me, it's quite simple to create six rather convincing photographs. And if someone's claiming otherwise, I'm rather ruthless.

 

[NorCal Dave]

Well, Andrew Robinson is currently responding to some of my findings. Interestingly, he concludes that:

https://anthologycouk.substack.com/p/string-theory-tangled-up-in-calvine

Building on Utrecht's earlier work, Zätterqvist's proposes that rather than hanging models from overhead branches or some other form of overhead support, the models could have been attached to horizontal wires which, if the models were of sufficient mass, would provide greater stability, offer greater control of their position, and thus produce far more believable results. He successfully demonstrates this using a UFO constructed from folded cardboard and a die-cast toy model of a Hawker Hunter producing a series of six digital images showing the aircraft passing the UFO in a believable manner.

But I'm sure he'll have some objections in his upcoming second post on the matter.

Therefore, I'm planning on recreating the whole thing using an old Canon AV-1 fitted with an FD 50 mm lens and loaded with Kodak UltraMax 400. I will create a series of six consecutive negatives for him to comment on. And I will also create a B&W repro photo to "investigate".

Yeah, I know I shouldn't spend so much time on this, but I just can't let it go. To me, it's quite simple to create six rather convincing photographs. And if someone's claiming otherwise, I'm rather ruthless.

You go!! I looked around for film cameras, but I was surprised at the amount of money people wanted for them. Didn't seem worth it.

Looking forward to your re-creations.