Skydentify - Guidelines for Submitting Photos

[Mick West]

The Skydentify sub-forum is dedicated to identifying unidentified objects in the sky from videos, photos, drawings, and eyewitness accounts. It's a group of people who enjoy figuring out what the O in UFO actually is.

Please post only genuine images of unknown objects or lights, preferably that you took yourself. You may also post photos of unusual things in the sky that you have identified yourself, especially if it seems likely that others would misidentify them as UFOs.

If you want to submit a photo of something in the sky for "skydentification", then:

• Have a quick look at the existing threads, see if there is something similar.
• If not, then start a new thread,
• Upload the photo/s, videos, or other images.
• Use the biggest photos you have. Don't worry if they seem too big.
• Use the ORIGINAL photos straight out of the camera if possible. These would be individual files that you copy off your memory card. The original photo has lots of useful information in it that can help identify the object.
• Upload all the photos that you have. If there's more than ten though, consider uploading them to a web album somewhere like Flickr.
• Describe what you saw when you were taking the photos.
• Describe what time it was, where you were, and what direction you were facing.

Ready? Then CLICK HERE TO START A NEW SKYDENTIFY THREAD!!


Some resources:

Flight Tracking:

• http://www.flightradar24.com/
• http://flightaware.com/

Weather:
http://earth.nullschool.net/


Satellite views

• https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/

 

[Mick West]

Metabunk is not directly associated with the Skydentify Facebook page. I liked the Skydentify name, so I asked if I could use it.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=511588232271052&id=400145150082028&stream_ref=10

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=511784062251469&id=400145150082028&stream_ref=10

 

[Trailblazer]

A question regarding the files uploaded: maybe I'm missing something but I can never extract any EXIF data from them. The URLs of uploaded photos don't seem to point directly at an image file, so the usual online tools don't work. Is there a way round this or is it deliberate?

 

[Mick West]

Large images are resized to max 1600. I did not realize it was stripping EXIF data. I'll see what I can do about it. It's a deliberate thing from Xenforo, but obviously problematic for Skydentifiy.

 

[Jason]

If you want to submit a photo of something in the sky for "skydentification", then:

• Have a quick look at the existing threads, see if there is something similar.
• If not, then start a new thread,
• Upload the photo/s
• Use the biggest photos you have. Don't worry if they seem too big.
• Use the ORIGINAL photos straight out of the camera if possible. These would be individual files that you copy off your memory card. The original photo has lots of useful information in it that can help identify the object.
• Upload all the photos that you have. If there's more than ten though, consider uploading them to a web album somewhere like Flickr.
• Describe what you saw when you were taking the photos.
• Describe what time it was, where you were, and what direction you were facing.

Ready? Then CLICK HERE TO START A NEW SKYDENTIFY THREAD!!

@Mick West is there a way to search photos on the site. You know how we can right click the photo and search google to find its origin or where else it's being discussed. I was wondering if you had anything similar for searching out photos on this site, since this site has a ton of photo and video evidence...

 

[Mick West]

@Mick West is there a way to search photos on the site. You know how we can right click the photo and search google to find its origin or where else it's being discussed. I was wondering if you had anything similar for searching out photos on this site, since this site has a ton of photo and video evidence...

Use google image search, and add site:metabunk.org to the search, like:

 

[Jack Mallory]

Do not post if you know what the object is.

Curious about this. I have several photos (and one short video) that I took myself recently while on a trip that I was interested in sharing because they represent (to me, at least) some of the types of images that are often misconstrued or greatly exaggerated. (None of the photos were altered in any way from the original.) I know exactly what they were, but it's not necessarily apparent from the pics. I was hoping to share them as a sort of demonstration, and was curious to see what others might think the photos capture before revealing all the details of what, where and when myself.

I'm not looking for any detailed analysis, rather people's first impressions or best guesses. I was planning on using deliberately vague (or even intentionally misleading) descriptions that are also typical of the types things that sometimes go viral, again, just as a demonstration of how people are often fed false beliefs and how that might impact their impressions of what they're seeing. After a few days I would then answer any and all questions and provide whatever details I could.

Would it be OK to create a thread for that in this sub-forum, or is there somewhere else that would be more appropriate?

 

[Mick West]

Curious about this. I have several photos (and one short video) that I took myself recently while on a trip that I was interested in sharing because they represent (to me, at least) some of the types of images that are often misconstrued or greatly exaggerated.

Yeah, and I just posted a "multiple suns" example here. Who wrote that rule?

I'm just going to remove it. Solved cases become examples. And pre-solved cases should not be excluded.

 

[Mick West]

Please post only genuine images of unknown objects or lights, preferably that you took yourself. You may also post photos of unusual things in the sky that you have identified yourself, especially if it seems likely that others would misidentify them as UFOs.

New rules.