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That's one way for sure, but the grain structure under magnification would make that easy to detect, especially along the edges of the stuck on paper.

After 50 years of being an amateur astronomer....I just don't buy that. It was barely a half moon. Jupiter was not only 1.75 times brighter than Sirius but had magnitude 0.8 Saturn just 0.6 degrees away from it. This conjunction would have...

Yes indeed. Assuming the jet was traveling at around 400 knots, the photographer would have had only a very brief window to capture the shots:

It is indeed of very poor quality. But the problem is that we simply don't know what the original photo looked like. What we have today is a 35-year-old copy — a photo of a photo. I agree that the poor quality was hardly caused by the picture...

Well, that is 460mph, which is 674 feet per second. The Harrier is 48 feet. So it would travel 14 times its length every second. Of course, it then depends on what the shutter speed was of the camera. My Lake District photo above had a 1/25th of...

No need for a dark room at all. Indeed, no need to even go to the original location to create the hoax. You just take your original photo where there's a Harrier flying across the valley, and stick a piece of paper shaped like a UFO onto the...

Frame rates of manual cameras with electric winder or motor drive of the time were very slow - 2 to 4 fps typical - the high end Nikon F4 maxed out at 5.7 fps. On a manual wind 35mm SLR maybe one frame every 2 sec if you are quick. Even having...

Yes indeed. Assuming the jet was traveling at around 400 knots, the photographer would have had only a very brief window to capture the shots:

One more thing. We often assume a great deal about the additional five photographs — not least that the "jet" is visible in several of the frames, moving across the scene. I was quite convinced this was the case, but I'm not so sure anymore. I...

One more thing. We often assume a great deal about the additional five photographs — not least that the "jet" is visible in several of the frames, moving across the scene. I was quite convinced this was the case, but I'm not so sure anymore. I...

Frame rates of manual cameras with electric winder or motor drive of the time were very slow - 2 to 4 fps typical - the high end Nikon F4 maxed out at 5.7 fps. On a manual wind 35mm SLR maybe one frame every 2 sec if you are quick. Even having...

It is entirely possible that some of the reports were associated with Jupiter and Saturn; the relatively bright star Porrima was also in the same small segment of the sky, which could have added to the general feeling of High Strangeness. But...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB7Nkz-g7EY

One more thing. We often assume a great deal about the additional five photographs — not least that the "jet" is visible in several of the frames, moving across the scene. I was quite convinced this was the case, but I'm not so sure anymore. I...

Yes indeed, this is important to remember. Lindsay's copy was most likely made by photographing one of the original color prints. It is slightly damaged — I'm sure it's scratched, there could be stains, and it was stored for decades before being...