Sometimes, skeptics and debunkers can go buggy in their attempts to dismiss UFO sightings. That was literally the case when seven cameras recorded the flight of several UFOs at an air show in Chile as the craft darted around a formation of jets. The object was recorded from seven different angles and positions. So it was hard to dismiss.
Yet, dismissed it was by skeptics who boastfully said it was a bug – probably a beetle flying in front of the camera. The skeptics had looked at only one video when the pronouncement was made. The skeptics apparently had no expertise in examining digital images.
But others did. One Chilean analyst, Alberto Vergara, an expert in digital imaging, reported: “When we examine the whole scene frame by frame, we have been able to realize that [the object] has, apparently, moved at a speed far superior to any flying object of known manufacture. Therefore it is worthy of continuing to investigate its origin.”
Meanwhile Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record decided to test the skeptics’ theory and send one of the videos, as well as still shots, to three prominent American entomologists, hopefully with a knowledge of Chilean bugs.
All three said it wasn’t a bug. “No idea what it is, but it does not seem to be an insect . . . altho very fast flying insects captured on slow shutter speeds do look like amorphous blurs or blobs. I am forwarding these to several colleagues and asking around,” wrote Brett C. Ratcliffe, professor and curator at the University of Nebraska State Museum and Department of Entomology.
A few days later, he wrote back. “I have queried several of my colleagues to see if anyone might have thought an insect could be responsible for the anomaly in the images. No one had any idea of what could have caused that.”
Kean went on to find an expert in Chilean insects and sent the same material. “When Beetles fly, their wings stand up, and the membranous wings that are under are flapping. I have seen insects flying many times and their photo looks like a torpedo, is more oval, and that is why I can not see or imagine where the legs and wings could be.” She then said she would think about this further. Her description of typical beetle photos sounded a lot like the three images shown above. She ended her comment saying, “I would say they were not insects.”
So who was acting more scientific in this investigation – the skeptics or the believers? Take a look for yourself at the video…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsugEQIRkGQ
Could it be that the appearance of UFOs at an air show was intentional? A means of appearing before multiple cameras, and to keep us guessing?
A bug and a UFO, so easy to get muddled up – huh! At one time on the video there was a whole swarm of bugs flying past, or am I getting them muddled up with aeroplanes?
Here’s another video, where again skeptics say it’s bugs. This one from a Denver sighting.
https://kdvr.com/2012/11/08/mile-high-city-mystery-ufo-sightings-in-sky-over-denver/
An impressive video – thanks for link.
puhleeeeessseeee…that’s the best the skeps can do? bugs? right……..
very neat video – one i’d not seen before – thanks so much for posting –
Suurrreeeee it’s a beetle. A beetle the very same size as the aircraft and at the same distance from the lens of the cameras as the aircraft? Come on, skeptics. Try a little harder than that! What are we? Idiots? It doesn’t take a photography expert or an entomologist to clearly see these very overt facts. Measuring the distance from the lens to the unidentified flying thing just with the naked eye puts it very close to the same distance from the lens as the planes, and close to the same size. Pathetic on the part of the skeptoids.
Doesn’t look like a beetle to me!