OK, here's some more stills from the video that is one of KotA's favourites.
There was no edit and repositioning of camera.
Firstly, I'll present the shot taken towards the end of the footage were the horizon is clearly shown:
You can see some distinctive features (the trees and undulations in the distant hills).
Now here is the same picture, but this time I've overlaid a frame from earlier in the video where a similar amount of horizon detail is present.
The overlay has been reduced because in the frame is was taken from, the camera was zoomed in. You will notice an exact match (as exact as we can be working with YouTube resolutions). So looking at this comparison, it looks like the camera was not moved at any time during the filming of this footage. If the camera had moved, we wouldn't not expect to see this match as the trees in the middle distance would have altered their relationship to the distant horizon.
But to double check, let's have a look at the part where the alleged edit took place.
First here is one of the last frames from when the trees start to lgo off the screen (leaving a second or so of blank sky):
At this point, the trees in the bottom right are leaving that corner of the field of view (the camera is being pointed back up into the sky and slightly to the left). The trees actually go off the screen at 0:31:13
I have kept both these pics at the same size they were screen grabbed at because there is no sign of zoom being used in the frames directly preceding or following these screen grabs.
The trees come back onto the screen again at 0:33:03 and the first opportunity for a comparison is seen above. So there has been a mostly featureless field of view for less than 2 seconds (the time code on video is hours:seconds:frames and the PAL standard is 24fps).
So we see the trees come back into view exactly where we would expect to see them if there was no change of camera position and the fact they are at the same size (they would be bigger on the overlay if the camera had moved forward) would strongly indicate no edit and change of camera position.
Eventually the camera zooms out to reveal the shot of the horizon mentioned previously.
The Tree Disappears
On the previous page I presented some stills taken from the footage that showed a tree which was in shot on the zoomed in footage and yet had gone when the camera zoomed out. I promised to montage a series of screen grabs together to show the extent of the field of view throughout the footage. Here it is:
The various screen grabs are once again different sizes to compensate for the camera zooming in at certain points throughout the footage.
Now if we add the disappearing tree to the montage:
We can see the tree should clearly still be in shot because the camera has gone way past where the foreground tree should be, unless the camera has moved significantly, which as I have just shown, is not likely to be the case.
Interestingly, whilst researching this footage, I came across version credited to the sighting being in Santa Fe New Mexico. I also found the same footage being credited to the sighting being in Santa Monica.
A little bit of research regarding UFO sightings in both those places reveals:
A video on YouTube from Santa Fe showing an ambiguous light in the sky which at one point looks to fire a white beam downwards (this looks for all the world to me like a video artifact as some mobile phones tend to do the same thing when filming lights again blackness)
and
A several videos on YouTube from Santa Monica relating to reports of bright white UFO's falling downward from the sky. Again these eye witness reports are backed up by unimpressive video footage. The eye witnesses are at a loss to explain the falling white things. Later it was discovered that the Red Bull Sky Diving Team were doing a display and the objects were nothing more than parachutists with smoke canisters.
The dates of these two separate sightings match up roughly to the posting dates where this video has been credited to the two different places and so it then starts to look like this uncredited video has been used to somehow support the documented (if later identified) UFO sightings.
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