Wow. I can't fathom how educated people look at that and think anything but a bug. You'd think the media would be more responsible in their reporting. Though Halloween is approaching, and like always they like to give us the ghost stories.
Though I would like to talk to the people they "showed the video to and said ' I have no idea what it is' ".
Silly buggers.
Thanks.
It worked this time. Before I got nothing at all.
Why is the gym lit when empty in the middle of the night?
Or is this a low light camera with IR LEDs?
The "orb" is nowhere near the dumbells. It's so close to the camera as to be way out of focus and moving fast enough it never resolves clearly. Add me to the "bug" brigade.
Nice picture of a blurry bug, even if the security guy says a bug can't trigger the motion sensing software. Look, one just did! Security personnel I've met aren't known for their high IQ.
BREAKING: INSECT FLIES IN FRONT OF CAMERA AT LOCAL GYM.
After reviewing the tapes last night, owners are considering shutting down due to the uproar caused by the insect.
"I just don't know how this could have happened!" Says local gym user, Sally Smith, "Just knowing that an insect used the same elliptical machine as me, I can't handle it!"
But some patrons, like Jim Jameson, are worried for other reasons; "If that insect could get into the gym during closing hours, whats to say it can't get in to our homes while our children sleep?" Jameson is part of a newly organized group of citizens calling for improved insect security in the area.
The thing that always gets me is how essentially un-critical reporting on ghosts and hauntings tends to be. I mean, CNN knows this is nothing, but they report it anyways. A security guy says its not a bug, well, who are they to question him? They're just reporters, not question-asking-guys!
I don’t believe the reporter’s description about the “orb” is accurate.
She commented on about what she thinks she saw, her perception of things, based on limited past experience. What her previous experience, her perception, would lead her to believe, is that she sees something moving around in the gym, when in fact it was most likely an insect crawling across a camera lens or cover. I guess most of you already know that the insect appears blurry because it's so close to the lens, it’s not in the camera’s field of focus.
Reporter’s quote: “...a white orb wandering around the gym.”
The orb isn’t an orb, but most likely an insect. And, it’s not wandering around the gym, only crawling across the camera lens/ lens cover/ or some type of housing that’s near the lens.
Reporter’s quote: “The orb hovers, and lingers near the dumbbells.”
The “orb” isn’t hovering- it’s the insect on the camera lens or cover. The insect isn’t near the dumbbells, it just looks like it’s near the dumbbells because it passes in front of the line of sight, between the fixed camera lens and the dumbbells.
Reporter’s quote: “It kicks off the motion sensors a total of 9 times...”
The bug may or may not have set off the motion detectors. Something else, independent of the bug, could have set off the motion sensors while the bug coincidentally on the lens. But most likely the insect set off the motion sensor, even if a security rep said a bug wouldn’t turn the unit on.
Take a look at the following short videos on YouTube for some good explanations of what this "gym ghost" might be, based on a similar looking "ghost." The first one even shows a silverfish which looks like the Gas Station Ghost.
AnswersInSkepticism “Blue Gas Station Ghost Eplained”
Sure, a bug would probably not set off the motion sensor were it really near the dumbells. But you gotta think of perspective, parallax, that sort of thing. When a bug is actually on the sensor, it takes up almost all of it's view.
And car headlights will set off motion sensor cameras if the lights' motion are visible in the camera's line of sight. If the camera is not that sensitive what the hell are they picking up that fuzzy bit of stuff for then?
I have motion activated cameras in my business and the ones facing the the front and back are always activated by passing vehicle traffic at night.
There's nothing that says a bug in or on the camera enclosure has to have caused the intermittent tripping of the sensor.
It only has to be there occasionally when the tripping happens.
In my burglar alarm company days, I saw PIRs activated by heating systems being left on.
I also saw them false for no good reason. Generally, they got replaced when that happened.
Thanks.
It worked this time. Before I got nothing at all.
Why is the gym lit when empty in the middle of the night?
Or is this a low light camera with IR LEDs?
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