UFO Now Identified - Texas

One of the astonishing parts of modern life is that cameras are now everywhere, and digital photos can be uploaded to a world-wide network of computers. During the Golden Age of UFOs, the 50s and 60s, any sighting had to be "reported" by a news outlet, most often a newspaper. The iconic pictures of the UFO were shots from Life Magazine, or even a local newspaper or the AP or UPI news services. There was a certain professionalism in the reporting, and definite skepticism often appeared, though practically speaking, the news outlets would not let doubt supersede a good story that would generate circulation. It all balanced out in the end.

But that whole process has been bypassed. And any person can post to their blog a photo of a shiny dot in the sky. And astonishingly, many people don't even see the UFO, they are reporting an image that they see later on a digital photo, which was not visible at the time the photo was taken. Here is some information about a sighting in an area north of the state capital of Texas, Austin in adjoining Williamson County, near Round Rock, a bustling suburb, and the home of Dell Computers.

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Below is an Examiner.com link (with good reporting of UFOs on a frequent basis) with an explanation to an earlier sighting. It turns out that the picture of a shiny disk was a trainer aircraft. We won't reproduce the photo here, because of the owner's claim to "personal copywright" [sic]. But it does show how the unsophisticated observer can create a stir based on a grainy photo of an object and the limits of digital pixel resolution. And her strong response to the image shows how emotional people can get about the topic, which is one of the reasons we publish this blog. The photo taker is a woman in her early 30s:

"who has taken an amazing photo that I'll cherish forever..."

In other words this is her moment of transcendent fame.

And to be fair if a plane were coming at you head on, visible from many miles away, would you see the wings in the bright blue sky? If it were at the right angle, it could look just like a ball or blob of light. You have to give MUFON, the UFO investigator group, some credit for following up on this, since otherwise, this would go into history as another example of a visit from an extraterrestrial.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner~y2009m7d15-Texas-disc-UFO-turns-out-to-be-converted-T6-trainer