Re: Serious question from a skeptic - practical realities of taking clear video/stills of UFO's?

Doc <docsavage20@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:6d3a57e5-9a10-4a9b-b05f-
ce9d2fa84b8f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm limiting this to what seem like technically oriented groups, not
> including UFO forums in an attempt to avoid slobbering tirades from
> the tinfoil hat brigade.
> 
> I'm wondering why it is, in all the incidents of "UFO" sightings,
> including some that have made the news, any images that aren't obvious
> hoaxes (and many that are) are always grainy, shaky, indistinct blobs
> blurs, pinpoint lights etc.
> 

You'll get as many answers as you get replies, but here's my take. I'm an 
engineer who's also skilled photographer and videographer who happens 
also to be a pilot and who has seen an object in the sky I couldn't 
identify. (By definition a UFO)

The great video you see of shuttle launches are taken by videographers 
with expensive equipment, set up well in advance, who know exactly the 
path the shuttle will take at exactly what time down to the millisecond. 
Add a little skill and it's pretty easy to get good video. The problem 
with UFO photography is that they just don't schedule their appearances 
in advance. The odds that someone with a high speed high def video camera 
all set up at the exact moment one shows up is pretty much zero. If it 
were really a good hoax, someone would be set to film it with good 
equipment!

Actually no one I know with good video or even still equipment keeps it 
ready, unprotected, and sitting on his car seat, as that would be an 
invitation to have it stolen. My gear is always in a case, at best in the 
trunk, and if I saw a UFO I'd have to consider the time I'd spend not 
looking at it in order to get the camera out and ready. Considering that 
most of these events don't last too long, that might be a tough call.

Larry [in Honolulu]