Chinese school children film UFO for 30 seconds with crap camera

Tefal said:
I dunno after 40 ****ing minutes I think i'd be bored of it even if it was 20 triple breasted alien hookers gang banging Pamela Anderson with various sex toys.

Also it's during an eclipse you'd think observatory staff would be setting up for taking professional and personal pictures of the event wouldn't you.
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That's the problem, you're completely ignoring, forgetting, dismissing or can't accept that maybe they did not. Not that I believe any of this, that's another discussion but your sweeping generalisations that they should have cameras, or would just go spend whatever they earn on buying a decent enough one is just silly.

You know, maybe they expected it to be just another eclipse and weren't going to use their own hardware but the observatory equipment, you know, working?

I'm interested in this field but I'm at the point that at lot of these events I no longer even bring a camera. You really miss out on the show faffing about with getting decent pictures, so most of the time I don't. So why should they?
 
ChrisJSY said:
So why should they?
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1. They're Chinese, everybody know that they all have mega gadgets e.g cameras.

2. They love stuff like solar eclipses, to a point where they study it daily and have done for all of their lives, probably have telescopes and cameras at home, and at work.
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3. They probably like to think about aliens, so any hint of an alien, like most people in their position, would want to get solid evidence of what they saw, being in an observatory and not in the middle of a field having a picnic with their friends looking up at the stars, they probably had decent cameras to hand.
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Before everybody gets into a real debate, they haven't even released the footage yet??
Maybe they actually did film it in QSXGA or something.
If they're going to study the footage for 12 months, I would expect they do have some decent evidence to study.
 
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xJcBx said:
1. They're Chinese, everybody know that they all have mega gadgets e.g cameras.

2. They love stuff like solar eclipses, to a point where they study it daily and have done for all of their lives, probably have telescopes and cameras at home, and at work.

3. They probably like to think about aliens, so any hint of an alien, like most people in their position, would want to get solid evidence of what they saw, being in an observatory and not in the middle of a field having a picnic with their friends looking up at the stars, they probably had decent cameras to hand.
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Are you serious?
Forgive me if I'm missing the sarcasm because some people are mentally challenged enough to think like that.
 
ChrisJSY said:
That's the problem, you're completely ignoring, forgetting, dismissing or can't accept that maybe they did not. Not that I believe any of this, that's another discussion but your sweeping generalisations that they should have cameras, or would just go spend whatever they earn on buying a decent enough one is just silly.

You know, maybe they expected it to be just another eclipse and weren't going to use their own hardware but the observatory equipment, you know, working?

I'm interested in this field but I'm at the point that at lot of these events I no longer even bring a camera. You really miss out on the show faffing about with getting decent pictures, so most of the time I don't. So why should they?
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So you're saying out of the nearly 300 people employed there only one had a camera?

Also this article is from this time last year and at the time the article was written they'd pledged to spend a year studying this (so over due by a few months now) they'd have tried to get some good footage.

Also if they've been studying it for over a year now you'd think they would have some mention of it on thier website wouldn't you?

But I'll be damned if i can find it.

Also since this was reported Mr Ji Hai-sheng seems to have suffered a rather serious demotion from "director" to "research professor".

Also the original Chinese article the paper uses as a source claims that in fact the video the op has posted was recorded much later by students somewhere else.







In actuality the object filmed by the observatory was a small white point in the coronal layer of the eclipse, and they believe it was most likely a star.

The op's video was made by some random students at a different date and location and not for 40 minutes.


So yeah it's a load of BS.
 
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Mammalian said:
anyone want to take a guess as to what tango will make up and come back with now to go against the 40 minutes and can't find a single decent camera thing?

mine is that he'll say how no one wanted to look away as it was a once in a lifetime thing blah blah blah
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DERP

No one expects a UFO to hang around for so long do they.... When this stuff happens people just grab the first thing they can and film away, in case it disappears quickly like most of them.

Its not like the UFO was advertising "hi guys we are gonna be hanging around for a little while, so grab a camera".

Obviously if you and Tefal saw a UFO you would have one person actually filming it and the other searching around for and setting up their everyday binoculars/low-powered telescope with a camera attachment.

Total logic fail guys :rolleyes:
 
TangoSixteen said:
DERP DERP

No one expects a UFO to hang around for so long do they.... When this stuff happens people just grab the first thing they can and film away, in case it disappears quickly like most of them.

Its not like the UFO was advertising "hi guys we are gonna be hanging around for a little while, so grab a camera".

Obviously if you and Tefal saw a UFO you would have one person actually filming it and the other searching around for and setting up their everyday binoculars/low-powered telescope with a camera attachment.

Total logic fail guys :rolleyes:
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So you didn't read my post or your own sources?

The 40 minutes filming was filmed with a " huge and cumbersome telescope" and was in fact very far away, several light years away to be precise.


What you posted was some footage filmed by some high school students at a different date and location.


So yeah i stand by my point when confronted by strange astronomic phenomenon an observatory staff will use high powered, expensive and professional equipment... like they did this time.


Derp:)
 
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Tefal, you are the one that originally started attacking the camera work using an expletive directed at the Observatory. I quoted you on this.

If you are admitting you were wrong, then just admit it, instead of trying to turn it around on me to save face.

The same logic I detailed above still applies....I feel even more vindicated in my use of DERP
 
but the observatory did use a big telescope, the object was not fast moving, the object was very very far away, the object was not small it was in fact most likely another a star.


you told me the footage was filmed at an observatory i called Bs because of the quality and standard you made excuses saying it was, so i decided to actually read the original sources and found out the video was not filmed at the observatory.

So yeah I still stand by the fact hat an observatory would sue proper equipment, like they did.


My only mistake was actually believing you where telling the truth not grossly misrepresenting the facts and claiming the video you posted was the one the thread title refers to.
 
Perhaps you would like to vent your obvious anger about whatever the problem is to the Telegraph.

Sure, if you want to act the internet nazi great, but at least direct it at the author of the article rather than me.

Whats wrong with actually being interested in the actual event, rather than coming into a thread just to pick holes to try and look cool ?
 
The incident follows a series of UFO sightings in China which culminated in an object being captured on film by students in Deqing. The footage, which was featured on Chinese television, appears to show the object repeatedly changing shape after initially appearing as a glowing blue sphere.
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Right there.

Also the youtube description of the video.


Can it be confirmedly said that 'we are not alone' and nine Chinese students have the proof on film?
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And if you read the original source for the article (you have to translate it mind) it tells you they filmed a small white dot they believed to be a star in the corona of the eclipse.

Now i don't know about you but the video you posted doesn't loo like a white dot, not does it look like it was taken during an eclipse does it?

See tango this is why you should read the source of your articles.

But don't worry I've learn't my lesson I won't belive you next time when you claim one thing and I'll do the back ground reading first before basing my arguments on your statements.
 
Well blame the Telefail then, dont shoot the messenger!

Or is it only the Dailymail that people are hellbent on criticising?

Has no one commented on Majicks video ? Thats just as amazing..
 
TangoSixteen said:
Well blame the Telefail then, dont shoot the messenger!.
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Err no we won't actually the telegraph actually makes it abundantly clear that the footage was filmed by students in a different event, it also link to the original source piece which describes the observatories discovery and explanation.


If was you who twisted the story to say it was filmed by the observatory.

like i said next time I won't take you at your word to avoid such problems.

For example original quote


The incident follows a series of UFO sightings in China which culminated in an object being captured on film by students in Deqing. The footage, which was featured on Chinese television, appears to show the object repeatedly changing shape after initially appearing as a glowing blue sphere.
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what you paraphrased it to

Scientists at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing are reported to have confirmed that they filmed a UFO during the eclipse for 40 minutes. They say that they will spend the next 12 months studying the footage before drawing any conclusions.
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The footage, which was featured on Chinese television, appears to show the object repeatedly changing shape after initially appearing as a glowing blue sphere.
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Notice you deleted the part about the students filming it and also the location it was filmed at?
 
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