Pentagon releases UFO footage

[Pottsey]

Anyone catch that NASA rover photo uploading to the photos page on the NASA site? After someone spotted a "tic tac" type object above ground slightly and it casting a shadow went viral, it has now gone form the NASA images site, hmm wonder why, and when it returns will the object be in the same place?

To add some rational process to this though, Mars has rounded/shiny rocks too which from the right angle and time of day could look like a "UFO":

The problem is those pictures at least the top one I know for sure have been edited by AI which basically = fake, as the AI is adding in fake data to change the object into what it thinks it should be. AI enhanced photos cannot be accepted as evidence or proof of anything.

As for the bottom picture its widely believed Mars used to have a running water. Smooth/round rocks would be expected surly? Plus I am 90% sure some of the Mars photos from NASA are fake in that they are photos from Earth. I know that sounds crazy but there is solid evidence behind this. Its proven NASA edits and fakes some Moon and Mars photos for who knows why.

 

[arknor]

Anyone catch that NASA rover photo uploading to the photos page on the NASA site? After someone spotted a "tic tac" type object above ground slightly and it casting a shadow went viral, it has now gone form the NASA images site, hmm wonder why, and when it returns will the object be in the same place?

looks like a rock to me.

theres other rocks in the image that look kinda the same shape, the outer layers of the rock probably aren't as dense and crack off over time with the changes in extreme temperatures.

theres also no scale its probably tiny

 

[Sankari]

Its proven NASA edits and fakes some Moon and Mars photos for who knows why.

Edits? Yes. Typically for clarity. Fakes? No.

 

[mrk]

I don't think they fake anything, NASA just deletes images or cuts live feeds.

 

[arknor]

I don't think they fake anything, NASA just deletes images or cuts live feeds.

don't they recolour all the space photos and when they stitch photos together they slightly alter them?


GPT claims it's all transparent

Yes, NASA does process and enhance images, but not in a deceptive way. The raw data collected by space telescopes and probes often comes in wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye, such as infrared or ultraviolet. Scientists assign colors to these images to represent different wavelengths, highlight specific features, or improve clarity.


Here are some common types of image processing NASA uses:

1. False Color – Colors are assigned to different wavelengths to make invisible features visible (e.g., infrared images of planets or galaxies).
2. Color Enhancement – Natural colors are adjusted to improve contrast and detail.
3. Composite Images – Multiple images from different filters are combined to create a full-color picture.
4. Artistic Rendering – Some images are adjusted for public outreach, but they are always labeled as such.

 

[mrk]

Yes space photo colouring is necessary as science cameras capture beyond the visible spectrum.

 

[Pottsey]

Edits? Yes. Typically for clarity. Fakes? No.

don't they recolour all the space photos and when they stitch photos together they slightly alter them?


GPT claims it's all transparent

Yes, NASA does process and enhance images, but not in a deceptive way. The raw data collected by space telescopes and probes often comes in wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye, such as infrared or ultraviolet. Scientists assign colors to these images to represent different wavelengths, highlight specific features, or improve clarity.


Here are some common types of image processing NASA uses:

1. False Color – Colors are assigned to different wavelengths to make invisible features visible (e.g., infrared images of planets or galaxies).
2. Color Enhancement – Natural colors are adjusted to improve contrast and detail.
3. Composite Images – Multiple images from different filters are combined to create a full-color picture.
4. Artistic Rendering – Some images are adjusted for public outreach, but they are always labeled as such.

I disagree as some of it is deceptive in my eyes and GPT is wrong here as it often is. Some go beyond just colour enhancements with 14+ layers of processing, large levels of cloning objects. Plus a small handful of photos seem to be taken from Earth and are being passed off as from Mars. Perhaps its innocent mistakes rather then purposely deceptive but the photos that fall into this group are misleading and fake in my eyes. There was a good Why Files episode on this with solid evidence. I understand a bit of colour correction, but at times they have gone to far with cloning objects and I am convinced based on the evidence a tiny portion of the Mars photos are from the NASA testing grounds on Earth mistakenly muddled up into the Mars photos.

 

[arknor]

I disagree as some of it is deceptive in my eyes and GPT is wrong here as it often is. Some go beyond just colour enhancements with 14+ layers of processing, large levels of cloning objects. Plus a small handful of photos seem to be taken from Earth and are being passed off as from Mars. Perhaps its innocent mistakes rather then purposely deceptive but the photos that fall into this group are misleading and fake in my eyes. There was a good Why Files episode on this with solid evidence. I understand a bit of colour correction, but at times they have gone to far with cloning objects and I am convinced based on the evidence a tiny portion of the Mars photos are from the NASA testing grounds on Earth mistakenly muddled up into the Mars photos.

some of the most famous and iconic space "photos" or images as they should probably be called are likely completely imaginary


for example

New infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula — Hubble’s 23rd anniversary image

New infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula — Hubble’s 23rd anniversary image

esahubble.org

This image shows the region in infrared light, which has longer wavelengths than visible light and can pierce through the dusty material that usually obscures the nebula’s inner regions. The result is a rather ethereal and fragile-looking structure, made of delicate folds of gas — very different to the nebula’s appearance in visible light.

in reality they might as well call it an artists impression of how it might look? similar tot he photos of jupiters from the 1800s or 1900s that show cities because we thought people lived there..


I wanna see what they look like with the human eye, I don't have infrared vision


Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on 1-2 February 2010. The colours in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulphur (red).

Since when is sulphur red? and oxygen blue? hydrogen blue? nitrogen green? since when?

Hubble captures view of “Mystic Mountain”

Hubble captures view of “Mystic Mountain”

esahubble.org

Might as well take a photo of the earth and have plants purple, the ocean gold, the "air" red etc

 

[Minusorange]

Not actual floating things, just rocks that look like they're floating due to perspective and relative position of shadows from other rocks

 

[Sankari]

I disagree as some of it is deceptive in my eyes

NASA: 'We edit certain media. Here's what we do, how we do it, why we do it, and the media we've done it with.'

Pottsey: 'This is deceptive.'

 

[ethan]

NASA: 'We edit certain media. Here's what we do, how we do it, why we do it, and the media we've done it with.'

Pottsey: 'This is deceptive.'

There was a woman who worked as a slide editor at NASA named Donna Hare, who openly admitted airbrushing anomalies, was a regular thing. So maybe the basis for his his comment or opinion is based on this.

 

[Pottsey]

NASA: 'We edit certain media. Here's what we do, how we do it, why we do it, and the media we've done it with.'

Pottsey: 'This is deceptive.'

That's not what happened. NASA passed off the edited photos as unedited and didn't admit they did it, they even passed off photos that seem to be taken on Earth as from Mars.

I don't mind the slight colour and contrast enhancements. But when I see the same rock 4 times in a photo and the same cloud 4 times in the photo as they have been cloned to cover up other areas of the photo the edit is going to far if its not water stamped or marked as edited. Then there are the photos that seem to be taken on Earth from NASA's Devon Island testing ground listed as photos from Mars. That's either a major mistake or deceptive.

When it comes to editing photos there is a line admittedly a blurry line as its subjective between acceptable edits and going to far. To me NASA have gone to far with the cloning and Earth photos being passed off as from Mars.

 

[Felon]

NASA passed off the edited photos as unedited and didn't admit they did it, they even passed off photos taken on Earth as from Mars.

Dare I ask for a source?

 

[Pottsey]

Dare I ask for a source?

Last year on lunch break I watched a few WhyFiles episodes where he went over the edited photos with links back to NASA its covered in some of the Mars and Moon videos. Sorry for the following poor quality. I didn’t save links to the originals though I did look at them at the time.

Plus as Athan said a few posts above Donna Hare used to work for NASA and she said in an interview she did wide spread undocumented airbrushing.

In the full photo this area looks identical to the environment at Devon Island testing grounds as well as having what to me looks like an Artic Lemming the same as found at Devon Island yet the photo is listed as a Mars photo or it was listed as Mars back when I originally viewed it last year.





The 2nd photo another exmple of the same rock formations being repeated in the photo. Presumably done by people like Dona Hare who talked about this being her Job at NASA. Its either really bad air brushing to cover up anomalies or a really bad stitching job. This one I leaning more towards a bad stitching job. Some of the others though the cloning is to far aware to be a stitching and must be bad air brushing/cloning.

Before anyone gets the wrong idea. I fully believe the probes did land and still are on Mars and we did land on the Moon. Its just I think a small amount of the photos have excessive edits and/or are fake taken from Earth or if you prefer silly mistakes with photos from Earth being passed off as Mars photos as they are in the wrong folder. I am all for adjusting the white and black levels to improve the photo but repeating objects cross's the line into poor editing. Mixing what appears to be photos taken from Earth into Mars photos is to me deceptive perhaps unintentionally deceptive.