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UFOs over South Buffalo?
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Not long ago, the Examiner was presented with a hand full of photographs from a friend that were shot from a bedroom window. The images appear to show an object in the sky. The story goes that this friend awoke at about 4:45 in the morning one day last summer to go to the bathroom. When he returned to the bedroom, he looked out the bedroom window and noticed a strange series of lights. At first, he thought the lights were just a passing airplane. That area of Buffalo is directly under an air route and planes do often fly low as they approach the Buffalo International Airport. But then he noticed that the lights were brighter and arranged differently than airplane lights. In his words, the lights were more pronounced and more distinct than the images show. He said that they looked like "a glowing string of pearls in the sky." He fetched his camera and shot a series of photos of the object as is slowly moved toward him and then as it banked and turned and moved out of sight of the window. And these in this slideshow below are the images that he says that he took of it.
The Examiner is the skeptical sort, not wanting to be taken by a hoax. There was no mention of any unusual sightings by any one else at the time or any time last summer. So naturally he was very skeptical.
Buffalo, of course, is noted for its skeptical community. Amherst, NY, near UB North Campus, is the headquarters for both the CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) and the CFI (Center for Free Inquiry) who routinely examine claims of UFO's, ghosts, and the like and debunk them whenever and wherever possible. So the Examiner is certainly not alone in his doubts. But the Examiner also tries to have an open mind. After all, we all live in a strange universe and there are strange things being discovered all the time.
Upon examination of the images, the images are strange. Normally UFOs depicted in night time photographs just merely depict blobs of light and rarely a solid formation. And what the image depicts is not fully symmetrical. This is noticeable in the object photographed from the side and in the image hovering above as it still is heading toward the camera. It is an odd horseshoe shape in the images where it is approaching, but then we see it is an array of lights in the side shot.
The reader is invited to comment on these images. If you think they are genuine, please state why and/or perhaps relate your own experiences related to this. If you think they are hoaxes, try to give an explanation as to how they might have been faked.
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