The Power Bank

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Back story

I am no pro photographer, at least not one by profession. I don’t even consider my skills to be anything above amateur to be honest. I just so happen to be here at the right time, photographing something that a physicist by trade would later tell me, “I don’t know. . .I know you said you're a big skeptic, but something that moves at that speed can only come from outer space.”

I began to photograph the scenic view at 04:20:14 PM. Here we find images 35-37, in all honesty mundane pictures before I processed them. 35/ 04:20:14 PM; 36/ 04:20:16 PM; 37/ 04:20:21 PM . I turned the camera, and pointed at my friend’s family, and snapped two more; later, and I had to squint at full resolution, and full zoom in image 38 there is a UAP that is no longer there in image 39; I did go for the careless image that could be viewed as priceless later, but not in this sense.

While they took their break, I swapped lenses with the help of her youngest, and I began to take photographs of the furthest thing my equipment could reach. The ship reminded me of my military years, did a West Pack/MEU just over a decade ago, so I snapped a couple, images 40-41. 04:23:08 PM; 5 seconds apart 04:23:13 PM. Because I didn’t like the color quality, I aimed the camera back to the shore to adjust my settings to get the blue of the ocean, given the mundane nature of those shots, I did not include them in the project. When I aimed back at the ship, my histogram was terribly off its calibration, but I snapped a picture image 45, 04:27:00 PM and I reverted back to the old settings. Before I could land back to the original shutter speed the ship came into view, so I snapped another, image 46. 04:30:06 PM. It was clear to me that it would be more of the same, so I set the camera down on its monopod and walked away. I heard the clicking of the camera working about 20 seconds later, so I slowly walked back kind of struck that I would waste my last 50% battery by just carelessly leaving it on. What I was seeing in the camera screen was image 47. 04:31:16 PM. Now I say camera screen because the day never changed: nothing was occurring before our naked eyes. “What am I looking at!” I thought to myself while I simultaneously saying it out loud. I snapped the first of the four. A couple of seconds later, thinking to myself it was a lens flare I moved the camera to get it out of frame, I snapped the second shot, and coincidently I got both the ship, and my supposed lens flare, image 48. 04:31:18 PM. My friend then asked to see, and while she was viewing it, I snapped image 49. 04:31:23 PM. Her family lined up to see the power bank. When they went back to relax, I took a peek at the first three by zooming in, and I was sure there was something moving in there. I set it down, lined it up again and saw, image 50. 04:33:54 PM. I took this image 00:02:31 after the first three that’s two minutes thirty-one seconds later. I was very happy seeing that the image was so well framed with the ship so perfectly next to, I do not know yet, a power bank. At this moment, her family asked if I could take a picture of them, I was able to get six photographs off before going back to viewing the ship, noticing that The Power Bank was gone. I took the last three shots, noticing that the ship was now moving away from me, and the detail was scarcer from there, so I stop taking photographs at 04:39:27 PM the last three were a bracketed shot for best exposure, so they were taking instantly apart from each other, the metadata has the same seconds for all three, and we still have movement.

When I got home, I quickly began looking at the images; I put them together in a video, and watched them spin over and over again; this was my poor attempt to justify my images. Instead, I found a freelancer, and I waited patiently for my new video; in my wait, I couldn’t help but stare at them. I remembered working on old projects where I had to emboss my logo name, so I tried it on the image, and it was terrible. Photoshop couldn’t make heads, or tails of what I was trying to do. I tried the stacking function used for macrophotography, and the results made no sense, so I tried this instead: I obsessed over it for two nights, and got it done; four stages of light on four core editable functions, 16 images. Two filters, and the invert function, and after stacking, and I stacked them one by one making sure every detail was preserved, and 169 images later: one image of the 47 UAPs. Each edit brought out a slew of different pixels.

So having finished that, I reached out to close friends, one had his short stay at NASA without saying more I asked him, he gave me about five explanations that made no sense to either of us, and one that after all the filtering of experts still kind of stands. I also reached out to others recently on the verge of retiring military folks from my past, and they too convened around the one standing theory independently of each other, but all under the same notion of I don’t know, and a what is that. I spoke to two pro photographers, and not only were they certain it was not a lens flare, but the settings were so off to them that it stood out enough to tell me: they asked that I go to the hobby store where I got the equipment, the owner, another long-time pro photographer, assured me that not only was my gear fine, but that whatever I photographed was actually there, he did express how bizarre the images were: no lens flare, and at these speeds, he couldn’t believe that the objects were blurred, or even that clear. So logically, I went in search for a scientist, and found a working physicist freelancing as a tutor for college students on his off time; he concluded that he didn’t know, but was more than happy to take a stab at it: although he worked on it for the better part of three weeks, he couldn’t figure it out. I did have the speed calculated independently, and initially the mathematician estimated that the speed was 3,000m/s. The physicist not only couldn’t believe it, but was not happy with some of the conversions, so he estimated it himself, and concluded that the objects in fact were moving at 299,792,458m/s, and the cylinder at 15,449,696m/s “One order of magnitude slower than the speed of light.” I did hire two more people to do the math on the objects, but they concluded that they couldn’t give me any size, or speed given the lack of references. The physicist did add another thing to consider was methane, but under the smallest of scrutiny that hypothesis fell apart. The statement under which the speed was calculated would preclude such an outcome, and that is also under the assumption that this is coming from the bottom to the top rather than from space to the water, the shadow does cause an effect on the ship by draping across it, and that does not line up with the bottom to the top theory, but rather one where the light source is coming from above the power bank separately from the Sun. That’s it. Now clearly, I am not qualified to have asked the right questions, or to even recall everything with pinpoint accuracy, but what I can say is that the camera does not lie. The current theory is that it may be future tech, possibly military, but the truth is that no one knows. Once in a lifetime. Thank you for stopping by. I will eventually put my name out there, but for the protection of my hard-earned employment, it will have to wait.

Disclaimer: I understand that once you read through the background story this may read like a writer’s work, well my degree is in writing ‘tis why I am far from considering myself a photographer, but I can state for whatever it is worth that my story is the complete truth, and that the facts are recalled to the best of my abilities. The time stamps are strictly from the metadata.

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Edit TLDR: Took some pictures and got this.

Submitted April 02, 2022 at 08:02AM by Scythe_EPU https://ift.tt/rBbR2JT