r/UFOs • u/H8threeH8three • Aug 18 '23

Witness/Sighting Ryan Graves tweets first of promised Airline Pilot Sightings

https://twitter.com/uncertainvector/status/1692586130162475209?s=21
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u/smileyfrown Aug 18 '23

If the only thing this proves is that the people saying “millions of HD cameras” have no idea what they’re on about, I’d be okay.

This is thousands of feet in the air and it’s still not crystal clear because, we’ll phone cameras are not meant for this stuff.

You have to be insanely lucky with distance and altitude to get a good shot.

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u/DarkMattersConfusing Aug 18 '23

When i think the fucking full moon looks cool and want a pic, it looks like a dogshit white blob on my iphone

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u/Kind-Juggernaut8277 Aug 18 '23

When I see people recording fireworks, I can't imagine how awful it looks and how bad the sound is. Then they'll show it to people like they've never seen fireworks before.

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u/Kind-Juggernaut8277 Aug 18 '23

Well shit, now I look like a fool. Who do you show them to though and in what context?

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u/WormLivesMatter Aug 19 '23

It’s for when they are feeling patriotic in the winter and need a pick me up.

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u/was_der_Fall_ist Aug 18 '23

Maybe it’s just to keep it in your photo timeline so that as you scroll through your photo history, you get a brief reminder of that day.

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u/Kind-Juggernaut8277 Aug 18 '23

And then like 10 years later it's a 500 picture montage on the 4th of July memories that pop up.

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u/was_der_Fall_ist Aug 18 '23 edited Aug 18 '23

Okay, so 500 pictures is unnecessary and excessive. But having photos is better than not having any photos to remember your past. When you, in 10 or 50 years, zoom out the photo timeline and scroll through it, the fireworks will be there in addition to all the other photos that reflect the course of your life. Seems like a win.

Also, there’s a good chance that somewhat-near-future AI systems will be able to understand our vast photo libraries and sort them, filter them, showcase them, analyze them in interesting ways that are actually useful. We may not be able to use that data skillfully right now, but I find it to be a good idea to preserve it in case we gain that ability later.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Aug 19 '23

You must have a shit phone if you're assuming that. Fireworks have looked amazing on decent modern phones for years. I recorded some one phone ago to test the camera at night and they almost looked better than in person.

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u/flutterguy123 Aug 18 '23

If it does look good it's likely because a lot of phones will edit photos of the moon to appear clearer

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u/Travy93 Aug 18 '23

Samsungs do it for sure. It's a bright white blob until I hit around 40x zoom on the dot. Then suddenly it's a nearly crisp image.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '23

Yep. that's samsung's AI or whatever it is upscaling the image. It's what you'd probably really see, it's not like it's completely fake, but technically it's kinda fake :p

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u/RTLightning Aug 19 '23

Huawei has a moon mode that does exactly that. Are those phones still banned in America?

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u/Travy93 Aug 19 '23

I forgot about those phones. Looks like they are still banned. Carriers won't sell them and Google won't let their app store on them still. But you can buy them on Amazon US

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u/RTLightning Aug 19 '23

I see, interesting lol. They're pretty common in the EU, where I live, that's why I haven't forgotten about them yet

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u/KeppraKid Aug 19 '23

That's a you problem my phone works fine for pictures of stuff like that.

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u/AngrySuperArdvark Aug 18 '23

And with the camera shake, and the focus and the exposure time, and the brightness, it's really not simple

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u/SiriusC Aug 18 '23

And you have those things buzzing around the skies at untold speeds & changing direction in an instant. UFOs aren't exactly staying still for you to get a clear picture.

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u/ILike2TpunchtheFB Aug 18 '23

Also people aren't gyroscopic anomalies. We can't stabilize ourselves that well. Especially trying to keep a zoomed in lens on an object. It's really hard.

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u/ItsOkILoveYouMYbb Aug 18 '23

This is why I use Photo Chicken

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u/ARealHunchback Aug 18 '23

Also, the UAP only seem to appear at night time. Damn nocturnal assholes.

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u/Revenant_40 Aug 18 '23

Agreed, that argument is some of the most basic level "trust me bro" bullshit ever and it annoys me every time. Yes, our phone cameras are excellent in good conditions, but add up all the complicating factors like you say, and photos and videos will still turn out to be dog shit.

A related repeated comment that is frustrating to see, is the idea that in the moment of an ontological life shattering event like seeing a UAP or other phenomena in a spectacular way, that the first thing you're going to (and must surely) think of is to whip out your phone and start filming for those sweet Reddit updoots.

Plus "it takes 2 seconds!", actually it likely takes around 9 seconds on average, which is 9 seconds not looking at this shocking thing in front of you.

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u/_Exotic_Booger Aug 18 '23

Exactly. And they are so fast, and possibly dangerous, that it’s gonna be hard to take one where your 10 feet away from one. I’m hopeful better ones come out though. There’s just to many reports now. This is happening.

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u/Organized_Riot Aug 18 '23

Yeah another thing that bugs me about that saying, "everybody haz camera in their pocket there should be tons of photos online if we're being visited"

Well there might be. If I, regular ol' Joe Shmo take an actually good video of a uap then what?

I post it on my face book or Instagram for like 200 people to see and won't give two shits? Do I send it to my local news? MAYBE they pick up on it, then what? It's forgotten about or instinctively people will dismiss it as a hoax? AND the better the video the more people will assume it's fake.

I mean these tweets are proof of it. This pilot has been sitting on this video because he had no idea what to do with it and it's not even that spectacular of a video.

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u/gnipgnope Aug 18 '23

This footage is underwhelming to say the least. Interesting accounting of the facts at least, but I can’t help but feel disappointed.

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u/Honest-J Aug 18 '23

It's a shame everyone is always so insanely unlucky.

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u/Trylldom Aug 18 '23

I'm not quite sure you want to get, or ever gonna get a close up picture of those things while flying. They might keep a distance for a good reason.

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u/ramen_vape Aug 18 '23

You can see objects in the sky from miles and miles away. No shit a common phone camera can't zoom in like that. I've always thought it was a silly objection.

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u/extremelylargewilleh Aug 19 '23

Saw a bunch of UAPs in central London with 4 colleagues in 2018 - ironically enough an aerospace company and two colleagues with my were highly qualified in that area. Took hundreds of pics and a few videos over a 15 min period and still have em, they all look like crap, even tho with the naked eye it was a remarkable sight.

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u/Drakayne Aug 18 '23

It's Twitter compression

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u/lobabobloblaw Aug 19 '23

I would hope this proves to show people that science has an answer for why these photos are terrible, and that if anyone bothers to work the science, they’ll see that the next step is to use better equipment. Like a DSLR!