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UFO Photos Draw National Attention

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Posted: 2008-03-29 23:08:58
(March 29) - The tiny beach town of Capitola, Calif., is buzzing about a mysterious object that appears to have been photographed on May 16 of last year. Someone using the name Raji posted images on the Web site Craigslist, answered a few questions from UFO hunters around the world, and then just disappeared into cyberspace.

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Mexican Air Force pilots filmed strange brightly lit objects that moved quickly in the skies on March 5, 2004. Some scientists said the phenomenon could have been caused by gases in the atmosphere.


As news spread about the unidentified object, others came forward on the Web to say they had also seen it. Videos and other images of what soon became known as the “California Drone” were published on the Internet.

Then came a call in January to private detective, T.K. Davis, a former Santa Clara County sheriff deputy. An unidentified woman from Open Minds Forum, a group specializing in “UFOology,” was willing to pay him $100 an hour to investigate the sighting.

Davis doesn’t believe in UFOs, but he took the woman seriously and has been on the case with a partner, Frankie Dixon, ever since. What does Davis think now? For one, he believes the object in the photo is too intricate to be the work of a Photoshop scam artist. He’s searched high and low to determine what it may be, and talked with many doubters, but has yet to find a logical answer.

Davis has even talked to the local power company to try to determine where the telephone pole in the photograph is located. Before vanishing, the person who claimed to take the photograph e-mailed the woman from the Open Minds Forum saying the image was shot outside his fiancee’s parents home. If Davis can find the telephone pole, he believes, he can find the person who took the photo.

An article published in the Los Angeles Times about the photographs last week has sparked more interest in the UFO sighting, but Davis says he still doesn’t have any solid evidence on whether or not the photographs are real. “The more research we’ve done, I’m leading towards believing,” he told the San Jose Mercury News. “I’m not a skeptic anymore.”

Many bloggers on UFO sites have called the images a hoax, claiming they have been digitally altered. Others have contacted Davis saying they had seen a UFO in Capitola several years ago. One person, a man named Isaac that Davis found through the Mutual UFO Network, claims the strange object bears a similarity to crafts that were built as part of a U.S. government project he worked on in Palo Alto in the 1980s.

Davis has investigated this too, but can’t confirm the project ever existed. Speculation continues to run rampant, but until Davis speaks with Raji, the person who took the photos, he says it will remain a mystery.

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peagirlnut 01:07:44 PM May 16 2008

I SAVED THE PICTURE ON MY COMPUTER SO IF ANY OF YOU WANT TO SEE IT EMAIL ME AND I WILL SEND IT

peagirlnut 01:05:16 PM May 16 2008

HEY WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ORIGINAL PHOTO POSTED ON THIS PAGE. ITS GONE NOW, IS THERE A COVERUP?

nesbittplac7 12:53:02 PM May 11 2008

More thorough information on the (17 drones now) at the following addresses

http://aliencasebook.blogspot.com
http://aliencases.conforums.com
http://droneteam.com/drt/index.php

maddawg1245 04:07:44 PM Apr 23 2008

A lot of years ago I was in my truck at night and it was like a spot light was on me from the sky. There was no sound at all and I even got out to try and see what it was, but it was coming through the clouds.. To this day I have no idea what it was. I was in the Air Force for 21 yearrs and never saw anything like it.

quickmatch 09:51:44 AM Apr 22 2008

yocomx 07:30:13 PM Apr 06 2008

Report This! For those who know of lifters realize this object is exactly that. Of course the high voltages needed are from particle acceleration from essential the same type of accelerator as the AGS and it's new linear accelerator addition. With boosters for heavy ion injection and acceleration the craft is truely opening new deminsions in physics. Congragulations

Actually, new dimentions in science fiction. Marvelous culture of hyper-reality, with its own lexicon of terminology having its only basis in the minds of the believers. If your thoughts about them are sufficiently detailed, They will become real?

for1bikerchik 10:45:47 AM Apr 19 2008

escalonz....didn't understand what that last comment was supposed to mean in your last entry......"Can we say black programs folks?..." Can you elaborate? It didn't seem to go with the topic or tone of the conversation, thus far.

for1bikerchik 10:35:04 AM Apr 19 2008

escalonz....didn't quite understand what that last comment in your last entry was supposed to mean..."Can we say black programs folks?...." Could you elaborate? It seemed a little off track with the topic and tone of the conversation thus far.

kcaron10127 04:41:52 AM Apr 08 2008

fibonacci05 09:10:10 PM Apr 07 2008
"Any updates on this?"

Nope.

It's still a hoax.

fibonacci05 09:10:10 PM Apr 07 2008

Any updates on this?

yocomx 07:32:06 PM Apr 06 2008

Forgive the misspellings please, my eyesight is not what it once was.

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