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This fact has most definitely negatively influenced the quality and quantity of visual data available for enhancement.</p> <p> As you will see, the raw footage of this UFO encounter clearly suffers from significant camera shake/instability issues. In fact, I have to say that this is the shakiest, most unstable UFO video footage I have ever personally analyzed.</p> <p> These already brutal instability issues are further magnified by the fact that the raw copy of the footage I was forced to use as the Alpha source file appears to have been subjected to some level of video compression, which, thanks to the brutal amount of shake, creates significant interpolation blurring and frame  ghosting being introduced/amplified.</p> <p> This effect is blatantly apparent in every copy of this Dickinson/Somerset UFO footage I have ever seen, and the copy I used as the Alpha source file for this presentation is no exception, with a high number of raw frames showing both the actual UFO as well as a second  ghost of the UFO visible in the same frame, offset 180 degrees opposite of the direction of shake travel.</p> <p> Just to give you a better idea of how detrimental this ghosting effect was to the stabilization process here, in the segments of footage I show labeled as  Sequence#13 and  Sequence#43 , roughly 50% of the frames had to be eliminated from the stabilization process due to being ruined by blurring and/or ghosting effects.</p> <p>  Sequence#3" was even worse, with close to 70% of the raw frames being garbage and unusable for the same reasons. Still, even with those significant negative factors working against the stabilizing process, I still considered this footage interesting enough to warrant the effort involved in trying to improve the viewability of the scene.</p> <p> Also, please keep in mind that the term  UFO does not mean  a spaceship flown by aliens . It means  Unidentified Flying Object  an object that is visible in the sky that cannot be positively identified as a known object of terrestrial origin. </p> <p>There is simply no way for us to tell from this footage just what this object is, where it came from, how it got there, or where it went afterwards. By definition, that makes it a  UFO .</p> <p> Cheers everyone, and I hope you enjoy this presentation!</p> <p> LunaCognita</p> <p> lunacognita@gmail.com</p> <p> </div> <p> <center> <table border="1" BGcolor="#333333" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="740"> <tr> <td> <center> <a href="http://www.ufocasebook.com/Images2011/dickinsonfilmanalyzed.flv" style="display:block;width:480px;height:340px" id="player"> <img src="http://www.ufocasebook.com/Images2011/splash480.jpg" border="0" alt="UFO Casebook Splash"></a> <script language="javascript"> flowplayer("player", "http://www.ufocasebook.com/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf");</script> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> </div> <div align="left"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/UFO-Casebook/138610616173863"> <Img SRC="http://www.ufocasebook.com/graphics/facebooklogo.png" border="0" width="32" height="32" alt="UFO Casebook on Facebook">Join us on Facebook</a> <p> </div> <center> permanent link: http://www.ufocasebook.com/2011/dickinsonfilmanalyzed.html <p> </font> <font color="#CCCCFF" size="3"> source & references: <p> </font> <font color="#FFFFFF" size="3"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1juAXaUYBA<p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JQMIRKttXHQ#! </td> </tr> </table> <p> <!-- Include the Google Friend Connect javascript library. --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/script/friendconnect.js"></script> <!-- Define the div tag where the gadget will be inserted. --> <div id="div-7476508241774998788" style="width:740px;border:1px solid #cccccc;"></div> <!-- Render the gadget into a div. --> <script type="text/javascript"> var skin = {}; skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = '#cccccc'; skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = '#e0ecff'; skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333'; skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc'; skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff'; skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff'; skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc'; skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333'; skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = '#7777cc'; skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#666666'; skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = '#333333'; skin['DEFAULT_COMMENT_TEXT'] = 'Make comments here...stick to the subject at hand. 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