Kevin Knuth
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But it actually says on โ it says strange object as seen by the astronauts of Gemini 11.
I think that's what it says underneath on the lithograph.
So what he found was a lithograph, which is a printed photograph.
They printed them kind of like a โ a lithograph is kind of like a โ
comic book is printed with all the dots, right?
Which makes it horrible to analyze.
If you're trying to find stars in that picture, you were so out of luck.
I mean, several of us were trying to identify stars and things like this in that picture, and you just can't do it.
Um, I actually, I, I, so what I, my best assessment of what that image shows is that it is probably a mock-up of what the astronauts claim to have seen.
And, um.
Because, um.
Ed actually found the original photograph in the University of Arizona archives that shows Earth with that cloud pattern in the background.
And there's no UFO there.
Now, of course, it's easy to claim, well, NASA erased the UFO from that picture.
And it doesn't.
Now, of course, doing an image analysis like that on a scanned image
negative, right?
Where you don't know what kind of process, and it's JPEG, which is a lossy encoding and all these types of image analysis problems.
So it's not great for doing an image analysis on, but I found no evidence that anything was erased from that picture.