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Kevin Knuth

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

Okay.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

But it actually says on โ€“ it says strange object as seen by the astronauts of Gemini 11.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

I think that's what it says underneath on the lithograph.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

So what he found was a lithograph, which is a printed photograph.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

They printed them kind of like a โ€“ a lithograph is kind of like a โ€“

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

comic book is printed with all the dots, right?

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

Which makes it horrible to analyze.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

If you're trying to find stars in that picture, you were so out of luck.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

I mean, several of us were trying to identify stars and things like this in that picture, and you just can't do it.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

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.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

And, um.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

Because, um.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

Ed actually found the original photograph in the University of Arizona archives that shows Earth with that cloud pattern in the background.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

And there's no UFO there.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

Now, of course, it's easy to claim, well, NASA erased the UFO from that picture.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

And it doesn't.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

Now, of course, doing an image analysis like that on a scanned image

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

negative, right?

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

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.

American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
NASA Whistleblower: โ€œWe Systematically Suppress UFO Data!โ€

So it's not great for doing an image analysis on, but I found no evidence that anything was erased from that picture.