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[Phil_D11102]

I read with great amusement the story of the "tree spirits". I find it amusing because the NWN published the photos supplied by the person who sees the "spirits". No harm in that at all.

Earlier in the year I gave to the NWN a video, granted not digital, of "objects" travelling at great speed over Thatcham in the direction of Greenham Common. Two of the objects went around our house before joining up with others. So far nobody at the NWN has come back to us with an explanation (and we have called them), nor have they been able to put the video on this website because they don't know how to take the video and put it on digital. And we are not talking a couple of strange light objects, we are talking about 10 or 12 of them.

I guess the NWN is more on the side of "tree spirits" than on the side of flying saucers...

Next time I will call the Sun.

[Iommi]

How do you have videos, on what format?

[Phil_D11102]

How do you have videos, on what format?

I have the video because I videod it, on standard VHS format.

[Guest_Newburymafia_*]

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I really can't see anything in those totally normal pictures of tree bark. Carlo Ramsky, if that is his real name, sounds like a bit of a nutter.

Phil, the NWN has published quite a few chinese lantern stories in the past few years. I imagine there's only so many they can cover.

Check this out: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/FlashNe...amp;CategoryID=

PS - converting VHS to a digital format is a bit fiddly if you don't have the right bit of kit to do it.

[Phil_D11102]

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I really can't see anything in those totally normal pictures of tree bark. Carlo Ramsky, if that is his real name, sounds like a bit of a nutter.

Phil, the NWN has published quite a few chinese lantern stories in the past few years. I imagine there's only so many they can cover.

Check this out: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/FlashNe...amp;CategoryID=

PS - converting VHS to a digital format is a bit fiddly if you don't have the right bit of kit to do it.

If this is a case of chinese lanterns, why hasn't the NWN said as such? A follow up with a simple phone call. If it was chinese lanterns, why did the NWN want the tape to show and call the authorities? As many as there were in the sky that evening, I am sure we were not the only ones to see them, let alone record them.

The speed that these things were moving at was pretty incredable.

I am surprised that a modern news organization cannot pull a minutes worth of video tape and convert it to digital.

[misc]

I am surprised that a modern news organization cannot pull a minutes worth of video tape and convert it to digital.

It's not exactly hard. Any PC with a video-in enabled graphics card and some free software is capable of capturing the output from a VHS player.

[Guest_Bill1_*]

Whoever can see faces in those pictures is erm, barking

[Strafin]

They should get themselves off to a branch of Specsavers