Carnivorous mammal with wings, an unknown species.
Posted on: January 16, 2009 - 7:06pm
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Carnivorous mammal with wings, an unknown species.
I start today with a picture. Take a close look.
The image comes from this website. Running the page through babelfish produces the following.
Quote:
A STRANGE BIRD It measures approximately 80 cm and was photographed in Argentina by a photo hobbyist, Fabian Romano. The man sent the photographs taken to the CEUFO (Center Study UFOs) of Argentina. After several tests, the organization stated to be vis-a-vis an image of “high strangeness” and a flying “entity”. The curator of the Provincial Museum, Gustavo Siegentale, put forth the assumption to be vis-a-vis a “carnivorous mammal with wings, an unknown species”. The CEUFO indicated to have received other testimonys on the observation of this strange animal. The investigations currently continue.
What is everyone's take on this? Luminon, I'm especially interested in your thoughts.
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That bird must have been moving pretty fast...sure seems blurry...were the legs moving as fast as the wings...
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Well, I'm convinced.
After all, everyone knows that blurry out of focus photographs (which, for some reason seem to constitute the entirety of photographs of, oh, let's see..UFOs, bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster ad infinitum) are reliable sources of evidence.
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That Star Wars guy?
For fucks sake! How can anybody conclude that a blurry, out of focus image of some thing is a carnivorous mammal? You can't even tell if it is a living creature or a childs toy! And 80 centimeters? Is that wingspan or length? Since the thing is in the foreground, how big is the wheel on the lower left hand corner of the photo? Can anyone even tell what the wheel is attached to?
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An unknown species of carnivorous birds? I can't even tell if it's an animal.
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Hmm... looks a lot more like a time traveller winking out of this current existence and crossing into a parallel universe.
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Frankly, it looks like a locust in flight to me.
But then, pareidolia is a wonderful play-toy.
Oh come on people! Its god himself. He slipped up for a second and accidentally revealed himself while letting his mind wonder off on thoughts of creating another universe and he made this blunder in front of a fortunate photographer
On second thought, it looks like the last moment of a maintenance man's life just before being sucked into that jet engine which can be seen in the background
or it could be a double exposure of a plane and a guy on a hang glider
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I think mister hobby photographer needs some practice.
Looks like a plucked parrot to me, or a double exposure. Wonder if it was a digital or film camera.
Well, it looks like sort of a duck, just with long legs.
As others here thinks, it's too early to decide if it's a bird, mammal, insect, a toy, or carnivorous.
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Looks like Gollem to me...dancing wildly for his Precious Ring.
(ps...I don't think that's a jet)
I am a photographer, and this photo would head directly to my trashcan..."unrecognizably blurry" doesn't cut it.
Yes, it's el chupacabra. I'm amazed.
Am I being a jerk by saying it's obviously a freaking monkey? You've got the tail there, the legs ... I'm stating the obvious and ruining the joke, aren't I? This happens sometimes.
Sorry - just kidding - it's el chupacabra's cousin Diane The Bat Monkey.
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It's just that you got me all excited about a new species! I love discoveries like that.
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So far the closest person has been Cpt_Pineapple (sorry Hamby), and I'm not just saying this due to the cuteness of her pixels.
Yes, I know exactly what it is, I was hoping for more from Luminon, especially after the discussion of the window reflections/light angels. His threads on the lights in the sky didn't provide enough evidence to support any claims what so ever.
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Ok, here's a couple of very similar photos where the subject of them is actually known.
And they are ... mosquitos.
The purpose of this thread was to point out illogical thinking and bad conclusions where rational and realistic ones exist that explain unknown and supposedly paranormal phenomena perfectly. Cameras have a greater field of depth than our eyes do and very regularly catch things in the foreground (all be it blurily) when they're focused on something far away. Couple this with the fact they capture stills where as our eyes always see things in motion, we are able to and regularly capture things that appear very strange and unusual despite the fact we have seen them hundreds if not thousands of times before.
Due to their size and their constant movement not many people are very familiar with the way mosquitos look when in flight, similar to how a still of someone throwing a ball can look quite silly despite the fact we've seen and performed the process so many times.
I was quite pleased to see that most people actually took the sane steps in their logic and thought processes, assembling the pieces to figure out what it most likely was and doing a good job of it too. When I first saw this image and text on BoingBoing.net it instantly reminded me of the illogical and far out there thought processes we've seen numerous times from meta-science and paranormal proponents. The CEUFO concluding that it's 80cm, carnivorous and a mammal is exactly how his posts appear to many of us.
For those wanting to see the source of these pictures, it came from the website Cryptomundo which is a site dedicated to analysing and correcting cryptozoological hogwash.
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Sooo... is Manbearpig out?
I'm serial, y'all. It's Manbearpig.
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I am not a master in photography but i agree it really looks like a child's toy that was double exposed at the air port. The plan is to clear as will as the back ground. Only the duck is blurred.
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Manbearpig doesn't fly and he lives in imagination land, so it's obviously a baby dragon.
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What??? It's obviously Manbearpig! This "mosquito" explanation is total garbage. How did a mosquito get so big as to be blurry beside a plane? It defies reason!!
Or it's El Chupacabra. Bewaaaaaare El Chupacabra!
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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If it isn't manbearpig, it's definately an evil flying monkey. I'm totally serial.
This reminds me of the Bigfoot documentary in Futurama:
Bigfoots require vast amounts of land to stay elusive in. They are often found barely visible hiding behind rocks, although they are often playful, bounding into areas of thick fog or spaces where out of focus cameras just happen to be trained upon.
"Physical reality” isn’t some arbitrary demarcation. It is defined in terms of what we can systematically investigate, directly or not, by means of our senses. It is preposterous to assert that the process of systematic scientific reasoning arbitrarily excludes “non-physical explanations” because the very notion of “non-physical explanation” is contradictory.
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I have done some photo editing (ask rook, I made people disappear from his photos) and the OP's photo looks 'shopped. Just throwing that out there
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