Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The unexplained blob




This is a photo I took yesterday afternoon.  After loading to the computer I noticed the dark shadow like blob.  I thought it might be a speck on the lens, but there was nothing like that on the next photo that I took a couple seconds later and without have wiped off the lens:


All the other photos from yesterday were also blob free.  I am sure there is probably some nerdy camera explanation for the blob that isn't the least related to UFOs or anything esoteric, but until I know what that is it is the unexplained blob.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello my friend-i sometimes get the same problem,its actually a speck of dust on the camera sensor,these move about by themselves due to vibration and movement.peace

LesleyinNM said...

I figured it was something boring. :-)

Alfred Lehmberg said...

I offer that always satisfying Occam is not even what Occam, himself, meant, eh? See, It _may_ be that our fearful reluctance to "complicate a hypothesis" be a measure of how much imagination we lack or how unbrave we are.

Too, anyone warning about crossing the line into "fantasy" is missing the point. Today's fantasy is tomorrow's reality. The point; you can't draw the line between them.

As Terence McKenna points out, where's it "writ large" that talking monkeys are supposed to feel comfortable with regard to having things in tight little bags all figured out, ever? Humility demands we avoid all hubris--not be too proudly secure in our hypothesis; it's likely BS. Enjoy the ride and don't anticipate a destination, more, I suspect.

Be not bored. The philosophy provoking your original observation has abundant validity[g]. More Plato! Less Aristotle! Sometimes it is _required_ to complicate the hypothesis. Occam doesn't rule that out. UFOs are real. It seems reasonable to be on guard for evidence of them.

Dust-motes or cloud punching Motherships... what do we know; we're talking monkeys.

LesleyinNM said...

Thanks Alfred! I am not entirely convinced either way. Could be dust, but maybe not. As far as maybes go, the photo without the blob when enlarged has a couple anomalies in the right bottom of the sky. Could be birds, bugs or something entirely different. :-D