What does this screen show in terms of numbers and abbreviations? Why is there a change in the color/shading of the image?
Why isn’t the image very clear since this was supposedly a US fighter jet chasing the object and in a combat situation, you don’t want unclear images of a supposed enemy.
I’ve never been happy with the narrative that went with this film (it’s the lack of a real informational narrative that bothers me - coverup, fake, misinterpreted image, etc).
Looks like a bedbug was setting on the lens.
when has a picture of a UFO ever been clear??
The change in color/shading is a screen inversion of thermal data. IR camera displays can have contrast issues, so users can change from whiter/brighter = hotter or darker/blacker = hotter so you can better pick out the target against the background.
Also, at the top center you can see the camera is in IR mode, and you can see that the IR sensor is rapidly panning to track the object (the numeric display is the bearing onto the target displayed in degrees.)
Also, IR is not the sharpest in most atmospheric conditions.
The colors change as the pilot flips through the spectrum. Visible light, infrared, etc. I am sure the color (hue) change is left as a Poka-yoke for the pilot to know what mode he is in (it is displayed as well) because that can easily be changed with a digital filter.
The object is far away hence the resolution is low. Air interferes with resolution at a distance plus the number of receptors in a camera when digitally zoomed in displayed on the screen drops. Think of zooming in on one of the massive images on the web. When you zoom in it starts getting blocky at some point. What you are seeing is a tiny portion of the cameras field of view. Zoomed out it is clear. Zoomed in it is blocky.
See here for what I mean: http://gigapan.com/
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