A webcam that sends images of the U.S. Capitol area over the Web reportedly photographed an unusual unidentified object over the area in the early morning hours of Feb 10th. The image was photographed over the U.S. Capitol between approximately 3:15 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. EST Feb 10, 2005. The webcam is reportedly operated by the National Park Service and is located at The Netherlands Carillon, on the Virginia shore of the Potomac River, bordering the northern end of Arlington National Cemetery and adjacent to The United States Marine Corps War Memorial. The camera faces east. The image shows an apparently large, flat, metallic-appearing object with the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and U.S. Capitol building in the background. Among the Web sites that received the image was IntelDesk.com, a site that carries international news feeds and satellite imagery and specializes in global intelligence on international developments, science, culture, economics, military topics and other subjects. A researcher with IntelDesk.com reported that he spotted the image on the webcam feed at approximately 3:15 a.m. EST. After making inquiries, the researcher determined that other people had also observed the image on the same webcam feed.

Subsequently, IntelDesk.com posted the images on their site. The IntelDesk.com researcher contacted National Park Service police as well as the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). The images posted on IntelDesk.com and a link to the photos appears on IntelDesk.com's main news page. Peter B. Davenport, Director of NUFORC (NUFORC.org), also reportedly viewed the webcam image of the object. The webcam photo shows only a side view, so it was unclear if the object was triangle or boomerang shaped or some other configuration. The incident was reported on the Web by UK-based ProFindPages.com which carried the following story Feb. 12 and can be accessed via Google News by typing in "UFO"

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Excellent picture!

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...showtopic=34034


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it could be an airplane

not sure to be honest, With the photoshop features available to everyone today..

it needs to be better evidence than ever before

http://www.rense.com/general62/flyz.htm

thanks for the link hotoke definitely clouds the issue for me lol

though it seems it would be easy enough to check with Reagan Itnl and see if it was a plane coming in at that time wouldnt it ?

wouldnt the parks service thought to have done that before saying they dont know what it is ?

hmm interesting...but it doesn't look that real to me....It could be edited with photoshop..

That's proof of UFO's? I don't think so. Yeah photoshopped all the way.

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see this picture, its a helicopter




the one posted could be an airplane

This is an easy one.
Look at the cars on the street. You can see that their lights are long and stretched. Thats' because of the speed they're going coupled with the slow frame rate of the webcam. The light becomes stretched and blurred.
Obviously the same thing happened with a plane in the sky.

The only problem being the no-fly zone..

and it's altittude, It does look really low.

You're right.

well as i said up there ^^^^^^^^^ apparently in invisible ink
the plane theroy should be easy to check
only a few airfields to land at that altitude
Reagan Intl.
Andrews Air Base
Langley ? maybe ?
im sure if it is a plane they would be happy to say
then there is that pesky airspace thing
would seem odd if it were a plane, or any aircraft for that matter, in restricted airspace why didnt they scramble some interceptors out of Andrews ?

Whatever it is-it's in a no-fly zone in the country's capital. If nobody says it was a "friendly"-chopper, plane, etc, caught on radar-who's not telling something. Should be easy enough to track on radar. I agree with you et's daddy. Don't we have capable radar techs in Washington?

Could the picture be any more fake

The photos presented to debunk the possibility of a UFO are flawed. The aircrafts lights is only seen and not the aircraft itself. Also the photos taken was not taken from a stationary camera unlike the webcam. The amateur photographer is not completely stationary since both the aircraft and buildings are distorted. i.e.

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesG/uffogg.jpg

If the image of the UFO isfrom an airliner it does not show the rudder at the end of the plane it isn't even there. And I have never seen any aircraft in that colour. However I'd have to see a public airliner as well in that same time and compare the colour between the images. The colour of the UFO would possibly be from the reflection of its surroundings.

The UFO seems to be a lot closer to the webcam than the airliner in this image. Notice the altitude of both airliner and the UFO.

http://superfastnetworks.com/home/img/wash00.jpg

We all are disturbed that an aircraft is in the no-fly zone as well...
If you do not believe it's a spacecraft of some sort than it could be an espionage aircraft that's been spotted by the webcam.

i doubt it is a fake due to the fact that an official source has reported it, the national park system. i can see no trace of photoshop as it actually looks to be in the picture and not added in.

also, if you read the web page, no flights were scheduled during the time that it was caught on tape. it is also a no fly zone, and the only thing i see with this is that the goverment is doing 'secret stuff' that includes planes flying in the no flying area. the object also seems to be flying very low, and would it not be ruled out as a plane if it had shown up on radar?

the pictures of the helicoppers also seem quite different to me. notice how all of the pictures of actually planes have the lights in equal rows, spaced about the same distance apart, however the picture of the object shows its lights more to be in one spot. also in many of the other photos of planes, most of the lights in the picture seem to have the same trail, like the camera was moved. i see many things like this but i dont feel like taking anymore of my time to type here.

someone seems to be hiding something from the public, dont you think?

Doesnt look too 3d, does it?

if you click on full story from original post you get a much better picture

2 things i have noticed that havent been discussed

# 1 : why does it look like there is a blurred light along the side of the craft but yet the lights on the top are not blurred ?

# 2 : the angle of the craft is off but what i see as possible is different from what has been said

maybe the angle isnt of a craft coming in as it seems has been assumed
maybe the blurred light along the side isnt the side

how about this instead : the light isnt along the side it's along the back. the angle isnt one of descent but one of ascent.

it isnt the side view of a low flying airplane coming down in the no-fly zone
but a craft going up with a picture taken from behind

also im curious to know, what is the refresh rate of this web-cam ? is this the only pic ? and arent there other outdoor cams in the capital that could have gotten a pic ? seems there would be, hell there were like 5 cams that caught the "attack" on the pentagon

Where are you getting this "official source" crap from? The article says, and I quote:

"A researcher with IntelDesk.com reported that he spotted the image on the webcam feed at approximately 3:15 a.m. EST."

Where do you see where the National Park system reported it?

I think the only thing someone is hiding is reading comprehension skills. Where do you people come from? Secret conspiracy theory...you guys crack me up.

id say the web-cam of the National Park Service is an official source

is it really a no fly zone? or is that jsut what people are assuming?

http://map.aeroplanner.com/mapping/chart/c...xsmagnify=%2E25

maybe someone can decipher this no fly zone map for us ?

Yeah, it would be an official source. Except there is one problem. The picture was taken from somebody watching the webcam, and then distributed. Somebody could have easily done a photoshop job on that picture.

okay so has anyone ever submitted anything to 'snopes' for review???? would that be an option for us with inquiring minds. they seem to set the record straight on lots of questionables - why not this???

(This seems so HUGE I can't believe it's not ALL OVER the news - that's partly why I think it is NOT real, cuz it's so NOT being reported! Has anyone seen any other media coverage of this supposed event???)

nope, No news of it anywhere...

You need to start looking at credible sites

is snopes credible????? i am not knowing, that's why i'm asking....