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Montana doctor captures images of UFOs

By T.K. Randall
December 26, 2015 · Comment icon 55 comments

O'Connor used motion-activated cameras to capture the image. Image Credit: sxc.hu
Dr. Richard O’Connor has taken photographs of two silvery objects using special motion-sensing cameras.
The 60-year-old, who worked as an anesthesiologist at St. Peter's Hospital in Helena before he retired, has spent many years attempting to capture evidence of UFOs in the skies over Montana using two Reconyx Hyperfire PC 900 Trail cameras which are activated by movement.

When the system picks something up it takes 20 pictures at one-second intervals and so far the cameras have taken more than 2,800 photographs of birds, planes and other objects in the sky.
Back in November however O'Connor managed to capture something a little more unusual.


The picture, which shows two smooth cylindrical objects, has generated some heated debate on social media with Internet users arguing over whether the photograph is genuine.

"Basically what you see is a very symmetrical, smooth and reflective surface that appears to have its own light source," O'Connor said during an interview with the Detroit Free Press. "In my opinion, even a hardened skeptic would say ‘Wow, that is what I expect a UFO would look like.'"

Source: New York Daily News | Comments (55)




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Comment icon #46 Posted by toast 8 years ago
Correction: Hahaha The debunkers FTBs , paid or not, that love to serve unsubstantiated lip service on this site don't know how naieve & uninformed they truly are. LOL. Until you get off the sofa & crawl out of your fishbowl, you will never know the truth or have the opportunity glimpse to what this man has found. Before offering your simplistic musings, try putting in the arduous hours required to form real opinions. It will most probably change your life, permanently.
Comment icon #47 Posted by Derek Willis 8 years ago
No, he wasn't. And thanks for giving him an "out". If he had put the i and e the other way round he would have gotten the archaic spelling right. But my point is that criticizing someone's spelling is hardly a valid way of debunking something. Many of the UM members do not have English as their first language and many others - myself included - make spelling mistakes due to haste and other reasons.
Comment icon #48 Posted by Thorvir Hrothgaard 8 years ago
If he had put the i and e the other way round he would have gotten the archaic spelling right. But my point is that criticizing someone's spelling is hardly a valid way of debunking something. Many of the UM members do not have English as their first language and many others - myself included - make spelling mistakes due to haste and other reasons. I criticized his spelling to highlight his hypocrisy in his post, not to point out his lack of English, and counter his vitriol. The subject material here has already been debunked, it's practically debunks itself. I had thought that was pretty clea... [More]
Comment icon #49 Posted by toast 8 years ago
CLANCY, Mont.— For nearly two years Dr. Richard O'Connor has kept two cameras pointed at the sky with the deep hope and belief that something might be out there. I googled this guy and found that he is the "Executive Director of Crop Circles Research Foundation Inc" and here is an excerpt from an article he wrote on his HP: I am Richard K. O’Connor, a currently practicing physician / anesthesiologist at a small, nonprofit, community hospital in Helena, Montana, and the Executive Director of Crop Circles Research Foundation Inc., formed June 28, 2010. Like most of you, I have never seen a U... [More]
Comment icon #50 Posted by Calibeliever 8 years ago
And, who wonders, his UFO/CC/alien filled HP has a donation button as well, so his mission is clear. The presence of a donation button doesn't automatically damn him. If people want to help him pay for his cameras, etc more power to them I suppose. But I think Dr. O'Connor suffers from what so many UFO researchers do. He says he "became convinced" after looking at evidence but it's more likely he already believed in UFOs and then went looking for evidence to support that belief. Belief perseverance keeps us looking at only those things that reinforce our beliefs and ignoring any information th... [More]
Comment icon #51 Posted by Quaentum 8 years ago
Just zooming in using a paint/graphic program shows lots of pixelation around the objects. Photoshop has done it again
Comment icon #52 Posted by Silent Trinity 8 years ago
It is difficult nowadays to differentiate between the possibility of any unusual object captured in our skies, or clever computerized fake. I don' think the old adage; "The camera never lies", is actually true any more, and I think for any photographic evidence to stand up to rigorous scrutiny, it would have to have other supporting evidence beyond the usual non-deive imagery. How? You may ask, and that is the million dollar question, indeed how? We don't know if we are looking at confirmation of the existence of Extra-terrestrial life, or just another Photoshop adept, frustrating but a realit... [More]
Comment icon #53 Posted by ChrLzs 8 years ago
Just zooming in using a paint/graphic program shows lots of pixelation around the objects. Photoshop has done it again No, it doesn't. Rectangular patterns - usually with regular 8/16-pixel block boundaries - are signs of jpeg compression artefacts and will be found in almost all jpeg images / movie stills that have contrasting edges. While there are ways to look/test for editing, a good faker will be able to get around most of them, and will generally need to *preserve* the artefacts! And to make it worse, note that paint programs vary in the way that they magnify images - some use built-in e... [More]
Comment icon #54 Posted by Sweetpumper 8 years ago
Just zooming in using a paint/graphic program shows lots of pixelation around the objects. Photoshop has done it again It doesn't matter. It's a picture on the internet.
Comment icon #55 Posted by DONTEATUS 8 years ago
It doesn't matter. It's a picture on the internet. Happy New Year Sweet,P


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