Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations.

On December 7, 2006, we received an email with a very interesting photograph attached. The image was captured in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. According to the message, the photographer was Roberto Di Sena, Masonic Master, between 9:30 and 10 AM, November 25, 2006, on the Alagamar near the back of the ABC Soccer Club Stadium. (…)

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Cláudio Gargano kindly sent the image and told us:

“This photo was taken inside a moving bus. On the glasses you can see the reflection of my wife, who took the picture, and also one more person outside the bus window. The height of the window is about two meters… The photo was taken by a digital camera, and it’s not a hoax.”

Cláudio wrote how the image was stunning, and it really is!

There are many reflections on his glasses, and analysis shows no sign of hoaxing indeed. But it also allowed us to suggest an explanation for this mysterious giant man.

Notice how the reflection on each lens is slightly different. That would be hard to hoax.

A careful look also reveals that there are actually two mysterious men, pointed by numbers 1 and 2. And number 2 is clearly inside the bus! Wow!

After much contemplation, we think we finally decoded this and identified the mysterious men.

Those are just the seats of the bus. The head of mysterious man #1 could have been either something outside the window, or simply the shades. Mysterious man #2 head is probably an actual head of a fellow passenger.

A very interesting case of pareidolia, where it’s difficult to see something beyond what looks at first sight to be a mysterious gaint man.

[with thanks to Cláudio Gargano]

Reportedly taken on September 19 by “Andrea” in Ischia Porto, Italy. Interestingly, there is allegedly another independent video of it taken from a different location by one Antonio:

And then, even bizarrely, there seems to be yet another independent video of it by one “Rusty”:

An image taken from this analysis suggests there is a hole on the bottom of the object:

There’s also this stabilized video. It does look like a hot-air balloon, including the seams. Not only that, it looks like a hot-air balloon depicting a model of the Earth, complete with different colors for each country, and the pale blue oceans. This was also noted on the OpenMindsForum.

With so many alleged independent witnesses and at least three different videos, we hope someone will reach a more definite conclusion about it.

[Heavily based on the links and information posted by mysraki on the OMF]

Superb work in this video inspired by the whole Drone saga. The music is from Drone, remixing interviews by Linda Moulton Howe (who as an ufologist is a pretty good singer), but the highlight here is clearly the author of the graphics.
Because all the graphics in this video, completely digital, were created by one single person: Kris Avery, also known as “saladfingers”, the artist who has been reproducing and even enhancing the original Drone images to show how they can indeed be created on a computer. According to Avery, it’s all a hoax, though a very interesting one.
Download the original video file, in hi-res, here.

UPDATE: Kris Avery clarifies his views on the OpenMindsForum, where much work has been done to sort the Drone saga. His message:

Hi folks,
listen, you can take me straight OFF the hoaxers list…
If the drone case was hoaxed.. if (because it has yet to be proven) it was not me. Feelings about the possibility of what you imagine this case to be do not make it so. It is way more complicated than that. My video (to some) can only ever show that it is possible that the drones could be the result of CG, not that they are. There is much to be done before that is proven positive or negative.
I will also reply to the comment about how easy it was to create this video. It wasn’t! It took a fair amount of time, and was not a walk in the park.
I’m very glad that the video has been enjoyed, and I am extremely flattered by some of the wonderful feedback! I never expected such a resounding response. But it was not created to debunk, and the wide majority of people who have seen it don’t think so either. It is a dedication to some of the extremely talented and intelligent people who have put many many hours of study into this case. It is also a result of the artistic inspiration I have drawn from the unique imagery in the drones and the CARET documents. Ultimately, it was created to breathe life into objects we have only ever seen as flat 2D images, while bringing some entertainment and enjoyment along the way!
Whether real or not, there are some amazing visual aspects in the original presented evidence. I think the primer part of the video presents this inspiration to the fullest.
So please, don’t dismiss the drone case outright because my work looks pretty close. It took a lot of work to get them as close as they are. A lot of studying of the images.
The answer to this case is personal to everyone, but no one has ‘proved’ anything. Merely provided possibilities, and there are so many of these to choose from. To dismiss this case on a feeling is to dismiss the search for the truth.
I have at times thrown my hands up in the air and said that this has got to be CG! But I haven’t proved that. Has anyone? But it hasn’t been proved to be real either. It is the unanswered questions that drive us mad, which is why it is so easy to throw the towel in and resign ourselves to our feelings. I am still wide open to this case being real, so please don’t think I say it is a hoax, full stop, the end.
It is over when it is proven one way or the other, not before.
To say such is to belittle the hard work done by some very dedicated researchers. This I have learned along the way!
Final note. The special thanks to Linda Moulton Howe is for the kind lending of her voice to the amazing piece of music by ‘Drone’. She is not related to the video in the sense of her involvement in any way. I have never spoken to her myself. But I take this opportunity to thank her again for sounding so cool on the track! It wouldn’t be so good without her on there, and it gives the music a backbone that makes sense of the images.
Anyway, I hope this message clears a few things up. I refuse to be the debunkers champion, or any such nonsense. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I honestly hope everyone makes up their own mind, as opposed to being swayed by the flat conclusions of others.
That’s it really. Maybe you could post this letter a little more prominently? As I don’t really like being tagged with the hoaxer brush. I want to make it VERY CLEAR, that the original evidence has nothing to do with me.
Thanks and the kindest of regards,
Kris : )

Watch above the creation of a sand circle, not much different from the process used to create the more famous crop circles. It’s the art of Andres Amador. [via Paulo Barros]