Solving the mystery of the image of the black helicopter changing its form.

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Preface
- As discussed several times in past articles, Nick Redfern has said the following in interviews and elsewhere:

　　- There are many reports of helicopters and airplanes turning into UFOs (or vice versa).

　　- There are many reports of UFOs turning into orbs (or vice versa).


- I saw an article about it. A still image of the helicopter transforming its shape was also included in that article.

Quotation
Alien “Shapeshifting” Technological Machines?
Although it is perhaps much less spoken of, there are cases where witnesses claim to have seen these already mysterious black helicopters “shapeshift” into an entirely different piece of machinery.

UFO researcher and author, Nick Redfern, claims to have over twenty cases and witness reports stating exactly that. What’s more, many of the descriptions of these newly formed machines, according to Redfern’s files, resemble the “shapes of classic 1950s-era flying saucers”. Others change into sphere-like structures, sometimes enveloped by a “blinding ball of light”.

One such report occurred on 2nd March 2013 over the skies of Haverhill in Massachusetts. The witness noticed a Blackhawk helicopter flying overhead. However, moments later, this helicopter would morph into a different shape entirely.

According to the MUFON report, the witness was indoors when the sound of an extremely low flying helicopter alerted them to look outside. As they did so, they grabbed their camera. What appeared to be a “normal Blackhawk helicopter” was moving through the afternoon sky, heading south from the east. The helicopter would circle the area several times, allowing the witness to snap several pictures from different angles. On the last “fly-by”, however, something very strange happened.

The helicopter was beginning to move away from the witness after making a sudden and extremely sharp turn. However, it didn’t look like a helicopter anymore. In fact, the object was so strange the witness “couldn’t even identify any parts”. The amount of time between the object looking like a helicopter to its change was no longer than ten seconds.

The final two pictures taken by the witness are visible below.

a split image allegedly showing a black helicopter changing shape
Do these pictures show the same object changing shape?







Source
What Are The Black Helicopter Conspiracies? - UFO Insight - https://www.ufoinsight.com/conspiracy/government/black-helicopter-conspiracies

My view
- The mystery of the above video is easily solved, although it seems to have been unsolvable on the part of MUFON, which received this report.

- Comparing the "still images of the helicopter deformed" above, the image quality in the bottom is much degraded compared to the top. In other words, you can see that the camera was zoomed in significantly.

- The statement in the testimony, "the witness to snap several pictures from different angles" indicates that the photographer was holding the camera by hand, not on a tripod, and was following the helicopter through the camera lense, which was zoomed in considerably, judging from the roughness of the camera. 

- The photographer was tracking the helicopter through the camera lens, but the helicopter momentarily left the camera's field of view due to camera shake or some other cause, and the photographer must have thought he had captured the helicopter in his camera's field of view again. In reality, however, the photographer captured a distant aircraft flying in the same direction.

- The statement in the testimony that "The helicopter was beginning to move away from the witness after making a sudden and extremely sharp turn."  can be judged to be a misinterpretation of the sudden position change of helicopter due to camera shake as a sudden turn of the helicopter.

- Unlike scenes on the ground, the sky has a solid color background that is indistinguishable. If the helicopter is lost for even a moment due to camera shake, it is not easy to accurately return to the previous direction. This is especially difficult when the zoom magnification is high.


- For those who are not convinced by the above explanation, I have illustrated it (below). The witness states that "the object was so strange the witness "couldn't even identify any parts," but as shown below, identification is quite possible.





  (Reference image for comparison : https://ak3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/15620083/thumb/1.jpg )

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