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re: Watch out for artifacts
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A "realistic" UFO film shot implies one of two camera situations: Either a static shot where the observer claims he didn't notice the object until he looked at the film later (possible, especially with a viewfinder), or a shot where the observer notices something during the shoot and refocuses the camera on it. I suppose there's a category where the cameraman expects a UFO at a given time and sets up where it's going to show, but I suspect that's pretty rare.

Your film falls into the first category. Some people here missed the object at first even in the final film, so it's plausible that the cameraman might have missed it until a later review.

Anyone who noticed the object during filming would naturally try to zoom in on it as much as the camera would allow. This is where the "shakiness" starts. Long range zooms create a real problem trying to nail down a moving object (like this poor slob). Hell, I have trouble finding the Moon with binoculars set to high power.

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