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[Spec] Strange Craft

[CookTrain]

I did see these pictures quite a while ago attached to an entirely different story, so my guess that this is just an unrelated hoax.

I could be wrong, however in the version I read, the tale was just two people wandering in the great outdoors when they saw this thing that was about 2 football fields long. That part of the story seems to be referenced on that site too tho.

The big catch for me is that the photos are clearly photoshopped, I'll have to see if I can dig up the reasons for why that is

EDIT: Interesting... I first came upon this on another forum that posited it as potential viral marketing.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2022.html?theme=light
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1252&category=Environment

Those are the two original links I was given.

This was my rebuttal:

[Would someone tell me exactly what constitutes a "poor" photoshop and what exactly in the pictures leads to this conclusion?]

"There is no depth on field on the ship, no perspective. The images make the ship look pretty huge, which would mean on most cameras, if the front end was in focus, the rear end would not be. They try and match it up with the rest of the photo, which is fine, but they don't take into account the physical space the ship would be taking up, and the effects that would have on a picture.

That kind of attention to detail makes a so so photoshop effort great.
Hope that helps

Also, if you look at the picture posted earlier... If we assume that straight ahead is north, the shadows on the ship say the sun is northeast... whereas the trees show a sun that is southeast..."

So hopefully those links or that explanation might be of some use

[likeafox]

Okay, if this is oog someone please kill this before I spend too much time on this. Anyway, I think this passage is very SOTA like in it's content

[Guest]

it seems to me I saw this craft as IG on Year Zero?

[Slothboy]

I first saw a link referencing some of the photos on that page back on May 22nd. The general consensus at the time on the website that linked them was that it was viral marketing for the Transformers movie. I think that was based on the glyphs that appear on the UFO as compared to the Transformers website and symbols.

The level of depth on that page makes it feel similar to what we are looking for in a Halo 3 ARG, but none of the text or glyphs match any of the known Halo universe iconography. Neither the Forerunner glyphs nor the Covenant typography match the symbols on the craft featured on this new site.

That doesn't rule out some kind of new race in the Halo universe, but as it stands I think that the site you linked probably is viral marketing, but probably not the one we are looking for.

It is pretty cool though.

[Dalthanas]

definitely out of game

[Phyltre]

It's odd because in places like Digg.com it is automatically assumed to be a part of Iris. Just look at the comments on the article:

http://digg.com/space/Strange_Craft_Sightings

[PONGpaddle]

Trout: definitely OOG.