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michelle1979
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 		Do the images possible contain numerous layers?
I have been looking at the 'glass bowl' image. I can't find that anybody else has cleaned this one up yet. Apologies if they have. I'm no expert with photoshop so someone else may well be able to clean this up much better than I have. The initial image appeared as this -
http://super8.wikibruce.com/images/d/df/8-02-5.jpg

I rotated and cleaned it up a bit -


I can see what looks like someone laying on a hospital bed / portable couch of some type bottom centre (it looks like their legs and they are facing down, lying on their stomach).
I can also see what looks like someone reaching up to the left hand corner. There is a larger shadowed figure almost central in picture - possibly military again, with an arm reaching out over the top, looks much smaller, possibly belongs to a child (I think the arm belongs to another figure - not the shadowed one).


Out of interest I then created a dark overlay to see if the picture would be clearer, but it seems to reveal another layer to the picture.

Next to the three dots I can clearly see a mans head, he is facing towards the left.

As I said I am no expert at all! I think there may well be some of the other images that contain multiple layers. Perhaps worth a look, by someone who knows what they are doing with photoshop!

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:14 am
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 		I have been trying to work out what that is, it could easily be a pressurised helmet, either for underwater or high altitude, but there's nothing that seems to match exactly.

I think the face you see is simply from looking too hard Wink
They have added a layer of 'sparks' coming from the centre of some of the images, and one of those lines makes up the forehead of that face, There is a line in a similar place on the opposite side of the picture.
That's assuming I'm looking at the same thing anyway. I'm sure it will be clearer once the other 3 corners of that image show up.

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 		I definitely think that the initial image is some kind of glass helmet. But when you look 'beyond' the helmet you can see the examination couch (for want of a better word) with someones legs. And also the shadowed figure (shown in my top image). This shadowed image resembles the same shape as another image that has been found - the military guy with the blue beret. Also, in the image of the blue beret guy you can see an examination couch and what looks like two figures in the background - he almost seems to be looking through a window at them.

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 		Captain Coop!?!? lol

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 		Could it be Fedora?

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michelle1979 wrote:
I definitely think that the initial image is some kind of glass helmet. But when you look 'beyond' the helmet you can see the examination couch (for want of a better word) with someones legs. And also the shadowed figure (shown in my top image). This shadowed image resembles the same shape as another image that has been found - the military guy with the blue beret. Also, in the image of the blue beret guy you can see an examination couch and what looks like two figures in the background - he almost seems to be looking through a window at them.


I can sort of see some of the things you mention but I think it's mainly a combination of Apophenia and conformation bias. Basically your giving meaning to random shapes, probably because you were searching for hidden meaning.

To me I see the picture as not a helmet but a spherical flask of some sort. There is a blemish on the right side of the round object and a line running from the bottom right of the image through the blemish where it begins to fade. The sphere appears to be resting on something (to me a stand with padding holding the flask) this is your "examination table" what you see as a person does show some resemblance to a human but the proportions are wrong and the curves don't fit the human form.

If I were to guess what it was I'd say it was a flask used in a lab experiment with a metal rod inserted in a opening in the side.

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Dust King wrote:


I can sort of see some of the things you mention but I think it's mainly a combination of Apophenia and conformation bias. Basically your giving meaning to random shapes, probably because you were searching for hidden meaning.

To me I see the picture as not a helmet but a spherical flask of some sort. There is a blemish on the right side of the round object and a line running from the bottom right of the image through the blemish where it begins to fade. The sphere appears to be resting on something (to me a stand with padding holding the flask) this is your "examination table" what you see as a person does show some resemblance to a human but the proportions are wrong and the curves don't fit the human form.

If I were to guess what it was I'd say it was a flask used in a lab experiment with a metal rod inserted in a opening in the side.[/quote]


It is certainly likely that I am seeing images I want to see, or convincing myself they are there. I actually think that the pictures are almost designed to do that. We are all, in effect, experiencing this with some of the images, some people seeing one thing and others seeing something completely different. For example, where you see a spherical flask, someone else sees a helmet, someone else sees a fishbowl and so on.
I can see that there is a sphere of some description within the image. I'm not sure what this is. But to me the first thing I see (even without playing around with the camera distortion or lighting effects - just looking at the initial screen capture) I see a figure which I actually now think may be one of the boys with his hand up - this is almost central in the screen capture. I also see an examination couch with someones leg and foot. Don't forget that if the images have been distorted to almost blend them together then it is perfectly likely that they could be out of proportion.
Perhaps the images have been designed with the precise intention of getting us to focus on one part of the image, almost as a distraction from the hidden images. The hidden images may not be part of the 'game', they may be scenes from the film, teasers if you like, a hint at the storyline. I don't know.
I think what we are seeing is multiple exposure. I don't think this is the case for all of the screen captures we have seen, some of them just appear to be what they are. But there are certainly a few of them that appear to have a multiple exposure effect.
I'm not ruling out the fact that it is possible to see things that aren't there. The brain is a magnificent piece of equipment..lol....but I also think it is just as likely that there is more to these pictures than you think. Wink

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 		Well in my opinion there is already enough going on in the different sets of pictures without some having secondary layers. I think it is part of a lab setup though judging from this picture http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=805897#805897 the bigger picture seems fairly clear.

To me the idea of secondary images seems to be too well hidden for this. If there were other images I suspect that there would be easier to identify than distorted and blurry shapes in already poor quality images.

I think there's enough to be thinking about already in this arg without another train being buried in the photos.

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