| I am happy to be able to put these
photos on my page at WBEN.COM.
Please note: they are copyrighted and
are for your viewing only, and we have
exclusive rights to post them and they may
not be duplicated or transmitted.
Here's the story behind how I obtained
these shots...
On Saturday October 20, 2007 I stopped at
a local business on the spur of the moment.
One of the employees knew of my interest in
the paranormal, and asked if I might be
interested in seeing photographs her
boyfriend had taken in July, during a trip
to San Francisco. Of course! But I wasn't
expecting the photos to be of such high
quality.
The pictures you are seeing were taken in
a span of about 30 seconds, at approximately
11 PM. The object(s) were not seen at the
time the photos were taken.
High Resolution Close Ups
An Interview with The Photographer
The following e-interview was
conducted with the photographer, a 22 year
old Amherst man.
TB: What were the circumstances of the
photos being taken?
An extremely windy night at the end of a
turbulent day of driving West to the
Pacific, and then South down the Pacific
Coast Highway through California from
Nevada. I had been taking shots of the
houses in the hills across from the (San
Francisco) bay. They looked appealing over
the water at this time. There wasn't anyone
in site. The date in the picture file reads
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:01am. However, it was
actually Sunday July 1st, 2007 at 11:01pm
because my camera's clock was still set to
Amherst, NY time. My girlfriend's brother
was my companion on the trip. He was with me
on the docks of the bay in San Francisco.
For stability I set the camera down on one
of the large wooden dock posts while holding
the camera firmly. The next three shots are
beautifully in-focus, and there are objects
that appear to move over a large territory
throughout a span of 3 pictures. In two of
the pictures, two objects can be sighted,
one of them is visible in the top left area
of the sky. The pictures are clear and there
are no obstructions what-so-ever from the
lens.
TB: What is exact make and model of
camera?
Nikon D80. 18-135mm VR Nikkor Zoom Lens,
purchased two weeks before the trip on a
whim, for the trip.
TB: Did you see anything at the
time the shots were taken, or did you only
see them when you looked at the shots later?
I noticed nothing that I thought was
abnormal. I did, however, take note of very
strong winds. Keep in mind I had just driven
straight across the country for 3 days from
Amherst, NY. So nothing would have seemed
too out-of-the ordinary. I only noticed the
objects in the pictures upon reviewing my
2,000 or so photographs from the trip at
work one week and several days later. The
lighting that can be seen on the water, was
certainly not visible to me at my time on
the dock. I was peering out over the water,
shooting direct shots of the landscape just
beyond the water. I was basically staring at
the water during the time I took these
shots. None of the objects or lights in the
picture were visible to me. Nothing was of
any alarm.
TB: Was there any noise?
Any noise would have been
obscured by wind. We were on the bay and it
was a very windy night.
TB: How close was it?
I knew of no object at time the
photographs were taken.
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