Some of the forum members may already by familiar with this case, but many might not be. After searching the forum I could not find another thread about this case.
Case Background:
Although Turkey has a long history of UFO reports ancient and present, between 2007 and 2009 the residents of Kumburgaz were witness to an unusual flap of ongoing multiple incidents of anomalous aerial objects. Local citizens men, woman, and children saw things they could not explain and still can't. They were oval and circular unidentified aerial objects which seem to present themselves silently in the air stationary and occasionally maneuvering. There were also red, orange, and white pulsating plasma lights behaving in a strange manner.
At first, the videos were analyzed under the direction of researcher Haktan Akdogan. SIRIUS UFO and Space Science Research Center (no relation to Greer) firstly spoke with all the witnesses separately and then did the analysis of the videos. With participation of the members of their science board they enlarged the video images. They did all the detailed analysis, checked their pixels, and went through frame by frame.
The video was analyzed by "The Scientific and Technology Research Board of Turkey" and "TUG National Observatory" which are both sponsored by the state and highly influential.
"After doing all the necessary analysis which went on for several weeks, the board came to a definite conclusion with no doubt that these are 100% genuine videos. The objects sighted in the aforementioned footage that have a structure that is made of specific material are definitely not made up by any kind of computer animation nor are they any form of special effects used for simulation in a studio or for a video effect therefore in conclusion it was decided that the sightings were neither a mock up or hoax. And it is concluded that these objects in the sightings that have physical and material structures do not belong in any category such as; planes, helicopters, meteors, Venus, Mars, satellites, fire balls, Chinese lantern, fire balls, weather balloons, natural or atmospheric phenomenon etc. and but rather fall into the category of UFOs."
The original cassettes of film have also been studied by people from Japan, Chile, Brazil, U.S, and Russia. After several attempts, to this date nobody has been able to successfully explain what is seen in the videos and they remain unidentified. The footage shows silver round, disc, and cigar shaped objects which hover over the sea several feet in the air. The video was recorded with a camera that had a tele-Iconverter adapter capable of filming at 200 times optical achieving a great amount of detail .
It is important to note that the camera was pointing outwards towards the sea from the northwest region of Turkey. - There are no oil platforms or lighthouses in this area or anything I could find that could explain what was recorded.
The Turkey UFO Raw Footage:
Higher quality versions now available which came from the original source. As you will see these have much better clarity than the older ones on Youtube.
2009 Turkey UFO Raw Footage:
2008 Turkey UFO Raw Footage Part 1
2008 Turkey UFO Raw Footage Part 2
2008 Turkey UFO Raw Footage Part 3
The camera he was using was a MiniDV Canon DM-GRI-A based on the NTSC system with a diaphragm set at the maximum of 1.8. It's a 3CCD 20x optic 100x with a tele-converter mounted on a 58mm adapter. Tele-objective is a Sony brand vci hgd 1758 model lens, x 1.7.
- There were over 12 witnesses who filed reports with SIRIUS.
- 25 different instances over 21 separate dates of video were taken.
An archive of over 600 single frame snapshots from the video - JPEG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/104252996@N06/sets/
There is much more to this case.
It may seem to good to be true for some and it did for me at the beginning, but after watching the video from beginning to end, there is no simple answer. Since 2009 these footages have been gone over with scrutiny but nobody has been able to discover a single piece of evidence that suggests a hoax.
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