That is very kind of you to say KabirT!
Yes it was the original Biman 707 over at PanAm maintenance. I have found an old print I took at Heathrow at the same year.
Sarah
Here are 16 PanAm tires SMOKIN’ their way down Heathrow’s 9left in 1982 during a cross-wind landing – see rudders kicked to starboard.
Hi Eh!
My comments on sun flare don’t count if the sun was behind you. If the sun was (say) less than 90 degrees to your left or right such things used to happen with my SLR 35mm film camera – an abberation within the complex lens arrangement. But I no longer use SLR or even digital versions so I am no (semi-) expert these days.
FWIW.. I actually believe there are things in our atmosphere that occasionally appear in pictures although not actually seen by the photographer. Whether these are non-human technologies and atmospheric craft, or if they are something more exotic like some type of inter-dimensional interaction , or intrusion, we will only ever see them as 3D objects (by definition that we live in the 3D universe), I haven’t decided. If UFOs were non-human aircraft of a far more advanced design using exotic physics theory we might never be able to make sense of them or how they behave (ufos have been reported to blink in and out of view and radar returns concur with the pilot sightings of this effect so they might be able to do what sub-atomic particles are said to do: jump between realities. That would be ridiculed by modern western people because we have all been taught western scientific materialism from our earliest age. So we may possibly all accept a smaller, more blinkered view of reality. Whatever, laughing and dismissing any phenomena that doesn’t fit the current scientific pardigm or world view is dumb as these things maybe the cracks in the edifice that will allow us to grow the science of today. Anyone who doesn’t see this as valid should read the growing set of pilot-reported UFO encounters.
Having said that, the globe in your photo may have been a bit of dust or pollen or something similar very close to the lens. I say this because it looks similar to a bright point of light that is way out of focus. And your jetliner is effectively at infinity so the only other direction is close up out-of-focus. If you try to zoom in to a bright star or planet you will see exactly this shape and effect if the camera cannot focus on it. This would explain the slightly ghostly image rather than a clear and solid disk or orb in focus. 😉
Here is an example of what I mean by things captured in the air that probably shouldn’t be there…
Here is a two sequence photo set taken by a professional photographer taking pictures of us paragliding. He gave me these for use on my wingsoverwestbury.co.uk website.
They are taken less than a second apart – the photographer was using ‘motor-drive’ photography in which frames are taken sequencially (several frames a second) while the button is held down. In the second photo is a strange grey structured object. I enhanced the picture and the object is behind the paraglider lines which means it was far in the distance rather than an insectoid near to the lens. What speed was it doing so that it doesn’t appear in the first frame but does in the second frame? Or did it just blink into reality?
I believe these subjects are valid on an aviation forum because they are up there among us. What danger do they pose, by intent or by proximity? The airspace is SO crowded these days. There have been a number of UFO near misses in the LTMA and upper airspace around Heathrow since the 1980s. When will there be a collision I wonder?
Sarah
Hi Eh!
My comments on sun flare don’t count if the sun was behind you. If the sun was (say) less than 90 degrees to your left or right such things used to happen with my SLR 35mm film camera – an abberation within the complex lens arrangement. But I no longer use SLR or even digital versions so I am no (semi-) expert these days.
FWIW.. I actually believe there are things in our atmosphere that occasionally appear in pictures although not actually seen by the photographer. Whether these are non-human technologies and atmospheric craft, or if they are something more exotic like some type of inter-dimensional interaction , or intrusion, we will only ever see them as 3D objects (by definition that we live in the 3D universe), I haven’t decided. If UFOs were non-human aircraft of a far more advanced design using exotic physics theory we might never be able to make sense of them or how they behave (ufos have been reported to blink in and out of view and radar returns concur with the pilot sightings of this effect so they might be able to do what sub-atomic particles are said to do: jump between realities. That would be ridiculed by modern western people because we have all been taught western scientific materialism from our earliest age. So we may possibly all accept a smaller, more blinkered view of reality. Whatever, laughing and dismissing any phenomena that doesn’t fit the current scientific pardigm or world view is dumb as these things maybe the cracks in the edifice that will allow us to grow the science of today. Anyone who doesn’t see this as valid should read the growing set of pilot-reported UFO encounters.
Having said that, the globe in your photo may have been a bit of dust or pollen or something similar very close to the lens. I say this because it looks similar to a bright point of light that is way out of focus. And your jetliner is effectively at infinity so the only other direction is close up out-of-focus. If you try to zoom in to a bright star or planet you will see exactly this shape and effect if the camera cannot focus on it. This would explain the slightly ghostly image rather than a clear and solid disk or orb in focus. 😉
Here is an example of what I mean by things captured in the air that probably shouldn’t be there…
Here is a two sequence photo set taken by a professional photographer taking pictures of us paragliding. He gave me these for use on my wingsoverwestbury.co.uk website.
They are taken less than a second apart – the photographer was using ‘motor-drive’ photography in which frames are taken sequencially (several frames a second) while the button is held down. In the second photo is a strange grey structured object. I enhanced the picture and the object is behind the paraglider lines which means it was far in the distance rather than an insectoid near to the lens. What speed was it doing so that it doesn’t appear in the first frame but does in the second frame? Or did it just blink into reality?
I believe these subjects are valid on an aviation forum because they are up there among us. What danger do they pose, by intent or by proximity? The airspace is SO crowded these days. There have been a number of UFO near misses in the LTMA and upper airspace around Heathrow since the 1980s. When will there be a collision I wonder?
Sarah
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