Blue cloud around New Orleans gas station

[Outta here]

what IS this?

Any one got any idea what this is?

the story is weird enough - get a gander at the vid though .............8O

 

[Hazmart]

People actually 'saw' this? That is too wierd!

 

[Sal]

Caught it on the news tonight. Bizarre.

 

[darkbeaver]

I could be mistaken but that appears to be a Blue Meanie.

 

[shadowshiv]

Looks like a small bug to me. A couple of times you can see the outline of wings.

 

[karrie]

looks like a bug crawling around on the camera lens. It never goes behind anything in the images, like behind a car or gas pump. The guy walking into the gas station doesn't seem to notice it.

*shrugs*

 

[Andem]

It looks like a computer virus to me.

 

[Tonington]

Oh come on. It's obvious. The CIA hasn't worked out the kinks in their new cloaking technology.

 

[shadowshiv]

Sometimes we will have spiders(or insects) crawling on our camera lens. Due to the nature of the cameras, and how far the image is zoomed in/out, the insect or spider can look like it is taking up the entire monitor. I imagine it is something similar in this case.

 

[shadowshiv]

It looks like a computer virus to me.

Zan isn't sending us "bad" links again, is she?8O;-)

 

[Just the Facts]

I could be mistaken but that appears to be a Blue Meanie.

:lol:

As Karrie said, the guy walking around the back of the car didn't seem to notice it sitting on the windshield.

Groups of people have traveled to the gas station after word spread of the unexplained event.

Hmmm... :smile:

 

[shadowshiv]

:lol:

As Karrie said, the guy walking around the back of the car didn't seem to notice it sitting on the windshield.

Groups of people have traveled to the gas station after word spread of the unexplained event.

Hmmm... :smile:

Perhaps they slipped something extra in the Squishy machine?;-)

 

[Just the Facts]

I think it's a blurred out video of someone swimming.

 

[shadowshiv]

I think it's a blurred out video of someone swimming.

With the fishes?;-)

 

[Dexter Sinister]

It's not clear from the reports whether anyone actually saw it in real life, or if it was visible only on the security cam (that's the way I'd bet), and it's the lack of salient details like that that lend credibility to all sorts of extraordinary claims. Whatever it is, it's always in the foreground, as karrie observed, and it's very blurred, which suggests it's something on the camera lens, like an insect or a speck of ash being moved about by air currents. It might also be just some glitch in the electronics. Digital sensors can produce all kinds of strange artifacts, especially the low-res ones in security cameras, and those are really pretty poor quality images with not very good illumination. The cheapest digital camera could do better than that.

Nothing to get excited about.

 

[shadowshiv]

Cheap cameras? Have you visited my workplace, Dexter?:lol:

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Not that I know of. Who are you really? :smile: Got a bunch of cheap digital cameras at your work place, have you?

 

[shadowshiv]

I am a Security Guard at a automotive plant.:lol:

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Then no, I've never visited your workplace, and no doubt there are a lot of low-res security cams around it. Right? Maybe you can answer this for me. I've read and seen fiction that uses this as a plot element but I don't know if it's true or not: is it true that a certain shade of blue is invisible to those things, and if you dress yourself up in clothes and paint your face that colour you can run around without being seen by the security cams?

 

[shadowshiv]

I honestly don't know. I think our cameras are too crappy to tell the difference.:lol: