UFO over Sao Bernardo do Campo SP Brazil Observations in red by Amanda Joseph Sept 29 th 2016 Original email: Fwd: UFO over São Bernardo do Campo - SP - Brazil Derrel Sims 28/09/2016 From: Josef Prado Subject: UFO over São Bernardo do Campo - SP - Brazil Date: September 28, 2016 at 7:46:29 AM CDT
Hi Darrel, As we talked about in Facebook, this is the original picture taken form the camera. I m also adding some other pics we took some days later, in order to help on the investigation, size and distance calculations. All taken with the same iphone. I have corroborated this using FotoForensics.com. The same iphone was used for the investigative photographs. The last photo was taken exactly at the same position the UFO photo was taken. The Light post was exactly 6m from the photographer and it is also 6m high. The photographer was holding the camera at 1,92m, a little bit over his head, and he did all the possible to get something on the horizon, in this case the light an trees, to allow us to have some reference, otherwise it would be just anything on a plain blue sky. As you can see here, we submitted the file to IZITRU, which runs a series of forensic tests on the pictures, and it had not detected any traces of manipulation. I agree no traces of manipulation are found. Fotoforensics.com can also detect manipulation and name the programs which was used to edit the image. This process found nothing problematic. I do not know however if Fotoforensics.com are any good at spotting apps that can be downloaded that add UFOs to photographs. I am not experienced in many of these faking ufo picture applications but the ones I have tried saves images only as simple jpeg files with no fancy photographic information and shutter speeds saved in the metadata. So it is improbable that the UFO was added using a fun app. I believe it is relatively easy to insert a UFO with an app, but not so easy (but not impossible) to also insert masses of metadata critical to a forensic analysis. The file was sent to then, using their own app, directly from the phone where the photo was taken. (In fact we did this just to document the situation, since I personally got the file from the camera and it was intact). Izitru: http://www.izitru.com/am4d7 I wrote to then asking why its showing as a "medium" level, and they were not able to tell us, since they saw that everything is fine. My personal opinion is that their software, even confirming that there was no manipulation in the image, got a little confused because there is a large blue area and a few elements in the scene. You will also see a picture we took a few days later in the same location, simulating the position, while the witness was holding a 52cm square paper close to the light post, so we could take an idea of how much the camera lens reduce the size of the objects this cell phone camera. According to witness, the object was slowly hovering when he photographed it. While he was adjusting the zoom and focusing in the iphone (to get a
closer pic) it made a fast "L" movement and disappeared into the sky (going UP). We also submitted this photo to the Brazilian Air Force, which said: This is an amazing photo! And then followed saying that there was no UFO registered on their radars on that day. (We know that we cannot trust in this statement, but the first phrase, saying that the photo is amazing, is great, considering they are used to see things in the sky :) Well, if you need any other details, please let me know. Regards from Brazil Josef Prado Brazilian UFO Research Network Metadata The following metadata information was retrieved from the website: fotoforensics.com
ELA File File Type File Type Extension MIME Type JPEG jpg image/jpeg
Exif Byte Order Big-endian (Motorola, MM) Image Width 3264 Image Height 2448 Encoding Process Baseline DCT, Huffman coding Bits Per Sample 8 Color Components 3 Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2) EXIF Make Apple Camera Model Name iphone 5s Orientation Horizontal (normal) X Resolution 72 Y Resolution 72 Resolution Unit inches Software 9.3.4 Modify Date 2016:09:02 13:18:58 Y Cb Cr Positioning Centered Exposure Time 1/2160 F Number 2.2 Exposure Program Program AE ISO 32 Exif Version 0221 Date/Time Original 2016:09:02 13:18:58 Create Date 2016:09:02 13:18:58 Components Configuration Y, Cb, Cr, - Shutter Speed Value 1/2160 Aperture Value 2.2 11.30042017 Exposure Compensation 0 Metering Mode Multi-segment Flash Auto, Did not fire Focal Length 4.2 mm Subject Area 1631 1223 1795 1077 Sub Sec Time Original 355 Sub Sec Time Digitized 355 Flashpix Version 0100 Color Space srgb Exif Image Width 3264 Exif Image Height 2448 Sensing Method One-chip color area
Scene Type Directly photographed Exposure Mode Auto White Balance Auto Focal Length In 35mm Format 29 mm Scene Capture Type Standard Lens Info 4.15mm f/2.2 Lens Make Apple Lens Model iphone 5s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 GPS Latitude Ref South GPS Longitude Ref West GPS Altitude Ref Above Sea Level GPS Time Stamp 16:18:58 GPS Speed Ref km/h GPS Speed 0.62 GPS Img Direction Ref True North GPS Img Direction 136.1190476 GPS Dest Bearing Ref True North GPS Dest Bearing 136.1190476 GPS Date Stamp 2016:09:02 GPS Horizontal Positioning Error 5 m Compression JPEG (old-style) Thumbnail Offset 2014 Thumbnail Length 4953 MakerNotes Run Time Flags Valid Run Time Value 159384398625666 Run Time Epoch 0 Run Time Scale 1000000000 Composite Aperture 2.2 GPS Altitude 753.6 m Above Sea Level GPS Date/Time 2016:09:02 16:18:58Z GPS Latitude 23 deg 40' 45.30" S GPS Longitude 46 deg 33' 32.12" W GPS Position 23 deg 40' 45.30" S, 46 deg 33' 32.12" W Run Time Since Power Up 1 days 20:16:24 Scale Factor To 35 mm Equivalent 7.0 Shutter Speed 1/2160 Create Date 2016:09:02 13:18:58.355 Date/Time Original 2016:09:02 13:18:58.355 Thumbnail Image (Binary data 4953 bytes)
Circle Of Confusion 0.004 mm Field Of View 63.7 deg Focal Length 4.2 mm (35 mm equivalent: 29.0 mm) Hyperfocal Distance 1.82 m Image Size 3264x2448 Light Value 15.0 Megapixels 8.0 Approximate GPS Location This information is interpreted from the GPS metadata. Locations are approximate. Although the coordinates appear precise, mobile devices typically have low accuracy. Approximate Coordinates -23.67925,-46.558922 Approximate Location 1.08 miles (1.74 km) NNE of São Bernardo do Campo, BR Approximate Range +/- 5 meters (16.4 feet) I FOUND ALL THE METADATA FROM IZITRU TO BE THE SAME AS FOTOFORENSICS.COM EXCEPT FOR THE SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN LOCATION OFFERED BY THE GPS FINDINGS ON FOTOFORENSICS.COM, see below:
I THINK FOTOFORENSICS.COM GOT THIS LOCATION CORRECT. URL to this page: [Direct Link] View: [Uploaded Source Image] Copyright 2012-2016 Hacker Factor, All Rights Reserved Metadata taken from: http://www.portalburn.com.br/ovni-fotografado-em-sao-bernardo-do-campo-sp/
I have no doubt about the authenticity of this image. Something unidentified is in front of the camera. I can see no evidence of tampering. Amanda Joseph.