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UFO Observatory

Often individuals that have seen a UFO are labled crazy. This is mostly due to the lack of evidence. This makes sense though. The majority of cases are fleeting, you do not have time to go home and get your better camera. You use what you have ... at the limited time allocated.

So due to lack of equipment and monitoring we see what could be truly weird things in the sky taken haphazardly with cell phone cameras (terrible at night) and that gives us a license to just dismiss the individual due to lack of proof.

I want to change that. Recently I have started building a UFO Observatory. My goal in this campaign is to upgrade the sky covering camera that I am prototyping. It looks for patterns and motion and reports. It's a standard camera that I modified on the software side and slightly on the hardware. The prototype was well received in the UFO community. It doesn't look like much, and in reality it's not. It's a virtual stock camera with some minor physical and software modifications.

Prototype

That's the stated goal and that's what this is for. To upgrade my prototype with a better commercial grade camera. Currently I have a very high false positive with planes. See the video (actually it's first light video) As you can tell I believe I am reaching the limits of the hardware. It's too slow sometimes as it has difficultly tracking the plane. Depending on the outcome of the Kickstarter. I may opt for more stationary stronger cameras vs moving weaker ones.

If I exceed the stated goals by a small amount I will put that into a better hardware than what's in my head now (a more robust camera with better tracking).

If I exceed the stated goals by large margin, then we can have multiple cameras and differing locations within visual sight of the same sky (both sides of the same valley looking at the sky above each other for example.) This would allow for more than one angle. I would love to correlate that with Flight Tracker information to help remove the false positives.

The area is a known UFO hotspot, with this recent sighting over the property.

(The images were provided by Mufon regarding the investigation of the sighting on the property)

Mufon image analyis of UFO

Central PA is a known UFO hotspot, and this exact area has recent activity in Pottsville PA. If you want to view more about this specific sighting click here.

I want to have a few good internet connected ground to sky automatic tracking cameras, maybe thermal ones if enough is contributed, with an easy to access stream of data for everyone.

Cameras however have costs such as housing, insurance, internet, etc.