24May
SmartDeblur (v. 2.2 and 2.3) was used initially on an image received (not by me) from an anonymous source in the slides promoters’ team, on May 8th 2015: A few hours later I e-mailed this relatively well deblurred image to SlideBox Media, who were the first to see it outside of the RSRG (Roswell Slides […]
22May
Montezuma Castle National Monument (credit: John de Dios/Wikimedia Commons) Richard Wetherill wrote about his travels and visit to Montezuma Castle with the Palmer family in 1896 in an article published in the Mancos Times, March 20, 1896. This is the part relevant to the discovery of the “Roswell Slides” mummy: [...] At the east end […]
20May
The Coconino Weekly Sun, Flagstaff, Arizona, March 19, 1896, p. 1 A PREHISTORIC MUMMY Prospectors Make Some Interesting Discoveries. Monday, a party of prospectors on their way from Phoenix to Mangus, Colorado, stopped in town for a few hours. On their way here they spent a week at Montezuma Wells and at Montezuma’s Castle, on […]
19May
I was asked to explain how I created the “blur model” (a.k.a. kernel) for the placard. SmartDeblur uses a point spread function image as the convolution kernel. This small grayscale image is displayed on the left. “Analyze Blur” generates a kernel automatically. Depending on how you select an area (or don’t select anything and use […]
18May
(A short FAQ focusing on the highlights of the analysis from my perspective as a member of the RSRG.) Who discovered the slides and when? “Cat” (or “Cathy”) claims that she found a box of about 400 Kodachrome slides while cleaning out a house in preparation for an estate sale near Sedona, Arizona in 1998. […]
15May
Le programme SmartDeblur (v. 2.2 et 2.3) a été utilisé initialement sur une image obtenue d’une source anonyme dans l’équipe des promoteurs des diapositives, le 8/5/2015 : J’ai envoyé une image assez convenablement dé-floutée par e-mail quelques heures après à SlideBox Media, qui ont été les premiers à la voir en dehors du RSRG (Roswell […]
20Apr
Jacques Vallée, l’année dernière (2013), a affirmé péremptoirement qu’ “Ockham n’a rien dit de la sorte. Les philosophes postérieurs le lui ont fait dire pour leur propre convenance” avant de choisir pour sa propre convenance une phrase fort différente comme véritable rasoir d’Ockham. Il est vrai que la forme la plus citée “Entia non sunt […]
14Apr
Les deux rapports commandés au labo Analytika par l’association ACSEIPICA : 20131010_ACSEIPICA_Rapport_analytique.pdf, 20140401_ACSEIPICA-12_131114_Rapport_AnAlytikA.pdf Quelques remarques : - Il est indiqué que les polymères “contiennent” des composants chimiques de synthèse comme s’ils étaient inséparables alors qu’il a simplement été déterminé que les deux sont présents dans les échantillons. - Aucune comparaison de cette prétendue “forme nouvelle […]
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