My First Sighting

[A51Watcher]

May I applaud you on your abilities to display your encounter and assure you that what you saw
cannot be put under the heading of 'Swamp Gas' or conventional aircraft.
Well done again.

Thanks for the kind words on my abilities BIAD. That was the first animation/video I ever made 11 years ago with zero experience. It took me over a year to create.

If I had known ahead of time how difficult and time consuming it was going to be I doubt I would have done it. I was driven to complete the task since mere words did not do it justice and that sighting was responsible for starting my research career.

I had to manually create a picture foe each frame. Videos run at 30 frames per second, so do the math on how many seconds are in a 5 minute video then multiply that times 30.

Also I had no special effects available to create and move the craft. All I had was a basic paint program.

Anyway I now know better than to tackle such a project like that again.