Creating a UFO

Thirty First Post: Creating a UFO

In the book “The New Adventures of The Mad Scientists’ Club,” by Bertrand R. Brinley, the group fools the entire town by constructing their own flying object. They used a helium balloon with a bamboo frame. The flying object was simple and easy to create, yet fooled the entire town.

This leads the reader to wonder if they could create or fake a encounter with a ship from outer space. Since the Mad Scientists Club books were written, movies had come up with many UFO encounters including special effects make the UFO seem real. What if someone could use these effects to create the facade of a true UFO?

But what if you, the reader, did not want to go do the trouble of creating a working UFO, but only to capture a photograph of one. So the goal is too try and see who can make the most realistic, fake photo of a UFO. Today with programs such as Photoshop this may not seem to be a challenging fact. Although the tools are there, the photo still has to have realistic elements such as correct proportions, correct background, correct angle, and correct perspective. The tools have changed with the times. In the old days, before Photoshop, the special effects of the UFO were made by throwing a frisbee in the air and snapping a photo.

The Mad Scientists’ Club book also mentions what Henry, a character in the book, refers to as “ghost lights.” It simply was a plastic bag with a heat source in it that works similar to a hot air balloon. (At this time I do not have the exact directions on how to build them.) They float through the air doing all sorts of tricks in the air current.

With a little imagination a person can complete all sorts of UFO projects. The idea is not new, but all a person needs to do is think of basic characteristics of the ship. (how does it land, does it hover, how does it fly through both space and a planets atmosphere, etc.) Reading the “Mad Scientists’ Club” book may just lead the reader to try and create their own UFO.