The Strange Case of Yalçin Yalman: The Man Behind The Kumburgaz, Turkey UFO Videos
July 11th, 2024The Yalçin Yalman situation is like everything in ufology: It’s a confusing and frustrating morass.
Every time I see the videos, with all the shaking, I mumble outload, “Stop touching the camera. Why are you touching the camera?”
Imagine, setting up a good quality camera with a long lens on a tripod to take video of a UFO… And when the thing appears, you proceed to touch and shake the rig the entire time. The objects were stationary. He could have left the focus at infinity in manual mode, zoomed all the way in and then observed through the viewfinder without touching the camera. All of that shaking would have been eliminated.
Also, where are the original tapes? They’re gone, of course. Where else would they be?
*groan*
Anyway, Dr. Roger Leir, who I consider credible, was present while Yalman was recording during one of the sightings and claims to have witnessed the object in the viewfinder.
So, I don’t know.
What do you think of Yalman’s videos?
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If Leir was present during the filming, hasn’t someone asked him at one his talks why Yalman apparently shook the camera? Or you could email him and ask him, or someone cold ask Yalman himself.
An acquaintance in the optics field says:
“The UFO video could be a fake. The dark shots of a disk shaped object could simply be the guy pointing a camera at a small reflective metal object across a dark room. The camera movement, the way it shakes, feels to me like the object is small and that the camera to object distance is small. This is based on my feel for camera operation and lens optics and is subjective, more of a gut reaction.
“Alternatively, he could be pointing the camera at ships anchored in the sea at night. Ships have onboard lights that reveal only a few edges and surfaces… and the last bit with the four lights could be a ship with running lights. The flickering of the lights could be an effect produced by heat ripples in the air.
“But I am not certain that the above analysis is correct! Other considerations: many people try to fake UFO videos, on another, it’s exciting to imagine that something that is unidentifiable is in fact extraterrestrial!”
While I’m not convinced one way or the other, the arguments you mentioned have been around since the videos were released and nobody, to my knowledge, has been able to make anything similar.
If you watch the videos, he’s outside and you can watch the zoom happen.
However…
At one point, the object is in focus and then then moon is out of focus. If the camera was actually in manual focus mode, the object and the moon should both in focus.
We shouldn’t see the object in focus and the moon out of focus, which is what happens in the video.
Seems they went to quite a bit of trouble to get on one earthman’s camera.