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362 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
315, with a fl.8 lens, 9-29 mm, used in the 9mm position.... As you can
measure, the image on the film (original) is about 2.7mm maximum. So
for a 90 ft distant object, [the diameter] would be about 27 feet. ... It
was a large tree, and the limb that the saucer seems to "touch" could
have been about that distance from the camera . . . but unfortunately I
could not find a single frame where the saucer could clearly be said to
be behind the limb. So it is not conclusive as for distance, and therefore
for size. ... In some of the frames of the original, portholes are seen.
In reply to my query as to whether it was possible to authenticate the
film unequivocally, Bill said that there is no absolutely foolproof way of
assessing whether a photo is "real" or not. One must just take everything
into account, including as much as one can learn about the person
involved, and then make an educated guess. In the final analysis, he said,
it comes down to this question: "Is this the kind of person whom I can
imagine going to all the trouble and expense of simulating what only a
well-equipped studio with a large budget could begin to approximate, and
defending it through the years with no apparent gain and much inconvenience"
One of the peculiarities of the film is that the outlines of the craft look
peculiarly distorted at times. Bill Sherwood believes this is due to a powerful
gravitational field that produces optical distortions, an opinion that
is shared by Leonard Cramp, an aeronautical engineer and designer
who has worked for De Havilland, Napier, Saunders-Roe, and Westland
Aircraft companies. In his pioneering book, Piece for a Jig-Saw, Cramp
proposed a theory to account for this peculiar effect:
Earlier, when discussing light in terms of the G [gravitational field] theory,
we saw how we might expect such a field to form an atmospheric
lens, producing optical effects which might be further augmented by
other field effects as well as the gravitational bending of light. . . . Now
it follows that if there would be a local increase in atmospheric pressure
due to a powerful G field, then similarly we could expect a decrease in
atmospheric pressure to accompany a powerful R [repulsion] field, and
again we would not be surprised to find optical effects ... we can now
say, while a G field might produce optical magnifying properties, an R
field could produce optical reducing properties.
Leonard Cramp had not seen the Silver Spring film prior to publishing his
book, and was delighted that it seemed to confirm his hypothesis. Like
Bill Sherwood and myself, he is in no doubt that the film is authentic.
On 27 February 1967 (two years after it had been taken) the film was
shown to twenty-two NASA officials at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Discussion afterwards lasted for an hour and a half, and just before