Wow, Bob, that's quite an experience! One thing that I've done over the
years is ask my friends and people that I've worked with (all have been
people that I trust) if they've ever had any type of supernatural
experience, and a surprisingly high percentage have told me that they have.
Most of the stories that people have told me are more like "ghost stories"
rather than UFO or alien related, though. I myself have had an unexplainable
experience.

And speaking of adding raytraced stuff to a filmed animation, I was thinking
that it would be easier to do if you could specify a background image
without first making it into an image map and scaling it (similar to the
"background {BkgColor}" statement, only like this: "background
{BkgImage###.tga}". The "###" part could be automatically incremented for
each frame, kind of like the clock variable. That way you could convert all
the frames of your filmed animation to sequentially numbered .tga files,
then add the raytraced stuff.

Regards,
Dave

"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:39bed579@news.povray.org...
> Yep, not very good though.  Mainly because of pixel flickering of the
> point-like light at the start of the animation.  That and the fact it
didn't
> look like much in real life either.  Yes, you heard me right, I did a
> recreation of something I saw once.  I made a photograph with the same
> direction and time a while after this happened so I would have at least
> something to go by and not leave it to memory alone.
> That was years before I came across POV-Ray so one day I finally located
the
> photo and used it for a background and went about making the UFO scene
using
> a spline path for it's supposed flight.  It's as similar as I could make
it
> at the time and because there's not much to it doesn't actually look like
> much.  Every once in a while I'd tell people about the flying glowing bar
of
> butter with it's ends trimmed at an angle, you can guess the reactions I
> always get for saying that  :-)
> So anyway, I have the animation on-line at:
> http://hometown.aol.com/persistenceofv/ufo_a0.mpg
> I've found that I need to right-click on the URL and Save Target As... to
> put it on disk and play from there (Windows Media Player anyhow) or it
clips
> the end where the UFO drops below the tree line.
> And as I said, the pixelation really messes the recreation up, in
actuality
> the UFO didn't fluctuate or change color or anything, only it's apparent
> size changed.  I at first thought it was a cars headlights beaming toward
me
> from the hilltop a couple miles distant.
> To further the story, since I have a captive audience, I went inside my
home
> and got a 9X rifle scope to look through to see where it landed and there
> was at first one person it looked like.  Except this person was enshrouded
> in a light bluish glow walking toward my right at the same distance of the
> UFO and then a second "person" looking likewise following after the first.
> Yes, it was strange.  Whether I believe it to have been a flying saucer
and
> such not easy to dismiss.  I never could explain the whole thing away as
> being a helicopter or plane even though the field across the road (and
> across the field between me and that road) was often used to fly small
> private planes in and out of.  Was a Med-flight helicopter there one night
> too after a bad traffic accident.  The thing I saw looked nothing like any
> of that.  Also, it appeared to land where a large church lawn is along
some
> power lines across the highway from the towns power substation, not at the
> large field because of it going behind trees.
>
> Bob

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