Saturday 22 June 2013

Douglas Trumbull's UFOTOG Resurrected?

Visual effects expert Doug Trumbull
In previous postings, you'll have seen my speculations about visual effects expert Douglas Trumbull and his supposedly shelved UFOTOG project. Mr Trumbull was kind enough to take the time out to update me on UFOTOG as it stood when I asked him about it.

My previous posts are below with the most recent first.

Douglas Trumbull's response on UFOTOG

Open email to Douglas Trumbull about UFOTOG

Still no news on UFOTOG

Well according to an interview that Open Minds (click link) was able to get with a colleague of Trumbull's, who - rather interestingly in itself - is a representative of Mutual UFO Network - Mark D’Antonio (a photo analyst for the MUFON), a new 'fictionalised' account concerning the use of the equipment featured in the UFOTOG project is soon to be released.

Whilst encouraging, this appears to be a new approach being taken with this project. It seems that rather than produce an actual documentary (yet) of Trumbull and his team's efforts to get verifiable data on intelligently controlled non-terrestrial objects; or conversely even come away with no verifiable data to support existence of the same; Trumbull is perhaps seeking to generate further interest and funding for UFOTOG by releasing this 'fictional' version of a documentary.
The UFOTOG Humvee in action

To paraphrase Mark D’Antonio from the Open Minds interview, the film will be 'A visual foray into what could be the potential reality of the project'.

I think that this is great news that the project is alive and well and that Mr Trumbull has some support in this.



It's also very interesting to see that Mr Trumbull is now apparently working with a well-known, long-standing and respected American UFO investigations body on this project.

This could be a smart way to engage more undecided hearts and minds (and potentially well-funded backers) for the project without the stigma of ridicule being attached.

We'll have to see whether this leads to an actual groundbreaking documentary in time...




6 comments:

  1. I recently viewed some of your videos about observation of UFO activity. i was wondering if you have had any luck in you first sighting yet ? really hope you have after all you have invested, it really is very impressive effort. I have been fortunate to have had two experiences in viewing 4 objects . 3 in night sky that flew in a successive pattern then left the atmosphere at a rate of speed i liken to what would be called warp speed , they left my jaw on the ground and i was then convinced somebody has the ability to travel at interplanetary speeds not yet sure who because i did not see who was piloting them lol ; ] this was witnessed also by 3 friends 1 who saw more than i saw my self .

    this same friend and myself on another night witnessed something that still puzzles my mind and think about often we were driving to a friends house in florida and less than 1/16 of mile ahead of us at street level ruffly 3 feet above the road a ball of light blue green in color aprox 3 ft diameter with a tale trailing like a small comet ruffly 8 feet behind the ball. i said nothing thinking i was nuts either did he. i turned the corner and said did you see and he shouted yes yes franticly i whipped the car around and knowing it was moving to fast but had to see if we could get another look at this mind bending anomaly traveling down the street !!! like a large basketball size comet or meteor WITH A TAIL going down the freakin road ! yes sounds crazy and the few i tell about it look at me like i am, but we saw it as clear as my hand in front of my face . i am still so puzzled and slightly troubled by this memory trying to make sense of this road comet lol , i joke but really it makes ones mind hit a wall to figure what in the hell was that, wheres it going and what is it doing going down the street!!!

    I do hope you have seen a xcraft or somthing good or will soon!

    B. Yorks / 3byorks@gmail.com

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  4. Heard Trumball interviewed about the film. It's a short demo film for Imax using a new process he's working on. It's a complete work of fiction. Trumball danced briefly with the idea of using high tech image processing to look for UFOs, but very quickly abandoned it. However, he did hook up with D'Antonio, a fellow image-processing geek along the way.
    Trumball is looking for a new way to make and exhibit movies. He's been doing this for at least two decades, and hasn't come up with anything commercially viable yet. This current iteration seems to require, by his own admission, a planetarium-like structure to screen a film made with his process. The seeds of its own demise like in that very big, expensive, logistical glitch. Better he should be working on how to get the same viewing experience on an Apple watch (holographic projection?).

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  5. Heard Trumball interviewed about the film. It's a short demo film for Imax using a new process he's working on. It's a complete work of fiction. Trumball danced briefly with the idea of using high tech image processing to look for UFOs, but very quickly abandoned it. However, he did hook up with D'Antonio, a fellow image-processing geek along the way.
    Trumball is looking for a new way to make and exhibit movies. He's been doing this for at least two decades, and hasn't come up with anything commercially viable yet. This current iteration seems to require, by his own admission, a planetarium-like structure to screen a film made with his process. The seeds of its own demise like in that very big, expensive, logistical glitch. Better he should be working on how to get the same viewing experience on an Apple watch (holographic projection?).

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  6. It's 7/13/2017 Has Mr. Trumbull made any head way with his UFOTOG software/equipment?
    A question I had for him was he mentioned in his short film about his work that he wished for many people to be watching the sky's. He said at that time it could be done with inexpensive equipment, but I have never seen his suggestion of what that equipment would consist of.

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