Very excited to hear the suggestions for capturing visiting craft on camera! Only weeks ago, I felt the need/urge to purchase an IR video camera. It's pretty simple, but it can capture at 120, so I'm stoked. How fortuitous for me. I've heard about this ability from William Tompkins, and I'm excited to start shooting!

Greg, please post anything you find. Even a silly little bean that arcs the sky. I'm eager to see this work, and I'll follow in suit if someone shows an outcome for a fairly reasonably priced solution. Thanks for being on it

Greg, this is a very interesting synchronicity because you are answering a question that I asked in Tazz's thread on full spectrum camera. Basically, my question was about what type of camera to use to capture UFOs on films, UV or IR? And it looks like Tompkins suggested using infra-red cameras.

Would you mind sharing the maker and model of the IR camera that you bought? It runs at 120 frames per second (fps). Must be a very good camera. Thanks.

Hey Greg, thank you so much for sharing some information on the camera that you purchased before CB told us about his project of introducing the public into taking pictures of UFO crafts in 2023.

At this point, I think that we are just trying to get as much information as possible about taking UFO pictures before Courtney start to train us on this process in 2023. By doing that, we hope that we are not going to be completely lost in the information that Courtney is going to provide us. This does not apply to you but I think it is wise to wait for Courtney's information before buying a camera. There is just too much information on the camera technology that have to be mastered before buying a video camera for UFO pictures. We need help.

However, I am more and more inclined to believe that buying a full spectrum converted camera is the way to go. Essentially, a full spectrum camera is a camera that has a glass filter that allows all 3 types of light (ultra violet, UV; visible; and infra red, IR) inside the camera at the same time.

A full spectrum camera can be converted so that it can allow only one of the 3 types of light in the camera and take pictures only in that specific type of light. For instance, if I want to take pictures in the UV light only, I will then convert my full spectrum camera into a UV camera. To do that I will put a UV filter outside, in front of the camera lens to allow more UV light in and prevent visible and infra red light from entering the camera. The camera will then take pictures made mainly of UV light.

A full spectrum camera can also be converted into a visible light camera, a visible light filter will need to be placed in front of the camera lens to block UV and IR from entering inside the camera.. The same is true in converting a full spectrum camera into an infra red (IR) one.

So as you can see, the advantage that comes with a full spectrum converted camera is that it allows us to take pictures in the three main areas of the light spectrum; that is in UV, visible and IR light. And we will be able to find and take pictures of UFOs no matter where they hide. We will also be able to use our cameras in more mundane situations in visible light, like to take pictures when our nieces or nephews get baptized.

The disadvantages that comes with owning a full spectrum converted camera is that they can be expensive because we have to purchase the full spectrum camera and the lenses. Then, we have to hire a competent company or person to convert the camera to meet our needs.

https://www.lifepixel.com/product-category/our-services/full-spectrum-camera-conversion

The link listed above shows some of the full spectrum cameras and filters sold by Life Pixel. As we can see, these cameras cost between $225 to $375, and the lenses cost around $50 each. Assuming that a camera will need 3 lenses, the cost of a full spectrum converted camera may vary between $375 and $525. If we add the cost of conversion and accessories like camera bag, tripod... etc; we can really see these prices get even higher. However, these price estimates are from one company only, there might be some lower prices from other companies or people. In addition, Courtney did mention that cell phones can be adjusted to take pictures of UFOs. I think he also said that it is the cheapest alternative to taking these pictures. In short, let's wait for Courtney information.
Regards.

BruceSeesAll who is based in Canada has some pretty decent footage on his channel shot from his cameras

For those who want to dive deeper into the technical topic, here is a website dealing with automated technical ufo research.
The author Gerhard Gröschel describes how to build a camara system, how to identify artefacts like insects and many other important details.
He also shows many of his results over the last ten years on his YT channel, own footages from Hessdalen for example.
His automated mobile system is based on Raspberry Pi and includes an IR camera module, magnetic field sensors, HD cameras, etc.
He also offers his python coding for download.
This stuff is not so much for entertainment, but for the real geeks...
I recommend this KI translation tool for high quality translation from German language: https://www.deepl.com/translator
His Google-translated website is this:

https://www-ufoforschung-de.translate.goog/neue-ueberwachungssysteme/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.youtube.com/@technischeufoforschung-sci7372/videos

I don't wanna be a game spoiler -but after knowing about Gröschel and his work, it does not seem to be so easy to capture good footage of UFOs, even with very professional tools. He has already been using IR cameras, spectral filters, HD cameras, gravity- and magnetic sensors which activate the cameras in case of an anomaly. And he is also aware of psychic stuff (telepathic asking for them to show up). Nontheless, good shots are extremly rare. His opinion is, that the phenomenon becomes less active if a camera is involved...
And even hundreds of single photos of a light in the sky -IR or not- will make no difference. These are already out there, all over the internet. We need sensor data and multiple camera perspectives of the same object.

Thank you for telling us about Groschel experience with making cameras and taking pictures of UFOs.

Some +3 years ago, there was a Farsight member who had posted some amazing UFO pictures here on this forum. She had taken these pictures with her camera. Unfortunately, she is no longer here at Farsight, and I have not been able to find the thread where she posted these pictures. It was a series of single frame pictures, and when I marveled at those pictures, she told me that it had to do with her camera, and she gave me the name of this camera. But I don't remember it.

I believe that she took those pictures in Wyoming, around the Grand Teton Mountain range. She said that she would run her video camera, and then retrieve the picture frames on which UFO crafts were captured. From what I remember, she took these pictures in broad day light, and I don't think that she was a super geek who could build a camera, let alone a sophisticated one. But obviously she knew how to use the one that she had.

We appreciate the information that you are providing but we can not use it to determine whether or not we will succeed in capturing UFOs on film. In general, in this type of projects, the technology used and the skills of the operators determine the success or failure of projects. I think that most of us are just learning the basic of photography, so we are not going to attempt to build sophisticated cameras like Groschel. It will be a suicide to do that. We are willing to learn and we will wait for the information that Courtney is going to provide, and go from there.

Key to get good pictures seem to be data processing and evaluation. Maybe, in the near future, we will get better software to do that. The University of Würzburg, Prof. Kayal, started an UAP and SETI Project just recently.
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/aerospaceinfo/staff/kayal/research-activities/uap-seti/
They are developping a machine learning models software to identify and classify moving objects to get rid of false alarms and reduce the amount of data to review. Maybe this will be open source one day...
https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/aerospaceinfo/wissenschaft-forschung/skycam-5/

Here is the website of the French GEIPAN, the UAP branch of the French space agency in Toulouse. You will find 20 short presentations in French and English about the topic technical UAP research.
https://www-cnes--geipan-fr.translate.goog/en/node/59754?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Mr LIANZA's presentation, for example, is in English and addresses IR data.

And here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvhLmEQFo_72rjcnyjxfR_w
is the channel of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

https://fotocat.blogspot.com/
This website hosts the most complete catalog of world-wide UFO photo events

Thank you very much for taking the time and energy to fetch a video where they speak French. But there is a little bit of a problem. The gentleman used the entire video to thank and acknowledge people and groups that his organization has worked with.

I think, we are just going to wait until @ March 2023, as Farsight is asking us to do in the last ET News Forecast of this year. At that point, FS will provide us with the information that we need to take pictures of ET craft. Meanwhile, let's make good use of the time that we have on hand.

But one thing that we cannot afford to do individually or collectively is to abdicate or surrender before the beginning of the fight or challenge.

So long! Auf wiedersehen!