The Cote Photo: Interview with Director Adam Pillon | UAP Ep. 183

So, okay, let's go back then, this photo.

How did it even come about? Why were they taking these images in 1971? And was it apparent, you know, from very quickly this thing came, or was it just by accident that someone found, oh, wow, look at this weird disc-shaped object in this photo? Yeah.

Well, they they were doing a cartographic mission, a map building mission.

The camera used was a Zeiss RMK camera designed for Specifically for making maps.

And what is truly unique about this photo is that it's looking down on it.

So as a part of this map building mission, they were flying a plane at 10,000 feet.

And as they would fly, they would take pictures from underneath the plane to... take good photos for building maps.

And they were very highly detailed photos where you could see trees and roads and buildings.

Yes, very high resolution.

Extremely

high resolution.

And when we think of um photos usually like i'm a children child of the 80s i was born in 1981 so like yeah i look at 35 millimeter films and we have little film strips and all that but this negative is huge it's 23 by 23 centimeters because it's a very specialized uh piece of photographic equipment you know designed for for map making and um Yeah, so you can see there how big that negative is.

It actually looks almost like an x-ray when you look at it.

Exactly.

Amazing.

I can't believe that this was still there.

I was shocked to know that the negative was still there.

That's a contact copy, and the true negative is still in the National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica, which is a geography department of the Costa Rican government.

So you can still...

the the costa rican government is still in possession of the real actual negative and this is a contact copy uh which is you put the you put two film emulsions together and expose it to light and it's a whole technical process yeah i was just gonna ask

me yeah how much how much would how much would be lost in that in that process

That's as true of a copy as you can get.

And the photo

has been analyzed on the negative, the true negative from the Costa Rican government by Dr. Richard Haynes and Dr. Jacques Vallée.

they did a report on it and eventually they did a second report because they wanted to look at the negative itself to make sure that it wasn't some kind of copy or transfer issue and they wanted to see it on the actual camera roll which which they did

So, okay, let's go back then, this photo.

How did it even come about? Why were they taking these images in 1971? And was it apparent, you know, from very quickly this thing came, or was it just by accident that someone found, oh, wow, look at this weird disc-shaped object in this photo? Yeah.

Well, they they were doing a cartographic mission, a map building mission.

The camera used was a Zeiss RMK camera designed for Specifically for making maps.

And what is truly unique about this photo is that it's looking down on it.

So as a part of this map building mission, they were flying a plane at 10,000 feet.

And as they would fly, they would take pictures from underneath the plane to... take good photos for building maps.

And they were very highly detailed photos where you could see trees and roads and buildings.

Yes, very high resolution.

Extremely

high resolution.

And when we think of um photos usually like i'm a children child of the 80s i was born in 1981 so like yeah i look at 35 millimeter films and we have little film strips and all that but this negative is huge it's 23 by 23 centimeters because it's a very specialized uh piece of photographic equipment you know designed for for map making and um Yeah, so you can see there how big that negative is.

It actually looks almost like an x-ray when you look at it.

Exactly.

Amazing.

I can't believe that this was still there.

I was shocked to know that the negative was still there.

That's a contact copy, and the true negative is still in the National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica, which is a geography department of the Costa Rican government.

So you can still...

the the costa rican government is still in possession of the real actual negative and this is a contact copy uh which is you put the you put two film emulsions together and expose it to light and it's a whole technical process yeah i was just gonna ask

me yeah how much how much would how much would be lost in that in that process

That's as true of a copy as you can get.

And the photo

has been analyzed on the negative, the true negative from the Costa Rican government by Dr. Richard Haynes and Dr. Jacques Vallée.

they did a report on it and eventually they did a second report because they wanted to look at the negative itself to make sure that it wasn't some kind of copy or transfer issue and they wanted to see it on the actual camera roll which which they did