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sir pball

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9. Amateur photog, that's definitely a flash/light reflection

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 08:32 PM

Aug 2019

So someone is in a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information Defense Intelligence Agency facility with a goddamned cameraphone snapping shots of printed satellite imagery.

I'd cringe but I'm not even surprised anymore.

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Can someone dissect the pic of the satellite pic? I just don't see shadow of one taking pic. [View all] bobbieinok Aug 2019 OP

No other mention of a satellite on 1st GD page - can you be more specific? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Aug 2019 #1

She's asking about the photo Trump tweeted about the launch pad in Iran. Shrike47 Aug 2019 #3

OK. I would say the white blob in the middle is the flash from the phone muriel_volestrangler Aug 2019 #4

Wow, you have great eyes. dawg day Aug 2019 #10

Put your hand over the left 1/3 of the image and hold your phone away from you 4139 Aug 2019 #2

its not the shadow but the white spot that says this is second hand photo. Kurt V. Aug 2019 #5

Looks like a flash from the phone? Dennis Donovan Aug 2019 #6

Amateur photog, that's definitely a flash/light reflection sir pball Aug 2019 #9

Might be Trump or his aides? dawg day Aug 2019 #11

Probably, I didn't use Occam's Razor nt sir pball Aug 2019 #14

See this thread, the shadow is clear in OP. Hoyt Aug 2019 #7

That definitely clears it up! 👍 TheBlackAdder Aug 2019 #15

Shadow in 1st pic, why not in others in linked articles? Could see people calling shadow pic fake bobbieinok Aug 2019 #16

So it was someone in a DIA facility with a cameraphone? sir pball Aug 2019 #8

Why don't you think Trump made the cameraphone image? dawg day Aug 2019 #12

Yeah, I guess I failed Occam's Razor there. nt sir pball Aug 2019 #13