In March 1995, we noticed by chance, the beginning of a disturbing phenomenon that was going to become enormous and that still goes on today.
We are referring to these surprise pictures that you will discover on this web site.
That day, as we were at the Vence Pass, we were testing at night new cameras by making souvenir pictures.
Upon developpement of pictures, we were puzzled to discover a white opaque sphere just next to the photographed people.
This sphere was visible on both pictures, each one taken with a different camera, a few seconds one after the other.
1st picture made with the first camera. Please notice on the right side of the picture, Jean-Paul’s shoulder getting ready for the 2nd picture
Jean-Paul takes the 2nd picture with a different camera, approx. 2 seconds later after the 1st shooting.Please notice the evolution of the strange object in the back scene.
This showed that the object was real and there was no default on the film or any problem with the cameras.
You can see in the sphere some kind of quite regular striae, parallel to one another, and a clearer surface at the top.
All this had escaped our visual perception but not the cameras’ lens.
Since that date, we have collected up to several hundred of these surprise pictures, all more incredible than the others.
The first ones would represent spheres that are sometimes bright and that many called " orbs ", that can be numerous on the same picture.
Since the commercialising of digital cameras, it is even sometimes possible for us to follow their evolution on the plateau, provided that you are on site with a minimum of two or three different cameras.
With time, surprise pictures evolved, becoming very complexe and sometimes of great beauty.
This phenomenon shows with all kind of cameras (disposable cameras, polaroïds, new APS cameras, but also reflex cameras as well as other different film marks of various sensibility: 100, 200, 400 and 1600 Iso).
This phenomenon occurs during night and day time, still mostly at night.
During the night, what we photograph is always less than 10 meters away.
This is certainly due to the flashes power.
On the contrary, the surprise pictures made in the daytime can show objects that are much further away.
Most of the time, we make pictures in double simultaneously with two different cameras, so that we make sure that the phenomenon is not an accident.
In order to better study it, we equipped and organised ourselves.
The digital camera is from far the most practical mean as it can be directly connected to a computer, enabling us to check the result of the shooting right on site.
It is a universe of incredible variety, with incursions into our material world which most of the time remain unseen by the naked eye.
Sometimes, nothing appears on the negatives, other times we are lucky to catch the elusive emanation of a dimension that is beyond our perceptions.
Why? How can we explain this?
After eight years of observation and analyzes, tens of outstanding pictures collected, this phenomenon still doesn’t seem ready to reveal the secret of its real nature.
All we can say is that it exists.
The rare conclusions we can pull out from so many years of work in common, is that this phenomenon is animated by a non human intelligence, not visible with the naked eye, except on rare occasions, and that it expresses itself the way it wants.
This is little but already a lot!
So, who are we confronted by?
It is really difficult to date, to be able to pull out conclusions in a sweeping way, without entering the sulphurous field of hypothesis opening the door onto too hazardous answers.
To be followed!
The most beautiful ones were made during summer 2001, both night and day.
Though, the most surprising is the proteiform aspect that we photographed, as it shows on the pictures exposed on this web site. But what is the meaning of all this: are we facing a communication attempt, a particular language? Or are these pictures only the convincing result of a continuous presence in a dimension parallel to ours? Below some photos and images extracted from videos realized by the coldevence.com team during these investigations in England. Photo Wiltshire - Lockeridge - 2005