So there is this great UFO story out of Poland, it’s kind of famous also, but people seem to only think UFO sighting happen in America, no where else, how American and typical – just saying!
So anyways, I wanted this story to be better known, so I used a video toolbox I developed ffmpeg commander to first translate the movie into English with Burned Subtitles and this worked pretty well, but then
I was thinking, and this was about a Beer in and no more than 2 Beers out / I was thinking since this video was old probably 8mm source, so not Even VHS, that I could improve the old video first and then translate it.
So that’s what I did, I developed VHS Fix, a new and additional tool that is now added to my program toolbox and you can read about the features if you are interested here – https://ffmpegcommander.com/guides/vhs-fix-restore-old-video.html
below are a few screen shots so you can get a genera idea of the location where it happened, and there is even a monument to this event.
It happened on May 10th, 1978
With that said, the whole research taught me a lot about how video restoration even works, in the end I was pretty successful and the tool does a lot of what I wanted.
In addition to that there is a great web site that give a lot more details, turn on your language translation for this one because it is in Polish only…
https://sztukapubliczna.pl/pl/pomnik-ufo-andrzej-fogtt/czytaj/28
Who designed it: Polish painter Andrzej Fogtt conceived the monument and made the first model. It was unveiled 15 October 2005, funded by Fundacja Nautilus.
Why a cube: Fogtt’s black cube is a direct reference to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey — specifically the famous scene with the mysterious black monolith. The Polish art source states it plainly: “Czarna kostka na postumencie nawiązująca do słynnej sceny z filmu” (“The black cube on the pedestal referencing the famous scene from the film”). The cube stands for mystery and the cosmic unknown — borrowing cinema’s most iconic image of “something alien and unexplained has arrived.”
One honest nuance: in the actual film the artifact is a tall rectangular slab (the “monolith”), not a cube. Fogtt took that idea — the enigmatic black object that shouldn’t be there — and rendered it as a cube balanced improbably on one corner, which is why it reads as gravity-defying and otherworldly.
The whole monument is a stylized figure, too: the sources note the design reads as a simplified alien — the tapered granite base with its inclined “head,” topped by the cube. So it’s part homage to Kubrick, part abstract alien.
The Final Video you can see here –