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The ship is a real one... but this picture is CGI... :)

A friend took the background photo, and I built the saucer in Lightwave 3D patterned after a saucer in one of Billy Meier's alleged real UFO photos. I built an environment in Lightwave to render the saucer with reflections consistent with the photo. This is the final render. I added a glint or two in photoshop So...photo is real, ship is not. :-)

Exactly, a real ship from Billy Meier's collection, a CGI one tho...
Thank you for the hints...
Gonna try some Lightwave 3D.
Just tried it once 20 years ago.

Here is another tip. When creating your environment create a box and map four sides with the photo have the top match the top color of the sky and the bottom is covered by a front face map of the photo. In this way the retraced reflections look consistent with the environment. focus the camera on the back panel and use the front mapped panel to catch the shadow. Real easy in Lightwave.

Thank you very much! ;)