Originally Posted by astrophotographer

I also did a quick check on him and I noticed that he had some images back in 1996 of Comet Hale-Bopp that were being used to suggest an object was following the comet. I can't tell if he was the source of somebody got his images and used them. The image I saw showed an artifact that was obviously dust on the CCD sensor. When I see this, I become increasingly skeptical. He also did not report his observations to the IAU and instead ran to the media to report his "find" just like Chuck Shramek of the Hale-Bopp companion fame. Makes you begin to really wonder about his methods.

I could not either but there was one posting where it appeared he was looking for anamolous objects (he admits they were later determined to be stars, which to me was obvious), which makes me wonder.