Size of Object(s)

Unknown

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

More than 1km

Shape of Object(s)

Cigar shaped/rod and orb

Color of Object(s):

Grey

Full Description & Details

I did not take this photo but have been given permission by the photographer to pass it on to whoever I want. I have only recently found your very good website, and thought I'd send this picture and enhancements to you.

Background details:

I teach digital photography classes at an adult community college in Essex, England. On Tuesday 4 November 2003 I began teaching a 5-week course to a new class and one of the students had this image on her camera. She had purchased the camera in the summer of 2003, and at the time the photo was taken she still hadn't been able to work out how to set the camera's clock properly! It was in fact taken aIt was in fact taken around mid-October 2003 in the grounds of Ickworth House, a stately home near Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. The photographer saw nothing when she took the photo.

Looking at the image's metadata, the shutter speed shows 1/145th of a second. Fast enough to freeze the movement of a bird or insect flying in the middle-distance and beyond. I believe the objects are some distance from the camera -- in the case of the smaller object, possibly more than 2 miles distant -- and are not animal/insect in origin.

I think the larger object is elongated because its movement has been blurred by a shutter speed still too slow at 1/145th of a second to freeze its movement. Whatever it is, it has moved rapidly across a significant distance of airspace in a fraction of a second.

I am satisfied that the objects aren't caused by a lens imperfection or a CCD problem. Every other photo my student had taken (some within a few minutes of this one) were normal, so I have to conclude that there was no fault with the camera and that the two objects were physically in the frame when the shutter was pressed.

The other six images have been cropped and enhanced by me using a variety of filters and imaging techniques in Adobe Photoshop 7, just to emphasise the objects. Believe me, I have NOT added the objects to the original photo. You may wish to try the same adjustments yourself on the orginal, using Photoshop.

Kind regards,

Dean Weston

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Curriculum Team Leader and IT Tutor

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