Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The object is round, spherical and greenish-blue in color

Size of Object(s)

I cannot judge how large the object was....it was quite smaller than the moon which was almost full

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

This is also hard for me to judge

Description of Area / Surroundings

I live in a rural area... some tall trees around...my camera angle was almost at a 90 degree angle as the moon was almost overhead

Full Description & Details

When I let my dogs outside at around 11:30pm on February 10, 2006 I noticed the almost full moon was shining down between the trees and decided I would set up my tripod and get some shots of the moon. I set up my camera and tripod outside on my back patio and aimed up at the moon at a steep angle. I opened up the aperature and changed shutter speed settings as I took several photographs, also bracketing these exposures to give me the best chance of getting some nice shots. Most shots were at 70mm with the aperature wide open.

Two days went by and I decided to download them to my computer and see which shots I would keep and which ones I would delete. While viewing them I noticed a greenish-blue sphere that was below the moon in the first couple of exposures and then seemed to move around the frame, to the right in the following exposures. I shot from 11:34pm to 11:40pm and the sphere appears in almost all the frames I shot that night. In all, I shot 13 photographs, 39 total counting the bracketed shots. Of those 13 different shots the sphere appears in at least 8 of them.

I have experimented with several of the photos, adjusting the contrast, using different filters from PhotoShop, various methods to view these objects and there is definitely something there. It is spherical in nature and is not a light or airplane or helicopter, and there is a definite reflection on it from the moon, that can obviously be seen in the photographs.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It looked like a planet to me....but then with the time factor, ie...how could the object move so fast in less than half a minute? It moved from under the moon to the right and then back toward the moon...I was shooting in the same place.

Witness Background

Retail manager of a drugstore 2 years of college

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have done extensive reading about UFOs since my childhood...this did not look like anything I have ever seen before and I have photographs to prove it.

Other Comments

My personal opinion on this is that it is not an aircraft, plane, helicopter, as there was no noise that night. It couldn't be a satellite or weather balloon or anything in orbit as it didn't just go by, it came back closer to the moon in the series of photographs that I took. I would just like an honest answer as to what it is as I am very curious.

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