Is it me or does this look vaguely familiar?
I’ll leave it to the photography experts here at DU. I’ll just label it “swamp gas”.
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Cripes! The aliens are parachuting in all over the place! Run for your lives!
Can’t we leave this crap to the AM Coast to Coast show?
Someone sneezed on the lens. It’s a drop of water.
Idiot! That “Hovering Object” is a CLASSIC LENS REFLECTION.
Lordy. How many times in 2010 will that exact same internal distorted reflection show up as a THING?
Let’s see: Population of Earth: c. 7 Billion. Divide by two (women don’t harbor conspiratorial tendencies as much as men), so the answer is c. 3.5 Billion.
Idiots.
Looks like a lens flare to me.
Why don’t some of you photographers out there see if you can recreate this lens-flare phenomenon?
Yep… STILL looks like a lens flare to me.
#6, just go get me some focusing fluid!
Here’s another one equally “mysterious.”
Grab your pillow and flash camera. Set the camera to shoot a flash picture but dial in a two-stop exposure reduction.
Turn out the lights and pound the pillow exactly 17 times as you stand in the corner of the room.
Immediately shoot a flash picture.
Those blobs are space aliens, responding to the pillow drum-beat.
I for one welcome our new giant flying jellyfish masters.
#8. More likely it was ‘shopped from the other photo.
A NASA weather balloon?
Well at least this photo verifies the lensflare thing for the aurora shot, you could probably map those ethanol angel sea monkey lens flares to the lights on the plant itself with not much difficulty
Easy to confirm lens flare. Draw line through ‘axis’ and follow it down. It should be pointing directly to one of those bright (probrably the brightest) light sources in the foreground.
hmmm. looks a lot like a lens flare. Watch Star Trek and you’ll see lens flare galore.
What’s the big deal? It’s obviously the Justice League’s satellite space station, the Watchtower.
Which way is the wind blowing in that first photo?
Weren’t these the little things flying around in the 3D Avatar movie????
Yeah, an ethanol plant, that’s a pretty good place for smoke.
I saw somewhere that said it was in the aurora borealis. I guess they can’t even get that right.
I assume that It is not a lens flare because multiple individuals in multiple (different) locations took pictures of the same object in the sky at around the same time:
Person 1
Person 2
Headline: The parachute appears in the same spot in the sky on all the pictures.
I reckon it is a meteor that trailed in – in the upper atmosphere – and when heated up due to friction, it blew up. Just a small meteor,nothing like Leonid, which managed to keep intact for a much longer period. Going from space towards our atmosphere: trailing tail.. explosion, debris and with northern lights it is highlighted. Nonetheless, I shall try and re-create the same effect if it is just a lens flair; I invite others to to do the same.
Duh. Helen Keller could see this is lens flare.
Reminds me of the lightning “sprites” filmed in the upper atmosphere above thunderstorms.
No need to worry!
These aliens are obviously just dropping in for a friendly drink!
They probably just mistook the ethanol plant for a pub!
Ooh oh….looks like God is using thumb tacks instead of duct tape to hold up the sky thing. Maybe the sky IS falling…
Yes! Aliens traveled thousand of light years just to watch us make fuel that is more expansive and worse for the environment than the gas we use now.
You know what they’re doin’ up there? Huffin’ off a bongs and saying “Hu,hu, hu. Those monkeys are stupid.”
#13; right. And if you look at the original ethanol plant image, you see just as many faint UFOs as there are lights in the plant, organized in neat rows, just like the lights.
No Photoshop needed.
Nor does the original story refer to them as “objects.”
Actually: IFOs.
It’s the Rapture! Crap! I’m still here with
you atheists!
On a more serious note…. Lens flare. If you
follow the objects ‘spikes’ down , the converge
on the brightest light source near the middle-bottom.
I actually ran into this “phenomenon” a few months back while taking some night shots in Chicago, over the Chicago River. I’ve got one of the photos online on my Flickr page. You can see the “object” in the sky just to the right at the top of the building in the center of the photo.
I thought it strange at the time, but now that I’m seeing almost the exact same thing other places that I got on some of my shots, I’m wondering if it has something to do with the camera or the lens used. Has anyone out there been able to check and see what kind of camera and lens that were used on these shots? I had just bought a new Nikon D3000 and was using the stock 18-55mm lens. Looking at the image in Photoshop, running a line down and looking at the angle of the “object” it does look like it’s just a lens flare, but it sure does make for some strange stuff. Never had that happen with any other cameras I’ve used int he past. Just kinda funky.
http://home.comcast.net/~ststcsolda/federation/spacedock/spacedock.html
It’s a space dock from Star Trek TNG. Seriously, exactly the same!
Looks a bit like this new Hubble object traveling 11k MPH. http://gizmodo.com/5462539/hubble-detects-mysterious-spaceship+shaped-object-traveling-at-11000mph
Why this shape all of the sudden? Why now?