At 2:34 in the afternoon of May 31, the husband of an
Unknowncountry.com subscriber happened to glance out a
window of their Eden Isles, Louisiana home, which overlooks
Lake Ponchatrain and has a wide view of the sky. To his
amazement, he saw an unusual silver object hanging
motionless in the clear blue, and took what has turned out
to be one of the clearest and most detailed images ever made
of a UFO.
The shot was taken with a 15 megapixel Sony digital camera
with a 300 MM lens. It is not a computer generated graphic.
Unknowncountry's photo analysts, special effects artist
Steve Neill, filmmaker Dan Drasin and web designer Daniel
Stegall have examined the image, and offer the following
comments:
Dan Drasin:
"I must say it looks convincing. Not at all like what a
typical faked saucer might look like. Assuming we're looking
at the front of it, it seems to have some kind of "tail"
appendage. And the bottom edge has six or eight round
nubbins of some kind. There's some kind of apparent side
protrusion as well, which looks almost like a cylindrical tank,
but it could also be a reflection. No idea what the
understructure is all about. It almost looks like a separate
craft docked inside a larger enclosure. The color and
material looks different.
"But these comments are all subjective. At this resolution,
the likelihood is that we're seeing false shapes to some
extent. For all we know it might conceivably be one of those
silvered Mylar helium balloons that's partially deflated and
reflecting distorted landscape features off its wrinkled
bottom. That may be an extreme interpretation, but there's
simply not enough detail here to rule something like that out."
Steve Neill:
"Whatever this is, after looking at it for some time now,
and playing with different filters, I don't believe it's a
Mylar balloon that's losing gas and collapsing to form this
shape. It very well could be, and I think Dan has made an
excellent observation. But the form just seems to angular
and sharp to me. Also the pod on its back is very precisely
formed and symmetrical. It doesn't appear to be Mickey mouse
ears or any other such appendage that may appear on the
balloons they make today. They make such a wide variety
today, everything from butterflies to dragonflies I have
purchased for my wife on occasions. This doesn't look like
any of them. It's certainly not a CGI image either."
Daniel Stegall:
"I agree with what everyone else has so far put forth. It's
an intriguing photo, but largely (and frustratingly)
inconclusive due to the lack of other objects in frame.
"I also wanted to put another possibility out there. It
might be some kind of UAV. Consider this:
Cypher
UAV.
"Not an exact match, but close enough to warrant
consideration, though because this is a ducted form of
propulsion, I would think that if the object in the photo
was something like this UAV, its engine noise would have
been audible at that distance."
Steve Neill comments: "Since the SR-71 program was
instituted, top secret aircraft are not flown over public
areas."
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