NUFORC Sighting 64442

Occurred: 2008-07-10 13:46 Local
Reported: 2008-07-10 13:54 Pacific
Duration: less than 1 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Chambersburg, PA, USA

Shape: Other


07/10/08 13:46 Chambersburg PA Mercury Capsule shape 1 minute Shape appeared near the sun

Report of an unusual object that was near the sun on Thursday, July 10, 2008.

I was looking at the sky about 13:30 today July 10, 2008 when I noticed an unusual situation, i.e. a double rainbow around the sun. The obvious explanation is that there was some water/ice crystals between myself and the sun. I went in to get my camera to see if I could take a picture.

I took five pictures from 18 mm to 55 mm at slightly different angles, using automatic and A/DEP modes on my Canon EOS Rebel XT Digital camera. I saved the three most interesting images, taken about a minute apart starting at 13:46.

When I looked at the images I noticed a really unusual part to the first image only. It looks like an old Mercury Space Capsule on reentry, only upside down from my point of view. I printed the pictures including two versions of the first one with zoom. Unfortunately I only used the 3 meg resolution of the Canon’s 8 meg possible so the zoomed images are pretty fuzzy.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2008-08-12

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