Our friend J.H. lives with her husband and children in north-central Georgia, USA. She is a professional livestock breeder, and a good amateur photographer. She has been invited to take part in a photography contest by The National Library of Photography.

Due to many strange objects appearing in photos JH took on 26 June, 04 July, and 18 July 2007, she embarked on a month long photographic study. She was determined to be scientific, take pictures every day for 30 consecutive days, keep notes, and have an open mind. She is more concerned with finding out the truth, rather than search for possible U.F.O.s.

JH has taken control pictures as well. She photographed a sheet of blank white paper to ascertain if her camera were producing digital artifacts. She took pictures from the inside of her car of insect splats on the windshield (windscreen JC). JH took photos of a spider in its web against the sky for comparison. She has made pictures of birds in flight, and captured airplanes and helicopters for her records. She found that in SOME of her photos, what first seemed to be an anomalous formation of objects was in fact clouds of gnats. In these ways, JH is showing us that her study is truly scientific.

JH took hundreds of pictures during her 30 day study, and some of them revealed anomalous objects. On this page we will concentrate on photos 84, 85, 86 and 87 from the seventh day of JH's program.

Here is what our friend JH had to say in her own words. (It has been edited for privacy and clarity - JC)

Study Day 7 - 29 July 2007

Black helicopter and U.F.O. After the gnat pictures - 82 and 83 - I went inside to make lunch for my family - and I heard a very low flying fast flying helicoper - these copters are so loud - I ran and got my camera - and took pictures of the helicopter that flew over my house and flew east - came in from the north I think-and caught an anomaly trailing it...
JH

Wow, there IS a black sphere in the last frame of the series as the helicopter is flying away! I can't really say what this thing is, only what it is not. The object is not a bird, insect, balloon, airplane, helicopter, atmospheric phenomenon, or lens flare. It would have been better had the object been caught on video, rather than as digital still frames, but we have to work with what we get.

Let's take a look at the original photos, a few enhancements, and an historical photo from 1946 for comparison, to decide for ourselves shall we?

The photos JH shared with us were resized, zoomed, and incorporated into animated GIFs by Jeff Challender as appropriate for the web. All photos copyright © 2007 JH of Georgia.

This animated GIF is comprised of the frames in question, jpeg #s 84, 85, 86, and 87 from JH's Study Day 5, 27 July 2007. The first frame is zoomed 1000% to display the helicopter better. The rest are unenhanced, and although presented just as shot, they are reduced from 640x480 pixels to 360x240 for the web.

The YELLOW circles has been added to show where the chopper and object are located.

As you can see, this object bore no resemblance to insects, birds, balloons, lens flares, or atmospheric phenomenon. Therefore, I must classify it as unknown.

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At the end of the day, it's up to YOU to draw your own conclusions.

© 2007 Jeff Challender