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. The 60th frame taken on Day 12 contained TWO such objects. The second object was found right at the edge of the clouds, and JH didn't see it. Here is what our friend JH had to say in her own words. (It has been edited for privacy and clarity - JC)

Study Day 12 - 3 August 2007

DAY 12 FRUITFUL!!!

Hey Jeff,

I ALMOST DID NOT GET MY PICTURES... BUT I AM GLAD I DID... BECAUSE I HAVE SOME INTERESTING STUFF HERE...

UNBEARABLEY HOT AND HUMID. 95 degrees in the shade... Terribly wet/steamy hot -
Things did not get interesting until - #60jpg. Started taking photos at 8:05pm.

060jpg taken at 8:19pm. Suddenly appears a diamond shape anomaly - no bird flew in front of me... Unfortunately I panned left instead of right . In
061jpg - I passed over my neighbors roof and my husbands work shop.

This object is quite baffling to say the least. It is diamond, or rectangle shaped. This shape is unique of all the objects JH photographed in her project. I can't tell you what it is, only what it's not. We can be fairly sure it's not an insect, bird, airplane or helicopter. It certainly doesn't look like any balloon this writer is familiar with. Someone might suggest it's a kite, but who flies BLACK kites? And if so, why was it ONLY in frame 60. Frame 59, shot in the same direction didn't have this object in it.

Let's take a look at the original photo, a few enhancements, 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 frame in question, jpeg #60 from JH's Study Day 12, 3 August 2007. It is unenhanced, and although presented just as it was shot, it is reduced from 640x480 pixels to 360x240 for the web.

The RED circle has been added to show where the object is located. The second object will be addressed on the next page.

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