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 43rd frame taken on Day 17 contained just such an object. Here is what our friend JH had to say in her own words. (It has been edited for privacy and clarity - JC)

Study Day 17 - 8 August 2007

Rod anomalies / Huge disc

Hey Jeff,

Got up bright and early this am - and I started taking photos before it got to 107 today - that is what it is supposed to be later on -I will be hiding out... in the house.

Huge anomaly in photo 043jpg - the others are for comparison.


JH

The object in this picture sure looks like one of those things known collectively as "Rods". Investigating these has been a specialty of Jose Escamilla for a number of years. I really don't know what else to call this object.

So in the end, 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's certainly not a balloon, either.

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 #43 from JH's Study Day 17, 8 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 BLACK circle has been added to show where object is 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