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 8th frame taken on Day 26 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 26 - 17 August 2007

urgent urgent URGENT... Looks like a space ship to me!!!!

Hey Jeff,

Hubby and I were just going through my evening pictures... and we came across this round spherical disc - and what detail!

PLEASE LOOK AT IT RIGHT AWAY ....

08JPG - 6:24PM - HIDING IN THE CLOUDS - Not visible to the naked eye.
JH

This is the final event from JH's 30 Day Study. And what a finale it is!! The object in question is metallic in appearance, and has a structured shape reminiscient of a classic "flying saucer". The fact that it's doesn't have a sharp outline is actually very common in U.F.O.s. I myself have seen 10 Unidentified Flying Objects with my own eyes, and they were NEVER clearly defined. There was always a fuzziness around the edges, as IF they were surrounded by some sort of distorting field.

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. Balloons move slowly, drifting on the wind. Were this object a balloon, it would have been obvious as such to JH at the time.

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 #8 from JH's Study Day 26, 17 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 YELLOW 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