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Classification: Lens Flare

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(Images in inserts magnified 250x's)

Although it is not always obvious where the sun is in relation to the camera lens in a video still, and it may even appear that the sun was obscured, it becomes evident that the sun was indeed shining and reflecting off the camera lens when one views the video footage in it's entirety.  Like video footage, photographs can produce similar lens flares that may be mistaken for "UFO's" and other objects when taken out of context.  

LFVS54 - lens flare (video still)

LFVS55 - LFVS54 enlarged - lens flare

LFVS56 - LFVS55 enlarged and cropped - lens flare

Compare to images at:

http://tracers.8m.com/glow.htm - Pictures titled -

1. "Are These Photographs Illustrative Of PC Object Propulsion Devices?"

2. "Luminosity -- Ion Propellant?"

3. "Do These Dark Objects Provide Ion (Xenon) or Other Gas Propulsion To The White Objects?"

LFVS57 - lens flares on the right, birds frozen in flight with a contrail segment in the background, and the back end of an insect frozen in flight on the far left.

Note - One key characteristic of lens flare are multiple images one after the other like carbon copies in a row.  Lens flares can also occur as individual images.

LFVS58 - multiple lens flares

(The white "boomerang" was a spider web floating in the air reflecting the sunlight.)

Compare to images at:

LFVS59 - LFVS58 enlarged - multiple lens flares

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