Posted on March 8, 2006 February 2, 2018 © 2021 by Linda Moulton Howe
Updated: Survey Engineer Photographs Mysterious Light
March 8, 2006 Western New Jersey – I have known New Jersey survey engineer, Vincent Creevy, for more than a decade. He is very critical-minded and an excellent observer of details in his environment. So, on March 4, 2006, when I received the following e-mail with an attached photograph, I asked Vince if I could share his correspondence at Earthfiles, and he said yes. There have been so many mysterious lights photographed around the world – sometimes seen by the photographer, but most often not seen until after the images are taken.
Mysterious Light on Digital Frame Taken on February 17, 2006, Western New Jersey
I thought you might be interested in this photo. I took on 2/17/06 at around 10:00AM with a Cannon A-95 digital camera. It was cloudy, so there was no sun glare. I took this photo routinely in order to record the forest type as part of some environmental work I was performing on a site in western New Jersey. I don't know what to make of it and still suspect that it may be some artifact of the camera, but I have never had this happen before.
Best Wishes for the Easter Season,
February 17, 2006, at 10 a.m. Eastern at survey site in western New Jersey. Camera was Cannon A-95 digital. Photograph by Vincent Creevy, Survey Engineer.
Mysterious Light on Digital Frame
Taken in December 2003, Maui, Hawaii
From Michele Bryant on the island of Maui in Hawaii came this e-mail and image today:
"Linda, this looks so much like the photo on your site. I took it with my Nikon Coolpix 885 in December of 2003. There was no flash used. It was a cloudy, wet, day but not raining when I took this photo on the island of Maui, on the road to Hana. I've never had something like this show up in any photos before of since, even when I tried to make it happen by photographing dust, raindrops, even snowflakes. It was a very special spot. the photo was supposed to be of those gorgeous trees in the background."
December 2003, on the road to Hana, on island of Maui, Hawaii. Camera was Nikon Coolpix 885. Photograph by Michele Bryant.
Taken on November 3, 2005, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin
From Francis Erdman of Schaumburg, Illinois. The location of her mysterious orb image was in a forest south of Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, on November 3, 2005, at 1 p.m.
"On November 3, 2005, I was visiting a forested nature area south of Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, with my wife, my sister and her husband. It was a sunny day about 1 PM. We were hiking up a narrow, blind glen and I was taking pictures with my Canon A95 digital camera as we went along. The glen is somewhat shadowy, so my camera flash was operating on almost every shot. I was concentrating on rock formations and general forest scenes.
Several weeks after our return, I was again reviewing these pictures when I noticed what appears to be a translucent bluish sphere in front of a tree in the lower left quadrant of one picture. I did not notice it when I took the picture as I was concentrating on the overall composition of the scene. I have contacted Canon and they say that nothing in the camera's operation could create this anomaly. None of the prior or following pictures showed any anomaly. I checked the lens before I started shooting and during shooting to be sure it was clean and free of any foreign material.
What is most interesting to me is that when I cropped and enlarged that portion of the picture with the anomaly, it appears to have structure: two inner concentric rings of smaller objects and something in the center. I have shown this picture and the enlargement to many people, some of whom are knowledgeable in photography, and no one has an explanation – nor do I. I have also sent the photos to the Dept. of Natural Resources person responsible for this area and asked if anyone else has reported such an anomaly in the glen. After seeing the photos, he states that no one has ever reported such an anomaly in the glen before. I have been taking pictures since the 1950s, been in this forest glen several times before, and have never captured anything like this on film or digitally before."
Above: December 3, 2005, at 1 p.m., original photograph south of Devil's Lake, Wisconsin. Camera was a digital Canon A95. Below: Enlarged and cropped section of frame, focusing on translucent orb and tree. Photograph © 2005 by Francis Erdman.
For more information about mysterious balls of light, please see my book, Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles, in the Earthfiles Shop.
Also see the following reports in Earthfiles Archives:
01/13/2006 — 31st Cattle Mutilation on Red Bluff, California Ranch
11/02/2005 — Part 3: Unusual Animal Deaths -Sheep Mutilations in Moortown, Dartmoor, England
09/21/2005 — Silent, Unidentified Aerial Triangle Entered Thunderstorm Over Fairborn, Ohio
09/15/2005 — Animal Mutilations Reported in Switzerland, Hollywood and Kansas
09/02/2005 — First 2005 Canadian Crop Circles Reported
09/02/2005 — Part 2: Mysterious Lights At Coles County, Illinois, Corn Circles
09/02/2005 — Part 1: New York and Ohio Corn Circles "Flattened 2 to 5 Feet Above Ground"
08/26/2005 — Another Cattle Mutilation in Canada
08/09/2005 — Three Extraordinary U. K. Crop Formations Reported August 9, 2005
08/07/2005 — Mysterious Light Photographed in Canadian Woods
08/02/2005 — Part 1: Anomalies Confirmed in Pennsylvania and Arizona Randomly Downed Crops
07/23/2005 — Mystery of Six Grass Circle Formations in North Carolina
07/19/2005 — Crop Formation in Czech Republic
07/18/2005 — Garsington, Oxfordshire, U.K. Wheat Formation – Astronomical Orbit?
07/01/2005 — U. K. Bicyclist Reports Mysterious, Low Hovering Objects Bending Wheat
06/02/2005 — Part 2 – Highly Anomalous Pigment Formation in 2004 Hillsboro, Ohio, Crop Formation
05/26/2005 — Phoenix Barley Mystery: Apparently Irrigation and Wind
05/20/2005 — May 2005 Crop Formation Update in Six Countries
05/09/2005 — Mysterious Lights and 2003 Serpent Mound Soybean Formation
04/14/2005 — "Battle of Los Angeles" On February 25, 1942: When America's 37th Coast Artillery Brigade Fired Off 1,430 Anti-Aircraft Shells At A UFO
04/13/2005 — Highly Strange Dog Death in Arkansas; 2000-Pound Bull Dropped On Log Pile and Calf Skinned
04/12/2005 — First 2005 Dutch Crop Circles Reported in Hoeven, Holland Grass
02/21/2005 — Updated – Bull and Cow Mutilations Northwest of Corpus Christi, Texas
01/15/2005 — Bull and Cow Mutilations Northwest of Corpus Christi, Texas
12/10/2004 — Part 4: "Peculiar Phenomena," V-2 Rockets – and UFOB Retaliation?
10/17/2004 — American Crop Formations: 1880-2004
09/17/2004 — Updated: Part 1 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
09/12/2004 — Part 2 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
09/04/2004 — Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Formation – High Strangeness in Soil and Plants
08/09/2004 — Pictograms in Poland
07/25/2004 — 2004 Canadian Crop Formations: Scorched Soybeans and "Dirt" Pattern in Barley
07/24/2004 — Part 3 – Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
07/24/2004 — Part 2: Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
07/06/2004 — Additions to Spanish Fork, Utah Formation and Mysterious Lights Seen
05/24/2004 — Biophysicist W. C. Levengood's Crop Circle Reports Available for First Time On Internet
05/22/2004 — 2004 Overview of Crop Formations in Six Countries
05/11/2004 — An Extraordinary Photograph in A Dutch Home
04/14/2004 — Light Anomalies in Photos of Conondale, Australia Grass Circles
01/24/2004 — Oregon Man's Experiences with High Strangeness
01/17/2004 — High Strangeness in the Napoleon, Michigan Sky
01/17/2004 — Update on Horton, Michigan Ice Circle
11/01/2003 — Another Soybean Formation in Ohio
10/10/2003 — Updated – Ohio Hunter's "Deer Camera" Photographs Mysterious Glowing Disk
10/03/2003 — Part 2 – Military Interest in Serpent Mound and Seip Mound Formations?
09/06/2003 — Part 3 – Unusual Soybean Formation Near Serpent Mound, Ohio
08/23/2003 — Fourteen Crop Formations in Canada
08/01/2003 — Field Notes About English Animal Mutilations
07/19/2003 — Update – Defiance, Missouri T-Pattern Cut in Saplings
07/08/2003 — Mysterious Lights Videotaped Emerging from Ogbourne St. George, England Crop Formation
06/27/2003 — Part 1 – Mysterious Lights and Fourteen Crop Formations in Italy
06/13/2003 — Updated: Fractal Crop Formation in Knobel, Arkansas
03/08/2003 — Part 5 – Corguinho, Brazil: Large Light Explodes
02/22/2003 — Part 1 – Corguinho, Brazil: Farmer Describes His Transport to A Non-Human Craft on September 15, 2002.
11/05/2002 — Canadian Crop Circles and Mysterious Lights in Saskatchewan
10/19/2002 — Shifting Time Lines and Earth's Destiny?
10/03/2002 — Part 3 – 2002 Crop Formations In Canada
09/02/2002 — Blue Lights and Helicopters in Wiltshire's East Field
07/25/2002 — Strange Stem Anomalies in New Dutch Crop Circles
07/20/2002 — Mysterious Lights Seen Above Field Where Nautilus Formation Emerged
06/26/2002 — Part 1 – New Crop Formations in England, Holland and Germany
05/11/2002 — First 2002 Crop Formation In Wiltshire, England
04/27/2002 — Triangle Formation of Moving "Stars" Over Dover, Arkansas
11/17/2001 — Scientists Say Mysterious Lights in Hessdalen, NorwayAre Thermal Plasmas of Unknown Origin
09/29/2001 — Part 2 – Sasquatch Bigfoot, Visible and Invisible Evidence in North America
09/29/2001 — Part 1 – Sasquatch Bigfoot, Physical Evidence in North America
09/22/2001 — Huge Hexagram Crop Formation in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
08/29/2001 — Part 1 – Ground Details of Chilbolton "Face"
08/25/2001 — Are Crop Formations at Chilbolton Observatory A Response to 1974 Earth Transmission?
08/09/2001 — Crop Formation in Holland Changes with Researchers Present
06/16/2001 — Beyond Stonehenge with Astronomer Gerald Hawkins
06/08/2001 — Another Crop Formation Near Kassel, Germany
03/02/2001 — Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles – A Book Excerpt
12/13/2000 — Mysterious Clouds of Light in English Crop Formation
08/23/2000 — Intelligence Sensed In Mysterious Lights Associated With Crop Formations
08/17/2000 — Mysterious Light Near Woodborough Hill Night Before August 13, 2000 Formation
07/09/2000 — New Book about Ancient Sites of Wiltshire, England
08/01/1999 — 1999 Crop Circle Update from Wiltshire, England
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