Time: June 20th, 2022 5:07 am
Location: Compton, California
*edit* most likely just a lense flare thanks for all the conversations!
For context, I was sent this by my at the time girlfriends mom as her little sister (moms daughter) woke up for school and grabbed her moms phone and walked outside to take a photo of the moon, later on in the day the mother sent me this photo and said she noticed something strange near the moon. To this day it’s the clearest and most visible photo I’ve ever seen that isn’t from the internet. I’m finally ready to share it and hope it doesn’t get me wiped off the map. I’m completely happy, mentally stable and would never self delete.
by 16floors
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That’s lens flare from the light at the bottom
The community said I needed to add a statement, the caption has my statement but I wanted to add in highscool I was playing in a field with 4 friends after school around dusk and we were throwing a light up frisbee and took a break to talk and chat, I was talking to my friend on the left and my other 2 friends were talking to each other. Me and said friend on the left saw a green light zig zag in the sky and then disappear, the green looked the same color as this green as well
I’ll share a tip I learned from someone on this sub a long time ago… If the line from the object to a light source passes directly thru the center of the photo, it’s probably a lens flare. I bet if you look at that light when it’s turned off you’ll see the same pattern of four bulbs and a ring around the outside.
That’s a textbook example of a lens flare / internal reflection inside the lens of the camera. These appear across the frame from a bright light source. The details you are seeing are the individual LEDs (or if it’s not an LED light, perhaps the metal reflector behind a halogen or other incandescent light) in that bright light in the lower right of centre, and the circular outline is the rim of the light fitting.
Edit: there’s also a faint one from the moon too. Look below it, and slightly to the right, there’s a faint round glow…
Lens flare, consider iphone camera still hasn’t figured out how to remove this sort of effect from direct lighting.
What happens is that light goes into the lens and then reflects back somewhere else in the image.
If you look in my account posts, you’ll see a crazy ass lens flare that looks a lot like a flying saucer silhouette, I obtained with a russian lens shooting analog (It’s a red picture)
How did it move?
My god people are stupid
All the markings of a lens flare – taking a photo but not noticing it initially. Only appearing in the photo and not with sight.
Seems like everyone’s saying it’s a lense flare, and that seems the most plausible explanation, just wanted to share to see what others thought!
You can relax. Not a UFO. This has been a things since digital photography existed. Its actually an inverse image of the light itself. The green color comes from the anti-reflective coatings on the lens.
That is a lens flare/reflection from the bright porch light right in front of the camera.
I bet if you were to take a picture of that porch light during the day with the light off, the pattern will match what you see in the flare.
Here is a quick check that I do.. the lens flare is usually inverted from the light source, so I draw a circle around the source and invert it.. it will usually cover the flare.
https://imgur.com/8tcP7tO
More examples of flares: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250004327
Even if real ufo lands tomorrow
Some people still won’t believe it
So don’t bother convincing anyone
Grt catch
lol the shit about lens flare in the comments. Good find dude