A local photographer believes he has uncovered evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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Last Thursday night the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, was taking photos of a storm at Burrewarra Point near Guerilla Bay.
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It wasn’t until later that he noticed something unusual.
“I downloaded my photos and this particular shot was extremely bright, so I dropped the brightness out of it and added some sharpness,” he said.
“I’ve been bypassing the functions on my camera and using the computer at home to get more shots.”
The local man said he was very excited with the results and took himself off to bed.
“I got back up a bit later and had another look before going back to bed. And then I got up again and had another look, it was only then that I realised there was something in the photo,” he said.
“I zoomed in and had a look, and what instantly caught my attention was the shape - it’s not in any other photos, and it’s not dust.”
While the man preferred to keep his name out of the paper for fear people would think he was a “crackpot”, he did admit he liked to keep an open mind.
“I’ve shown my friends too and they’ve said the same thing,” he said.
“I don’t want my name to get out but would like to instigate other people - maybe someone else saw it, or saw something else.
“It’s not nothing, it’s definitely something.”
When approached about the possibility of the object being a weather balloon, the Canberra Meteorological Office said it had been two and a half years since their last release, but that the HMAS Albatross naval air station at Nowra released balloons twice daily.
However, a spokeswoman for the air station said it was unlikely the photographer had captured one of their balloons.
“There’s not a chance that it would have been one of our balloons,” she said.
“The last one is usually sent up around midday and it only takes a couple of hours maximum for it to get to 40,000 feet or higher. It just depends on at what point the balloon breaks.”
If you saw anything unusual last Thursday night, contact Sally Foy at the Bay Post on 4472 6577.
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