Baton Rouge UFO?

Name: Jess Loquist

Email Address: jloquist@yahoo.com

Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008

Time: 6:37 a.m.

Weather: Fine and clear

Camera: Canon Rebel XT Digital.

Received this photo and description from Jeff who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jeff used our submission form and we thank him for the submission.

According to Jeff, "My wife and mother-in-law had dragged me out of bed at 5 a.m. to go to the Balloon Festival. I was taking random photos and noticed this anomaly in the northwestern sky."

The Baton Rouge Hot Air Balloon Championship 2008 festival will be at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center August 8-10, 2008 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Not sure what it is but it wasn't there for long. The balloons came in from the east so I'm sure it is not one of them and after enlarging the image it doesn't look like a plane or helicopter either."

I have analysed the photo and enlarged the anomaly and there appears to be a solid object. This object does not appear to be an airplane, helicopter or balloon.

I have used various Adobe Photoshop filters to enhance the photo including: equalize, auto contrast and variations. The results can be seen in the right hand side.

Although there is not much detail due to the distance the object was to the camera, it shows as a solid object and has the general appearance of an UFO (unidentified flying object).

Jeff just sent me a follow-up email, "I actually took the UFO yesterday morning, 8-9-08, the time stamp on the photo is 6:37 am. I was taking a photo of the guy in the tower and that is when i noticed it. I had looked to say something to my wife and when I turned back it was gone. I wrote it off until I got home, but when I saw the larger image I thought I may have something there."

He added, "The weather was absolutelty clear - I have several photos of the hot air balloons and there isn't a cloud in the sky."

As stated above Jeff used a very good digital camera- Canon Rebel XT Digital.

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