‘UFO’ Spotted?

What started out as a casual sightseeing trip to a historic castle in the Netherlands took a bizarre turn for one tourist Dutch woman, who claims she may have spotted some kind of UFO.

Corrine Federer, 43, a business manager and amateur photographer, was visiting medieval Muiderslot Castle outside Amsterdam last month when she started taking pictures using her camera’s high-dynamic range (HDR) feature.

She took dozens of photos that day, but it wasn’t until sometime later that she reviewed her HDR photos and saw a startling airborne shape in some of the images.

According to her, the object seen in the images she captured was a tubular-shaped that had an S-shaped fin on it. She reasoned that if the object had been a missile, it would’ve had multiple fins, but facing the same direction. She added that they didn’t hear anything had the object been a form of a machine. The tourist said that it was completely quiet out and that the more she flipped through the frames in her camera, the more she felt it was kind of creepy.

Federer’s images were analyzed by former FBI special agent and host of SyFy Channel’s program “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files”, Ben Hansen, and believes that the images were not faked or manipulated.

After reviewing the raw files, he said there’s no overt indication that the photos have been manipulated with post-editing software. The examiner said the object’s appearance is internally consistent with the rest of the photo. Hansen, however, isn’t convinced that the photographs show an aircraft of any kind.

He explained that the object might have been insects since we typically see many wing protrusions on insect rod cases, but they do come in the single pair variety, too. However, he said that it all depends on the shutter speeds and motion of the insects.

Experts like the associate director of American University’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking Larry Engel said that insects are often the real culprit behind alleged UFO sightings.

He said that insects are a consistent problem for filmmakers and photographers, especially with wide-angle cameras or small-format cameras, as each emphasizes or records objects, including dust and bugs, close to the lens.

Other possibile explanations for the strange image captured in Federer’s photographs include an airplane, a missile test or a weather balloon.

Federer, however, believes it’s possible that the object she photographed could be some kind of UFO, even an extraterrestrial one. ”

Source: www.yahoonews.com