Help with an anomaly photo

originally posted by: Fallingdown
I agree with the 2nd investigator it’s a Fata Morgana ( superior mirage) . The boat appears to have some type of mast. Inverted it would look like what’s hanging down from the object .

Nope. As your own example shows, the reflection would be in the same horizontal position, and that's not the case in the anomaly photo. So I think your example shows why it's NOT a reflection.

The reason I think it's a bug is because of the very short shutter speed. Anything further away from the camera than a bug would be unlikely to show that much motion blur at such a short shutter speed. If a huge object that far in the distance had that much motion blur at that very short shutter speed, who knows, it might be fast enough to generate a sonic boom.

The fact that there are so many flowers around also works in favor of the bug idea, maybe a bee as suggested.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: wmd_2008

The witness supplied the camera it was taken on.
It was a Mercury CyberPix E-560M 3.3 Megapixel camera.

Thats NOT what the exif shows
Right mouse click on image to view large image.

a reply to: wmd_2008

Ahh your right,
The cyberpix camera is from another case.
Sorry about that.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: wmd_2008

Ahh your right,
The cyberpix camera is from another case.
Sorry about that.

No problem

a reply to: Arbitrageur

I’m not 100% positive. But I’m pretty sure superior mirages don’t always appear directly above the subject . They can also be seen from something behind the horizon .

That being said .

What I know about photography you can fit in a thimble. So I’m sure you have a firmer grasp on this than I do.

But at least I learned a little today .