Accidently Photographed UFO Over Washington DC 4/4/07

I was in DC over the past week for a business trip. One day in the afternoon after the training session myself and a co-worker went to downtown DC to take some photographs.

The following picture was taken at 4:55 pm on April 4, 2007.
It has been unaltered with the exception of adding a copyright mark.

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Below the copyright mark you will see....something?

I would love to know what this thing is. If you can enhance the image to prove it is a bird, a plane, hell even a speck of dust, PLEASE do so!

I did not notice this object when I took the picture. I only realized this was in the picture AFTER I started showing my pictures with family during Easter today.

For comparison, here are a couple other pictures I took while I was down there:

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The above picture is a plane flying past the Washington Monument. Yes, I was attempting to take the picture of the plane. The photo was taken at 4:56 PM on the same day.


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The above picture is another picture of the Capitol. You can see below my copyright mark a bird. No I did not know the bird was in the picture until after reviewing this photo. The photo was taken at 6:27 PM on the same day, from a different angle.


Once again, I would absolutely LOVE a reasonable explanation for this object.

Haha, I always wanted to do this!

Not as much as I wanted to do this: *SNIP*

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[edit on 8/4/2007 by Mirthful Me]

I'm sorry, what's with the "stop posting" image?
If this is the wrong section of the forum to post this in, please direct me to the proper section.

I think this is a job for .........

JRitzmann........

He will get to the bottom of these pics!!!

www.abovetopsecret.com...

He is the image Master!!!

[edit on 2007/4/8 by JacKatMtn]

Originally posted by Drexon
Haha, I always wanted to do this!

Drexon, what the hell...???

phantomm, it might be an insect, speck of dust, etc... hard to tell?

Originally posted by tezzajw
phantomm, it might be an insect, speck of dust, etc... hard to tell?

Hence why I posted it here

I'm tired and wacked out on peeps, that's my defence. As for the pics I thought that anyone could see that the first one: bird, second: plane, third: bird again.. so I just made a joke post.

I zoomed in on the photo, played with it in Photoshop a little, and it doesn't look like a bird or plane to me. BUT, I'm not the best with Photoshop, and I came here for some constructive input.

A little more info on the original photo:
180 dpi
2592x1944 pixels
bit depth 24
Shutter Speed 1/202 sec.
Lens Aperture F/4
Focal Length 59 mm
Exposure Time 1/200 sec.

Taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS

How else are the alien senators going to get to work?

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Guys, stop giving this guy a hard time.

As someone said above, JRitzmann is the guy to see about things like this. Copy/Paste your first post and post a new topic in his forum, and he will be able to give you more help.

Originally posted by fooffstarr
Guys, stop giving this guy a hard time.

As someone said above, JRitzmann is the guy to see about things like this. Copy/Paste your first post and post a new topic in his forum, and he will be able to give you more help.

Done.
I appreciate the help.

That is a sharp as i can get the outline of the UFO (Meaning it is unidentified...)

Looks disc-shaped to me, but i'm not an expert. I can't see and definition that could warrant labeling it a bird.

My co-worker was also taking photos at the same time.
When I see her tomorrow I'll ask her to review her photos for anything odd.
Her camera is a higher megapixel one than mine, if we're lucky she took a picture of the Capitol at the same time.

One picture = 1000 words, so I'm good on the 'one liners' rule, right?

Above is the best zoom I could do with the programs I have.

Just remember:
Exposure Time 1/200 sec

If this were a bird, I would imagine that it would be more clearly defined.

[edit on 8-4-2007 by phantomm]

Haha, I always wanted to do this!

I think a mod should step in here!

Drexon, what right do you have to say/post something like this!!

This is erogance to an extreme level, no one cares if your tired or whatever, show some respect!

I dont care how many points you have or how long youve been here, your no more an expert than a newbie first timer. That was just rude.

redseal> Sorry phantomm and anyone else that might've been offended, I thought it was funny.

As for the pictures.. you're Still saying this isn't a bird?



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[edit on 8/4/2007 by Mirthful Me]

I suspect that it is a bird flying by. It is most likely closer to the camera than it seems to appear. Remember it would get blurred unless you are sure you shot at a shutter speed of around 500 or up. You could check the image EXIF data.

I applied a few filters...

Detect Edges:



Detect Horizontal Edges:





The information I posted previously is all from the EXIF data of the original image.

[edit on 8-4-2007 by phantomm]