Bulgaria (9-2006)

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UFO Photograph (Click to get the high resolution image)

1 Witness Testimonial
2 Second Photograph Submitted
3 Credits
4 External Links

Witness Testimonial

Dear UFO Casebook Team, I and sending you two photographs of what I think are UFOs that were accidentally photographed by me. I sent the pictures to [another UFO web site] last year, but never got a response. Now that I found your great web site, I hope you care a bit more about my photos.

Now back to the photos themselves. They were taken at very different locations and with several months between them.

First let me explain how DSC05892 was created:

We were on our way back from our holiday in Bulgaria in September 2006, aboard the MD-82 "LZ-LDK" of Bulgarian Air Charter. Our departure airport in Bulgaria was Varna (ICAO code LBWN). I'm an aviation enthusiast, and always take lots of pictures on airplane trips, so I took pictures of the beautiful sunrise some 30 minutes after departure.

I'm not sure which country we were over by that time.

When I got home and downloaded the pictures from the camera, an old Sony Cybershot (not sure which model it was exactly, we sold it), I decided to run an automatic contrast enhancement, and some other post processing steps over all the images, because the camera had certain quality flaws I always had to take care off, which I had created a script for in Paint Shop Pro that performs actions against those flaws automatically.

So after that script had completed (and overwritten the original images with the post processed ones, so unfortunately I don't have the original one anymore), I looked at the photos for the first time and noticed the object that I caught on one photo. I could not see it at the time I was taking the photograph, but there it was.

The sun was behind and a little above us at the time the photograph was taken, and was not very bright. The object seems to be highly reflective or self-glowing. As a reference for the sunlight I also attached the next photo I took of the sky and clouds maybe 5 or 10 minutes later. On that picture you can also see the scratches of the aircraft's windows and how they were illuminated by the sunlight, so you can be sure it wasn't a scratch.