On the night of February 16, the trail camera placed in the Cumbest Bluff area of Jackson County by Rainer and Edith Shattles caught something extraordinary. It was a pair of spook lights scaring a deer in the woods on a winter night. This really wasn't the first time the Shattles family was astounded by the strange pictures captured by their trail cams.
Rainer and Edith Shattles own a plot of 150 acres in the woods of Cumbest Bluff in Jackson County, Mississippi. On the night of February 16, a trail cam put up
by them in their property captured something inexplicable. "I was looking for a nice buck to be showing up on the trail camera actually," Edith recounts, "We have unusual things happen around here that happen, but it's usually associated with our grandchildren. But this case, we didn't know what it was."
At 7:24 pm, a deer appeared before the camera. At 7:29, a pale light appears from nowhere. At 7:56, a brighter light appears, and the two focus on the deer in a way that it lights up, brightly. If you see the picture, the deer can be seen emitting a bright glow, but how? The trail cam was infra-red, it didn't have any lights attached. While the picture indeed looks like a car with its headlights shining on the deer's face, the lights are well above the ground, higher than car headlights.
Doug Walker, a reporter for WLOX News, investigated the case, writing up a neat article that can be found
here. While possibilities exist that the lights can well be poachers shining their torches at the lone deer, Rainer seems a bit tempted to accept a more supernatural theory:
"Well, if it's alien, I'm not sure about that. But it's definitely a UFO. Now whether it's a government drone or what, I wish if nothing else, one of them would step up and say, 'Yes, that's ours,'"
I had this image posted up on my Google+ page, and received a thought-provoking comment from
+johnny conner:
The deer is actually staring into the camera flash, and the retinas of it's eyes are reflected again in either a protective glass pane, a filter over the lens, or a special coating on the lens. This is my opinion only. The spacing of the lights...the position directly above the eyes... also a good clue.?
As it turns out, the guys who manufactured the trail cam have come up with a similar explanation. You can read all about it
here.
Solved? So quickly? Wait up, this is just a hypothesis as yet, nothing can be said for sure! What do you think spooked the deer? Let me know in your comments. And by the way there's this cool video for you.
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