Posted on 12/07/2004 10:50:52 PM PST by Bandaneira
Hanukkah mystery: Eerie Blue Images caught on camera at Menorah lighting
Posted: December 8, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON
Was it a bird? Was it a plane? Was it a sign from heaven?
Mysterious blue images captured during menorah lighting in Washington, D.C.
That's what Carrie Devorah wants to know after she inadvertently photographed some mysterious blue light images hovering heavenward while taking pictures of the lighting of the Chabad menorah on the first night of Hanukkah on the Ellipse in the nation's capital.
"I took this shot as I was walking to get into place," she said. "For those of you who know D.C., you will recognize the two red lights to the left as being from the Washington Monument. And you will know there is no building that tall to the right of the menorah where the two blue images are."
Are they lens refractions? Are they planes from National Airport? Devorah isn't sure.
"I was fascinated by the stage light silhouetting the menorah," the photographer explained. "So I walked as close as I could, shot with my wide angle lens....I noticed the blue images when I returned home."
Devorah says she took three photographs in sequence and the blue images; the mystery lights; are ascending in the sequence.
Devorah was in the news last spring when her brother Chezi was killed in a terrorist bus bombing in Israel.
She wrote about her experience and her loss in a WorldNetDaily commentary.
Still feeling the loss, Devorah takes comfort from the mysterious lights.
"Messiah? A sign? Blue angels?" she asks rhetorically. "All I know is it was fortuitous on a day I was needing to see ... one set of footsteps in the sand, a sign I am being carried."
woah.
Close up...
And of course the NYT will ignore this story.
Have never seen rods at night. Perhaps the lighting was just right.
Bugs...
fortuitous? Is that like lucky?
The two blue things are pointing directly at the bright light below the menorah. It's an optical artifact, something like a lens flare you get from the sun.
hmm..
Who knows....I saw Elvis the other day while I was pumping gas.
So you know how to do it, replace the brackets ("[") with karats ("<") and use this formula: [img src="http://address.ext"] Where address is the web address of the PHOTO (not the web page, but the photo), and ext is the file extrension (i.e., jpg or gif). If you are using Internet explorer, you can find the web address of the photo by right clicking on the photo, and then selecting "Properties." FWIW: Jewish angels ascending from a Menorah, taking the form of crosses?
I've used up my entire supply of tin foil. I got all the important parts covered up (ouch! that hurts, hehe).
Now I can read the post.
Optical aberrations and flare of the camera lens. Looks like mostly coma.
Looks like someone blew out the left candle on that fancy candle holder.
These are clearly angels. Or Photoshopped. Or UFOs. Or Photoshopped angels made to look like UFOs. I also wouldn't entirely rule out some kind of reflection. But I know I've never taken a picture of a menorah and had blue photoshopped UFO angels in it.
Those blue things are pretty clear in that picture considering how foggy it looks out
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