Var, France · 2011-08-26 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Var, France
A witness notices on photographs the presence of four lights not noticed at the time the pictures were taken. The 4 bright points in the sky are ghost images of the streetlights produced by internal reflections in the camera lens. Proof of this is that the lines joining each of the first 4 streetlights from the left to the 4 lights in the sky from the right intersect exactly at a single point. The other streetlights do not produce ghost images because they are farther from the optical center.
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