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Great Smokey Mountains National Park, TN

Sighted on Tuesday 25. October 2016
Reported on
Shape: Other | Duration: 30 seconds
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Amorphous reddish orange object seen during the dayMy daughter and I were recently driving on the Foothills Parkway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. It was a beautiful day and we stopped at several overlooks to take pictures. Later that day we also drove through Cades Cove which is also in the park and we continued to take pictures of the mountains. Later, while viewing the pictures, we noticed an anomaly in two pictures from two different locations. The pictures were clear but the anomalies were oddly fuzzy and without defined edges and a bit different from each other. If it was just in one picture I would not think too much about it, but we were in two different locations taking pics of the same mountains from two different vantage points. All the rest of my pictures that day were fine. No problem with the camera, a Canon EOS T31.

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