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Maricá, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Sighted on Wednesday 11. February 2009
Reported on
Shape: Unknown | Duration: Undisclosed
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Hello, I'm from Brazil and do not speak English, I am using a translator for the district web.Moro Itaipuaçu Maricá in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro State, some 40 km distant from the capital. Since you live in place for 6 years now witnessing the sight of three or four unidentified flying objects and have some experience in amateur free-flight, the paraglider pilot am I very interested in aviation and meteorology, and so I know and identify an aircraft of some normal and some unusual weather phenomena. Well, one of my past times is photography and I love storms and the night was taking pictures of the rays of a storm that drops about 20 km more or less, and after beating more than 100 photos with my Canon PowerShot A620 was deleting the photos, discouraged because they were showing useless, had not even caught any radius. When I was almost giving up and deleting a photo everything seemed intriguing. Three risks appeared in the photo, not delete and go running pro PC to see this picture better. The original photo is with resolution of 3024 X 2304. At the same time there ran out and was looking at the sky and the surrounding area looking for something that you can explain these effects in the photo, but nothing! After review, analyze and examine an explanation and can not now send the picture to several people to give them your opinion and nobody is in danger. Yesterday watching the Discovery saw the work of you and would like an opinion about this photo. At the time it hit the photos did not see anything different or heard anything unusual, only the rumble of distant lightning. Thanks, [cms/tg/pid]

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