By Chad Love

The explosion in the popularity of trail cameras over the past decade or so has led to an entirely new genre of photography and Internet speculation. Mountain lions, wolves, Bigfoot, chupacabras, giant snakes, leprechauns, Jimmy Hoffa, if it inhabits the world of cryptozoology, it's been "captured" on a trail cam. You knew it was just a matter of time before someone caught a UFO on their Bushnell...

From this story on KTSM TV in Dallas, Texas:
A motion-activated camera at a Fort Worth family's favorite hunting spot is capturing shots of mysterious objects. Lisa Brock-Piekarski's game camera is supposed to take pictures of the deer on her Archer City hunting lease, but the pictures show something she can't explain. "What I see looks almost like a Frisbee," she said. "You see a several lights going around, and they're all symmetrical and lit up, and it just looks like an object in the sky." Brock-Piekarski's is hesitant to call the string of lights in the sky UFOs, although she can't identify the flying objects.

"We've seen falling stars, all kinds of stuff out there because you're away form the city," she said. "Anytime there's a meteor shower or anything, you can see it a lot better, but I've never seen anything like that." Brock-Piekarski said the pictures were taken by a single motion-activated game camera. The equipment wasn't moved, and it doesn't have a flash. Instead, it uses infrared.

Archer City, which is just south of Wichita Falls, is also close to Sheppard Air Force Base. The installation did not immediately return requests asking if it had planes up the night the pictures were taken.

Your reaction? Let the speculation begin...

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from gwblackwell wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

Not much speculation - those are the reflections of the infrared LED's inside the camera. I have a sneaky suspicion that this was already known, but doesn't make for a very good story. No UFO - just a reflection. You can find other pictures from this camera all over the web, and it's pretty clear it's nothing.

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from thebigone wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

lightning bugs?

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from deanlikes2fish wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

So thats where my trophy buck goes, hes an alien and he's just getting picked up. Makes perfect sense.

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

These lights cannot be explained by a civilian. I am sure there is a huge cover-up involving the DOW, Obama, PETA, and the EPA. This organization is otherwise known as D.O.P.E.

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from fliphuntr14 wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

HA! gwblackwell- my thoughts exactly.

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from Walt Smith wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

Line dancing lightning bugs?

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from Va-Bigfoot wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

You have two choices here. Aliens are actually deer and it just emerged from the craft, hell, look at those eyes!

The photo could be showing dew droplets on a section of a spider’s web.

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from ckRich wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

Careful buckhunter, you don't want to let them know that you've figured out their operation!

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from thedraketaker wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

"buy trail camera, bust new military operations" haha its a wonder the afgans aint figured this out yet

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from Judd McCullum wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

They're the wing beats of a moth or other large-winged insect captured by the relatively slow shutter speed of the camera. I have a few shots showing the same thing. It's a lot easier to confirm when the photo isn't a blurry mess.

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from chris_hunt wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

No ufo's here, but I'm still waiting for a picture of the skunkape on mine.

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from deanlikes2fish wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

So thats where my trophy buck goes, hes an alien and he's just getting picked up. Makes perfect sense.

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

These lights cannot be explained by a civilian. I am sure there is a huge cover-up involving the DOW, Obama, PETA, and the EPA. This organization is otherwise known as D.O.P.E.

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from Walt Smith wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

Line dancing lightning bugs?

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from gwblackwell wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

Not much speculation - those are the reflections of the infrared LED's inside the camera. I have a sneaky suspicion that this was already known, but doesn't make for a very good story. No UFO - just a reflection. You can find other pictures from this camera all over the web, and it's pretty clear it's nothing.

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from thebigone wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

lightning bugs?

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from fliphuntr14 wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

HA! gwblackwell- my thoughts exactly.

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from Va-Bigfoot wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

You have two choices here. Aliens are actually deer and it just emerged from the craft, hell, look at those eyes!

The photo could be showing dew droplets on a section of a spider’s web.

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from ckRich wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

Careful buckhunter, you don't want to let them know that you've figured out their operation!

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from thedraketaker wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

"buy trail camera, bust new military operations" haha its a wonder the afgans aint figured this out yet

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from Judd McCullum wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

They're the wing beats of a moth or other large-winged insect captured by the relatively slow shutter speed of the camera. I have a few shots showing the same thing. It's a lot easier to confirm when the photo isn't a blurry mess.

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from chris_hunt wrote 1 year 38 weeks ago

No ufo's here, but I'm still waiting for a picture of the skunkape on mine.

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