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Originally posted by Funk bunyip
It looks like a blue plastic disposable shopping bag blowing in the wind. You can see a hand strap on the right side and a concave area on the left side caused by wind..
Perhaps a good line of investigation would be to go to the local shops and see what sort of shopping bags they use, ie colour/translucency/size of hand straps.
I don't believe it is an attempted hoax, just genuine mistaken identity.
Originally posted by aLLeKs
from my feeling it does not seem thaaat far aways... I would say it is one of this helium filled baloons you can get a a fair... and, maybe it is only me, for me the shape looks like the head of a panda slightly tilted back
silver black panda head shaped helium filled baloon in the sunlight that's it...
btw. I say panda because my imagination shows me black panda eyesedit on 30-9-2012 by aLLeKs because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by micpsi
Originally posted by Funk bunyip
It looks like a blue plastic disposable shopping bag blowing in the wind. You can see a hand strap on the right side and a concave area on the left side caused by wind..
Perhaps a good line of investigation would be to go to the local shops and see what sort of shopping bags they use, ie colour/translucency/size of hand straps.
I don't believe it is an attempted hoax, just genuine mistaken identity.
As the photo shows the photographer was not peering through a viewfinder but looking in the direction of the alleged object, she would surely have noticed a shopping bag being blown by the wind - it was certainly large enough to be clearly visible, even if only for a few seconds. Instead, she only noticed the image when looking at the photos she had taken one and a half hours earlier. This discredits your theory.
Originally posted by wigit
reply to post by Legos
Are you thinking a chink of glass missing from the side window?
Originally posted by TheLonewolf
Very impressive write-up. Not so impressive of a picture of what appears to be a blue plastic shopping bag..All this "she didn't see it while taking the picture" can be easily explained as well. People Lie, plain and simple. Sad ,but very true fact.
Originally posted by redoubt
Unless the sideview is set to act as a vanity mirror for the driver, there's no logical reason why the photographer would appear in it unless he/she was standing outside the vehicle, near the rear, where it should be reflecting... which they are NOT.
My guess is that the entire scene is staged.