Photographing the full moon above the entry to the Petite Palais in Paris, France in January 2006 for a span of 10-15 minutes, I captured an Unidentified Flying Object that friends tell me is only lens flare!

At the camera shop one photographer concurred, "Lens flare," but another said, "That's not lens flare, that is definitely an object. Maybe an airplane. Maybe a military vehicle."

Can you help?
Do you know of a military vehicle with 3 large glowing red balls under it?
Could lens flare manifest in such a 3-dimensional shape?
Could an airplane move this slowly?

Or should I report this alien spacecraft to the authorities?

View the sequence of pictures taken Friday the 13th January, 2006, and then cast your vote to the right!

This is the first photo of the full moon, no UFO is visible but there is plenty of lens flare. I include this so you can become acquainted with the legitimate lens flare. There was, indeed, lens flare in some of the photos. But something else showed up as well!

For a quick lens flare course, notice the round globes radiating from the light source in this photo and compare to other lens flare photos below.

Other Lens flare examples: 1 2 3 4 5, an article, how to do it on purpose.
(Not one example looks like this object.)

Then I took another photo and THIS thing showed up! The huge amount of lens flare is easy to identify, lens flare doesn't move! But what is this red thing? I was shooting with a tripod and it appears to be moving. Here it is enlarged.

Important: Notice the green triangle in the middle. Precise. Definable.

Other triangular UFO photos I found: 1 2 3
More triangle photos: especially 2005-Louisiana, the picture with three glowing balls

Another normal moon photograph. No lens flare. No UFO, either. I can find nothing unusual in the sky here.

Just to see the difference.

Then I take the same shot, zoom in, increase the light, and... this shows up in the image!

Lens flare below moon is obvious. But these red glowing balls with green horizontal lights above it? I can't find any lens flare that looks like a space ship.

See also this UFO photo enlargement with contrast boosted.

See 2005-May, the 18th picture: 3 glowing balls
A sighting from Belgium 1987 - VERY similar!

I take the same shot again, lowering the light. At first it looked normal. No lens flare. But when I got home upon closer inspection I notice three faint red lights! There is obviously something there. Moving. Flying? Notice in the enlargement how the black sky bleeds through the red. Does lens flare do that?

UFO contrast boosted, enlargement.

Still unaware that I am photographing an uninvited object in my tiny viewfinder, I move to the left side of the Petite Palais entrance to get the moon again from the other side.

And have a look at this!

Isn't lens flare round? And where did the green glow above it go?

"Lens flare is consistent" they told me.

If this was a a 3-D object this is what it might look like tilted back.

Here's an enlargement.