Comments on: Update: Mystery Flying Cryptid

By: Remus

Remus — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:42:59 +0000

I lived in Giford NH for many years. I also rode many of the coal fired steam trains that run for the tourist trade. They leave trails of large, fluffy ASH in their wake…

By: Wesker

Wesker — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:17:48 +0000

To me that looks like a giant bat, but a species like that only lives in india

By: Seraphine

Seraphine — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:08:55 +0000

On first inspection I immediately thought of a hang glider. It certainly doesn’t look like anything alive.

I live in NH, and I was astonished when I saw this was taken in NH because I believe I saw a giant bird once.

I am not certain that it wasn’t due to distance and perception, but as I was driving down 11A in Gilford (near Gunstock Mountain) I caught a shadow from the corner of my eye. It was a clearly bird, and seemed rather large, so I assumed it was flying at a relatively close distance, almost parallel to me.

But then I saw it pass out of view, BEHIND one of the mountains in the distance, and realized it had to have been much farther away than I thought, and thus much, much larger than a normal bird.

By: ilexoak

ilexoak — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:00:47 +0000

Photo was taken from a train? Appears to be a leaf blown off a nearby tree as the train goes by. It’s proximity to the train makes it appear larger.

Wayne

By: ahandzus

ahandzus — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:13:31 +0000

You guys cant tell thats taken through a car window? The glass is broken on the right side of the car (actually probably a truck by the slope) and that is a half moon window chip. The reason is blurred is because its about 2 ft in front of the lense.

Also “whitetailed deer” can have several shades of color and one of them is a redish brown color usually in spring as they shed their winter coat. They can heard up in the Midwest into herds of 50 or more deer and out west “Montana” in heards of 100 or more is very common.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:04:36 +0000

Fruit bat? B2 flying away from the camera? Doesn’t look like the Canadian Geese we have here (Giant subspecies), which nearly outnumber the people.

By: RHIANNON444

RHIANNON444 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:27:35 +0000

it is a BUTTERFLY.

By: simian1

simian1 — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:17:27 +0000

I’ll chime in with:

#1 – it’s a piece of dirt or a booger on the glass window.

#2 – a glider.

#3 – ole bub’s explanation is my fall back position

By: George Wagner

George Wagner — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:36:07 +0000

My very first thought on seeing the image is that it is a piece of origami-style art, folded from a newspaper, and tossed up into the air for the breeze to catch it.

By: agile_eye

agile_eye — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:43:00 +0000

Well, if it “is” something other than a glancing shot of bird-poop on the window, then it kinda looks like a goose or something similar coming in to land.
Possibly doing a vocal call, with its head thrown back slightly like that, in a glide prior to a wing-flapping flare and landing.

Having said that, if it was something on the window, then its possible it shouldnt be showing any of the apparent shading as seen on the close-up crop shown elswhere. With the backlighting of the bright scene behind, wouldn’t it be more of a uniformly dark blob?

Is this a digital photo? The quality kind of reminds me of an early Kodak digital camera I once owned, very similar date format style, that consistently took somewhat blurry images, no matter the setting.

But what do I know, just my two cents…