SGHA Research ~ Photograph analysis ~ Analysis of the photograph taken at the Lodge

A digital image can be treated as a data set to extract information. This is the information that we extracted from a digital photograph taken during a investigation at the Lodge in Cloudcroft. The photograph was shown to the cafe's owner just after the picture was taken before the investigation was concluded.

Infrared Analysis The photo on the left is a computer generated infrared analysis of the photograph. The darker regions would represent cooler sections within the photograph. The amount of thermal emission from the darker areas are dependant on their size, their emission and their temperature. Gauging from the temperatures of the surrounding structures, it is estimated that the darker areas of the "cloud" are 15 to 20 degrees cooler than the surrounding ambient air temperature. It should be noted that the estimate of temperature variance is based solely upon the analysis of the photograph.

A digital image can be treated as a data set to extract information. Each pixel's intensity value is a measure of how much energy was used to generate it within the band of spectrum used to produce the image. The sum of the pixel intensities is a measure of the total energy used to create the whole image.

When a simulated mid IR bandpass filter (Figure 2) is applied to the photograph, the "glow" almost disappears, indicating that it may be within or near that range.

The highest output of energy from the object in the photograph is the lighter "glow" surrounding the darker section in the middle. The Sesmimetric value of the "glow" is estimated at 92. The simulated spectrum analysis (Figure 3) also confirms the estimate of the radiant energy.

Surface Plot Analysis (3-D graphs are thumbnailed)

The surface plots of the photograph clearly shows that the strange object in the photograph is 3 dimensional. The simulated density indicates that the "glow" is similar in composition to a light gas substance or an unusual emission of photons.

Hypothesis

The analysis of the photograph indicates that that the unusual object in the photograph is 3 dimensional and is radiating some sort of energy.

Due to the objects shape and density, there are several hypotheses that one can speculate.

The first is that the unusual object is an artifact of a electromagnetic cascade shower that is about to collapse. The photons of the cascade are in the near IR to mid-IR range. the cascade was initiated near the bottom center of the photo and pushed upwards.

The second hypothesis is that a strong electromagnetic field caused the photons from the camera's flash to bend around the field itself.