Posted by: Alejandro Rojas August
28, 2014 0 2,532 Views
A man in Turkey believes he may have taken a photo of
a UFO near Van Lake, home of the Van Lake Monster.
Gaziantep
News reports they received an email from Ahmet
Baygümüş with a UFO photo attached. Baygümüş says on August 24 at around 7 pm
he was taking pictures of the landscape and the sunset with his phone. He did
not see anything unusual. However, when he reviewed the pictures later he saw a
strange light in the image.
Baygümüş says he returned to the
location the next day at the same time, but did not see anything unusual.
Baygümüş sent the image to Gaziantep
News hoping they could offer an explanation as to what he might have
seen. Gaziantep News suggested it appears to be some sort of
light beam, and listed Baygümüş’ contact information for people to share with
him their thoughts.
UFO photo from Van Lake area. (Credit: Ahmet
Baygümüş/GaziantepHaberler.com)
Given that Baygümüş did not see
the light when he took the picture, it is possible that the light is due to
some sort of reflection or flare happening in the phone, and the orb of light
was not actually there.
Gaziantep News also
noted that Van Lake is home to another paranormal mystery, the Van Lake
Monster. Rumors of a strange creature living in Van Lake are said to have begun
in 1995. Some researchers say there was a story in the local newspapers in 1889
of a man who was reportedly carried away by a creature that came out of the
lake. Supposedly, Turkish officials were sent to the area, but did not find the
monster.
In 1997, a 26 year-old man by the
name of Unal Kozak claimed to have captured several videos of the Van Lake
Monster. A CNN story
on the video said that images were sent to Cambridge University to be examined,
and that even Jacques Cousteau was planning a trip to the lake to investigate.
However, neither Cambridge University nor Jacques Cousteau have presented any
analysis.
Kozak’s video is still under
debate, and locals are split over the existence of the Van Lake Monster.
Although, everyone has fun with the legend. The town of Van has a statue
depicting the monster.
Van Lake Monster statue in the town of Van, Turkey.
(Credit: http://roberthood.net)
Did Kozak capture a genuine lake monster in his videos? Did Baygümüş capture an image with a light flare or something more mysterious? Do mysterious orbs of light have anything to do with lake monsters? So many mysteries, so few answers. Let us know what you think.
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ALEJANDRO ROJAS
Alejandro Rojas is a radio host
for Open Minds Radio, editor and contributing writer for Open Minds magazine as
well as OpenMinds.tv. For several years Alejandro was the official spokesperson
for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As a
UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the
field investigating phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been
interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest
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