Tinkerbell Caught on Camera

Phyllis Bacon of the London Borough of Croydon wasn’t even looking into the camera when she shot a photograph of her backyard in 2007. When she saw the picture, she couldn’t figure out what was flying around.
'I think it must be a fairy,' she said yesterday as she made the picture public for the first time.

'No one I've shown the photos to has come up with any plausible explanation as to what the figure is.' The photo reminds some of the Cottingley fairies, photographed in a West Yorkshire garden in 1917.

See the entire picture with the story. Link -via Unique Daily

Previously at Neatorama: The Cottingley Fairies in Five Hoaxes that Fooled the World.

the quality of cameras in general has improved so much in the past few decades and yet we still don't have a single sharp paranormal photo...so strange!
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I think that it is a bug that was flying towards the camera and the flash from the camera reflected off of it making it look like it does. Or mabey it is a Fairy. But probably a bug.
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I'm thinking it's either a bug or perhaps a humming bird. Either way it's blurry and engulfed in the light if the flash, so it could be a fairy for all I know. ;)
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Looks like a flying katydid to me. Of course a fairy is a much more reasonable and sensible explanation. There are so many fairies in museum collections, after all. And flying insects are so uncommon.
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How hard has this person tried? Thrown up on the internet, we immediately get half a dozen people recognising that it's a blurred bug...

I think some people simply so want there to be fairies, they'll do their best to ignore reality. If that's the case, why bother with the photo at all?
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Sorry, it's only a moth. A simple explanation for "the legs" and "the arms" is technical. In automatic flash mode digital cameras trigger a smaller preflash to measure the correct strenght for rapidly following actual flash. During the preflash very fastly moving wings were in a different position and left visible mark against the dark background. Sorry, that I crushed your dreams, but maybe in the next time it's for real.
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"No one I’ve shown the photos to has come up with any plausible explanation as to what the figure is."

This is paranormal-fanatic speak for "No one has come up with any explanation I will accept."
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Clearly just a flying Cockchafer (May bug). I hate those things, they fly up out of the grass as you walk across and don't seem to mind getting entangled in your hair, ugh...
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