Photograph Taken of Object to the East at 5:17 PM.

Jamestown is in Eastern North Dakota About 100 Miles East of Bismarck.

Date of Sighting: June 18, 2009
Time of Sighting: 5:07 PM CDT
Location of Sighting: Jamestown, North Dakota (See Map)

Description: During a storm on June 18 I thought that the clouds looked cool so I decided to take a few pictures of them using my large versa phone. This is what I got when taking the pictures. It was there and in a blink of an eye it was gone. I don't have a clue what it was so that is why I am reporting this to your site. Maybe it isn't the only one of it's kind when it comes to unexplained sittings.

Responses to Investigator Questions:

1. Did you see the object?
Response: I saw just a flash of it.

2. What direction was the photo taken?
Response: Straight east.

3. Was the sun visible?
Response: The clouds were extremely thick. It was during a storm so the sun was not visible.

Note: I found no evidence of fabrication of the photo. The light was not the sun given that the photo was taken towards the east, the time was shortly after 5 PM, and skies were overcast with thick storm clouds. The possibility exists that the light could be ball lightning, but the color doesn't look like ball lightning. Ball lightning has more of an orange (flaming) appearance. I don't believe that the light was a reflection or camera anomaly because the witness saw the light. The photo was taken with a LG Versa VX9600 (Verizon Wireless) cell phone camera. The camera has a maximum resolution of 2 mega-pixels.