"I recently saw my report and pictures of your site here: Lake O' The Pines, Texas Object Changes Shape and noticed your caption: 'FarShores wonders if this could have been a weather balloon, given the translucent nature of the ufo and its shape changing, as recorded in some of these pictures.'
"I've been actively searching for UFOs barely over a year since I first learned they were real (long story), but I go to the lake probably an average of 5 times per week and have caught some really amazing stuff a few times. That being said, though, I can't sit here and tell you that was positively an alien craft, a human craft, or something other than balloons. What I saw through my 10-30 power binoculars adjusted to 30X did not show anything different from what the pictures showed. The object appeared much brighter than white jets I've photographed that seem to be even closer than the object was at the same time of day, which leads me to believe it is self-illuminating, however, there are some portions of the object which don't look so bright in some of the pictures which could mean that either the object wasn't illuminating 100% of its structure, or possibly the brightness was reflection from the sun and some of the surfaces weren't at angles to reflect the sunlight.
"Actually, this one still stumps me and is very frustrating. It would've been much easier if it would've been a saucer or triangle (both of which I've photographed) instead of the elusive "cluster UFO" that some have called such things. A weather balloon...I don't believe so as it doesn't look like one and we are several miles away from any place that would launch them (theoretically it would've been much higher in altitude had it come several miles without much wind that day). A cluster of helium-filled party or advertisement balloons...it's possible, but I honestly don't know.
"As stated in the report, I have my camera attached to my binoculars and I evidently didn't have the two aligned properly, so the object is in the lower middle part of the picture rather than the center. The red and green tints above and below the object are not actually from the object, but a product of the camera lens since it's close to the edge (purple fringing, chromatic aberration, etc.)."
FarShores respects our correspondent's request of anonymity and very much appreciates his time and efforts in responding so well to our comment and elaborating further upon his sighting. He concludes in his email: "if you do figure it out with a certainty, please let me know because I'm still scratching my head about it. ;)"
