Further on the halo phenomenon yesterday, there’s a video of it posted on youtube which purportedly shows a white blob moving around the sun.

Perhaps this is just a a joke, but isn’t that so obvious?! The white blob moves in perfect sync with the camera. If it’s a real UFO, the camera should be struggling to trail the white blob.

However, when this was reported on in Daily Express 12th October 2007 by special writer Kan Yaw Chong, it gets rather more serious:

“What was even more captivating about the phenomena and which could not be seen by the naked eye was captured by Sabah Publishing House Managing Director Datuk Clement Yeh on his Nokia E61i at around that time in Tanjung Aru.

Clement did not want to hurt his eyes and started clicking away the halo on his handphone camera placed on his outstretched palm. As it turned out, he not only captured the halo on camera but also a mysterious white speck.

“It was only on reviewing the images later that I noticed this white speck or dot. Even then, I did not think much of it as it could easily be a speck of dust on the camera lens.

“I then decided to zoom in on the speck and noticed that it was not stationary but seemed to have been in motion in a linear fashion suggesting that whatever it is, it had obviously been moving at high speed.”

A professional photographer, he does not think it is a reflection on his phone lens since it was not stationary.

At this point in time, nobody is able to explain what it is but we provide these images that Clement took for the public to decide or even speculate.”

I was mystified too when I first read it this morning, but after seeing this video footage - I think the following are made very clear already:

- the SPH MD could not make a conclusion because he only saw static pics: he did not take videos

- I was surprised that as a “professional photographer”, the SPD MD seemed not to realise that even though he does not think “the white object is a reflection on his phone lens since it was not stationary,” his hand must have been in various configurations / positions as he took the photos, hence the various locations of the white speck.

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