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Caseros Sun photograph

Argentina2009-08-12

Provincial Route 39 near Caseros, Entre Ríos, Argentina

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Case description

Official source account — 2016 annual report, printed page 19: A motorist's cellphone photograph taken near Caseros on Provincial Route 39 on 12 August 2009 showed a dark mark in front of the Sun. CEFAE interpreted it as the CMOS sensor saturation effect known as the black Sun. The witness said other people photographed the same direction without recording the anomaly. The agency cited this difference between cameras as support for an image-sensor effect rather than an external object. The summaries distinguish reported observations from the agency’s proposed explanations. Source Type A/B ratings describe explanatory confidence and are not encounter classes.

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Source locality; coordinates unestablished
Date precision
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