She subsequently wrote:Image location: Canada / Arctic Circle / lat: 66 33’ N
Time of image: AM 3.17 date: September 09 / 2016
This images was edited in Photoshop to delete some of the “noise” and enhance the contrast
I was taking pictures of the Aurora Borealis when there was a period of not much happening. When I looked over my shoulder all of a sudden I saw this phenomena appearing what I believed at first to be a planet rising. It then realized that I could see through it. I have inquired but as of yet have not been given a reasonable explanation of what it is that I saw.
I have 40 consecutive time-lapse images at 6 seconds interval, where “this” rises like a planet over the horizon.
And she assured me she saw this with the naked eye.From the moment I noticed the strange round light coming over the distant mountain range until it evaporated, it took maybe 10 minutes.
To me, these look a lot like the "Mystery Flash on Mauna Kea." Is this possibly a similar venting event? Or something else?
Images are 9MB each.