What is this?

[Root Cause]

My trail cam takes a picture at 3 pm just to verify it is working. Here is today's pic.

Beginning at 6:31 this afternoon this popped up. It happened about 3 more times. Does anyone know what this is?

I looks like a dome or air blast. I am stumped and hoping someone will say, " oh, it just......."

 

[bcp]

Spider web or insect.

Bruce

 

[Jstpssng]

It looks like something on your lense... a spider web or something similar.

 

[Topzide]

Sun glare

 

[stuckmotor]

It looks like a long tube several feet across, standing at an angle. Since it can't be that, I'm going with an optical illusion.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Sun glare

Agree, just sun glare from an angle

 

[stuckmotor]

OR
it could be the Vangard of an invading army from the planet Mars.

 

[Root Cause]

It appears to stop behind the lower tree line in various pics but it may be a coincidence.
I think the spider web is a good guess but I like the idea of a dome.

 

[JasperFrank]

The very moment you entered a different time line.....

 

[grsthegreat]

Sun glare

I agree…sun glare

 

[scaredychicken]

sun glare gets my vote also

 

[MossRoad]

ophthalmic migraine

 

[ljjhouser]

I will also go with sun glare - light refraction. Maybe where a spot of water dried. Looks like the sun is from that side. Nice pictures for a trail cam.

 

[rswyan]

Lens flare - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Ken45101]

Let me guess, the sun is off to the left? It's internal reflections in the lens, aka sunglare.

 

[dstig1]

Ooo! ooo ! Sun glare! What do I win? (awww shoot - I wasn't the first!)

 

[redman135]

Most likely sun reached the exact angle to show in your photo, wait several more days and as the sun moves the glare should also stop as the sun angle will be wrong.

 

[Wagtail]

Has anyone mentioned that it's "sun glare"?

 

[tacticalturnip]

Looks to be the literal end of the world; then again, that's just my interpretation.

 

[flyerdan]

If you can, take a series a couple minutes apart at the same time tomorrow. It should change position with the sun; if it doesn't it's probably a portal with the other end at Skinwalker Ranch.