Earlier this week I came across
this intriguing picture from the latest installment of InFocus'
Animals in the News. The image is a long exposure of seagulls flying in the sky over Rome on May 2, 2013 (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images), and it immediately reminded me of your clips above.
Why bring this up after all this time, apart from the overall image impact? Well, we already agreed that the mystery object must have been a (rather small) winged animal, and—if nothing else—some similarity in flight path and -shape seen in this picture appears to confirm that. It also shows what a long exposure does to a flying bird, and we can compare the resulting image with that of our mystery object. Does it help in identifying that object, for instance to determine whether it was scuttlefish-like winged versus more 'regularly' winged, or how-many-winged if the latter etc.?
But most importantly, did you ever find out exactly what it was by direct observation?
