A mysterious set of hovering lights in the back woods of Mississippi has given UFO conspiracists further fuel to flame their theories.

Edith and Rainer Shattles set up infrared cameras in their fields hoping to spot some deer, but when they checked on the footage the next morning they got quite a fright.

Still images from that February night appear to show two beams of light – mysteriously spaced, as if the headlights of a truck or car – before the unidentified object appears to fly off into the night sky.


Mysterious looking headlights were spotted on the Shattles’ infrared camera (Picture: Isaac Wilee/YouTube)

Mrs Shattles explained to WLOX news: ‘Well at first, I was trying to see if it was something or a reason for what we were seeing.



‘But the more we looked at it, the more we realized that it was something that was in the air, it was something that I had never seen before.’

Theories on social media have ranged from a 4×4 vehicle with roof lights, to a government drone, and of course – alien invaders.

Edith Shattles was perplexed by the unidentified lights she and her husband found on their camera (Picture: Isaac Wilee/YouTube)

‘Whosever it is, I wish they’d just stand up and say “yeah that’s ours”,’ said Mr Shattles.

There were apparently no tyre marks in the fields and there is no road nearby and the couple are now determined to solve the mystery.

The images were taken in Cumbest Bluff, a remote area of Jackson County – not far from the infamous Pascagoula Abduction of 1973.