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Image of a Cross
Shining Through an American Flag-Truth!
Summary of the eRumor A picture of a large
American flag with what appears to be a cross shining through it
from the sun in the background on the anniversary of the September
11 attacks.
The Truth
We've had some readers ask if this is
a doctored photo.
The locals in Yuma, Arizona say it's authentic.
The flag is said to have been hung between two cranes in the parking
lot of Fry's grocery store in Yuma on September 2, 2001, the day
after the Attack on America. According to the folks at the Yuma Elks
Lodge the flag is 60 feet tall and 120 feet wide. The picture was
taken by Janna Noe who snapped the photo with her digital camera and
noticed the cross when she later looked at the pictures.
When light shines through translucent fabric, there is frequently a
distribution of the light along the pattern of the weave of the
fabric. This particular picture appears to have been taken
when the sun was toward the upper portion of the blue section of the
flag so the upper portion of the vertical line is shorter than the
lower portion, resulting in a traditional looking cross. If
the sun had been in the middle of the blue portion of the flag, the
lines would have been more equal in each direction.
A real example of the eRumor as it has
appeared on the Internet:
"Someone was asking me about the beautiful
sunsets here in the desert, and I agreed that they were extraordinary,
BUT! On September 11, this week, a grocery called FRY's had this big
flag up in their parking lot in honor of the fireman and others here and
as the sun was going down, look at what appeared in the shadow of the
stars.... it seems, dear friends, that we are truly, "one nation
under God," whether
they want to belive it or not!"
