An Extraordinary Photograph in A Dutch Home

May 11, 2004  Hoeven, Holland - In the early morning of Thursday, May 6, 2004, 24-year-old Robbert van den Broeke - living at his parents' home in Hoeven, Holland - felt "a very strong mind around me" and the urge to get his Olympus digital camera and wait in front of a living room chair to photograph whatever appeared. He did not put the camera on a tripod. First, Robbert saw a faint mist which he photographed. The mist became denser and over the next 42 minutes, he took four more photographs. By the fifth photograph shown above, the mist had formed into the "alien" figure "sitting" in the living room chair in front of a framed photograph of the 2-year-son of Robbert's oldest sister, Saskya, twenty-seven.