(September 17, 2014 at 1:31 pm)Tonus Wrote: Just to reiterate, Lacy's report simply states that he is reasonably certain that the photo had not been tampered with, and that the "halo" was simply light. The supernatural is far from the only explanation for the appearance of a blob of light in a photo. Far more likely is that it's just that; a blob of light, which are pretty common in pictures even today. I doubt anyone would see a lens-flare effect in a photo today and think that it was anything but a trick of the light.
Then again, people used to think that rainbows were god's promise not to flood the world.
His conclusion was that there had to be a light there to strike the negative..doesn't get more clear than that.