I think I know what it is... (Score 1)

If you double-click the image a few times, it expands, right? Well, I did that a couple of times and I think that I know what it is. I've seen people who said it was a light from a pole, a meteor, an insect; I've seen a whole bunch of things. The insect theory doesn't really hold up when you think about it; how do you explain the flash of light? A trick of the light and/or light from the poles doesn't explain it either; a trick of the light would be more spread out, and none of the other poles are lit up like that, so the only thing that could be happening there is an exploding bulb. I think that the streak is a piece of hair or something, but that it's unrelated to the flash of "light". I think it rather unlikely that the "light" is natural at all. My theory is that the film was damaged or mishandled at some point. It looks like a flaw in the film close up, particularly the "mist" around the light pole. It may have been slightly torn or something. If that were a natural phenomenon, you would have SEEN it; it would've been visible to the naked eye. Yet the photographer saw nothing, and nothing showed up on pictures taken immediately before and after this image. This is why I think that this is the most likely theory.