A trail camera stationed in a remote part of Chile inexplicably photographed mysterious lights that have left scientists scratching their heads. According to a local media report, the intriguing images (featured in the video below and isolated below) were captured by a device placed by researchers conducting an ecological survey for the University of Magellan's Environmental Studies Group. While going over their data from the project, the scientists were confounded by three pictures the trail camera snapped back in January.

Explaining that the camera was placed at the edge of a valley "quite far from any public road," biologist Alejandro Kush Schwarzenberg marveled that "we cannot explain" the origin of the anomalous illuminations picked up by the device. To that end, the University of Magellan team has eliminated prosaic possibilities for the enigmatic lights, such as a vehicle or an animal, and is now pondering more fantastic possibilities. One idea, put forward by Chilean ufologist Freddy Alexis Silva, is that the illuminations may be some kind of plasma that mysteriously manifested in front of the camera.

Meanwhile, Environmental Study Group member Rodrigo Bravo Garrido noted that the unexplained phenomena being detected during a scientific study and recognized by academics at the university make the case "something very unprecedented." To that end, he posited that such circumstances call for a serious examination of what the camera detected. "These phenomena that happened or fortuitously managed to be captured," he mused, "must be investigated in greater depth." What do you think the camera trap photographed in remote Chile? Share your best guess with us at the C2C Facebook page.