A deer caught in the alien headlights look

This photo is making its way around the internet and into an inbox near you.. It’s from February .. 

The image you see if of a deer with strange lights hovering behind it.. it is from by Rainer and Edith Shattles at their Jackson County, Mississippi home..There is also video .. the video has gone viral after WLOX did a profile on the couple’s trail cams.. And it’s a series of them, over an hour of time in which the deer were lit up by bright lights ..

Very creepy stuff.. a deer in the headlights.. But the headlights not from a car.. but maybe a galaxy far far away?

The photographs are pretty creepy--and at this point the best that can be said is that they are unexplained. Maybe something very normal will be found.. maybe a helicopter. 

Or maybe an alien was just trying to spot some cattle and saw the deer instead--I never heard of mangled deer mutilations, only cows.. or did I miss something?

I did receive an email from a reader about this story.. I was aware of it for a few days, but didn't post anything fearing that some hoax would be revealed immediately after the Shattles went public. So far, though, nadda. No one has been able to say that what is seen is fake--and the Shattles seem pretty reliable in their explications of the events (though we know people can always be deceptive) .. the reader who sent me this also said, 

My co workers and I were had a discussion a few months ago about finding trail cameras. Snatching the SD card and photoshopping some of the images and putting the card back. Very easy to freak someone out. I hope they looked at the meta data of those files. They might find a surprise.

Good point. And maybe this is what happened here--this could be the most rational and pointed explanation.