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Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. This photo is
dubbed, "the oldest UFO photograph ever taken." the photo was
purchased for $385.00 by Samuel M. Sherman, who was the president of
Independent-International Pictures Corp.
This was originally a "stereo"
photograph. Certainly it was difficult to manipulate photos at that time, and
remember, there were no flying objects then; at least, not from this world.
Thanks to a reader, we now have the original "stereo" photo.
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1920 Wisconsin 1920 on a family farm. |
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1927 -
Oregon. Taken in Cave
Junction, Oregon. There is some question as to whether the photo was taken in
'26 or '27, but nonetheless, if this is an authentic photograph it is
incredible. Reportedly snapped by a volunteer fireman.
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1929
SlideWard - Colorado Ward Sawmill, April - This incident is retold by the
photographers daughter: "This photo was taken by my father Edward Pline
at the sawmill in Ward where we lived at the time. I think it was 1929. I was
about six years old then. My father was there to photograph the sawmill for
some reason or another, and as he was taking the photo, he described a
'terrible thunderous bellow,' and a large round thing as big as a very large
boulder that moved through the air above them. You can see it in the picture.
"None
of the sawmill workers saw the thing in the photo, but they all heard the
sound and felt the ground shudder. Later in my life I tried researching the
incident at the County Historical Society, but I did not find any references
to it. My father passed on a few years after the incident, and I have not
found any
surviving
sawmill workers from that time." Hetty Pline
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1932
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St. Paris, Ohio. This picture was taken of a man named George Sutton near
midday, May, 1932. We can see that it was in 1932 from the license plate on
the automobile in the photo that accompanied this shot.
The
unidentified flying object in the picture could not have been a street lamp,
simply because there were no street lamps at the time. There are no power
poles or power lines visible anywhere in this picture. This picture shows a
vintage automobile.
The
owner of the photo album says there were no electric street lights along this
road in those days. Nobody has been able to account for the dark object seen
over Sutton's left shoulder in this photograph.
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1937 -
Leonard
Lamoureux, age 21 was on leave from the Army when he visited Vancouver City
Hall to view and photograph the Christmas light display. Along with him was
his brother Wilfred.
The
two were suddenly astounded to see a "bright bright blue light"
drop straight down from the sky. It became larger as it did so and they were
able to observe the source of the light as an object that Leonard described
as "two saucers" open ends facing each other, glowing bright blue.
The object then moved "dead straight" horizontally across the sky.
When it just appeared to clear the flagpole on the roof of the City Hall it
came to an almost dead stop and Leonard clicked the shutter on the camera.
The object then shot straight back up into the sky. "They never seen
anything fly so fast!" This scared them to death and they ran from the
scene. The object made no sound.Leonard's daughter, Debra
DeCamillis who still lives in the Vancouver Lower Mainland area related this
account to us. She remarked how vivid and excited her father sounded each
time he described the sighting. Leonard Lamoureux passed away in 1992 and his
brother Wilfred in 1955. Misfortune has it that the negative is no longer
around as some UFO researchers have suggested that this image is nothing but
a watermark defect that appeared during the development of the print. Debra
has this to add regarding this assertion: "I know for fact there was no
bubbles on the film, or watermarks because I was facinated by negatives as a
child and saw that negative many many times. On the rest of the pictures
there was nothing but pictures of lights, so I know it had no bubbles or
watermarks on it."
Deborah
provided the following additional details: "The camera was on a tri-pod
of sorts because Dad was trying to take sequential shots of the courthouse to
capture all the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure, his camera was
not sophisticated enough. He did say that he could actually see the bubble or
tail as he called it that the object was encapsulated in."
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1939 organ cave, January 1, west virgina. Family photo |
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1942 -
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots
in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen
in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theater of Operations.
Though "foo fighter" initially described a type of
UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was
also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period. Formally reported
from November 1944 onwards, witnesses often assumed that the foo fighters
were secret weapons employed by the enemy, but they remained unidentified
post-war and were reported by both Allied and Axis forces. Michael D. Swordswrites,
"During WWII, the foo fighter experiences of [Allied]
pilots were taken very seriously. Accounts of these cases were presented to
heavyweight scientists, such as David Griggs, Luis Alvarez and H.P.
Robertson. The phenomenon was never explained. Most of the information about
the issue has never been released by military intelligence."
1942
- Los Angeles, California. Only a few months after the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, on the 25th of February 1942 at 02:25 AM, alarm sirens
installed in the event of another invasion began.
Unknown
flying objects are seen and announced in the sky of the city. A blackout is
declared and the anxious, terrified inhabitants follow the instructions by
turning all their lights off.
This
large object was hit by many AAA projectiles, according to the reports. The
anti-aircraft defence continued to shoot at UFOs without results.
This
is one of the most famous UFO photographs ever taken.
1942 - Washington D. C. October
29. This was taken above Washington, D.C. An object at the very right of the
frame was initially thought to represent a high-wing monoplane flying down
and right from the upper left-hand corner.
It appears to be too fast for
the shutter, its configuration is more disk-like and it is followed by an
exceptionally long dark streak (this extends back and upwards to the top of
the frame) that is normally associated with jet aircraft.
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1943 Japanese fighter jet and ufo what may be foo fighters of Wolrd war ll |
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1944
England - This UFO was
photographed over England in 1944. Source: "The X Factor" magazine
issue 53 (Marshall Cavendish publications).
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1945 Photo of Jack LeMonde on horseback, 1945... and a strange 'visitor' in the distance LeMonde was in full military uniform, having served in the South Pacific with the US Marine Corps. But something strange appeared in the photo, once developed. Dismissed at first as a defect, closer examination revealed rather detailed structure. The second thought was that perhaps the peculiar object floating in the sky behind |
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1947
Morristown, New Jersey. On the morning of July 10, 1947, John H. Janssen,
editor of the Daily Record (an American aviation journal) was flying his own
plane from Morristown Airport in New Jersey.
He
spotted six, luminous spherical craft with hazy rings around them flying in a
trail high in the sky above him.He grabbed his camera and shot a picture.He
was only able to get four of the six objects in the image frame.
Two
weeks later, on July 23rd, he had another encounter of what looked to him
like the same or very similar aircraft. He was again flying his airplane out
of Morristown, and was at 6,000 ft.
1947 -
July 7 - William Rhodes of Phoenix, Arizona allegedly saw a disk circling his
locality during sunset and took two photographs. The resulting pictures show
a disk-like object with a round front and a square tail in plane form.
These
photographs have been examined by experts who state they are true
photographic images and do not appear to be an imperfection in the emulsion
or in the lens.
1947 -
July 4 - U.S. Coast Guardsman, Frank Ryman, of Seattle, Washington, took this
photograph of a flying disc taken on July 4, 1947, three days before the
infamous Rhodes photographs.
The
Rhodes' photos were actually printed in the local paper upside down!
Allegedly, one of, if not the first, photograph of a "flying disc."
1947 -
Scotland. An alleged UFO picture taken in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland in
1947. It is important to see the original picture on this one to get the full
effect.
This,
to me, is a very good picture of an object that is not identifiable by
comparision to any known aircraft today. It is obviously a metallic, two
layered object which has never been explained away. A true UFO!
1947 -
Czaplinek, Poland. This alleged UFO picture was shot at Czaplinek in 1947.
The picture was taken at an angle looking up over a mountain, and the larger
picture makes a much more believable image, giving the object dimension, and
scale.
Early
photographs like this are very important, coming at a time when photo
manipulation was very difficult compared to present time.
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1949
1949- -Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Jitney Carnival at the St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Cincinnati, Ohio, Reverend Gregory Miller, purchased from army surplus, an 8 million candle power searchlight. Sergeant
Donald R. Berger of ROTC of the University of Cincinnati would operate it.
During the height of the festivities, at 08:15 PM, Sgt. Berger's sweeping
searchlight suddenly flashed across a stationary, circular object in the sky.
Reverend
Miller and later others joined in and observed. This was only the beginning.
Davidson took ten "still" photographs of the large disc-shaped
object that flew in and out of the searchlight beam.
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1950
Redbud, Illinois. April 23.
Evidently
this photo was purportedly taken by a Mr. Dean Morgan who was a part-time
photographer who was simply in the area taking photographs at the time of
this event.
Evidently
he didn't live in Redbud, but Greenville, where he still presently resides at
1520 Willow St.
1950 -
May 8 - This is one of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken. Photographed
by Paul Trent, and first witnessed by his wife.
They
were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon, shortly
thereafter. Soon, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of
June 26, 1950. The rest is history. These photos have been deemed authentic
for over 50 years. One of the best early photographs of a UFO.
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1951
1951 - California - Guy B. Marquand, Jr. took this picture on a mountain road near Riverside, California, on November 23, 1951. He said the object above the skyline was a "flying saucer." He
is now 84 and lives at 4010 Royal Dr. Carlsbad, CA, with his wife. Evidently
some of his family still reside in Riverside.
1951 -
Lubbock, Texas - The famous photographs from the "Lubbock lights"
in Texas, 31 August 1951. Years later, ignoring all testimonies and
evidences, skeptics stated that these objects were... birds.
This
most ridiculous explanation was typical of how early UFO photos were often
explained away. Carl Hart Jr. an 18-year-old student took this famous picture
with his Kodak camera.
There
were at least 100 witnesses who saw the objects. This is one of the classics
of Ufology.
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1952
1952
- Barra da Tijuca, Brazil, May 7 - While covering a news event for O'Cruzeiro
Magazine, reporters Ed Kessel and Joao Martins saw an unusual flying object
approaching their location.
Kessel
snapped five black and white pictures of the object as it came right over
them. The Brazilian Air Force would later find as many as 40 witnesses who
saw the object.
1952 -
Washington D. C. During the dawn of Ufology in the United States,
unidentified flying objects made themselves known to the leaders of the free
world in 1952, buzzing over the White House, the Capitol building, and the
Pentagon.
Seemingly
the unknown objects were defying the very governmental agencies sworn to
protect the United States from foreign powers.
Washington
National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base picked up a number of UFOs on
their radar screens on July 19, 1952, beginning a wave of sightings still
unexplained to this day.
1952
-Lac Chauvet, France, July 18. A collection of pictures that have been filed
and studied by the French GEPAN, then SEPRA state financed investigation
committee, and considered genuine.
The
photograph was taken by André Fregnale. The image underwent an investigation
by Claude Poher, director of the GEPAN, and he deemed that the photograph was
not a fraud, but a genuine UFO. A very good picture.
1952 - Salem, Massachusetts.
July 16, 1952. During the peak of the 1952 UFO Flap, Shel Alpert, a USCG
seaman on duty in the Coast Guard Weather Office at the Salem Coast Guard
Station, saw four brilliant lights in the sky.
He called another Guardsman to
see the lights, but in those few seconds the lights had become more dim. When
they brightened again, he quickly took a single photograph through the window
of the office.
This photo has been published in
many books, newspapers and magazines. An excellent piece of evidence.
1952 - Passaic, New Jersey.
George Stock was working in his yard on July 28, 1952, when this dome-shaped
saucer appeared.
Because it hovered over
transmission lines before heading for him, he was able to get five photos.
Only one is included here, but all of them are similar. A great early photo!
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1953
1953
- Moumra, Italy. I have almost no info on this photograph. Reportedly taken
in Moumra, Italy, on December 1, 1953, the picture is barely usable.
I
enhanced it to get some of the graininess removed. A group of people seem to
be fixed on the odd formation of unknown objects.
1953 -
Paris, France, Eiffel Tower. Double discs are seen passing over Eiffel Tower
at 3:45 AM, in 1953 as M. Paulin took this picture.
The
photograph is from the Michael Mann collection and was published in TRUE
Magazine at the time.
A very
interesting photograph, and not a bad one considering the time period, and
the distance from camera to object. Look at the original image to see the two
objects over the Tower.
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1954
1954
- Australia. This very compelling photograph of a clearly defined round UFO
with top and antenna was taken by sheep farmer W. C. Hall in 1954. If you
look real closely, you might see another unknown object in the distance just
above a mountain.
An
excellent photo, and for a newspaper clipping, it is in excellent condition.
Here
is additional information provided by a reader:
August,
1954 - Australian Sheep Grower W. C. Hall saw six petrol tank-shaped UFOs
land on his ranch in North Queensland, Australia.
His
chickens, cattle and even the jack rabbits on his farm were affected by an
oddly colored exhaust fumes of the UFOs, which he believed brought about a
change in the genes of animal life on his ranch, due to Atomic Radiation, as
various freaks were born afterwards.
1954 -
Sicily, Italy, December 10. Four men are staring upward at two very odd
shapes in the sky.
The
photographer was questioned about his photograph, and he claimed that the
objects were actually in the sky, as opposed to a film or camera anomaly, and
that the objects simply stood still for several minutes.
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1955
1955
- Namur, Belgium - (1) Three photographs were taken on June 5, 1955, at about
07:30 PM, near Namur. The witness indicated that he had visually seen a sharp
gleam moving high in the sky without any noise and at high speed.
He
indicated that the gleam accompanied an object of discoidal shape leaving a
white trail behind it.
1955 - Namur,
Belgium - (2) The second photograph taken on June 5, 1955 in Namur. The
witness continued by indicating that the object lost altitude, made a turn,
and then went upwards to reach its own trail.
An
excellent photo.
1955 -
Namur, Belgium - (3) The third photograph taken on June 5, 1955 in Namur. The
witness continues by explaining that when the object joined its trail, the
trail was disspating, the UFO then accelerated and left, while luminous
particles were ejected behind it.
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1956
1956
- Rosetta/Natal, South Africa. July 17. These two photographs from South
Africa were taken by alleged contactee Elizabeth Klarer. She claimed that she
was impregnated by a tall, white-haired alien who piloted a UFO in one of her
many contacts.
Almost unbelievably, MUFON
representative Cynthia Hind who was Africa's most respected Ufologist, found
several eyewitnesses to her contact cases.
1956 - Canada - A Royal Canadian
Air Force pilot, while flying at an altitude of about 11 km saw and
photographed a very bright, disc-like object that was remaining stationary
near a thunderhead.
An analysis of the photograph
suggests that it would have been radiating in excess of a gigawatt of power
within the spectral range of the film.
He was flying at 36,000 ft
(about 11 m) in the second position (far left side) of a formation of four
F-86 Sabre jet aircraft.
While approaching a large
thunderhead (cumulonimbus) at a ground speed of about 400 kts (740 km/hr) he
saw, at a much lower altitude, a "bright light which was sharply defined
and disc-shaped" or "like a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal."
Photograph © Childerhose -
source-excerpted from article by Dr. Bruce Maccabee
1956 - Summer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This clearly defined round disc was photographed by one A. Stizak. The photo was taken on a clear day. If you look closely, you can see three white dots underneath.
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1957
1957 - Lake Isabella, California -
Deemed authentic by Kodak Labs. This photograph was taken by one B.C. He and
his fiancee were riding their Harley Davidson through the southern Sierra
Nevadas, in what is now Lake Isabella, California.
They found an old dirt road that led
down to the dry lake bed and they pulled off the main highway to take some
random scenic shots. Neither of them saw anything out of the ordinary at the
time.
1957 - August, 20 - Fujisawa
City, Japan. Taken by Shinichi Takeda near Enoshima Miami Beach at 11:28 AM.
The object reportedly was also seen by his sister, who called his attention
to it.
UFO is silvery in color, giving
off a brilliant glow at an estimated altitude of 3000-4000 feet, traveling N
to S.
The object made a 90 degree left
turn, sped up, and disappeared in clouds.
A few minutes later, 15 people
on the beach reported a similar object which passed over at high speed. No
camera data available.
1957 - Edwards Air Force Base,
California. Taken by a test pilot in September of 1957.
The UFO is following a B-57 twin
jet. The UFO was not discovered until the photograph was developed. An
excellent photo for that time period.
1957 - Fort Belvoir, Virginia -
Taken in September. This photo was investigated by the Condon Report. A
private was called from his barracks by his friends to see the unusual
object.
He grabbed his camera and took
six pictures of the strange ring-shaped object. Soon, the object was engulfed
in white smoke.
1957 - Norway - Taken in July of
1957, this photo was sent to Project Blue Book for analysis. Wright Patterson
determined that what we are seeing is a reflection of light on the camera
lens.
That is easy enough to say, I
suppose, but I am not sure that is the case here. Be sure to see full size
image. Credit "UFOs at Close Sight."
1957 - Rouen, France, 1957.
Flying to intercept a mysterious radar reflection, an unknown French Air
Force pilot photographed this craft in March 1957 over Rouen with his
gun-sight camera.
The UFO paced the plane for
several minutes before speeding off past the maximum velocity of the French
airplane.
This UFO appears to be of the
same type that appeared in McMinnville, Oregon, over the farm of Mr. Paul
Trent. It was first published in the Royal Air Force Flying Review in July,
1957, and also in Flying Saucer Review in July, 1957.
1957-1958 - Edwards AFB. This
photo is said to come from an "instructive-film" of a UFO landing
at Edwards AFB.
The film is said to have been
"leaked."
This film has been referred to
by more than one person, including the late astronaut Gordon Cooper, who
claims to have seen the entire event. He says that the film did exist, but we
cannot be certain that this is from that film
1957 - Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Taken on October 16. This photo was taken by Ella Louise Fortune, a nurse at the Mescalero Indian Reservation near Three Rivers, N. M.She took the picture while driving Highway 54 about 1:30 PM. She stated that the UFO was motionless over Holloman AFB.
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1958
1958
- January 16 - The Trinidade Island Photographs. Trindade is a small rocky
island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean 600 miles off the coast of
Bahia, Brazil.
Professional
photographer Almiro Barauna would take a sequence of pictures of this UFO off
of a Naval vessel. More than 50 witnesses saw the UFO, including the ship's
Captain. Some of the best know early photos of a UFO.
1958 -
Japan - One of the many UFO photographs taken in Japan. This one shows an
object over Kaizuka in 1958.
No
other information is presently available.
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1959
1959
- Waikiki, Hawaii, June 18. This photograph was one studied by Project Blue
Book. Photo taken by Joseph Sigel of Bellevue, Washington.
Blue
Book stupidly identified it as a sun glare on lens. The photo was studied at
the UFO symposium for the Congressiona Hearings of 1968 by Dr. Robert N.
Sheppard.
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