France 1952

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.

DC 1952

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.

Brazil 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.

Texas 1951

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.

California 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."

One of our readers has sent us the following information:

Guy Marquand enlisted in the US Army in LA California on 27/12/1943 Serial # 3921741.

He was single and had 4 years of High School and came from Riverside.

He is now 84 and lives at 4010 Royal Dr. Carlsbad, CA, with his wife. Evidently some of his family still reside in Riverside.

Oregon 1950

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.

Illinois 1950

1950 - Redbud, Illinois. April 23. Thanks to one of our readers who uses Medifast Coupons, we have the following information:

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.