Belgium 1955

1955 - Namur, Belgium - 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.

Italy 1954

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.

Australia 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.

An update on the W.C. Hall case.

This has always had me a bit perplexed because of the location i.e. North Queensland.

The thing is in Australia that is not sheep country.

After a fair bit of investigation I have found out that this photo was actually taken in Victoria and first published in a magazine owned by Time.

France 1953

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.

Italy 1953

1953 - Moumra, Italy. Italian specialist Giuseppe Stilo explained that this alleged photo case was first known when the Italian weekly L’Europeo released on February 3, 1957, an interview with diplomat Alberto Perego, who had a nonphotographic UFO sighting in the Vatican City.

In order to better describe his visual observation he provided photomontages to this end (the magazine made it clear that that’s what they were).

This started a widely-reproduced mistake.

There were previous sighting by Perego over Santa Maria Maggiore’s church (Rome) on October 30, 1954 and these were also published in the same way.

New Jersey 1952

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!

Massachusetts 1952

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.

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.

Ohio 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.

Poland 1947

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.

Scotland 1947

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!

Washington 1947

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."

Arizona 1947

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.

Often called the "Roswell UFO."

New Jersey 1947

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.

England 1944

1944 - England - This UFO was photographed over England in 1944.

DC 1942

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.

California 1942

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.

At 03:16 AM, anti-aircraft guns open fire on the unidentified flying objects coming from the ocean, and projector beams are searching the sky.

Witnesses observe small objects flying at high altitude, of red or silver-plated color, moving in formation at high speed, and untouched by the AAA salvos.

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.

Ohio 1932

1932 - 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.

Colorado 1929

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."

Oregon 1927

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.

New Hampshire 1870

1870 - Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. This photo is dubbed, "the oldest UFO photograph ever taken." This item was the subject of bidding at Ebay in 2002, when finally 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.

Flying Saucer Investigator Ron Johnson Dies Mysteriously During Public Slide Show Presentation Despite Recent Clean Bill Of Heath From Medical Professionals

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Ron Johnson

 

An equally disturbing and more recent death is that of Ron (Jerrold) Johnson at the time MUFON Deputy Director of Investigations. Johnson was 43 years old and, it would seem, in excellent health.

 

He had just passed a recent physical examination with the proverbial flying colors. However, on June 9, 1994, while attending a Society of Scientific Exploration meeting in Austin, Texas, Johnson died quickly and amid very strange circumstances.

 

During a slide show several people sitting close to him heard a gasp. When the lights were turned back on, Johnson was slumped over in his chair, his face purple, blood oozing from his nose. A soda can, from which he had been sipping, was sitting on the chair next to him.

 

Did Ron Johnson die of a stroke? Possibly. An allergic reaction? Another possibility. Some of the more outstanding facts of Ron Johnson's life might easily lead a more skeptical-minded person to a tentative conclusion that his death was probably neither accidental nor natural.

 

For instance, his most recent job was with the Institute of Advanced Studies, purportedly working on UFO propulsion systems. 

 

He had been formerly employed by Earth Tech, Incorporated, a private Austin, Texas think tank headed by Harold Puthoff.

 

It would appear he held high security clearances, traveled frequently between San Antonio and White Sands, and had attended 2 secret NATO meetings in the last year or so.

 

One of those meetings, it is rumored dealt with extraterrestrial communications. 

 

Although advanced in years, there are some who believe that Dr. Allen Hynek's death was because of "strange circumstances," due to the high number of researchers who have died of brain tumors or cancer.

 

If all or most of the facts offered above are accurate, one thing seems obvious, Johnson was walking both sides of the street. This in itself was highly dangerous and he may have paid the ultimate price in an attempt to serve more than one master.

 

As for exactly what killed Ron Johnson, a number of possibilities beyond natural ones present themselves. It is quite easy in this day and age to induce strokes through chemicals or pulsed radiation.

 

It is just as easy, and has been for some time, to induce heart attacks and other physical debilitations, such as fast-acting cancers. The best bet is that Ron Johnson was eliminated by a quick-acting toxin. Perhaps a nerve agent.

 

As for exactly why he was killed, we will probably never know. The autopsy, somewhat ludicrously, has been officially classified as inconclusive.

Flying Saucer Investigator Ron Rummel Suicided (Murdered) By Silence Group

Ron Rummel

Ron Rummel

Another recent disturbing case is the death of Ron Rummel ex-United States Air Force intelligence agent and publisher of The Alien Digest. On August 6, 1993. Rummel allegedly shot himself in the mouth with a pistol.

 

Friends say, however, that no blood was found on the pistol barrel and the handle of the weapon was free of fingerprints. 

 

Also, according to information now circulating, the suicide note left by the deceased was written by a left-handed person. Rummel was right-handed. Perspiration on the body smelled like sodium pentothal.
 

The Alien Digest ran to seven limited issues all now almost impossible to acquire. One thing is certain. Ron Rummel's magazine was touching on sensitive issues such as the predator/prey aspect of the alien/human relationship and the use of humans as food and recyclable body parts.

 

Did Rummel cross a forbidden line? It would seem so. But which line and where? Interestingly enough, one of Rummel's friends was Phil Schneider, and the two had been collaborating.

Flying Saucer Investigator Karla Turner Dies From Suspicious Fast Acting Cancer

Karla Turner

Karla Turner

Could genital intrusions from past UFO abductions have poisoned in some way Ann Livingston's system? 

That is exactly the suspicion Karla Turner had about the breast cancer that preceded her death during the summer of 1996.

 

Both publicly and privately, Karla Turner held up the specter of alien retaliation for statements she made in print, especially in Masquerade of Angels. How much her suspicions were founded in reality we will probably never know.

 

Her husband has made all her books available for free..