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.