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.