Originally Published: April 30, 2015. Updated June 7, 2020

Case File Summary

What are we looking at?: This is a photo taken by the Mercury Redstone 1A Mission launched on December 19, 1960.

Out of the 420 photos archived in ASU’s collection, there are multiple photos that capture, what appears to be, an unknown object, or possibly a craft, that shouldn’t be there.

In 1960, there wasn’t much in space, so what could this mysterious object be?

Photo #MR-1A-9186-266 – This appears to be the first photo of the object, and it appears towards the lower left side of the frame.

Photo #MR-1A-9186-267 – Nothing anomalous appears to be in this frame, but it is included for research.

Photo #MR-1A-9186-268 – Here, what appears to be an object, appears towards the top left. Although not significant, when coupled with the next frame, it seems like the object is flying towards the Mercury-Redstone spacecraft. Illusion?

Photo #MR-1A-9186-269 – Here is the most important, and clearest frame. The object now appears again towards the lower left side of the frame.

The Analysis

After posting this case file, I received a lot of feedback.  Those skeptical on the case proposed that it was a reflection of something inside the craft. So, I did a bit of analysis to see if that theory holds water.

I used 2 photos from the string above. Photo #MR-1A-9186-266 (B&W) and also Photo #MR-1A-9186-269 (Red Tint). I feel that you can discount this theory of a reflection, due to the fact the “reflection” does not appear in 2 of the photos in between these two frames in or near the spot, and also the theory ignores Photo #MR-1A-9186-268 which may show the object much farther in the background.

But, for sake of argument, we will dismiss those photos and deal with the two argued as a reflection. I used, what I believe, is the only constant (non-moving) object in the frame of photos – the reflection of the mission clock. The spacecraft is moving, so therefore, objects on the outside of the spacecraft would be moving their position in the frame as well.  Matching the clock on the photos, would show what was constant inside the craft as it would appear in the same exact position, and what was ‘moving’ outside the craft therefore being in different positions as the spacecraft moved.

Here is the analysis (you can click on the photo for higher resolution):

By matching up the clock on the top left, you can see the “object” in question appears to be in a different position, therefore potentially ruling out it’s a reflection inside the craft of an object. If it was a reflection, once the clocks were lined up, the “reflection” would also be on top of each other.

About the Mission: Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The mission objectives of this unmanned suborbital flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming primate suborbital flight. The spacecraft tested its instrumentation, posigrade rockets, retro rockets and recovery system.

The mission was completely successful. The Mercury capsule reached an altitude of 130 miles (210 km) and a range of 235 miles (378 km).

The launch vehicle reached a slightly higher velocity than expected – 4,909 miles per hour (7,900 km/h).

The Mercury spacecraft was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean by recovery helicopters about 15 minutes after landing. Serial numbers: Mercury Spacecraft # 2 together with the escape tower from Capsule # 8, and the antenna fairing from Capsule # 10 were reflown on MR-1A.

Redstone MRLV-3 was used.

Flight time 15 minutes 45 seconds.

NASA’s Original Source: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and the archive housed by Arizona State University. A direct link to the photo can be found here: http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/mercury/1#MR-1A-9186-269

STS-75 Comparison

Although not much can be concluded from this, it should be noted. This is not proposed to be an exact match, however, multiple UFOs were seen on Space Shuttle mission STS-75. This is known as the “Tether Incident,” and the objects do have a similarity.

Objects of circular shape were also seen on STS-75, many with a notch of some kind out of the object itself. Again, not an exact match, but the similarity is interesting enough to be noted.

STS-75 and Mercury-Redstone 1A were separated by 36 years on their mission clocks. Keep in mind also with the below, the objects were shot with different camera and technology that was separated by decades.

Possible Explanation?

After posting this case file, The Black Vault received quite a bit of feedback. However, one stuck out as a well thought out, and sourced, explanation for what this could be.  Special thanks to Jon Hunter for taking the time to write in:

Hello,

I just found your site, and I enjoy the extra level of analysis applied to these kind of stories, but I think key points in the story about Mercury photographs were missed.

While there certainly not many objects to be seen in space in November 1960, there were three objects that were right along the capsule’s flight path: the single-stage Redstone rocket that rode all the way up to space, the abort escape tower, and the retro rocket pack.

The reflected mission clock in the pictures gives the information we need to decide if either of these objects could be captured by a camera in the window. According to the Wikipedia article for Mercury 1A, the launch occurred at 16:15 UTC and the capsule landed at 16:30. This fits with the clock: it’s apparently 4:23 when the pictures were taken, or about 8 minutes into the mission. By this point the craft had already rotated 180 degrees away from its forward path, to point the heat shield and retro rockets forward. The nose was angled down 34 degrees. Look at the placement of the window on the sloped surface of the capsule: rotated 34 degrees down, that window would be facing back along the path of the flight, right in the direction the Redstone booster should be.

When the capsule separated from the rocket at T+2:24 minutes, it gained 4.6 m/s of velocity over the rocket, but at T+5:15 minutes the retro rockets provided -168 m/s of total change in velocity, allowing the booster to “catch up,” though on different arcs.

I think the final piece of the puzzle occurred at T+7:15 minutes. The craft detected atmospheric reentry and began a 10 degrees/sec roll for stability. That explains the shifting view of Earth in the window and why the object outside disappears from view between 266 and 268. Then in 269 it is in frame again, flaring. Between 266 and 269 the Redstone booster hit the atmosphere uncontrolled and the visible flare could be hot gases or some other atmospheric effect.

The Redstone booster seems to be the answer that makes the most sense. At 8 minutes into the mission, the window would be facing the area of space the booster would be, right at the time that the booster would be hitting the atmosphere and beginning its uncontrolled and fiery descent. Trying to spot the boosters (like the larger Atlas ones on later missions) was a part of the standard tasks Mercury astronauts tried to complete. It was important for learning about how easily astronauts could orient themselves and targets in space. It was very difficult, but it would have been easier on the short, suborbital flights of Mercury when the capsule rotated 180 degrees just a few minutes into the mission and separation between capsule and booster was relatively small.

I hope this offers a reasonable solution to the mystery, and I’d be interested to know if it makes sense to others.

All the best,
Jon Hunter

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By Robert Stanley

This highly unusual photo has been in my family since before I was born. It filled me with curiosity during my childhood years. As I grew older I had my doubts about it being a real picture, but remained curious over the years. On my 27th birthday my father came by my apartment and gave me a birthday card that included the original color slide of this UFO image.

My father carefully explained how this photograph was shot by a friend of his named B.C., who did not actually see the UFO at the time he took the picture! It wasn’t until B.C. received the box of color slides he had shot that he noticed one picture with an image of a sideways, saucer-shaped UFO which appeared to be parked above an old oak tree.

According to my father, B.C.’s first reaction was that someone at the “Kodak” film lab must have been playing a trick on him. When B.C. showed the color slide to my father, he believed it was worth further examination. My father explained to B.C. how he had gone to some of the UFO meetings that were held at Giant Rock airport out in the Mojave Desert during the early 1950’s and that he believed something was definitely going on. At that time, they were both members of the Self-Realization Fellowship and had heard their guru, Parmahansa Yoganada, say that he believed there was life on other planets.

After having some copies and enlargements made, my father decided to take the original slide to the Los Angeles office of Time Life Magazine. It was in their possession for a few days before they concluded that the photo was authentic. According to their tests, it was not a lens flare, an acid splash or a double exposure. Oddly enough, they were instructed by their main office in New York not to run the story or the photo. They claimed it was not their policy to do so. I find this highly unusual considering that Life Magazine had published clear black and white UFO photos in the early 1950’s.

I decided to research if someone could possibly take a photo of something that was invisible to the naked eye. I discovered that our eyes only see a very small amount of the infrared, or ultra-violet radiation around us. Only about one octave of the available vibrations (wavelengths) is registered by our normal consciousness. Film is much more sensitive to the other more subtle energies on our environment. Judging by the colors around the ’57 UFO it is mostly vibrating in the infrared range. Another possible theory is that a field of rotating energy surrounding the craft absorbs photons from bouncing back and registering on the observer’s eye. Those are some of the logical explanations, and yet, as illogical as it sounds I have seen UFOs become invisible on more than one occasion during the day and night – both in and out of the city with and without witnesses. Now you see it… now UFO don’t!

Dr. Elmer Green is a physicist who worked just northeast of Lake Isabella for the Naval Ordinance Test Center, at China Dry Lake, from 1947 to 1957. He frequently heard about encounters with UFOs that would fly into range of their observation cameras. Many times while range testing new weapons systems, good quality films were made of UFOs. He personally saw black and white still shots of UFOs that were taken by other scientists in his work group. While telling his story to scientist and author Richard Thompson, Dr. Green claimed that he knew of some 40 to 50 professional people who had some connection with UFO sightings during weapons testing at China Lake.

Dr. Green had even experienced a clear UFO sighting with the base’s photographic officer, Jack Clemente while watching an AJ Bomber coming in for a landing. According to Dr. Green, “As the airplane flew over, we saw an object about 16 feet in diameter flying about 400 feet below the bomber. The object seemed to be a structured, mechanical craft. It had a semi-circular forward section that was amber colored. In the blink of an eye, the UFO flipped up to the wing of the plane. It remained there, pacing the plane for a few seconds and then it flew away at great speed vanishing from sight in 2 or 3 seconds.”

Dr. Green noticed that even though UFOs looked mechanical, they often seemed to perform beyond the laws of physics. Even though they could move faster than the speed of sound, they did not produce a sonic boom. Dr. Green compared these maneuvers to a spotlight projected on the wall and he considered that they might be real physical structures that were somehow being projected into our space-time. Dr. Green also noted that during his early years at China Lake in 1947, many UFOs were sighted and that he would also regularly see the flashes from atomic bomb air bursts at the Nevada test site nearby. Some of Dr. Green’s co-workers even speculated that there might be a connection between all the UFO activity and the frequent atomic testing.

After showing the ‘57 UFO photo to a senior U.S. space engineer who has helped design many of our latest and greatest spacecraft including the Space Shuttle, I was given the following explanation:

Ambient interstellar light saturates our atmosphere and becomes polarized to our earth’s relative north/south rotation. This angle of rotation is given a relative 90 degree value which can be considered a phase that is unique to all other phases – such as a note on a scale of musical vibrations. As a UFO enters our atmosphere, its relative 90-degree north/south rotation will occasionally align with our Earth’s polarity phase in harmony. During these brief moments of energy alignment UFOs become visible as bright lights or shiny metallic surfaces. This particular UFO is standing on edge, with its polarized energy field 90û out of phase from our Earth’s own polarized energy field.

When Life Magazine decided not to publish this authenticated UFO photo, my father left the original slide sitting unprotected in the desk drawer of his office which had a leak in the skylight. Over the years, mold grew on the film, but fortunately the original image of the UFO has remained intact. Even though this picture is very old it still tells the story of the future – the implications of which are enormous. I believe sometime in the future, the beings that operate these cosmic craft will reveal themselves and awaken all those who are still sleep waking through life. A wise man once said, “Ignorance is bliss… enjoy it while you can.”

“Look! A golden-winged ship is passing my way…”

– Jimi Hendrix

Special Thanks: UFO Casebook

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I used a Leupold Mil.Spec. 60×40 sniper scope adapted using my iphone. I my dad and a couple of friends noticed various blinking lights “dancing” around the moon at the start of the eclipse at about 7:50pm mountain time.

As I was aiming with the tripod I caught a glimpse of something bright and quickly (which was odd because of the parallax) I snapped a picture so I could look at it later.

My friend noticed a small flash of light on the top of the eclipse, that was captured on the picture. I did take multiple pictures at various shutter speeds this one came out the clearest.

I’ll send you a zoomed in version I took. It was taken on September, 28th 2015 at 8:30pm in Albuquerque New Mexico in the Northeast heights facing the Sandia Mountains.

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My name is Jennifer Andrews and I thought you might be interested in some photos I took of an object, last March 4th, that I spotted going over our house.  To give you a little background on these photos, this is what happened:   My husband and I were sitting out on our patio in Mesa, which faces West towards Phoenix (and it may be important for you to know that our house is in the McKellips Rd/Mesa Dr area AND is below a regular flight pattern for planes coming into and leaving Sky Harbor).  During the time of this incident, the planes were flying INTO Sky Harbor so they were headed West).  I suddenly noticed a small odd shaped object that was coming from the West and heading East (or slightly North East) and even though it looked small, I knew that it had to be flying at a much higher altitude than the airplanes that were coming into Sky Harbor for landing, based on the comparisons in sizes. Even though it was difficult to see this object closer, I realized it was NOT an airplane AT ALL!  It was almost oval in shape, but a wider-type oval and it was clearly gaining altitude as it was approaching from the West and moving overhead.  It also appeared that the craft was rotating itself, as it moved forward,  not only based on simply watching it visually, but also based on a light that seems to be attached to it – one moment you could see one light and the next you could see two (both at opposite ends of the wide oval).

I had grabbed my camera as soon as I realized this was NOT an airplane or any other type of military aircraft that I had ever seen (I had a career in the Aerospace industry and was familiar with various types of military aircraft such as C17, F18, etc.).  I began to take photos as fast as I could, but because it was flying so much higher than the airplanes, I had to get it into my viewfinder on my camera and on top of that, I had just broken my shoulder and had emergency surgery 2 months earlier and I had limited mobility in that shoulder, so I had to get into some strange positions in order to keep taking photos as quick as I could. 

The original photos I took, were taken with my camera set at the highest zoom level the camera had, so to look at them as originally taken, they looked almost like specks. But when looking at them after I had taken them, I could zoom in 5X to see the object more closely.  I was then able to resize that enlarged frame so I could once again zoom in another 5X.  I realize you lose clarity but in doing this I was pretty amazed at what I saw and realized this was most definitely something NOT of this world. I DO have the original photos on my camera that I took that day before enlarging them so if you need to, I can show you the photos as they were initially taken.   If you are interested in seeing ALL the photos, or if you have any questions for me, feel free to let me know and I would be happy to answer anything you might have to ask me or to send you all the photos.

I hope this is helpful for your group and I’m glad to be able to do something with these pictures in the way of showing them to someone that can realize that this craft is not something that anyone has seen before. Thanks for taking a look at them and let me know if you need anything else.     

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Additional Photos

This was another message I received from the witness, who kind shared the entire memory card of photos. Many of the cropped and zoomed photos were done inside the camera – with a feature she had available to her. There may be repeats below, to the above, but wanted to ensure everything was archived for reference.

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Location: Chip Ross Park Corvallis Oregon 1899 NW Lester Ave. 97330

Time/Date: 8/16/15 about noon

Weather: Sunny and clear

UFOs NorthWest Note: The object is in focus. I don’t think that the object is a bird or insect.

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I was sitting on my property in the Aquarius Mountains south of Interstate 40 at 42 hundred ft. elevation trying to capture lightning in the distance at dusk.

Using a three second shutter speed with the lens fully zoomed out and pausing about two seconds between shots I took a series of seven pictures each with the mysterious lights in them.

The camera was on a tripod and was never repositioned for the entire series.

The lights had to have been blinking for there not to be a trail using a three second exposure. The lights were not observed while taking the pictures; only after loading them on my computer.

There is a pattern to the lights across the seven pictures. Zooming in on the lights on my computer they appear rectangular.

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FULL DESCRIPTION & DETAILS:
This was taken a few short weeks ago at Tintagel in Cornwall United Kingdom.

Could you help us and tell us what the blob is?

Friends think it may be a bird but we are not 100% convinced.

ADDITIONAL INFO:
The camera is indeed a digital camera and I am told it is an Olympus c-150 2.0 mega pixels .

I am sorry but this is all the help i can give you.

Name: Patricia

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The following was submitted to UFOEvidence. It is archived here for reference purposes. The only changes to the report were some minor spelling errors.

Date: June, 8, 2006

Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Summary: Dark – symmetrical object appeared from the clouds directly above me and started approaching vertically. By the time I grabbed my camera it changed direction and went some 2-3 km to the south.

Date Reported: 6/9/2006 3:11:27 AM

Sighting Time: 17:30 Day/Night: Daytime No. of Witnesses: 2 Duration: ~1 minute

Appearance / Description of Object(s): check the photo

Size of Object(s): relative…when it was closest ….maybe 15 cm

Description of Area / Surroundings:  Urban area – close to the presidential palace. No major military objects. One Power plant some 2 km away to the south . This “thing”did go that direction

Full Description & Details: I was playing soccer with my 9 year old kid on our terrace in Zagreb. Suddenly my son stopped playing, looked into the sky and asked “daddy, what’s that”. Later he told me that he looked up because he heard strange buzz. I didn’t hear anything.

This object was exactly above our heads and approaching vertically, almost like falling.

I cannot exactly say how close it was, because I have no idea about the size of this thing, but If I have to guess it would be 300-500 meters.

After initial shock, maybe 10 or 15 seconds I ran into the room to grab the camera. It took maybe 15-30 seconds to find it and turn it on. By the time I got back on the terrace, object changed the direction and it was at least 2 km away. It was already difficult to find it through the camera screen. My camera has only 6x zoom, and I cannot remember if I used it or not.

Few seconds later there was no sense taking more photos…this was just small black dot in the sky going south very fast.

I sent a photo to my pilot friend in Geneve in Switzerland, and he told me to report this to ufoevidence.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?  I really don’t know what to say.

Witness Background: Manager in small company / naval architect BSE / 2nd job, working in energy supplies sector (power plants, refineries), married, 1 kid, traveling a lot.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting: I’ve heard witness stories, read Arthur Clark, watched x-files…but that’s about it

Other Comments: I would appreciate expert opinion about my photograph. thanks.

Reported Sighting? No

Name: Srdjan Martincic

Your Location: Zagreb, Croatia Age: 33

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Description:

The camera used was a Pentax Optio 60 6.0 megapixels.

Further comments from A.J. Gevaerd (Brazilian UFO researcher):

“Brazilian UFO expert engineer Claudeir Covo has analyzed the first photo (not the second one) and concluded that the object is something in the air, but not as small as a hubcap. I first suspected of a copy & paste procedure from other (legitimate)UFO photo to one recently shot.

That was not the case. We are still going on in the investigation…”

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Here’s a couple of photo’s of what I think is the same object as the Weyauwega ufo.

As I’ve now gotten quite a few photos in my investigations and most are just dust and lense flairs, this one intrigues me.

An email contact of mine sent them. She asserts her Husband took them a few weeks ago (around the first week of January) in Wisconsin near Green Bay. I reserve judgement but I will say it is very similar…

Jack Nethering.

Source / Credit: Jack Nethering / UFOEvidence.org

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Date of Sighting: March 31, 2007
Time of Sighting: 8:30 to 9:00 AM AM PDT
Duration of Sighting: 15 Seconds
Date Sighting Reported: April 6, 2007
Location of Sighting: Redondo Beach, California (See Map)
Latitude: 33.83 Degrees North
Longitude: 118.4 Degrees West
Number of Witnesses: One
Weather: Few High Clouds. (Per Observation on Photo and Official Weather Observation.) Visibility 9 Miles.

Description: The witness first sent the photo and provided the following one liner regarding the photo:Saw silver object hovering over pier.The witness later provided information about the photo in response to my questions. The photo was taken on the dock beside the Redondo Beach Pier at 150 W. Torrance Blvd. The witness stated that the object was moving north to south at a high rate of speed (similar to jet speed). The object then stopped and hovered for approximately 5 seconds. It was during this time that the witness took the photo. About 2 seconds later the object sped to the south and the witness lost sight of it behind the pier. The camera used was a Kodak Easyshare DX7440 4 megapixel model.

Investigator’s Notes: This photo is one of the best photos that I have seen of a classic silver flying disk. Not only does the photo show a flying saucer, but the flight characteristics described by the witness defy conventional aerial motion because the object was moving rapidly, stopped, hovered, and then sped off. I do not think that the photo is a hoax because the sun position on the disk is on the same side as other objects in the photo. The brightness on the object is consistent with the direction and the time that the photo was taken. Also the camera model, date, and other information was associated with the file sent by the witness. Generally any software editing will remove these attributes which suggests that the photo was sent as output from the camera. (Of course someone could have thrown something in the air and taken a photo of it, but I don’t think that this is the case because the disk is in focus and was likely not moving when the photo was taken.) Photo analysis does not indicate that the object was suspended by any string or other means.

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I was home alone and decided to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water and maybe find a snack. Just as I approached the kitchen/dining room area (they’re the same room and we have a bay-window/patio door there) I noticed what I immediately thought was a helicopter about 300-400 feet away, just across the street and above the tree-line. Because we kind of live in the country, I thought that was unusual… then it hit me that I couldn’t hear any noise at all! And then the obvious shape difference hit me like a bag of rocks and I ran for my camera – literally (I almost tripped over a rug).

I don’t know how long it was there before I saw it, but it hung around for 2 or 3 minutes after I noticed it… not moving or flashing or anything. The only thing I noticed was a sort of wavy-ness of the air surrounding the object – that’s probably what stuck me most, actually. It resembled kind of what you see over a hot road on a summer day. It was getting dark, but I distinctly remember the dark tree line shimmering just below the object, against the sky-glow.

I had just enough time to take a picture on my camera (before the batteries died), and then I got one on my cell phone right before it “disappeared” — I say that, because I believe it just went directly away from me at a high speed very suddenly… it actually appeared to grow smaller and disappear, but curve up slightly as it was doing so. The direction was about directly westward I believe.

Long ago, when I was a young kid, I remember seeing a funny light in the sky (from very far away) and watching it do all sorts of “tricks” ~ but I couldn’t actually see it as an object. This is the only other time that I have seen something this close, that I know from my own eyes what I saw in a detailed manner. Very exciting indeed (although the first couple nights were difficult to sleep well!)

MUFON submitter 9511

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Date of sighting: May 16, 2015, Sat
Location of sighting: Groningen, Netherlands
News Source: http://www.telegraaf.nl/opmerkelijk/24061221/__UFO_boven_Groningen__.html 
Blog source: https://groninganus.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/heb-ik-weer-een-ufo/

This green disk was caught off guard when the suns reflection was at the wrong angle and the cloaked UFO was revealed for a few seconds. This happens a lot during sunset, but the clouds caused a false sunset like state and the UFO was seen. You can clearly make out the round disk with the raised center and what looks like a steam from the top of the craft. A similar UFO was caught in the aurora borealis several years back with the same shape, that other sighting confirms that this is an alien craft. SCW

News states:
The Groningen blogger Harry Clipperton likes pictures of nature. On Tuesday he walked along a path in Onlanden, the border between the provinces of Groningen and Drenthe.

At home Groningen looked at his pictures and then discovered a UFO. Clipperton writes on his blog: Suddenly something flashed. At first I thought my device, but the flitskap was not up. There was not a drop on my lens. I decided it must have been lightning. But at home I see something strange in one of the photos that I made at the end of the lane trees. “

The UFO is, as the word implies, still unidentified. Whether it is a meteorological phenomenon, a meteor, a flying saucer or something else, is not yet clear.

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I just wanted to share this sighting from Taree N.S.W. that was captured back on the 3rd of June 2013 from a lookout called Breakneck.

This object came down from the sky as a metallic sphere with a glow around it in front of two of us. The sphere seemed to open up like a seed and reveal an extremely bright glowing orange center.

These two photos were taken with a Canon Powershot 18.1 mp camera as we were moving to a better vantage point.

The object was a little shy as it promptly flew straight back up into the sky and disappeared into an unusual looking domed cloud. The shot taken before these shows a small dark circular mass in the same cloud. This was a fascinating capture for me as it was the first time I had ever witnessed a metallic sphere or orb open up and reveal what it did.

The entire sighting lasted probably 20 to 30 seconds from when it was first spotted in the cloud to when it disappeared back into the sky. The object was completely silent though there was a strange feeling involved that it was watching what we were doing .

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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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That said, it is possible this photo is something else, tied to this story erroneously, and can be explained as a lens flare. It is possible there is no connection between the photo and what the witnesses saw.

The story is archives here for reference, which was published on April 27, 2015, by the NY Post:

By Tom Wilson and Kathianne Boniello

The truth is out there — and it’s hovering over The Bronx.

A mysterious light in the sky so freaked out some Hunts Points residents that they called authorities to report their only possible explanation: the arrival of aliens from outer space.

A “flying spaceship” is moving swiftly over East 149th Street and the Bruckner Expressway, one terrified woman told a 911 operator Saturday night, according to an FDNY source.

Juan Marrero said he, too, had a close encounter.

“I look up and see this fireball, ‘Whoosh!’ and then another, ‘Whoosh!’ ” said Marrero, 57, a pigeon fancier who was on the roof of his building at 11:30 p.m. when he saw two bright lights streaking across the sky. “From one side of the sky to the other, too fast for an airplane.”

Andres Morales, 25, said he also saw the speedy orb — and did his best to document his out-of-this-world experience.

“I stuck my hand out the car window and snapped like crazy,” he told The Post. “I don’t know what it was but it was moving crazy fast.”

It’s not the first time locals have said extraterrestrial immigrants boogied down from another galaxy to check out the neighborhood. Unusual lights in the sky were seen in the same area last year, and also in 2011, according to self-described “UFO journalist” Ryan Sprague.

“I definitely think we’re dealing with anomalies that could potentially be nonhuman,” Sprague said.

East 149th Street is close to La Guardia Airport, which could lead to “misidentifications,” Sprague conceded, though he said witnesses should not be discounted.

Those who saw the orb on Saturday, and the one last May, echoed the same description — a light that “just sort of hovered, stationary, and then shot off in the blink of an eye,” he stressed.

“The maneuvers these objects seem to be making don’t fit with any current technology that we’re aware of,” Sprague said.

“They’re not moving, then darting off at unbelievable speeds,” he explained. “I just don’t think that’s something a human could survive.”

But why The Bronx?

“To study us,” one longtime resident offered. “Maybe they want to learn to break dance.”

Additional reporting by Rebecca Harshbarger

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Busselton, Western Australia. Early 2012.

I was outside with my new camera and went to the beach to see if there were any birds to photograph. There was no one else there, and not really any birds. The light was fading as well as it was near sunset. I was looking south down the beach and saw a stationary object in the sky. It was impossible to judge the distance but I would estimate it was anywhere between 3-10 kilometers (~ 2-5 miles) away and about 1.5-3 kilometers (~ 1 mile) high off the ground.

It caught my attention immediately, as it was there in the sky, completely stationary, and I could see it with my naked eye (didn’t have binoculars with me). Completely stationary – as in, not hovering like how a helicopter would. You will see the shape of it on the photos. I don’t know how to describe it, other than it does indeed sort of resemble a helicopter but it more elongated and shows no signs of any rotors or other small bits.

I kept watching it for 10 minutes and occasionally taking photos. Even at max zoom I couldn’t get anywhere close to it. It didn’t move at all. There was no sound coming from it (not that I probably would have heard if it was that far away). I was quite excited and phoned my sister to come and see, and she was there in 5 minutes and agreed with me that it was weird and she hadn’t seen anything like it. Especially the impossibility of whatever it was to remain so stationary high up.

The sun was almost down at this point and it was then I noticed the craft/thing had lights on it. Red and blue lights. But it was too far away to distinguish where exactly on the craft the lights were positioned. The craft moved. I can’t remember the exact movements as it was too long ago. It was erratic and very fast. But very straight and angular. It moved like nothing we’d seen before. It suddenly zipped across the sky in a perfect horizontal line (estimated about 400 meters). It hung there stationary for a few seconds. Then suddenly dropped down about 500 meters in a perfectly straight line. It repeated this again about two more times, moving extremely quickly and in perfectly angular/straight directions. At about 1-2 kilometers above the ground it then dropped straight down.

My sister and I got in the car and drove us down the highway in the direction of where the craft looked like it had been above, but found nothing. As I said though it was impossible to accurately pin point how far away it had been. We continued down the coast going to some spots where we’d have a good view of the beaches from a headland. I was quite feverish with excitement at this point and ran out of the car through a restricted area by a lighthouse up to the top of the headland to get a view of the whole area. Nearly ran right off the cliff in doing so. But I was super excited about what we’d seen, and if I found a craft I was prepared to walk right up to it and give myself to the aliens or whoever was in there. I’d been somewhat of a UFO enthusiast a few years before, so that night for me was like a surge of excitement of the possibility of finding a UFO. Needless to say we didn’t see/hear anything further, and there was nothing about an unusual craft in the media – not surprisingly as it was near sunset and we were the only ones at the beach/vantage point.

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I am a professional photographer and amateur astronomer that works at the New Jersey Astronomical Association Observatory in Voohees, New Jersey.

I was taking pictures of my son and because I am a drone flyer I saw an object in the sky moving rather quickly across airport grounds. Because I thought that this object was a security drone I snapped the picture and didn’t really look at it for weeks.

After finally looking at it to compare to my drone I noticed that it was not a drone at all. It had 4 dome-like structures and a central structure holding it together. There is no obvious flight surface to provide lift so one would assume a balloon.

Unfortunately I had never seen a balloon move this fast and with such purpose… in a straight line and at a level height.

Could it be a drone? Possibly… but given the distance and using some simple geometry (and some assumptions) I estimated the craft to be roughly 20-25 feet across.

This is my 3rd strange sighting I have had in my life. And the only one made during the day OVER a VERY active airport.

In addition I have the RAW. I took this with a 70-200mm f2.8 canon lens… so not cheap glass… and the detail on the raw can be zoomed way in with little loss of resolution. I will try to attach.

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Note from The Black Vault: This case is circulating on the internet as Ruta Sur Cerrito, Mexico. Other sites have it in Argentina.  I was not able to find reference to that city in either Mexico or Argentina. If anyone can clarify this, I would greatly appreciate it! 

Day – March 19, 2015 12.30 pm approx. I finished my lunch after a morning of work and I had a few minutes to shoot pictures on the Ruta Sur Cerrito.

I spotted this object clearly from the patio of my casa.

I had taken about 150 pictures and I started to go over them to see what all I had.

The object I captured on photo is not conventional, has considerable size and was flying a route from south to north.

Photo is somewhat fuzzy, object perhaps is circular (ovoid) and has in the top center of what appears to be spheres or colored balls.

I am leaving the decision on what this is to those who study these things. The location is west and somewhat north of Mexico City.

Material de Ruben Latuf Irsiger

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A family claim their barbecue was interrupted by four UFOs ‘zooming across the sky’ – quickly followed by a Ministry of Defence helicopter.

Andrea Finney, from Bolton, Lancashire, was enjoying a pleasant outdoor family meal with her husband Nigel and their son when the mysterious event left them spooked.

The 48-year-old, who works in property management, told Mirror Online: “There were four of them, and they zoomed across the sky.

“You just had to be there to see it, it was the strangest thing I have ever seen in my life.

“They zoomed off after we spotted them, and the craziest thing was that they were then followed by a Ministry of Defence helicopter.

“I was just gobsmacked.”

Upon seeing the UFOs, she alerted her husband Nigel to get a camera.

The 50-year-old delivery driver said: “I took photos as quick as I could.

“We just could not explain it. They were not hot air baloons. They were not Chinese laterns. They were just something else.

“Our camera does not have a good zoom on it or anything – it is just a normal camera, so we took what we could but afterwards we just could not explain it.

“It’s a mystery.”

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My husband, my brother, my sister-in-law and I were vacationing at a coastal house in Bodega Bay, CA (about two hours north of San Francisco). We were watching the sun set over the ocean and preparing to watch the clear night sky, so we had big binoculars (16X70) set up on a tripod on the west-facing patio. Moments after sunset (which occurred at 7:15 p.m., [see photo “100_1605[1]sunset”], while the sky at the horizon was still orangey, we noticed a very bright orange/gold streak moving at a slightly upward angle in a north-to-south direction [see photos “100_1607[2]picture 3 unenhanced” and “picture 3 enhanced for brightness and contrast (3)”]. At arm’s length and measuring between thumb and forefinger, the streak early on was about an inch above the horizon. We then looked at it through the binoculars and we saw not only the streak, but a dark, somewhat elongated object that was rounded at the leading edge of what we then called a “trail”. Over the next minute or two, the trail got to be about four inches long (as measured above) and the object took up a good ¼ to ½ inch of that measurement. We continued to see the trail but not the object with the naked eye.

A minute or two after we first saw the trail, the object/trail appeared to stop and hover in place for another 10 minutes or so, but the trail did not dissipate at all like a vapor trail would. (Since we were facing west, it’s also possible the object was not hovering but rather moving west to east or east to west after it appeared to stop.) We could see the trail and the “unmoving” object for a total of 10 minutes or so until it got too dark to see through the binoculars. The pictures we took do not even begin to show the brightness of the trail.

Based on the “distance to horizon” calculator on the Internet, we estimated the distance to the object was about 15.5 nautical or 17.9 statute miles. (We did a Google Earth calculation that showed our rental house was 172 feet above sea level and, adding the five-foot height of the tripod, resulted in a “height of eye” of 177 feet.) If the object was almost 18 miles away, the object would have to be quite large to appear as big as it did, even though it required binoculars to see it.

Our collective conclusion was that the object was too big to be any kind of airplane and that the trail was not a vapor trail. The way the object appeared to stop and hover, and the fact that the trail did not dissipate, were also very strange. Maybe it was some kind of missile, but we sure can’t figure it out. None of us had ever seen such a thing.

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Interesting side note: This photo isn’t the only evidence of ghostly activity at the Queen’s House. The 400-year-old building is credited with several other apparitions and phantom footsteps even today. Recently, a Gallery Assistant was discussing a tea break with two colleagues when he saw one of the doors to the Bridge Room close by itself. At first he thought it was one of the lecturers. “Then I saw a woman glide across the balcony, and pass through the wall on the west balcony,” he said. “I couldn’t believe what I saw. I went very cold and the hair on my arms and my neck stood on end. We all dashed through to the Queen’s Presents Room and looked down towards the Queen’s Bedroom. Something passed through the ante-room and out through the wall. Then my colleagues all froze too. The lady was dressed in a white-grey colour crinoline type dress.”

Other ghostly goings-on include the unexplained choral chanting of children, the figure of a pale woman frantically mopping blood at the bottom of the Tulip Staircase (it’s said that 300 years ago a maid was thrown from the highest banister, plunging 50 feet to her death), slamming doors, and even tourists being pinched by unseen fingers.

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In the news report below, the anchorwoman on British Forces News asks expert Nick Pope if the threat is real or if the video is faked. The answer is vague. Much like the response of the MOD to queries from the public as to whether or not there is a threat to the nation by aliens or, perhaps, by sophisticated terrorists attempting to instill fear.

The original video, which has gone viral, is shown during the interview, and it’s hard to draw any solid conclusions.

The fighter jets, gliding over the skies of Birmingham, look and sound real enough. But the UFO hovers in place and appears to be of the classic saucer variety, without any bright, multi-colored lights or discernible rotation.

It certainly looks like a solid object, but such video trickery is well within the reach of the average video hobbyist, as well as the professional. Curiously, the fighter jets never appear in the same frame with the object, in this video, at least.

That hasn’t stopped true believers from piling on, labeling it genuine and demanding an official response from the British government. Is the UK under attack? If not, why be silent over the video’s authenticity?

What do you think? Is this UFO video fact, or faked? Should the British people be afraid? Is the government covering up?

Rebuttal

The following was submitted to me in regards to this case file.  I am posting it here for reference:

From: Isaac Koi  Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:49:01 +0000 Archived: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:05:20 -0500 Subject: Re: MOD Covering Up RAF UFO Chase? >>Source: Gather.Com

Hi, The relevant video is (contrary to the title shown on the video embedded on the Gather.com webpage at the link given above) not new. In fact, it is simply a relabelled copy of a video that I spend a rainy Saturday afternoon in 2010 proving (beyond a shadow of a doubt) was a hoax. I pointed out a few relevant facts, including showing that one of the rather boxy/fake looking trucks on the video had a serial number on its side which is actually the same serial number shown on a 3D model of an identical looking truck being sold online. I posted about this hoax in some detail in 2010 on AboveTopSecret.com. See:http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread559990/pg1&mem=IsaacKoi

Oh, it may also be worth mentioning that my posts at that link ended with an admission of the hoax by the person that uploaded the video to Youtube. I posted the relevant information on three or four websites at the time, in an attempt to kill this hoax off completely. It seems a bit of a shame (though not very surprising…) that those posts had little impact, judging from the fact the video is doing the rounds again. All the best, Isaac [Gather has taken Rose’s post down –ebk] Listen to ‘Strange Days… Indeed’ – The PodCast At: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/ These contents above are copyright of the author and UFO UpDates – Toronto. They may not be reproduced without the express permission of both parties and are intended for educational use only.

Special thanks to Errol Bruce-Knapp for the above.

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This intriguing photo, taken in 1919, was first published in 1975 by Sir Victor Goddard, a retired R.A.F. officer. The photo is a group portrait of Goddard’s squadron, which had served in World War I at the HMS Daedalus training facility.

An extra ghostly face appears in the photo. In back of the airman positioned on the top row, fourth from the left, can clearly be seen the face of another man. It is said to be the face of Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been accidentally killed by an airplane propeller two days earlier. His funeral had taken place on the day this photograph was snapped.

Members of the squadron easily recognized the face as Jackson’s. It has been suggested that Jackson, unaware of his death, decided to show up for the group photo.

Interesting side note: In 1935, Sir Victor Goddard, now a Wing Commander, had another brush with the unexplained. While on a flight from Edinburgh, Scotland to his home base in Andover, England, he encountered a strange storm that seemed to transport him through time into the future.

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