The 15 Most Controversial Ufo Photos Ever Taken

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE TERMINOLOGY APPLIED TO THESE PHOTO'S IS CONTROVERSIAL AND NOT FAKE OR A HOAX. THESE PHOTOS HAVE BEEN AUTHENTICATED BUT THEY HAVE THEIR DETRACTORS AND DEBUNKERS AND OVER THE YEARS THEY HAVE SIMPLY GENERATED A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND CONTROVERSY. IN MANY CASES THE GOVERNMENT HAS GONE TO GREAT LENGTHS TO DEBUNK SEVERAL OF THESE PHOTOS, SOME CONSIDER THE EFFORT BY THE GOVERNMENT AN INDICATION THAT THE IMAGES MAY VERY WELL BE REAL.
NEW YEAR DAY 1932 PHOTOGEORGE SUTTON'S POSING FOR A PHOTOGRAPH IN 1932, THE ST. PARIS, OHIO, GENTLEMAN WAS THE VICTIM OF AN ERRANT UFO RUINING HIS OTHERWISE QUIETLY DIGNIFIED PORTRAIT. AN UNDISPUTED FACT: THE PHOTO WAS SNAPPED IN THE SUMMER OF 1932 AND WAS NEVER EXPLAINED TO ANYONE'S SATISFACTION.
SCREENSHOT FROM MEXICAN FIGHTER JETTHIS SCREEN SHOT SHOWS SEVERAL BRIGHT UFOS, TAKEN FROM VIDEO RECORDED BY A MEXICAN AIR FORCE CREW IN MARCH, 2004, OVER THE COASTAL STATE OF CAMPECHE. ONE AIR FORCE CREW MEMBER, UNDERSTANDABLY DISTRESSED TO ENCOUNTER SUCH A BIZARRE SIGHT, CONTACTED GROUND CONTROL AND SHOUTED, "WE ARE NOT ALONE!" TO THIS DAY THE PHOTOS AND THE SIGHTING HAVE EVER BEEN ADEQUATELY EXPLAINED.
UNDATED FILE PHOTO'S STUDIED BY STANFORD UNIVERSITYTHESE UNDATED FILE PHOTOS, DEPICTING PURPORTED UFOS, ARE PART OF AN EVER-GROWING LIBRARY OF VISUAL EVIDENCE. A PANEL OF SCIENTISTS, INCLUDING STANFORD UNIVERSITY PHYSICIST PETER STURROCK, CONCLUDED IN JUNE, 1998, THAT "IT MAY BE VALUABLE TO CAREFULLY EVALUATE UFO REPORTS TO EXTRACT INFORMATION ABOUT UNUSUAL PHENOMENA CURRENTLY UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE." BELIEVERS IN UFO/ALIEN VISITATIONS INCLUDE NASA ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHELL, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, MIKHAIL GORBACHEV AND FORMER U.S. PRESIDENTS JIMMY CARTER, RONALD REAGAN, HARRY TRUMAN AND JOHN F. KENNEDY.
NASA HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGESTHESE HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES RELEASED BY NASA IN 2007 SHOW MOONS OF THE PLANET SATURN WITH DISTINCT SAUCER SHAPES, WHEN SEEN FROM SOME ANGLES, MAKING THEM EASILY MISTAKEN FOR ALIEN CRAFT. THEREFORE, IF ONE WERE OBSERVING THESE MOONS THROUGH A PERSONAL HIGH-POWERED TELESCOPE, AND FORGOT THEY WERE, IN FACT, USING A TELESCOPE AND SO IMAGINED THESE MOONS WERE NEARBY, IT WOULD BE QUITE EASY TO MISTAKE THEM FOR FLYING SAUCERS VISITING THE EARTH.
JERSEY SHORE MYSTERYIN 1952, NEAR PASSORIA, NEW JERSEY, THIS SAUCER-SHAPED OBJECT WAS PHOTOGRAPHED BY AN UNKNOWN PERSON. SAUCER-SHAPED ALIEN VEHICLES WERE IN VOGUE AFTER KENNETH ARNOLD FIRST REPORTED ONE ON JUNE 24, 1947. HE SAID HE'D SPOTTED A FLYING 'SAUCER-LIKE' OR 'PIE-PLATE-LIKE' METALLIC OBJECT. SAUCER SHAPES ARE NOW OUT OF STYLE, WITH FLYING CIGAR-SHAPED AND TRIANGULAR CRAFT TAKING THE LEAD IN MODERN UFO SIGHTINGS.
POLITE ALIEN LEAVES FOOTPRINTJOHN F. REEVES IS SHOWN IN THIS MARCH, 1965, PHOTO POINTING TO THE FOOTPRINTS MADE BY AN ALIEN HE CLAIMED TO HAVE MET. UNLIKE THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF "CONTACTEES" AS WILD-EYED LUNATICS, REEVES WAS UNIFORMLY DESCRIBED AS A SIMPLE, HONEST MAN. EVEN THE SKEPTICAL LOCAL SHERIFF FOUND REEVES TO BE "NORMAL AND SINCERE." ACCORDING TO REEVES'S TESTIMONY, THE ALIEN HAD GOOD MANNERS. WHEN REEVES, TRYING TO FLEE, TRIPPED OVER A BUSH AND LOST HIS GLASSES, THE SPACE TRAVELER KINDLY HANDED THEM BACK TO HIM.
THE FIRST SENSATIONAL UFO PICTUREREPORTEDLY THE "FIRST SENSATIONAL PICTURE OF FLYING SAUCERS," THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN IN DUBLIN, IRELAND, IN MARCH, 1950. THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT ACCOMPANIED IT SPECULATED ABOUT ALIEN H-BOMBS THAT COULD BE PROGRAMMED TO FALL ON ANY PREARRANGED TARGET. A COLD WAR THAT CROSSED MORE THAN BORDERS.
OVER COAST GUARD FACILITY, 1952TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD GUARDSMAN SHELL ALPERT TOOK THIS PHOTO FROM THE WINDOW OF A U.S. COAST GUARD LABORATORY IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, ON JULY 16, 1952. THE US AIR FORCE'S PROJECT BLUE BOOK AT FIRST SPECULATED THAT IT WAS "PROBABLY" NOTHING MORE THAN STREET LAMP REFLECTIONS ON THE WINDOW, THOUGH MANY PEOPLE-INCLUDING A POWER-COMPANY WORK TEAM AND OTHER SOLDIERS WHO ALSO WITNESSED THE FOUR BRIGHT EGG-SHAPED LIGHTS-DISAGREED. LATER, PROJECT BLUE BOOK RECLASSIFIED THE PHENOMENON AS "UNEXPLAINED."
UFO OVER A MOVIE THEATER IN ZIMBABWE 1953 THIS SEEMINGLY ECTOPLASMIC UFO WAS PHOTOGRAPHED BY BARNEY WAYNE IN 1953 IN RHODESIA (NOW ZIMBABWE). IT HAS BEEN POSITED THAT MANY 1950S UFO SIGHTINGS WERE DUE TO A HYSTERICAL PUBLIC, PRIMED BY THE LARGE NUMBER OF POPULAR ALIEN-THEMED HOLLYWOOD FILMS GRACING SILVER SCREENS AT THE TIME-THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE FLYING SAUCER AND INVADERS FROM MARS AMONG THEM. NO OFFICIAL EXPLANATION HAS EVER BEEN GIVEN FOR THIS PARTICULAR IMAGE AND IT REMAINS UNEXPLAINED.
MULLTIPLE WITNESSES, 1957IN NOVEMBER, 1957, THIS UNNAMED YOUNG MAN WAS ONE OF SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED A UFO. HIS HAND-DRAWN ILLUSTRATION, DETAILING WHAT HE ENCOUNTERED, IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE LIMITATIONS OF UFOLOGY BEFORE THE ERA OF DIGITAL CAMERAS. TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN A BOON TO UFO DOCUMENTATION, BUT ALSO HAS ITS DISADVANTAGES. ALMOST ANYONE CAN NOW USE A COMPUTER TO 'ENHANCE' (COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY) CGI A DIGITAL IMAGE OF AN ALIEN CRAFT.
CRAFT OR METEOR, COPENHAGEN 1975THIS DRAMATIC UFO PHOTO WAS TAKEN NEAR A MEATPACKING PLANT IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, IN MAY, 1975. IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THE OBJECT IS SOME TYPE OF CRAFT OR METEOR.
KAIKOURA LIGHTS, NEW ZEALAND 1978NEW ZEALAND WAS INUNDATED BY UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE LATE 1970S, THE MOST NOTORIOUS OF WHICH WAS THE "KAIKOURA LIGHTS." THEY WERE SPOTTED BY THE CREW OF A SAFE AIR CARGO PLANE, HUNDREDS OF WITNESSES ON THE GROUND AND EVEN A FILM CREW. THEN ON DECEMBER 30, 1978, THEY WERE TRACKED BY NEW ZEALAND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL. THE MOST POPULAR EXPLANATION OFFERED BY DEBUNKERS IS THAT THE LIGHTS WERE SIMPLY REFLECTED OFF OF A TROLLING SQUID BOAT, A THEORY ROUNDLY REJECTED BY WITNESSES.
GLOWING SPHERE, NZ 1979 RESEMBLES TETHER UFOSIN 1979, NEAR NEW ZEALAND'S CLARENCE RIVER, THIS GLOWING SPHERE WAS TRACKED BY THE CREW OF A PASSING AIRCRAFT. THOUGH MANY THEORIES HAVE BEEN OFFERED FOR THE OBJECT'S PRESENCE-A METEOR, A NATURAL EVENT IN THE IONOSPHERE, THE PLANET VENUS-NONE HAS SATISFACTORY EXPLAINED THE IMAGE. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS IMAGE STRONGLY RESEMBLES THE "TETHER UFO" FILMED BY NASA. FOR A LINK CLICK HERE.
UFO DETECTION OR CLOUDED PERCEPTION?IN SEPTEMBER OF 1979, A PASSENGER ON A SICILIAN LOCOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHED THIS LARGE, HOVERING UFO THROUGH THE TRAIN'S WINDOW. IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S MEMORY WAS SIMPLY 'CLOUDED' BY THE STUNNING FALL SKY-OR ONE TOO MANY LIMONCELLOS-BUT HE REPORTED THAT THE CRAFT WAS SOON GONE WITH THE WIND.
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