RISEUP Paranormal

BACKGROUND: Here's a bizarre photo that we'll call UFO-related. Templeton took his young daughter out to the marshes overlooking the Solway Firth to take some photographs; upon processing a few days later, an employee of the drug store mentioned it was a shame that someone walked by and spoiled the shot; Templeton said there was nobody else there except his wife and daughter; the case was brought to the Kodak company who, unable to solve the mystery, offered free film for life to anyone who could explain the photograph - to date, no one has. Templeton eventually was visited by two men (MIBs?) who suggested he tell everyone that someone had walked by - he refused.

COMMENT: A very famous photo that made the rounds for years and is still a big question mark to this day. The first impression is that these folks have to be making this up, but as double-exposures and photographic overlays have definitely been ruled out, one only has their word to base an opinion on. For what it's worth, figures similar to this were reported being captured on film at the Woomera Testing Range in Australia during a "Blue Streak" missile test. Those missiles were manufactured in Spadeadam, UK, just a few miles from Solway Firth.

BACKGROUND: Over a 6-7 day period in March of 1966, Michigan residents from Washtenaw to Hillsdale witnessed a huge UFO flap. Washtenaw County residents Frank Mannor and his son reported to the Sheriff's Department that they had seen a flying saucer land in a nearby swamp. Following the object into the bog, they saw the brightly lit object raise up and move directly over their heads. Soon it disappeared into the night sky. Shortly thereafter, Patrolman Robert Hunawill of the Dexter Village Police saw the same object, or another just like it, hover over his patrol car. Soon it was joined by three other UFOs. There were several photographs taken of the object before the sightings ended; one a classic photo of the UFO sitting on the road. (See photo on left).

There were numerous sightings during the Michigan wave of 1966. The case itself is very memorable for another important event that occurred. Project Blue Book sent Dr. J. Allen Hynek to investigate the sighting reports. At first, Hynek agreed that there was something going on in the Michigan skies. But after consulting with the Blue Book headquarters, he changed his mind, and said that the sightings were nothing more than "swamp gas."

The case that prompted his conversion occurred in Hillsdale County, Michigan, on March 21, 1966, and involves the photo shown here. At about 10:30 pm a resident of the women's dormitory at Hillsdale College reported a strange object in the sky. County Civil Defense director William E. Van Horn responded and confirmed that a bright glowing object was indeed bouncing across a nearby hollow and then became airborne. Hynek, who died in 1986, dismissed the Hillsdale sighting as "swamp gas." Within two weeks, however, he changed not only his opinion about the sighting, but also sides in the UFO debate. (ufologie.net)

BACKGROUND: Two hunters on a camping/deer hunting trip were startled to see smoke coming from where they had set up their tents; when they bolted back to their campsite, they saw their tent and its contents had been burned (L) and the tops of trees broken and badly singed (C); one of them then snapped a picture of an object they saw rising out of a nearby valley and came to within 300 feet of them (R).

BACKGROUND: Dr. J. Allen Hynek stated: "best daylight disc photograph I have personally investigated."; Smith and two of his friends were returning from a weekend prospecting trip when they spotted the object; Smith grabbed the camera, and took two photos of the object; it was also stated by the witnesses that the UFO dropped some type of liquid material; the object was about 40-50 feet in diameter.

BACKGROUND: Emil Barnea and his girlfriend Miss Matea walked in the forest with a couple of friends. His friend shouted that she sees "something," and when he joined her he also saw a large round object, of metallic appearance and shining in the sun in the sky above the top of the trees. Amazed, Barnea remembered all the same that he had his camera and while the UFO advanced slowly changing direction and increasing its luminosity, then suddenly accelerating until it disappeared at the horizon. He had time to shoot four photographs.

The negative were examined to see whether they were tampered with by a photographer reporter of Cluj, and then by a specialist in photography of the Ager Press agency in Bucharest. Both concluded that there were no trace of any trickery. The film was again examined by a commercial photo laboratory which also considered it perfectly normal, without traces of falsification. Neither Barnea nor his friend Miss Mattea knew much about flying saucers and UFOs, this was only normal since in Romania in 1968, books about UFOs weren't sold. (ufologie.net)

BACKGROUND: Nagora and his wife were vacationing in Styria and after parking their car for a look around he heard a "whizzing" sound from above him. Looking up, he saw a shiny, disc which was silhouetted against the clouds. After running to tell his wife, he grabbed his camera and took 12 photographs of the object. His photos have been declared legitimate by a host of experts, and they have never been debunked.

BACKGROUND: The photo above (cropped and enlarged) was taken by a Costa Rican government mapping plane during an aerial mapping mission. This UFO photograph is unique for several reasons. 1) The photograph was taken by a high-quality, professional camera. 2) The unidentified object is plainly visible against the uniformly dark background of the lake and appears in sharp focus. 3) The camera was aimed downward and the plane was flying at a known, fixed altitude (10,000 feet), which makes it easy to calculate a maximum size for the object (683 feet).
The plane carried a crew of four; a specialist in aerial photography, a geographer, a topographer, and the pilot. No member of the crew stated that they saw anything unusual during the routine flight. (ufoevidence.com)

BACKGROUND: "It was about 2:00 pm I'd guess. I didn't hear anything. I had just seen two chipmunks scampering around the base of a Sycamore tree. Then I looked up and, by God, there it was...this round flying saucer. That's all I know to call it," reported an electronics technician from Louisville. The man took six pictures in all, two of which were blurred because of the object's rapid departure. The pictures and negatives were examined by the COURIER-JOURNAL photo staff, and if the photos were faked, they were fakes of the highest quality. There were no other sightings in this area at this time. (ufoevidence)

BACKGROUND: The witness took a series of photographs of the object. The circular object is clearly seen moving about a clump of trees. The photos have been deemed authentic by various photographic experts. A good, clear image for the time period. (ufocasefiles)

BACKGROUND: A large unidentified luminous phenomenon was observed throughout the Spanish Canary Islands. Newspaper headlines proclaimed the following day that "thousands of people" had seen a "spectacular luminous phenomena" which "lasted twenty minutes and was observed from Tenerife, La Palma and La Gomera." The most sensational aspect was the experience of a medical doctor and his taxi driver, who reported a transparent sphere with two tall entities inside. The Spanish Air Force assigned an investigative adjutant to review the case:

"Then, numerous witnesses belonging to different positions and cultural strata, saw it with similar characteristics in the Grand Canary island. Therefore, the fact that a very strange and peculiar aerial phenomenon occurred on the night of 22 June is a true and proven fact, as incredible as its behavior and conditions may seem."

"If we study as a whole the three reports issued up to the present (1/75, 1/76, and 2/76), we should have to think seriously of the necessity of considering the possibility of accepting the hypothesis that a craft of unknown origin, propelled by an equally unknown energy, is moving freely over the skies in the Canaries."

BACKGROUND: At 2:00pm in November of 1976, Mr. Tony Hartono, an engineer, had taken photographs of the off- shore oil rig his company ARCO Indonesia was building in order to illustrate his progress report. He had one left and was standing on a platform facing the sea, wondering what else he could shoot to finish the film roll. Suddenly his attention was attracted to a little dark speck in the sky which was growing larger as it approached. It became a yellowish color as it continued its approach and came quite near the launch he was in. He used his last shot to capture this object on film. (ufoevidence)

BACKGROUND: Officer Coltrane was on patrol in the vicinity of Colfax, a small town with a thousands of inhabitants in Wisconsin, USA. At midday, he decided to stop the car to eat something, in a small isolated area. He noted that his radio was emitting crackles. He then noticed a metallic looking disc raising towards the the sky at a short distance from the parking space. While the object seemed to move towards him, Coltrane picked up his Polaroid camera, came out of the car and snapped some photographs. The object was so close in one of the images that it is possible to notice some details of its lower surface. In [the second] photograph the object is starting to move away. The total observation lasted a few minutes, the object being being lost from his sight when it accelerated and fled in the distance. Coltrane, shocked by the sighting, remained in amazement for two hours without saying anything, by fear of being ridiculed when he would have to submit his report to his chiefs.

BACKGROUND: Two former Air Force photographic analysts called this picture, "inscrutable." In other words, a mystery. This one photo is from a series of photos, none of the others had an unknown in it. The object was not seen nor heard at the time.

BACKGROUND: Mexican photographer Carlos Diaz pulled into a deserted car park at Ajusco Park near Mexico City. He was on an assignment for a magazine, and had arranged to meet a journalist who was yet to arrive. Diaz sat in his car, preparing his camera for the job ahead. Impatiently, Diaz began to look at his watch. Suddenly, his attention was caught by a strange yellow glow coming from the valley below him. At first he thought it was a forest fire, but, an instant later, the source of light revealed itself to be a large, orange, oval-shaped UFO, slowly hovering about 30 meters from his car. This was to be the beginning of one of the most compelling continuous contact cases in UFO history as Diaz reports he is contacted by the same beings to this day and has delivered a strong environmental message from these beings. Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, John Mack. Mack has a long history of dealing with abductees and contactees and believes that the Diaz case is among the most convincing he has come across.

Interestingly, the photographs were also analyzed by Dr Robert Nathan at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Nathan, a notorious UFO skeptic, stated that he could find no evidence of a fake. Certainly, for many who have examined the three images, the first shot is the most impressive. In it, the orange glowing craft can be seen through the windshield of the car, and light from the object is reflected both off the car's bonnet and off the metal guard rail by the side of the road. These, in particular, are details that experts claim are extremely difficult to fake.

BACKGROUND: At about 11:00 A.M., McRoberts is with her husband and their daughter on a service area close to Kelsey Bay, on the East coast of the Vancouver Island. During their pause they notice a cloud which passes on the top of a mountainous peak and makes the impression of an erupting volcano spitting a huge vapor blast. They find the scene rather amusing and worth a picture. Several days afterwards, when the photographs are developed, they notice on one of the photograph that there is a disc-type object in the sky. They are surprised, as they do not remember noticing anything in the sky at the time when they shot the photograph. They contact David Dodge, director of the of Vancouver planetarium. He examines the picture and remains disturbed by this singular photograph. He contacts ufologist, David Powell, who analyzes the pictures and cannot find any evidence of tampering. Richard F. Haines, a retired NASA scientist who became a famous ufologist, becomes interested in the Vancouver case. He carries out a thorough analysis of the negative and cannot discover any tampering either. His analysis is inserted in the scientific report of the Sturrock Panel.