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CITY HALL – 1937 PHOTOGRAPH OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
(Reprinted with kind permission of BJ Booth – UFO Casebook.)
This article was written by Dirk Vander Ploeg and the photo was taken by Leonard Lamoureux in 1937. Leonard was visiting Vancouver, British Columbia when he et up his camera on a makeshift tripod to photograph a Christmas light display. He was 21 and on leave from the army. He was with his brother, Wilfred.
He had setup his camera facing the Vancouver courthouse. Suddenly, a "bright blue light" descended rapidly and increased in size. The brothers observed that the source of the light was "two saucersw" with open ends, facing each and glowed bright blue.
The craft moved diagonally from the courthouse to the City Hall and hovered momentarily in front of Leonard. It sat in the air suspended above a flagpole. Leonard snapped the picture! It then suddenly shot up into the sky and vanished. It spooked the brothers so much that they fled in terror.
Leonard had shot a series of photos and only the above showed the unknown object. Apparently, the camera was a basic model and did not have a multiple exposure setting.
Critics claim that the object is simply a bubble or watermark defect in the negative.
This is the famous
photograph taken by Paul Trent on May 8th, 1950 in McMinnville,
Oregon (U.S.A.) There was a great debate over the time of day, (morning or
evening), the number of photos taken, the angle of the photos, etc. Finally it
was resolved and agreed upon by UFOlogists in general that for over 50 years
this particular photograph has been deemed authentic. A great precursor to the present time when photographs can be
morphed double-exposed and/or hoaxed by amateurs.
This photograph, on the
other hand, is one of many, taken by Billy Meier, which is the subject of a
great debate as to authenticity. Meier
maintains a website of his ongoing contact with alien beings.
He claims to have been in constant communications with these same alien
beings for over 50 years.
These are the famous
“Lubbock Lights” pictures. Named
after the initial sighting location in Lubbock, Texas beginning on August 25,
1951. Seen by literally hundreds
and hundreds of people over a series of nights these lights were as famous in
the 1950’s as the “Phoenix Lights were a few years ago. Now deemed to be authentic for two reasons.
First because of the number of eye witnesses and second because the
sighting date preceded most folks ability to hoax photographs.
This is just one of a great number of photographs of the Lubbock Lights.
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This is one of the famous
“Trinade Island” photographs taken aboard ship and witnessed by 48 seamen
aboard that ship at the time. The
Almirante Saldahna was a Navy training ship.
This photograph was from January 16, 1958.
Here again, a time in history, prior to the widespread ability of
ordinary people to “hoax” photographs.
The poor quality of the photograph is due to the distance of the object
from the ship, at the time the picture was taken.
This was nicknamed:
“The Belgium Black Triangle”. Sighted
by ordinary citizens but more importantly by members and pilots of the Belgium
Air Force on military exercises. This
particular shape of triangle, along with many photographs, has generally been
accepted as authentic.
