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UFO Photos

Central Intelligence Agency · 2013-06-24 · 109 pages · text by OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency file, declassified and approved for release on 2013/06/24, is a collection of published UFO photographs and captions. It includes images reported over Helsinki, Grenoble, Brazil, Bad Hersfeld, Upper Gornal, Hawthorne, Bulawayo and Salem, Massachusetts. It also has Cedric Allingham's 1954 Lossiemouth photographs, Palomar Gardens telescopic pictures from 13 December 1952, a Washington D.C. Airport radar plot, and Captain Jack Bicknell's sketch from near Mount Kilimanjaro. The file offers no analysis or conclusions.

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p. 67 …It was made by Deputy Sheriff David Fitzpatrick, of Washtenaw County, Mich., using a Minox camera…

This mysterious object was photographed in the summer of 1953, over Bad Hersfeld, western Germany. The top picture shows the lower disk enlarged about 35 times. As will be noticed, it appears to have a cupola near the center and another protuberance near the right rim.

Cases discussed

The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
unidentified objects... tracked on the radarscope at Washington D.C. Airport
George Adamski's Desert Center Contact 1952
telescopic picture, taken at Palomar Gardens, California... 13 December 1952
Salem Coast Guard Air Station UFO Photograph 1952
Photograph taken at Salem, Massachusetts, by Coastguard Shell Arpert
Cedric Allingham's Flying Saucer from Mars, Lossiemouth, 1954 1954
Cedric Allingham took at approximately 3.45 p.m., on 18th February, 1954 near Lossiemouth
Michigan "Swamp Gas" Sightings: Dexter and Hillsdale 1966
Deputy Sheriff David Fitzpatrick, of Washtenaw County, Mich.

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