Beginnings of Photography
The First, the name. We owe the name "Photography" to Sir John Herschel, who first used the term in 1839, the year the photographic process became public. (*1) The word…
HowTo Make a Good Seapix
While there are quite a few tips and tricks I can suggest, these are the six "cardinal" rules that I think every underwater photographer should know. Even though there are…
Making The Time Fit The Crime
The computer virus may just be the modern plague that afflicts the upcoming millennium. The "infection" numbers are staggering. The annual damage cost associated with viruses was estimated at over…
Arts in Lithuania
Both folk and professional arts draw on the harmony, subjectivity and expressiveness of the Lithuanian character. Graphic and applied decorative art flourished in the palaces of the grand dukes and…
1952 Flying Saucer Wave
During July 1952 a massive build up of sightings occurred in the United States. The sheer number of sightings caused the Military of the time much concern as the reports…
UFO fragments yield sensational results
An unidentified flying object has crashed in the Far East. Hundreds of people witnessed the event. The UFO crashed into the rocky mountains located in the town of Dalnegorsk. A…
UFOS at close sight: article by Air & Space Magazine, 1987
ARTICLE BY AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE, 1988: Air & Space Magazine published this article by Dennis Stacy in its December 1987/January 1988 issue. WHEN PILOTS SEE UFOs: People have been…
The Mantell Case
On January 7th 1948 at the Godman Air Field tower crew sighted a bright, disc shaped object. The sighting was quickly brought to the attention of the base operations officer,…
The 1917 Fatima Sightings
On May 13, 1917, three illiterate shepherd children, at work tending sheep outside Fatima, Portugal, were surprised by a bright flash in a nearby pasture called Cova de Ira, widely…
Cascade Mountains
On June 24th 1947 pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying over the Cascade Mountains when his attention was drawn to a set of nine strange looking objects darting across the sky.…
Chiles-Whitted
On July 24, 1948, two experienced Eastern Airlines crew members, pilot Clarence S. Chiles and his co-pilot, John B. Whitted, en route from Houston to Atlanta, encountered a one hundred-foot-long,…
24th April 1950 – Abbiate Buazzone
On 24th April 1950, near his home in Abbiate Buazzone, in Italy, Bruno Facchini saw sparks which at the time he thought were being genereated by a storm. When he…
The Trementon Film
At 11:10 am on July 2nd, 1950, Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, a veteran Navy photographer, shot about thirty feet of film of ten or twelve strange, silvery objects in…
The Great Falls Movie
At 11 on August 5, 1950, in Great Falls, Montana, Nicholas Mariana shot nearly twenty seconds of film of two disc-shaped objects as they moved across the sky. On some…
The Lubbock Lights
These sightings commenced the night of August 25th, 1951, and were witnessed by an Atomic Energy Commission executive and his wife from their Lubbock, Texas, backyard and simultaneously observed by…
RAF Topcliffe
On 19th September 1952, during a NATO exercise, 2 RAF officers and 3 aircrew at RAF Topcliffe observed a strange object which appeared to be following a Meteor Jet. In…
Kinross AFB
On November 23rd, 1953 over Lake Superior, Air Defence Command radar started to track an unidentified target moving at 500 miles per hour over the lake. A F-89C all-weather jet…
Corning
On 13th August, 1960,near midnight, whilst driving east of Corning, California, state police officers Charles Carson and Stanley Scott saw a lighted object drop out of the sky. Fearing the…
The Solway Firth Photo
On 24th May 1964, Jim Templeton, a fireman from Carlisle in the North of England, took his young daughter out to the marches overlooking the Solway Firth to take some…
The Dexter-Hillsdale Sighting
On March 20th, 1966, next Dexter, Michigan, farmer Frank Mannor and his son watched a car-sized, football-shaped object with a central porthole and pulsating lights at each end of its…