1965-Santa Ana, California. August 3. Taken by highway traffic engineer Rex Heflin, while driving near the Santa Ana freeway. Heflin did not report his sighting, but the photographs were published by the Santa Ana Register on 09-20-65. This turned into a very controversial case with photos confiscated, and disagreements between different Ufologists about the photograph's authenticity. One of the most famous UFO photos ever taken, and more than not accepted as genuine.
I first saw this cool photo in the first Countdown annual and even then I thought it could be real. Just surfing for pics on Google and found this interesting toy patent issued some three years later... now i wonder...
Love the description: Toy Flying Saucer Or The Like.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe I should patent a "summat"!
The Heflin photo appeared in just about every UFO book I had as a kid. At that time I never once doubted that there was a genuine alien spacecraft in that photo.
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