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Rhodes</div> <p><span class="geo-inline-hidden noexcerpt"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&params=33.498843_N_112.051887_W_"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">33°29′56″N</span> <span class="longitude">112°03′07″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">33.498843°N 112.051887°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">33.498843; -112.051887</span></span></span></a></span></span> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rhodes_UFO_photos.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Rhodes_UFO_photos.png/350px-Rhodes_UFO_photos.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Rhodes_UFO_photos.png/525px-Rhodes_UFO_photos.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Rhodes_UFO_photos.png/700px-Rhodes_UFO_photos.png 2x" data-file-width="5533" data-file-height="1923" /></a><figcaption>The Rhodes UFO photographs<sup id="cite_ref-AzRepJul9_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AzRepJul9-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Rhodes UFO photographs</b>, sometimes called <b>the shoe-heel UFO photographs</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> purport to show a disc-like object flying above <a href="/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, United States.<sup id="cite_ref-AzRepJul9_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AzRepJul9-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two photographs were reportedly taken on July 7, 1947, by amateur astronomer and inventor <a href="/wiki/William_Albert_Rhodes" title="William Albert Rhodes">William Albert Rhodes</a>. They were printed in the newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/The_Arizona_Republic" title="The Arizona Republic">The Arizona Republic</a></i> on July 9, along with Rhodes's account of his sighting of the object.<sup id="cite_ref-AzRepJul9_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AzRepJul9-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Published near the end of the <a href="/wiki/1947_flying_disc_craze" title="1947 flying disc craze">1947 flying disc craze</a>, the photographs were among the first showing an <a href="/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object" title="Unidentified flying object">unidentified flying object</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They continue to be discussed by commentators.<sup id="cite_ref-12News_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12News-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span 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a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sidebar{display:none!important}}</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks hlist" style="width:18.0em; background:#ececff;"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title" style="background:#ccccff;"><a href="/wiki/1947_flying_disc_craze" title="1947 flying disc craze">1947 flying disc craze</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image" style="padding-bottom:0.4em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png/200px-1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png/300px-1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png/400px-1947-Flying-Disc-Craze-headline.png 2x" data-file-width="619" data-file-height="608" /></a></span><div class="sidebar-caption"><small>Headline from July 6, 1947</small></div></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;"> Events</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding-top:0.2em;padding-bottom:0.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting" title="Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting">Kenneth Arnold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flight_105_UFO_sighting" title="Flight 105 UFO sighting">Flight 105</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roswell_incident" title="Roswell incident">Roswell</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Rhodes photographs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twin_Falls_saucer_hoax" title="Twin Falls saucer hoax">Twin Falls hoax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maury_Island_hoax" class="mw-redirect" title="Maury Island hoax">Maury Island hoax</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting" title="Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting">Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting</a> and <a href="/wiki/1947_flying_disc_craze" title="1947 flying disc craze">1947 flying disc craze</a></div> <p>On June 24, 1947, civilian pilot <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold" title="Kenneth Arnold">Kenneth Arnold</a> reported that <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting" title="Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting">he had seen nine objects</a> flying over <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington State</a>. From his description of the objects, the press invented the term <i><a href="/wiki/Flying_saucer" title="Flying saucer">flying saucers</a></i>. By June 27, airborne objects were being reported nationwide.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sightings began occurring in Arizona by the second week of July. <i>The Arizona Republic</i> published a story on July 7 about <a href="/wiki/Tempe,_Arizona" title="Tempe, Arizona">Tempe</a> resident Francis Howell, who reported seeing a "circular object about two feet [60 cm] in diameter floating to the earth" near his home. According to Howell, when he approached the object, it "slowly went into the air at a 45-degree angle headed in the direction of Phoenix".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On July 8, the same newspaper reported two "silvery balls" in the skies north of Phoenix. The paper stated that the objects were "estimated to be about twice as large as an airplane".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication">Publication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On July 9, 1947, the front page of <i>The Arizona Republic</i> featured Rhodes's photographs under the headline "Mystery 'Whatsis' Photographed over Phoenix". The newspaper characterized the object depicted in the photographs as "the shape of a heel of a shoe, with a small hole in the center". The accompanying article described Rhodes as an amateur radio operator and a model airplane manufacturer, who was lauded in the model aircraft community for advances in radio control. The newspaper recounted that Rhodes was walking to his home workshop when he heard a loud "whoosh". He believed that it was from a jet-propelled <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star" title="Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star">Lockheed P-80</a>. Rhodes grabbed a camera and made two photographs. He noted that after the initial "whoosh", the object was completely silent, and said that the object made three passes over his home and left two trails of vapor.<sup id="cite_ref-AzRepJul9_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AzRepJul9-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Investigation">Investigation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Investigation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arnold_AAF_document.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Arnold_AAF_document.jpg/220px-Arnold_AAF_document.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Arnold_AAF_document.jpg/330px-Arnold_AAF_document.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Arnold_AAF_document.jpg/440px-Arnold_AAF_document.jpg 2x" data-file-width="528" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>On July 12, Kenneth Arnold drew a crescent shape to describe the disc he claimed to have witnessed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010Ch._14_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010Ch._14-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Files released in 2015 detail the official investigation into Rhodes and his photographs.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On July 8, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> obtained copies of the photographs from the managing editor of <i>The Arizona Republic</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On August 29, Rhodes was interviewed by Special Agent Brower of the FBI and George Fugate Jr. of the Army's <a href="/wiki/Counterintelligence_Corps" title="Counterintelligence Corps">Counterintelligence Corps</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Army_Airfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamilton Army Airfield">Hamilton Field</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rhodes gave the men photographs and negatives.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two <a href="/wiki/Air_Materiel_Command" title="Air Materiel Command">Air Materiel Command</a> officers visited Rhodes in Phoenix.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1949, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a> internally published its first secret study of UFOs, titled <i>Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States</i>. The report included the Rhodes photographs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Project_Blue_Book" title="Project Blue Book">Project Blue Book</a> designated the case "Incident 40".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Explanations">Explanations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Explanations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Windblown_debris">Windblown debris</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Windblown debris"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Air Force stated in a report that it had consulted four "expert photographers" about the Rhodes photographs, and they had "disagree[d] with each other as to the possibility of filming such an occurrence under the conditions described. Considering that the object was grey as described, and at a distance of 2000 feet [600 m], it seems unlikely that it would appear pure black on the print." The report also noted that Rhodes referred to himself as chief of staff of a laboratory, the specialties of which included photography; "Yet, the negative was carelessly cut and faultily developed. It is covered with streaks and over a period of six months, has faded very noticeably." Additionally, an agent had discovered that the science fiction magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories" title="Amazing Stories">Amazing Stories</a></i>, which of late had been including UFO reports submitted by readers, had printed a letter from Rhodes, in which he asked the magazine for advice on suing the government to get back his photographs and negatives. However, Rhodes had never made a request to the government for their return. As well, the report noted, Rhodes's "character and business affiliations are presently under investigation". Finally, the report stated that "Dr. <a href="/wiki/Irving_Langmuir" title="Irving Langmuir">Irving Langmuir</a> studied subject photographs, and after learning of the prior passage of a thunderstorm, discounted the photographed object as being merely paper swept up by the winds.<span class="nowrap"> </span>... In view of the apparent character of the witness, the conclusion by Dr. Langmuir seems entirely probable."<sup id="cite_ref-CondonPg852-3_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CondonPg852-3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Air_Material_Command_conclusion_on_Phoenix_shoe-heel_disc_photographs_of_July_7_1947.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Air_Material_Command_conclusion_on_Phoenix_shoe-heel_disc_photographs_of_July_7_1947.jpg/220px-Air_Material_Command_conclusion_on_Phoenix_shoe-heel_disc_photographs_of_July_7_1947.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Air_Material_Command_conclusion_on_Phoenix_shoe-heel_disc_photographs_of_July_7_1947.jpg/330px-Air_Material_Command_conclusion_on_Phoenix_shoe-heel_disc_photographs_of_July_7_1947.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Air_Material_Command_conclusion_on_Phoenix_shoe-heel_disc_photographs_of_July_7_1947.jpg/440px-Air_Material_Command_conclusion_on_Phoenix_shoe-heel_disc_photographs_of_July_7_1947.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2038" data-file-height="2560" /></a><figcaption>The Air Force concluded that the photographed object was likely windblown debris.<sup id="cite_ref-CondonPg852-3_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CondonPg852-3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Langmuir later recalled: "It looked to me like a piece of tar paper when I first saw it and the two photographs showed the thing in entirely different shapes.<span class="nowrap"> </span>... It was taken about fifteen or twenty minutes after a violent thunderstorm out in <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>. Well, what's more natural than some piece of tar paper picked up by a little miniature twister and being carried a few thousand feet up into the clouds and it was coming down, that's all.<span class="nowrap"> </span>... 'But it was going at an enormous speed.' Of course the man who saw it didn't have the vaguest idea of how far away it was. That's the trouble. If you see something that's up in the sky, a light or any kind of an object, you haven't the vaguest idea of how big it is. You can guess anything you like about the speed. You ask people how big the moon is. Some say it is as big as your fist, or as big as a baseball. Some say as big as a house. Well, how big is it really? You can't tell by looking at it."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="CONCLUSION">CONCLUSION</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: CONCLUSION"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the same day that Rhodes claimed to have taken his photographs, it was reported that the FBI was investigating a letter received by the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Examiner" title="Los Angeles Examiner">Los Angeles Examiner</a></i>, asserting that the flying discs that had been widely sighted were atomic-powered <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> craft. The newspaper had consulted a "top-flight atomic scientist", who assessed the letter as "not all nonsense", and recommended that it be given to authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One historian argues that Rhodes faked his photographs, using the story of the Soviet craft as a model: "The similarities between the images in the Rhodes photographs and the touted Russian 'invention' are fairly marked. The alleged Russian device was said to be only 18 inches [46 cm] thick and of a kidney-shape outline with the pilot in a prone position while guiding its flight. Generally, this matches Rhodes' <i>U</i>-shaped object with the 'nonprotruding' canopy, thus was it an accident that the first good saucer photo compared so well with the supposed Communist design? This could confirm the Russian rumor, or it could mean Rhodes faked his story and pictures since the Soviet missive saw print the same day as the claimed Phoenix UFO flyby".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Raypalmer1930.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Raypalmer1930.jpg/125px-Raypalmer1930.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Raypalmer1930.jpg/188px-Raypalmer1930.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Raypalmer1930.jpg/250px-Raypalmer1930.jpg 2x" data-file-width="626" data-file-height="761" /></a><figcaption>Raymond A. Palmer.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Raymond_A._Palmer" title="Raymond A. Palmer">Raymond A. Palmer</a> was a magazine editor and publisher who first found success as editor of <i>Amazing Stories</i>, beginning in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Palmer blended fact and fiction into a conspiracy theory, combining actual reports of UFOs with fictional stories, as epitomized by the <a href="/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_Shaver#The_Shaver_Mystery" title="Richard Sharpe Shaver">Shaver Mystery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the first issue of his magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Fate_(magazine)" title="Fate (magazine)">Fate</a></i>, published during the spring of 1948, Palmer reprinted the Rhodes photographs, along with the text of the original article from <i>The Arizona Republic</i>. He cited the photographs, along with "a great many witnesses," as "<em>proof positive</em> that these objects were<span class="nowrap"> </span>... flying disks of an aeronautical design unrecognizable by experts". Palmer questioned the lack of subsequent reporting by other newspapers on the photographs, which he claimed "were the <em>hottest</em> news in the world" on the day that they were printed in <i>The Arizona Republic</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Palmer would continue to use the Rhodes photographs as evidence of his UFO theories, notably in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Coming_of_the_Saucers" title="The Coming of the Saucers">The Coming of the Saucers</a></i>, a 1952 book written by Palmer and original flying-saucer witness Arnold.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 1958 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Saucers_(magazine)" title="Flying Saucers (magazine)">Flying Saucers</a></i>, yet another of Palmer's magazines, he claimed that attempts had been made by the government to suppress the Rhodes photographs, in part by recalling issues of <i>The Arizona Republic</i> containing them: "All the copies<span class="nowrap"> </span>... were seized by the army, in a house-to-house canvass, and all plates from the newspaper, plus the photo negatives and prints. The only known copy of the paper, plus duplicate negatives, prints from the original negatives, and statements of witnesses outside secret army files at the time were secured by <i>Flying Saucers</i> editor prior to the arrival of the army on the scene". Palmer was derided by <i>Arizona Republic</i> columnist Dan Dedera, who noted, "Circulation of three editions then was about 64,000<span class="nowrap"> </span>... door-door army confiscation<span class="nowrap"> </span>... would have demanded the services of many army divisions".<sup id="cite_ref-auto_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Riddle of the Flying Saucers</i>, a 1950 book by <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Heard" title="Gerald Heard">Gerald Heard</a>, discusses the Rhodes photographs.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 1952 article, an <i>Arizona Republic</i> reporter stated that he had sighted a flying disc in 1947 near <a href="/wiki/White_Sands,_New_Mexico" title="White Sands, New Mexico">White Sands</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, and later "was startled to see the tremendous likeness between what I had seen and the object photographed by William A. Rhodes".<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rhodes was interviewed in 1998 by <a href="/wiki/KSAZ-TV" title="KSAZ-TV">KSAZ-TV</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His photographs would continue to be discussed by Arizona media into the 21st century.<sup id="cite_ref-PhoenixMag_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PhoenixMag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-KTVK18May_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KTVK18May-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 81. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520240322" title="Special:BookSources/9780520240322"><bdi>9780520240322</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Lost+Land+of+Lemuria%3A+Fabulous+Geographies%2C+Catastrophic+Histories&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.pages=81&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=9780520240322&rft.aulast=Ramaswamy&rft.aufirst=Sumathi&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPWD1EAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhodes+UFO+photographs" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1">"The Mystery of the Flying Disks"</a>. <i>Fate Magazine</i>. <b>I</b> (1): 18–48. 3 May 1948.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Fate+Magazine&rft.atitle=The+Mystery+of+the+Flying+Disks&rft.volume=I&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=18-48&rft.date=1948-05-03&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffate-1948-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhodes+UFO+photographs" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGulyas2016" class="citation book cs1">Gulyas, Aaron John (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=afcEDAAAQBAJ"><i>Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives</i></a>. McFarland. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780786497263" title="Special:BookSources/9780786497263"><bdi>9780786497263</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Conspiracy+Theories%3A+The+Roots%2C+Themes+and+Propagation+of+Paranoid+Political+and+Cultural+Narratives&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=9780786497263&rft.aulast=Gulyas&rft.aufirst=Aaron+John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DafcEDAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhodes+UFO+photographs" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPalmerArnold1952" class="citation book cs1">Palmer, Ray; Arnold, Kenneth (1952). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Coming_of_the_Saucers" title="The Coming of the Saucers">The Coming of the Saucers</a></i>. p. 52.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Coming+of+the+Saucers&rft.pages=52&rft.date=1952&rft.aulast=Palmer&rft.aufirst=Ray&rft.au=Arnold%2C+Kenneth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhodes+UFO+photographs" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHeard1950" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Heard" title="Gerald Heard">Heard, Gerald</a> (1950). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tfEDAQAAIAAJ"><i>The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: Is Another World Watching?</i></a>. Carroll & Nicholson.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Riddle+of+the+Flying+Saucers%3A+Is+Another+World+Watching%3F&rft.pub=Carroll+%26+Nicholson&rft.date=1950&rft.aulast=Heard&rft.aufirst=Gerald&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DtfEDAQAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhodes+UFO+photographs" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto3-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-auto3_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23720174/arizona-republic/">"Republic Reporter Says He Saw 'Whatsits' In '47"</a>. <i>Newspapers.com</i>. Arizona Republic. 2 Aug 1952. p. 1.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Newspapers.com&rft.atitle=Republic+Reporter+Says+He+Saw+%27Whatsits%27+In+%2747&rft.pages=1&rft.date=1952-08-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fclip%2F23720174%2Farizona-republic%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhodes+UFO+photographs" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"[Rhodes's] photographs were printed in a local newspaper and drew the attention of the FBI, who obtained his negatives and declared them to be genuine photographs, though of what, we don't know. Perhaps it was the heel of a shoe, but it's a decent match to Arnold's own initial sketch of what he saw on 24 June, with a rounded front and straight sides meeting at a convex end."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010Ch._14_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPilkington2010Ch._14-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPilkington2010" class="citation book cs1">Pilkington, Mark (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ3BBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120"><i>Mirage Men: A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs</i></a>. Little, Brown Book. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781849012409" title="Special:BookSources/9781849012409"><bdi>9781849012409</bdi></a> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mirage+Men%3A+A+Journey+into+Disinformation%2C+Paranoia+and+UFOs&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown+Book&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=9781849012409&rft.aulast=Pilkington&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTQ3BBAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT120&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARhodes+UFO+photographs" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhodes_UFO_photographs&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span 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reported UFO sightings">Claimed sightings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings" title="List of reported UFO sightings">List of reported UFO sightings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_outer_space" title="UFO sightings in outer space">Sightings in outer space</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Pre-20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Merkabah_mysticism" title="Merkabah mysticism">Ezekiel's Wheel (circa 622–570 BC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airship_of_Clonmacnoise" title="Airship of Clonmacnoise">Airship of Clonmacnoise</a> (740s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg" title="1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg">1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1566_celestial_phenomenon_over_Basel" title="1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel">1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1665_celestial_phenomenon_over_Stralsund" title="1665 celestial phenomenon over Stralsund">1665 celestial phenomenon over Stralsund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonilla_observation" title="Bonilla observation">José Bonilla observation (1883)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_airship#The_airship_wave_of_1896-1897" title="Mystery airship">Airship wave (1896–97)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurora,_Texas,_UFO_incident" title="Aurora, Texas, UFO incident">Aurora (1897)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles" title="Battle of Los Angeles">Los Angeles (1942)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%84ngelholm_UFO_memorial" title="Ängelholm UFO memorial">Ängelholm UFO memorial (1946)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting" title="Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting">Kenneth Arnold (1947)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_flying_disc_craze" title="1947 flying disc craze">1947 craze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flight_105_UFO_sighting" title="Flight 105 UFO sighting">Flight 105 (1947)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roswell_incident" title="Roswell incident">Roswell (1947)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Rhodes (1947)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mantell_UFO_incident" title="Mantell UFO incident">Mantell (1948)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiles-Whitted_UFO_encounter" title="Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter">Chiles-Whitted (1948)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorman_dogfight" title="Gorman dogfight">Gorman Dogfight (1948)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariana_UFO_incident" title="Mariana UFO incident">Mariana (1950)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs" title="McMinnville UFO photographs">McMinnville photographs (1950)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sperry_UFO_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Sperry UFO case">Sperry (1950)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lubbock_Lights" title="Lubbock Lights">Lubbock Lights (1951)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nash-Fortenberry_UFO_sighting" title="Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting">Nash-Fortenberry (1952)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident">Washington, D.C. (1952)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flatwoods_monster" title="Flatwoods monster">Flatwoods monster (1952)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter" title="Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter">Kelly–Hopkinsville (1955)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakenheath-Bentwaters_incident" title="Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident">Lakenheath-Bentwaters (1956)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Villas_Boas" class="mw-redirect" title="Antônio Villas Boas">Antônio Villas Boas (1957)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levelland_UFO_case" title="Levelland UFO case">Levelland (1957)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Barney and Betty Hill">Barney and Betty Hill abduction (1961)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lonnie_Zamora_incident" title="Lonnie Zamora incident">Lonnie Zamora incident (1964)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solway_Firth_Spaceman" title="Solway Firth Spaceman">Solway Firth Spaceman (1964)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exeter_incident" title="Exeter incident">Exeter (1965)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kecksburg_UFO_incident" title="Kecksburg UFO incident">Kecksburg (1965)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westall_UFO" title="Westall UFO">Westall (1966)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falcon_Lake_Incident" title="Falcon Lake Incident">Falcon Lake (1967)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shag_Harbour_UFO_incident" title="Shag Harbour UFO incident">Shag Harbour (1967)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_UFO_incident" title="Jimmy Carter UFO incident">Jimmy Carter (1969)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Air_Force_UFO_sighting" title="Finnish Air Force UFO sighting">Finnish Air Force (1969)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction" title="Pascagoula Abduction">Pascagoula Abduction (1973)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lennon_UFO_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="John Lennon UFO incident">John Lennon UFO incident (1974)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travis_Walton_UFO_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="Travis Walton UFO incident">Travis Walton incident (1975)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident" title="1976 Tehran UFO incident">Tehran (1976)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrozavodsk_phenomenon" title="Petrozavodsk phenomenon">Petrozavodsk phenomenon (1977)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opera%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Prato" title="Operação Prato">Operação Prato (1977)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zanfretta_UFO_Incident" title="Zanfretta UFO Incident">Zanfretta incident (1978)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich" title="Disappearance of Frederick Valentich">Valentich disappearance (1978)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaikoura_lights" title="Kaikoura lights">Kaikoura Lights (1978)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Taylor_incident" title="Robert Taylor incident">Robert Taylor incident (1979)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Val_Johnson_incident" title="Val Johnson incident">Val Johnson incident (1979)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manises_UFO_incident" title="Manises UFO incident">Manises (1979)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident" title="Cash–Landrum incident">Cash–Landrum incident (1980)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident" title="Rendlesham Forest incident">Rendlesham Forest (1980)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-en-Provence_case" title="Trans-en-Provence case">Trans-en-Provence (1981)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Cargo_Flight_1628_incident" title="Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident">Japan Air Lines (1986)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilkley_Moor_UFO_incident" title="Ilkley Moor UFO incident">Ilkley Moor (1987)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voronezh_UFO_incident" title="Voronezh UFO incident">Voronezh incident (1989)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave" title="Belgian UFO wave">Belgian UFO wave (1990)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariel_School_UFO_incident" title="Ariel School UFO incident">Ariel School (1994)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident" title="Varginha UFO incident">Varginha (1996)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Lights" title="Phoenix Lights">Phoenix Lights (1997)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">21st century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Nimitz UFO incident">USS <i>Nimitz</i> UFO incident (2004)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Mexico#2004" title="UFO sightings in Mexico">Campeche, Mexico (2004)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_Airport_UFO_sighting" title="2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting">O'Hare Airport (2006)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Alderney_UFO_sighting" title="2007 Alderney UFO sighting">Alderney (2007)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Norwegian_spiral_anomaly" title="2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly">Norway (2009)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_UFO_incidents" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents">USS <i>Theodore Roosevelt</i> UFO incidents (2014)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jetpack_man" title="Jetpack man">Jetpack man (2020–21)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023" title="List of high-altitude object events in 2023">High-altitude object events (2023)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims" title="David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims">David Grusch claims (2023)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_UFO-related_hoaxes" title="List of UFO-related hoaxes">Confirmed hoaxes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maury_Island_incident" title="Maury Island incident">Maury Island hoax (1947)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twin_Falls_saucer_hoax" title="Twin Falls saucer hoax">Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aztec,_New_Mexico_UFO_hoax" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax">Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_British_flying_saucer_hoax" title="1967 British flying saucer hoax">Southern England (1967)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majestic_12" title="Majestic 12">Majestic 12 (1985)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Breeze_UFO_incident" title="Gulf Breeze UFO incident">Gulf Breeze (1987–88)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alien_Autopsy_(1995_film)" title="Alien Autopsy (1995 film)">Alien Autopsy (1995 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morristown_UFO_hoax" title="Morristown UFO hoax">Morristown (2009)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sightings by country</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Africa" title="UFO sightings in Africa">Africa</a> (<a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_South_Africa" title="UFO sightings in South Africa">South Africa</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Albania" title="UFO sightings in Albania">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Argentina" title="UFO sightings in Argentina">Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Australia" title="UFO sightings in Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Belarus" title="UFO sightings in Belarus">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Belgium" title="UFO sightings in Belgium">Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Brazil" title="UFO sightings in Brazil">Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Canada" title="UFO sightings in Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_China" title="UFO sightings in China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_the_Czech_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="UFO sightings in the Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_France" title="UFO sightings in France">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Greece" title="UFO sightings in Greece">Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_India" title="UFO sightings in India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Indonesia" title="UFO sightings in Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Iran" title="UFO sightings in Iran">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Italy" title="UFO sightings in Italy">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Mexico" title="UFO sightings in Mexico">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Nepal" title="UFO sightings in Nepal">Nepal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_New_Zealand" title="UFO sightings in New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Norway" title="UFO sightings in Norway">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Poland" title="UFO sightings in Poland">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Russia" title="UFO sightings in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Spain" title="UFO sightings in Spain">Spain</a> (<a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_the_Canary_Islands" title="UFO sightings in the Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Sweden" title="UFO sightings in Sweden">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="UFO sightings in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_the_United_States" title="UFO sightings in the United States">United States</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types of UFOs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_triangle_(UFO)" title="Black triangle (UFO)">Black triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flying_saucer" title="Flying saucer">Flying saucer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foo_fighter" title="Foo fighter">Foo fighter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_rockets" title="Ghost rockets">Ghost rockets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_fireballs" title="Green fireballs">Green fireballs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_airship" title="Mystery airship">Mystery airship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_jellyfish" title="Space jellyfish">Space jellyfish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_alleged_extraterrestrial_beings" title="List of alleged extraterrestrial beings">Types of alleged<br /> extraterrestrial beings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> 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href="/wiki/The_Flying_Saucers_Are_Real" title="The Flying Saucers Are Real"><i>The Flying Saucers Are Real</i> (1947–1950)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Sign" title="Project Sign">Project Sign (1948)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Grudge" title="Project Grudge">Project Grudge (1949)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flying_Saucer_Working_Party" title="Flying Saucer Working Party">Flying Saucer Working Party (1950)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Magnet_(UFO)" title="Project Magnet (UFO)">Project Magnet (1950–1962)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Blue_Book" title="Project Blue Book">Project Blue Book (1952–1970)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_Panel" title="Robertson Panel">Robertson Panel (1953)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Report_on_Unidentified_Flying_Objects" title="The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects">Ruppelt report (1956)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Investigations_Committee_On_Aerial_Phenomena" title="National Investigations Committee On 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