Mystery as UFO snapped by thousands across the globe - and it’s still being investigated

The same phenomenon has been recorded on cameras across the globe.

THIS strange-looking UFO has been photographed thousands of times in all corners of the globe.

By JON AUSTIN
PUBLISHED: 15:16, Tue, Jun 13, 2017
UPDATED: 16:04, Tue, Jun 13, 2017

The strange phenomena, described as an orb of light inside a disk-shaped purple haze, continues to make headlines worldwide after being captured on camera.

In the latest case, The Irish Sun reported that a "bizarre UFO" was pictured in daylight above County Leitrim, which it said was a UFO hotspot.

The newspaper website described it as an "eerie snap of a UFO," and said it had been recorded as a sighting by the Filer’s Research Institute, the US-based National UFO Center, run by Major George A. Filer, who spent 20 years in the Air Force working as an intelligence officer, and is now convinced aliens exist.

The Irish Sun warded of sceptics, saying: "Before you dismiss it as a picture of the moon at night – the image was taken in broad daylight."

It called on astronomer Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory in Boyle, Co Roscommon, for his view.

He said he thought the latest sighting could be a new form of light known as a plasma ball.

He said: "There’s a similar ball of light that has been seen in a place called Hessdalen in Norway.

“I know the people who operate there and they have automated instrumentation that has recorded them, and we’ve had recordings here as well.

“It appears to be a new form of light in physics that we don’t know about yet, so we’re putting the physics to it to see what it’s about.”

But, Express.co.uk can reveal that the object in question is actually a common form of lens flare - meaning there was nothing outside the camera when the snap was taken.

Source - Express.co.uk (Read Full Story)

‘Something extraordinary happened here’ – Colonel Charles Halt returns to UFO site in Rendlesham

Tom Potter
PUBLISHED: 08:16 21 May 2017 | UPDATED: 08:21 21 May 2017

Colonel Charles I. Halt returns to Rendlesham Forest. Picture: TOM POTTER

“It brings back old memories,” said retired US Air Force colonel Charles Halt on his return to the spot where, in December 1980, he was at the centre of a UFO mystery in Rendlesham Forest.



As deputy commander of Bentwaters and Woodbridge bases, Mr Halt wrote a memo to the Ministry of Defence describing the incident, and recorded what became known as the Halt Tape – made public the following year.

Source - East Anglian Daily Times ( Read More)

Falcon Lake incident is Canada's 'best-documented UFO case,' even 50 years later

Son of man involved in famous Manitoba UFO case has written a book about ongoing mystery

Darren Bernhardt - CBC News

Stefan Michalak was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern.


Stan Michalak can still vividly remember when his dad came home sick and injured after something happened in the Falcon Lake woods in Manitoba on the May long weekend of 1967.

It was something that put his family life into upheaval and remains one of the world's best-known UFO encounters.

"I recalled seeing him in bed. He didn't look good at all. He looked pale, haggard," said Michalak, who was nine years old at the time and was allowed to see his dad for a couple of minutes on the day after what soon become known as the Falcon Lake incident.

Source - CBC NEWS (Read Full Story)

The Rendlesham Forest Incident

The Rendlesham Forest Incident

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Summary: The Rendlesham forest incident of Christmas 1980 is probably one of the most remarkable UFO incidents on record. It has been dubbed the "British Roswell" but in reality is probably a far more intriguing case. This site has a brief overview of the case.

Solway Firth Spaceman

The Solway Firth Spaceman (aka the Solway Spaceman and the Cumberland Spaceman) is a supposed mystery figure captured in a photograph taken by amateur photographer Jim Templeton in 1964 on a marsh near Solway Firth in Cumbria, England. It has been variously claimed in woo circles as photographic evidence of an extraterrestrial, a ghost, or a time traveler.


Templeton's photo
On May 23, 1964, Cumbria resident Templeton took his wife and two daughters on an outing to scenic Burgh Marsh. While there, he snapped some family photos using his late 1950s model Zeiss Contax "Pentacon F" SLR camera. Templeton claimed that when the photos were developed, the local developer remarked that one contained a very mysterious background figure that appeared to be wearing a space suit. Templeton swore he didn't see any such thing when the photograph was taken. He also swore he and his family were alone on the marsh that day. Gossip of the strange photo spread fast, and soon the photo was published in the local, and then the national British newspapers. The integrity of Templeton's camera and original negatives were allegedly vetted by Kodak. The mystery photo rapidly gained the 1964 equivalent of viral status when world wide press picked it up, and a Ufology legend was born.[1]


Templeton claimed that shortly afterwards he was visited by two strangers wearing dark suits and driving a Jaguar who said they were Government officials. Supposedly, they took Templeton on a drive to Burgh Marsh during which they alternately questioned and threatened him unless he admitted he'd hoaxed the photo. Templeton claims they ejected him from the car when he would not cooperate and made him walk back to town. Later, he told a newspaper he thought the incident had been a joke played on him.[2]

Templeton also claimed a technician from the Blue Streak missile project in Woomera, Australia contacted him and told him that a missile launch had to be aborted because similar-looking "spacemen" were seen wandering around the launchpad.[3] There are no records of any such incident to substantiate Templeton's second-hand claim.

Neither the late Templeton nor his family ever admitted to hoaxing the story or the image, and allegedly were convinced something mysterious had been captured on film that day.

Cherchez la femme



Templeton's wife on the right. The upper part of her blue dress overexposes as white.
The mysterious spaceman story might have rocked on forever as one of Forteana's greatest hits were it not for the denizens of a number of internet forums who wielded Occam's Razor with deadly accuracy.[4][5] A photo analyst demonstrated that the “spaceman” was nothing more than an adult person of normal height with their back to the camera walking away from the child.[6] Others observed that another photograph taken that day shows Templeton's wife, Annie, wearing a very light blue sleeveless dress. Closer examination of the original "spaceman" image reveals that the arm of the mysterious figure has a decidedly tapering, feminine curve to it. Exactly like the bare arm of a woman wearing a very light blue sleeveless dress. Her back to us, she is probably wearing some kind of white cap over her close-cropped hairstyle.[7] Enhancing the contrast of the photo further reveals the distinctive neckline and arm holes of her dress.[8]

What actually happened



The viewfinder of Templeton's 1950s model SLR only allowed him to see 70% of the scene.


Police skeptical of "spaceman".
The famous "spaceman" illusion was created when Annie Templeton inadvertently photobombed[9] the snapshot taken by her amateur photographer husband. He didn't see her in the background due to the blind spot in his Pentacon F SLR camera's viewfinder that only allowed him to see 70% of what the lens was capturing.[10] This is backed up by the other photo taken that day that shows his wife, again caught in Templeton's blind spot.

So Templeton's lifelong claims were technically sincere: there was no one else with them that day, and he really didn't see anything other than his daughter when he took the photo, and the photograph wasn't manipulated, faked, or staged in any way. Templeton may have been honestly puzzled by the photo, at least initially. But given the improvements in SLR design over the years, it's hard to imagine photo hobbyist Templeton never discovered his vintage camera's notorious blind spot. It's more likely that possible public embarrassment prevented Templeton from changing his "mystery" story once it became cemented as fact by the world wide press.

It's also quite possible that Templeton was fully aware that his chance photo mistake had created a perfect vehicle for mass misinterpretation and pareidolia, but he enjoyed the attention gained by the photo so much that he encouraged the mystery and even promoted it over the years. And given the choice of having her husband seen in the press as either a bungling amateur photographer or someone who captured evidence of something mysterious, no doubt his wife Annie would have chosen the latter.

Gulf Breeze, Florida

Gulf Breeze, Florida

Gulf Breeze, Florida, a town with a population of just slightly over 6000, enjoyed their anonymity.  But in the winter of 1987, their sleepy little town became the focus of the world.

The New Jersey Lights (2001)

The New Jersey Lights (2001)

Strange Lights in the Sky

On July 15, 2001, the weather in Carteret, New Jersey was perfectly clear and calm. There were no clouds in the sky and all stars were clearly discernible. Around 12:30 AM on that Sunday morning, phones at the Carteret Police Station began ringing off the hook. Witnesses, and there were hundreds of them, were reporting a extraordinary array of lights in the sky.

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting - first UFO report Introduction

The Hopeh China Sighting (1942) Hopeh China Photograph

The Hopeh China Sighting (1942)
Hopeh China Photograph

A young Japanese student Masujiro Kiryu, was going through his fathers scrapbook of photographs from the China Campaign, just before World War II, when he discovered a strange cone-shaped object in the sky above a Tsientsien Street.  In the photograph, a number of people in the street are looking up and two are pointing up at the object (click on picture for full-size view).  A sidewalk photographer snapped a picture of the strange machine and his father bought it from the street vendor for a souvenir of the place.  The sidewalk photographer was later discovered to be an American man on duty who was walking the streets of the northern Chinese town.  The American thought it was a "hat" silently blowing across the street.  He quickly grabbed his camera and snapped this infamous picture.

Very little details are known about this photograph.

The 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly - spiral-shaped UFO witnessed by thousands in Norway

The 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly - spiral-shaped UFO witnessed by thousands in Norway


It is not uncommon to see unusual lights in the skies of Norway.  The Hessdalen Lights have been reported in Norway since the 1800’s.  But in 2009, a light was spotted in the skies above Norway that made other glowing-light UFO sightings pale by comparison.  Called the “Norwegian spiral anomaly” or “Star Gate”, the UFO was visible to thousands of awe-struck Norwegians and photographed extensively, from Norway to Sweden.  The event occurred on December 9, 2009 and lasted from 2-3 minutes (some sources say it lasted up to 10 minutes).  It consisted of a blue beam of light that came from behind a mountain with a grayish spiral-shaped hue of light emanating from it.

Nuremberg Germany UFO Battle (1561) Nuremberg Battle

Nuremberg Germany UFO Battle (1561)
Nuremberg Battle

One of the earliest of documented sightings of aerial phenomena took place on April 4, 1561 at dawn over Nuremberg, Germany. What was described as a war in the heavens, with a wide variety of craft ranging from spheres to spear-like cylinders to crosses and "plates". The sky was apparently filled with the machines, clashing in battle for well over an hour.  The battle was such that a winner was perceived as well.  Spheroid UFOs were seen emerging from cylindrical 'motherships'.

Chicago O'Hare International Airport UFO - disc-shaped UFO seen by dozens of credible witnesses (2006)

Chicago O'Hare International Airport UFO - disc-shaped UFO seen by dozens of credible witnesses (2006)


Note: Unlike most photography used on Altered Dimensions, photos used in this article should be considered “illustrative” only.  None have been successfully authenticated by AD and at least one (the one above) is believed by many to have been digitally manipulated.

The 2006 Chicago O’Hare UFO sighting is regarded as one of the most well-documented and widely-witnessed UFO sightings in modern history.

Belgian UFO Wave

Belgian UFO wave

On November 29, 1989, Belgium citizens, including several large groups of people and three groups of police officers, reported seeing a large triangular shaped craft flying at low altitude over the Belgium countryside. The reported UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) was flat with bright lights underneath that changed colors (red, green, and yellow). The object flew low to the ground without making a sound. Cross checking the various reports revealed that the object travelled from the town of Liege towards the borders of Germany and the Netherlands. Before the night was over, the object would be sighted by over 1,500 people on the ground resulting in seventy different police reports and would trigger a military response from the Belgium military.

Air Shuttle 5959 and Mesaba 3179 - two airlines simultaneously report disc-shaped UFO over Michigan (February 28, 1996)

Air Shuttle 5959 and Mesaba 3179 - two airlines simultaneously report disc-shaped UFO over Michigan (February 28, 1996)


On February 28, 1996 at 12:50 AM, during a time when an abundance of UFOs were being reported over America’s Midwest region, two commercial aircraft, Air Shuttle 5959 and Mesaba Airlines flight 3179, simultaneously reported seeing an unidentifiable flying object hovering in the night sky over Detroit, Michigan. The conversation between the two airline pilots and the Cleveland control tower was recorded and revealed that pilot and crew from each aircraft both described seeing a large, brightly-lit, pulsating, disc-shaped UFO hovering in the sky. The incident was never openly covered in the public press and remained relatively unknown for many years afterward. Photographs taken of the object have never surfaced.