The Solway Firth Spaceman

Very often, photographs of the paranormal are fussy and blurry, which makes it easy for skeptics to attack its authenticity. But, there exist a handful of clear and distinct paranormal photographs that the skeptics have had a harder time with. One of those photographs was taken in 1964 on a hill in the northern parts of England.

It was on May 24, 1964 when firefighter Jim Templeton and his wife decided to take some photographs of their daughters in Burgh Marsh, near Burgh by Sands, Cambria, with Jim's Pentacon camera. Jim took a photograph of his five year old daughter Elizabeth. The Templeton's were the only people on the marsh throughout the day. Nothing seemed to out of the ordinary, except they the animal behaved strangely. After the photograph of Elizabeth was taken, the family headed home.

Image right: The photograph in question. Still a mystery.

One week later, Templeton picked up his photographs at the local photochemistry. The person at behind the desk said it was “a pity that someone in a spacesuit had destroyed the best picture of Elizabeth by standing behind her.” Jim thought it was a joke. He was absolutely sure that they were the only the marshes that day. But sure enough, someone was standing behind his daughter in what looked to be a spacesuit. Templeton, confused and angry, took the photograph to the police.

THE POLICE: “IT WAS JUST A PERSON”
Also the police was surprised by what Templeton shows them. To them, it was without a doubt that someone was behind Jim's daughter, despite, whatever it now was; it looked to be floating rather than standing. The police sent the photograph away to Kodak, the manufacturer of the film. Either could Kodak identify the anomaly. The only they could say was that the photograph was genuine and had not been manipulated.

The police had started to investigate the case, and after a few weeks, they were able to conclude that the anomaly in the photograph was just human. Also, one of the investigators tried to make Templeton confess that it was his wife that had, by mistake, stepped behind Elizabeth at the time for the photograph. But why would the wife were a spacesuit and how did she make look that she was floating?

MYSTERIOUS VISITORS AND A LINK TO AUSTRALIA
The case gets even stranger. A few weeks after the incident, Jim was visited by two mysterious visitors. The two men arrived in a black car and wore dark suites, but except that, they looked normal. Their behavior was also strange; they only referred to one another by numbers and asked the most unusual questions as they drove Jim out to the marshes. The men tried to make Jim admit that he had just photographed an ordinary man walking by. Jim behaved polite, but rejected their theory. At this point, the men became angry and drove away, leaving Jim for a five mile walk home.

But the story does not end there. After some time, it becomes known that similar phenomena had occurred when a Blue Streak space rocket was due to be launched from Woomera in Australia. The countdown was postponed when two automatic survey cameras had independently spotted two large figures in the firing area during the countdown phase. But how is a missile launch in Australia related to Jim's photograph? It turns out the photograph was not taken far away from the factory were missile was constructed.

This is how far we can go when it comes to this photograph. Despite years of investigation and leads from the other side of the world, we're left with a photograph of a little girl and a person that one has been able to identify.

Aliens asking about farming, incredible story from 1964 - Part 2 of 2

1964 was a year of many UFO incidents and the most famous of them is probably what, now late, Lonnie Zamora encounted in the deserts outside Socorro, New Mexico in the afternoon of April 24, 1964. But this wasn’t the only incident of that day, earlier that day, a New York farmer may have had an even stranger encounter.

(continuation from Part 1)

ASKING HOW A TRACTOR WORKED

Wilcox said that their voices didn’t sound like any voice he could describe and he didn’t know if they spoke English or not. The beings begun to ask questions about what he was doing, asking him to explain what a tractor and manure was. It was soon obvious that the beings were interested in organic substances as Mars (where they allegedly claimed to be from) was rocky and not fit for growing anything. Wilcox answered questions for about two hours, he later recalled. Wilcox asked the beings I he could go with them, but they turned down his request, stating the atmosphere would be to thin for him.

In the meantime, the men had approached him further, now being within a few feet of Wilcox. They appeared to be interested in farming practices and when Wilcox mentioned how he used fertilizer, they wanted to know more about it. He offered them a bag of fertilizer to take with them, but the men got instead back into their craft and quietly rose and took of due north at an estimated height of 150 feet.

Wilcox returned to his daily chorus, but not forgetting what the beings said and later that day, Wilcox took a large bag of fertilizer and placed it near the tree the UFO had landed. When he checked the nest morning, the bag was gone.

A MYSTERIOUS PREDICTION

During their conversation, the beings allegedly told Wilcox that the two American astronauts John Glenn and Virgil Grissom and two Russian astronauts would die within a year. And they had almost right. Grissom, along with two other perished the tragic Apollo capsule fire of January 27, 1967. On April 24, 1967, three years after Wilcox encounter, the Russian cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov was killed his capsule’s parachutes didn’t open upon re-entry.     

One may think that Wilcox just made this story up, but after a thorough investigation made by Psychiatrist Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz was able to determine that Wilcox told the truth, being very impressed with Wilcox’s obvious background and evidence of stability, integrity, honesty, and intelligence.

But is it really possible that this could have happened. Could aliens have come to Earth to educate themselves in farming? Only one person knows, and it’s Gary Wilcox. 

Aliens asking about farming, incredible story from 1964 - Part 1 of 2

1964 was a year of many UFO incidents and the most famous of them is probably what, now late, Lonnie Zamora encounted in the deserts outside Socorro, New Mexico in the afternoon of April 24, 1964. But this wasn’t the only incident of that day, earlier that day, a New York farmer may have had an even stranger encounter.

The clock had just passed 10 AM on the morning of April 24, 1964 and the 27 year old farmer Gary Wilcox was out spreading manure at his 300-acre farm in Newark Valley, New York when he suddenly noticed something unusual by the edge of the forest. Curious of what it could be, he drove his tractor over for a closer look.

“DON’T BE ALARMED, WE HAVE SPOKEN TO PEOPLE BEFORE”
At first, he suspected it was perhaps a fuel tank or something from a plane. When he moved closer, he was able to see that it was slightly off the ground, but he wasn’t sure if it was suspended or standing on some legs. According to Wilcox, it had an oblong shape, resembling an egg and was about 20 feet long, 4 feet high, and 15 to 16 feet long. Wilcox has stated that touched the object, even kicked it. From his observations, he could defiantly determine that it was metallic in nature, with an aluminum color. It had smooth surface with no visible seams and it didn’t make any sound or nothing else too out of the ordinary.

But all this changed when two men, about four feet tall, came out from underneath the craft. Wilcox, very frightened of course, could see they had something similar to a metal tray and it was filled alfalfa, roots, soil, leaves and brush. The men looked to be dressed in white or metallic suites, with no part of their body visible. During the first minutes of their encounter, Wilcox didn’t say much and suspected this just prank someone played on him. When being what the being first said to him, Wilcox stated: “Don’t be alarmed, we have spoken to people before.”

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