The Boston Globe: "Salem Photos of 'Saucers' Now Being Checked"

On July 16, 1952, Shell R. Alpert, a photographer with the U.S. Coast Guard, took a famous photograph of four bright objects in a "V" formation in the sky. This iconic photo was part of a wave of UFO sightings and awareness in the early 1950s. Alpert recounted the sighting, "I was sitting in the...