Salem UFO
This photo was taken by U.S. Coast Guard photographer, Shell Alpert. He spotted four luminous objects in a "V" formation outside of his photo lab window in Salem, Massachusetts.
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7/16/1952
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1952 Salem UFO Photo
July 1952
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...
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Director of Project Blue Book and generally credited with coining the terms "unidentified flying object" instead of "flying saucer" or "flying disk."
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Ruppelt took the photo to Wright-Patterson Air Force Field to study.
Shell R. Alpert
U.S. Coast Guardsmen
Shell R. Alpert
U.S. Coast Guardsmen
Barney Hill was a black man born in the Jim Crow south in 1922. He served in the United States Army during World War II, and later earned a degree in social work from the University of New Hampshire. After the getting his degree he worked for the United...
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Coast Guardsmen took this famous 1952 photo.
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