Old UFO photoes

These photographs of UFO’s were all taken before 1940. They include the oldest known UFO photo, from 1870, the one second from the top, of a cigar-shaped object.

So much for UFO’s being a purely modern phenomenon! I keep hearing all the time that UFO’s are a myth caused by hysteria born out of the rising profile of science fiction movies in the post-war era. Well as you can see this is not the case at all. It’s true that the number of UFO sightings has increased many-fold since the 1940’s. This could be partly because of the above-stated reason, but also that decade saw the advent of both nuclear weapons and space rocket technology. If there were folks out there then such a development might concern them: a planet has produced a species that was about to begin traveling beyond their home planet, but still had aggressive and acquisitive habits. That would bother me! As Jim Marrs said: “The rest of the universe looked our way and cried out: ‘Oh my God! The kids have found the matches!’.” It’s also been said that nuclear fission reactions and explosions damage the fabric of space-time, creating holes between dimensions that let the UFO’s through. And there’s no doubt that UFO sightings are concentrated around nuclear facilities, like the “Solway Firth Spaceman” (see the article below). I myself have a UFO photo somewhere at my dad’s house. I took it on Polaroid near another nuclear facility, the Trident submarine base of Faslane on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, but I didn’t see the UFO until after it had been developed. I’ll try to find it.

Despite this, as these pictures show, UFO’s were present in the world before they entered popular culture. Who knows when they first began; maybe they’ve always been with us. But people have been reporting them before the 1940’s. They’ve actually been reporting them for as long as they can do so without being locked in a lunatic asylum or burned at the stake for witchcraft!