NUFORC Sighting 171174

Occurred: 1997-01-01 12:00 Local
Reported: 2022-08-16 14:27 Pacific
Duration: Did not see at time
No of observers: 0

Location: Rye, NY, USA
Location details: Playland Park, Rye, NY

Shape: Disk


Captured UFO in photograph, did not see at time O

On Jan 1, 1997, myself, my ex-wife, and her 3 children from a previous marriage visited Playland Park in Rye, NY. The park was closed for the season, but it was a very scenic. We went there to walk around and enjoy the scenery. While there I took many photographs. I took two photographs of my three step-children sitting on a bench. I always take two or more photographs when I take a photo of people, just in case someone had their eyes closed, or mouth open, LOL. I don't remember the kind of camera I had back then, it was not expensive, but it was the old type of camera where you had to get the film developed.

When I got the photos back about two weeks later, I was astounded to see a silver "hat-like" object above their heads in the distance. The photo I have submitted here was made by taking a photo of the original with my Iphone. The original photo is much sharper.

I was really surprised by the object and studied it carefully, looking at it with a magnifying glass. In fact, I took the original, the negatives, and my camera back to the camera store and had the owner examine each. He did so, and told me there was no defect in my camera, or the film, that I had really captured some object.

A funny story about this photo, I told a co-worker who was a big UFO skeptic that I had caught a UFO on film. He laughed at me and scoffed, so I brought the original photo in for him to examine. At the time I was a Quality Assurance Inspector that worked in a lab with microscopes. You could see my friend's face change the moment he saw the photo. He took it over to a microscope and looked at it for a LONG time, at least 15 minutes, no exaggeration. He finally brought it back and I asked him what it looked like to him. He responded, "It looks like a flying saucer to me" LOL. I made a believer out of him.

As I stated before, I took two photos of my step-kids, just second apart. This object did not appear in the second photo. Over the years, I got divorced and lost all the photos and negatives, but fortunately I put this photo with the UFO in a scrapbook which I still have.

Again, the original is much sharper. To me, it looks like a circular disk with a raised dome on top. It clearly looks metallic in the original. This object was at an angle, so you mostly see the underside which was in the shadow.

I have submitted a copy of the original, plus I did a crop so folks can get a closer view.




Posted 2022-09-09

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