The Very Best UFO Photos and Footage

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Post #8
Extraordinary Footage - Part 1

Forget the clickbait fakes on youtube and X. Here follows a collection of the *real thing* (albeit self-nominated) purporting to show genuine UFO sightings. These are the few that rise above many of the dubious clips we see, and on which debunkers remain mostly silent. These, also, long pre-date the availability of CGI, and have stood the test of time. They represent, in my humble opinion, The Genuine Article.


The Las Lomas Sighting, Mexico, Aug 6th 1997
Object videoed hovering over high-rise blocks in Mexico City.





Documentary Piece

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bsmK1OAjo4s

The Marvin Badilla video, Costa Rica, 2007
A fairly low-quality video (early camera phone, in this instance a Motorola RAZR V3) but an excellent-quality case. Two young carpenters at work are disturbed by a strange buzzing sound. An object is seen hovering over a nearby creek. Marvin Badilla whips out his phone and calls his mate's attention. Unfortunately, he's busy sanding and misses it. Much like the Las Lomas UFO, the object is seen to wobble and rotate gently in the few seconds of captured footage, before zipping away in a most extraordinary manoeuvre.





Documentary Piece

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1V4w7QwpGxg

Hungary, 2009ish
Little is known about this one, but it's "meant" to be genuine (passed the cgi smell-test). The speed and manoeuvrability of the object rules out conventional aircraft of any kind.




Unknown livecam
Another lesser-known piece of footage captured on a live-stream.




The Concorde Drone
Now famous footage of Concorde from a public relations film in 1976. The unknown object that "buzzed" the airliner was captured on a plane flying in formation by professionals with professional equipment. It has not been explained to this day.




Accidental Capture
Documentary makers capture a mystery object in the skies of Somerset, UK, April 7th, 1998.

[Le Chat]

Hmmmm,
The first one is dubious to me because it is being buffeted by the wind too much.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

It's not wind. These craft sit (and float) within their own gravitational bubble. A wobbling oscillation is the hallmark of this type of propulsion system.

See first video at 11secs. The object goes from stand-still to sudden motion without acceleration, and without resistance of a countervailing force (as would be seen if suspended on a wire).

[Bill Ryan]

Copying this post by Bluegreen on his thread:

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Hostile Proximity

Huge UFO compilation from Secret Sky. Annoying music goes in and out; some amazing clips, some with original sound.

Published 1st January 2025 (55:50)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ERLUPXsTaAM

The largest UFO mass sighting event in modern history is occurring right now. Everywhere. From Wisconsin to Russia, Rome to Mexico, millions are seeing, recording, and experiencing a visitor phenomenon unlike anything in recent memory. What began as "mystery drones" was quickly recognized as a more complex event, with categories of UAP ranging from metallic orbs, black triangles, and plasma lights to organic, shapeshifting, and shimmering craft.

Disclosure has already happened. Quietly. And now the world lives in a vast ecology of these beings in the sky.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Post #9
Extraordinary Footage - Part 2

Another round of UFO footage gathered from around the world. Again, these have stood the test of time and the rigours of forensic analysis.


Antonio Urzi, Italy, 2007

Antonio Urzi from Italy made a series of extraordinary captures with his camcorder of what appears to be the same object, in broad daylight, from the attic of his house. Renowned UFO researcher, Jaime Maussan, investigated this case, and Urzi's footage. It was analysed at labs in both Italy and the United States. No signs of fakery or manipulation were detected. The genuine article.






South Africa, 2003

Capture of a 'Plaedian beam ship' not by Billy Meier. This was taken in 2003, and thousands of miles away from Switzerland. The object is virtually identical to beam ships reported by the famous contactee.

Meier's 'beam ship' 1976


Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 2003.



Guatemala City, January 22, 2022

This classic triangle was captured by a local late one night, hovering over his property. Analysis for CGI came back negative. This closely resembles the triangles reported in the Belgian flap of 1989-1990, where a swarm of such triangles were witnessed by thousands on the ground, and in the air by the Belgian Air Force.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Post #10

The USS Trepang Sequence

These now famous images are alleged to have been captured aboard nuclear sub the USS Trepang (SSN 674), in March 1971.

While conducting a weapons testing exercise in the north Atlantic, the Trepang allegedly photographed these striking images through the periscope lens. The location they were taken is thought to be between Iceland and Jan Mayen island. Several different objects were recorded, either entering or emerging from the sea. It's also speculated the objects were under fire at the time from the Trepang and were taking damage. Those claims are unverified.

The officer at the periscope was John Klika, a confirmed member of the crew. The Commanding officer was Admiral Dean Reynolds Sackett. Years later, Sackett distanced himself from the photos, saying he could not identify them, and he could recall nothing unusual occurring on the Trepang. Security oaths would of course guarantee his silence.

The images are most certainly interesting and persuasive, but not without problems. In 2017, UFO Investigator Gilles Fernandez came forward with the claim that one of the photos clearly shows signs of tampering.

A portion of steam/cloud has been cloned here.


Here's the entire sequence
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#9


The Collection


My Take:

When viewed altogether, as in the above image, you can see a distinct contrast between the nine images.

Photos 2, 3, 4 are quite different to the others. The ocean waves and the lighting on those waves are consistent with the same setting. The pictured object is also consistent. The ocean (and lighting) looks quite different in photos 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Also, these appear to be of the same, and quite different, object to 2, 3, 4 .

I think these nine images show two completely different sightings. The aforementioned 2, 3, 4 are genuine UFOs in my opinion, and non-terrestrial objects. The others could be red herrings. Some have suggested they are targeting balloons used in weapons testing. Whatever the case, they were almost certainly taken at a different time and a different location. Were they thrown into the mix to discredit the whole set? The evidence of photoshopping in one of them does reinforce that argument.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Post #11

ALIENS!



I keep and curate a great many images and stories related to UFOs and Ufology. Some of this material is of dubious quality, involving missing or incomplete backgrounds. A good few cases, however, stand out.

I do believe that some of the following are genuine images of ETs, or at least not-of-this-earth unknowns. For one, a still -- shared below -- from the Alien Interview footage. Confidence in that one is high. That's down to years of this footage floating around without being successfully debunked. We've seen multiple investigations, articles, and documentaries in the time it's been in the public domain. Almost every reputable researcher has reviewed the footage. None can rule it out. There's a pretty good consensus now that the footage is indeed genuine.

There are a million and one more alien images in existence, most of which I summarily reject as fake. They are a dime a dozen on Reddit, 4Chan, and other media platforms. But here, I'm only including the ones I deem provocative, interesting and persuasive -- the ones not easily discredited, or those that perhaps should be viewed under the category of "possibly", insofar as they have partially verifiable provenance. That is not to say they are certifiably genuine. Hoaxes exist, as do mistakes, exaggeration [blown out of proportion], and common misidentification. That is also not to say that you, too, should find these images persuasive. But neither should you reject them out of hand on incredulity alone. We do ourselves a disservice by calling out a fake simply because it 'looks fake'. Just because something looks fake (to today's cynical eye) that doesn't mean it is fake. It isn't a good enough excuse. In this field, it never is. In this field, you just never know!

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#1
Alleged Photo of an Alien taken by Ronnie Hill (or Hale)
A boy named Ronnie Hill (or Hale), aged 14, of Pamlico County, North Carolina, took this photo on the afternoon of 21 July 1967. He was playing in his family's garden alone when a strange scent suddenly filled the air. It was so bad that it made his eyes water. Then he saw an unusual object landing in a nearby field. Thinking it was a flying saucer, and that no one would believe him if he didn't have proof, he ran inside to grab his camera. Returning to the scene, Ronnie saw that the craft, a spherical white thing that he estimated to be about 9 feet in diameter, had indeed come to land in the nearby field.

Ominously, from behind the craft stepped a creature clad in a shiny silver suit, with spindly, thin legs and an oversized gnome head. It carried a black object that it inserted into the ground. Then it quickly withdrew, and returned to the ship, which then rose into the air and departed. In its wake, Ronnie could smell something similar to propane gas, but the thing that scared him most was the silence. The whole scene played out in absolute, dead, total silence. No birds chirping, no insects whirring, no nothing. He captured this single image.





#2
Alleged Alien photo from Mexico in 2004
Alleged ET photographed on September 22, 2004 at 10:45pm. The photo was taken by a security guard in an abandoned office in Rayones, Nuevo León, Mexico. He used a Kodak DX4530 camera. The image was originally shared by Whitley Strieber.
More in this thread: Alien still image purportedly from Nuevo León Mexico in 2004



In my opinion this image is genuine. It shows a genuine ET. Consider the following comparison with the Alien Interview being.



#3
ETs and the Military
The is one such image that I would classify as probably fake. But because of its rarity, and that so little is known about its origin, I thought it worth including - if for nothing else than general interest.

It resembles a still from a film or video. First uploaded to the internet in May, 2008, it depicts military top-brass shaking hands with an alien. Due to the date it first appeared on the web, it isn't a modern AI fake. But it could still easily be a fake.



#4
The 'Friendship case' Alien - Mr. Kenio
The alleged 10-foot giant alien - Mr. Kenio. He was one of the W56 aliens from the 'Amicizia' group, or 'Friendship case', from Italy, circa 1950s-70s. This picture was taken by Professor Bruno Sammaciccia, in Montesilvano, Italy in 1976. He was a Catholic scholar who authored 160 books on religious matters and held degrees in psychology and psychiatry. The original negative for this image lies in a Swiss bank vault to this day.

The ET introduced himself as "Dimpietro" when he spoke Italian. His nickname that humans close to him called him was "Mr Kenio". Height is approximately 9 ft 11 in. Allegedly, he was the commander of the largest ET base off the Adriatic Coast. He was a representative of a benevolent extra-terrestrial species. His home planet is the 4th planet of the Altair Star System, less than 18 light-years from Earth. He was part of the W56 program that began in Italy in 1956.





More here:
The Friendship Case (Il Caso Amicizia), and the book MASS CONTACT
The day UFOs stopped play: Florence, Italy, 1954 // UFO Files of the Italian Air Force
Timothy Good: 'Earth: An Alien Enterprise'

#5
Alien Autopsy
Much could be said about the notorious 'Alien Autopsy' footage, and much has been; the footage continues to confuse and divide. The only reason I've included it here is: I believe this so-called 'dummy' could possibly be real. And why do I think that?

See this post, this post, and this thread.



#6
The Alien Interview
For the same reasons as above, the Alien Interview entity should be included in this list. Much more is said about this case in this thread. I am 99% sure this is a genuine ET.



#7
A Selection of Streiber-type Greys
Collected on my travels from one place or another. These are almost certainly fakes/models, but someone out there may choose to think otherwise.

Included here for interest-factor only.



#8
The Howard Menger Alien
An alleged photo of an extraterrestrial visitor, taken by contactee Howard Menger in 1956. Note the 'aura' that surrounds the craft. The ET explained it was due to 'electromagnetic flux' emanating from the craft, which gave rise to various optical distortions.



#9
4Chan Alien No.1
This has not been proven to be an AI-generated image. But very little is known about it. The picture was uploaded to Imgur in 2023 in three different resolutions, and then linked/shared on 4Chan and Reddit. Accompanying it was the single comment "Ayy" (4Chan slang for Alien). Since then, it has done the rounds on various platforms, yielding both positive and sceptical responses, but no one has yet come forward to claim the image, or explain it. It remains unknown.



#10
4Chan Alien No.2
Another anomalous 4Chan entry. This image, titled "24489 Taken Aprox 24 miles north west of Luke Air force Base Phoenix, AZ. Lab H4C" caused the entire 4Chan site to allegedly get shut down. The image was apparently lost from February 2017 until recently. While it remains quite possible that this is a fake digital image, it has passed a number of AI-detector tests. No explanation or backstory has emerged for this image. No explanation has been forthcoming for the apparent digital overlay/blur observed on the ET's face. For now, it remains an unknown.





#11
The Visitor
This case was thoroughly and comprehensively investigated by Tim Good back in the 90's. Filiberto Caponi was the primary witness to a strange nocturnal visitor in a small Italian village. He rolled off a now-famous sequence of images of the entity. The case remains unexplained.

Thread here: Caponi case: encounter and pictures with unknown creature



#12
The Cumberland Spaceman
One of my favourites, and a case I've personally researched. Thread on it here: The Mystery of the Cumberland Spaceman.



Two accompanying videos.

#1 'Dobby'
This famous 'Dobby' footage was captured on a home security system, and is not AI, or CGI. What is in the footage is what was there in real life. Ruling out an advanced, fully ambulatory robot, the only other explanation is alien/paranormal/cryptid. Unless you think it's a kid goofing around. With that head, those legs, personally, I don't think so.



And finally...

#2 'Skinny Bob'
It would be remiss of me to finish a post about aliens and not include our mate Skinny Bob!
Thread: The Russian 'Skinny Bob' ET video

Digitally cleaned version:

[Mike]

Wow, very cool Mark. Thanks for putting all that together.

I've come across a few of those cases over the years but it's nice to have the info all collated in one tidy post.

Even though I very rarely know what to make of it, this type of high strangeness appeals to me. I remember reading about "Mr Kenio" years ago but this is the first time I'm seeing any kind of photo evidence. I was scrolling the photos you posted before I actually read the words, and when I reached his photo I spent about a minute scrutinizing the background for a hidden grey alien or something LOL. I had no idea I was actually looking right at the alleged alien!

Without knowing anything else about the scholar who took the photo, he sounds credible (160 books is alot). It's just hard for me to gauge relative height here. And I don't know why an ET commander would dress like a member of the Beach Boys, but these stories are always full of the most delightfully bizarre details. Any cursory reading of John Keel reveals that.

It appears they often do things to create myths or give impressions that arent necessarily true. One of Keel's case studies describes UFO's chasing down Red Cross blood mobiles. The implication of course is that they were blood drinkers or something. I got the same impression when I read about the alien sampling the earth. It just seems like one of those novel details that are designed to create a myth or act as a red herring or something.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by Mike (here)
It's just hard for me to gauge relative height here. And I don't know why an ET commander would dress like a member of the Beach Boys,

Made me laugh. The only thing I can say about Mr. Kenio's alleged height is the head size. If you look at his whole body profile, then gauge the head -- it looks too small for that body. The take away being: if that head was 'normal' sized (for a human), then his body is correspondingly over-sized (for a human), like huuuge.

There's been a lot of analysis of that photo over the years, the subject, the setting, the trees and branches, the size of their leaves, everything. I don't know if there's any consensus among researchers that the figure is indeed ~10ft tall (though, Tim Good was reasonably convinced, and his opinion goes a long way with me), but every time I see that picture, I think he just isn't...quite correctly proportioned for a 'normal human being', supporting the notion that he is, or could be, something out of the ordinary. More info in the various threads on the Friendship Case.

[onawah]

I've never taken any photos of my sightings (I've had a few), but I saw a UFO (shaped like and closely resembling #9 in the sequence Mark posted) up close one night when I was actively seeking a UFO sighting. The whole thing was glowing with a cobalt blue light.
I posted about it way back in 2014 and have copied that post below.
It was moving slowly, nearly soundlessly and steadily, not far above the tree tops, and I got a very clear and close up view of it.
(And got a long and very detailed reply from Corey Goode, who had started that thread, entitled "U.S. Has 8 Cigar Shaped UFOs In Space Fleet Used For 'Solar Warden,' Program To Protect Solar System"...
If only we knew then what we know now... We live and learn.)

Posted by onawah (here)
Has anyone ever heard about or seen a cigar shaped UFO that glows a cobalt blue color?
I saw one over the woods near my home one night a couple of years ago.
The whole thing was glowing, fairly close to the ground, and moving quickly.
It was one of the once-monthly nights when the CE5 group was out all around the planet calling for UFO contact, and I had been actively sending out telepathic requests for a sighting, and flashing my flashlight into the sky, so I think it was more likely an extraterrestrial ship, though I could be wrong, of course.

Also there is a brief description of my feelings about that ship at the end of this post which is mostly about a sighting I had of some kind of plasma UAP:https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1683053

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
#9

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by onawah (here)
I've never taken any photos of my sightings (I've had a few), but I saw a UFO (shaped like and closely resembling #9 in the sequence Mark posted) up close one night when I was actively seeking a UFO sighting. The whole thing was glowing with a cobalt blue light.

Fascinating, and you're not alone. I too had a cigar sighting, back in 1990. I took a photograph of the object, too, but frustratingly, it was nowhere to be seen in the frame when I later developed the negatives. Details of that sighting posted here:

Who has seen AND photographed a UFO ?

[Mike Gorman]

Posted by RatRodRob...RRR (here)

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
Post #5
The Enigmatic and ever-Controversial...
Billy Meier

If just one of these pics were proven authentic, that is a game changer........................................... RRR

It would have been indisputable if only one of these photos were of a landed craft showing an actual occupant exiting the ship, if these beam ships are authentic visitors from the Pleiades location, why can we not simply see one of them occupying these craft, you know, if so much trouble was went to for these to be here on Earth, why not this last, most revealing step, what is so hard about this given the context of the craft being here? Am I being unreasonable with this?

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
if these beam ships are authentic visitors from the Pleiades location, why can we not simply see one of them occupying these craft,

A few fake pictures have come out that were wrongly attributed to another Plejaren called Asket:



It's quite a tangled web to get your head around. More on that matter here:

• Billy Meier - The Ultimate truth?
• 2017 Interview - Billy Meier meets "Semjase"

These paintings, based on Meier's description, and I believe done at his blessing, are the closest we have to an image of 'Semjase', pilot of Meier's beamship and leader of the Plejaren expedition on Earth.





Why Meier didn't actually take a photograph of her is of course a very good point. He was 'forbidden from doing so' is the only answer he provided. For one reason or another, ETs seem to be camera shy in almost every contact case there is. Meier isn't alone in that. We can only speculate as to the reason. It may be it would be jarring to the human psyche to see photographic evidence of extraterrestrial reality. Or, it may be, speculating again, that certain physiological differences, if pictured, would effectively blow their cover, allowing them to be identified if they are indeed walking among us (each and every day).

If you reviewed Meier's contact notes you might find a more comprehensive answer. It's been a while since I went through them.

[Bill Ryan]

My disappointment with the various apparently real ET photos that have been published over the years is that while they're all more or less anthropomorphic (a head, two eyes, two arms, two legs, etc), none of them are in any way attractive. (Like Semjase was supposed to be!)

I'd love to see a real photo of one of the very human-looking types, the giant 'Dimpietro' notwithstanding. They must exist, but for one reason or another have never yet seen the light of day.

[samsdice]

@onawah - the cigar mother ship I saw in 2014 had cobalt blue plasma at both ends and shortly before it went into stealth mode the entire body of the craft's skin was surrounded by thinner blue plasma. After it went into stealth mode it left three orange orbs behind and they blinked out slowly one by one. I estimate the size of the mothership to be around 300ft long. Sighting was in broad daylight.

[onawah]

My sighting was at night, and it was short lived but very clear.
The ship disappeared behind tree leaves fairly quickly, but I had enough time to see the whole thing close up.
It was metallic, moving slowly, silently and steadily, glowing cobalt blue uniformly from one end to the other, and there were small marks which were probably doors, windows, etc. but too small to be made out clearly from where I was.
I didn't see any orbs or anything else other than the ship.
I'm not sure how long it was, but it was huge.
I got a distinctly military feel from it, which made me reconsider how safe the scheduled CE5 observations really were, and I actually stopped participating after that.

Posted by samsdice (here)
@onawah - the cigar mother ship I saw in 2014 had cobalt blue plasma at both ends and shortly before it went into stealth mode the entire body of the craft's skin was surrounded by thinner blue plasma. After it went into stealth mode it left three orange orbs behind and they blinked out slowly one by one. I estimate the size of the mothership to be around 300ft long. Sighting was in broad daylight.

[RatRodRob...RRR]

Posted by Mike Gorman (here)

Posted by RatRodRob...RRR (here)

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
Post #5
The Enigmatic and ever-Controversial...
Billy Meier

If just one of these pics were proven authentic, that is a game changer........................................... RRR

It would have been indisputable if only one of these photos were of a landed craft showing an actual occupant exiting the ship, if these beam ships are authentic visitors from the Pleiades location, why can we not simply see one of them occupying these craft, you know, if so much trouble was went to for these to be here on Earth, why not this last, most revealing step, what is so hard about this given the context of the craft being here? Am I being unreasonable with this?

"It would have been indisputable if only one of these photos were of a landed craft showing an actual occupant exiting the ship"

Hi mike, not unreasonable to ask about such things, my answer (Off the top of my head) is that there are hundreds even thousands or perhaps millions around the world that would say they have seen NHI beings that come from UFOs.
There is a great account of a woman (not alone) that saw and interacted with beings that come out of a landed craft, there was also another car with people inside that had also stopped to watch this spectacle, its in Australia along time ago, ill try find the vid, it was made into a short docco................................... RRR

[s7e6e]

When it comes to craft pictures, the only problem that I have is that many shapes seem to be very era appropriate and evolve with the times. One would expect very exotic shapes and engineering even for craft photographed in the 50ies. Instead, we get this:

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by s7e6e (here)
When it comes to craft pictures, the only problem that I have is that many shapes seem to be very era appropriate and evolve with the times. One would expect very exotic shapes and engineering even for craft photographed in the 50ies. Instead, we get this:

You do know that craft is tiny, a little drone about a meter across? I don't know on what you base the expectation that ET craft should involve 'exotic shapes and engineering'. And how does one define 'exotic' exactly?

If you researched the subject just a little bit, studied just some of the many UFO reports from across the world, spanning many decades, you'd discover an extremely diverse variety of craft, in size, shape, style, and profile.

A small sample of recorded types.


Of the Paul Villa photos, these were rigorously analysed. The photo below was determined to be a physical object in the scene approximately 70ft in diameter, a considerable distance from the camera and hanging stationary in the air. Not sure how a relatively poor car mechanic would fake that. Also, Villa reported that the lower part of the craft was spinning very fast at the time; it was the method by which the ETs created an 'artificial gravity-field' around the craft, allowing it to hover in the air. This effect is evidenced by a sort of motion blur, as if it were indeed rotating or vibrating, and a faint 'aura' surrounding the craft, visible in several of the pictures. Below, you can see this faint shroud of energy overlaying the dome. Unsure how this could be faked either.



If we accept this as real, then we really must accept his other images as real, too, including the small landed 'probe' he photographed.

[s7e6e]

I'm not saying they are not real, I had my own encounters. I'm saying most lies, are built around seeds of truth. Just like USS Trepang's 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 slides. It's just a feeling, without a solid basis in logic.

Nonetheless, thank you for the pictures, some of them are new to me.