In 1990, during the Belgian UFO flap, one of the most famous UFO photographs ever taken, occurred over a village called Petit-Rechain. It was analysed by physicists and NASA scientists and could not be debunked as a hoax. Twenty one years later in 2011, without warning, the photographer admitted to staging a hoax. Several aspects of the unexpected retraction did not sit well with me. First, a reproduction photograph using an alleged Styrofoam model and light bulbs was never duplicated by the photographer and in addition to this, the photographer said that he took two shots of the UFO (that was all that was left in the roll of film), the first of which was a blank. If staging a hoax, why mention that the first frame did not show anything? I know that there was talk of money being involved in this story, and I am speculating that there was more to it than that as well. Recently, I contacted the photographer and he recanted his story of it being a hoax. In a recent communication (July 07, 2022), he told me that the photograph was real and that he was proud of it, but wished he had never disclosed it to the media and the world, as it caused him a lot of angst. He also told me that no monetary exchange had occurred during the initial disclosure of the photograph to the media. Moreover, when interviewed by the authorities at the time of the initial release of the photograph, he was perceived as a credible and honest civilian.
Submitted July 08, 2022 at 12:49AM by rogerstan1 https://ift.tt/cwKzESQ
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