Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman's Seattle disc photograph

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Off-duty Coast Guard yeoman Frank Ryman photographed what he called a white saucer from his Lake City home in Seattle. Newspapers ran it the next day as one of the first photos of the 1947 wave; analysts later dismissed it as a weather balloon.

Sources

  1. PressKitsap Sun, July 5, 1947, page 1 (reproduction) (opens in a new tab)The Kitsap Sun (copy hosted by Patrick Gross, ufology.patrickgross.org) / 1947-07-05
  2. OtherFlying Saucers in Washington (HistoryLink Essay 2067) (opens in a new tab)HistoryLink.org (Walt Crowley) / 1999-02-06

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