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Volume 14: Number 4: Article 4
Reanalysis of the 1965 Heflin UFO Photos
Ann Druffel, 257 Sycamore Glen, Pasadena, CA 91105
Robert M. Wood, 1727 Candlestick Lane, Newport Beach, CA
92660
Eric Kelson, 10201 Lindley Avenue, Apt. G-99, Northridge,
CA 91325
Photography is one of the few sources available that can demonstrate
the scientific validity of UFO phenomena. The Heflin photos, taken in
Santa Ana, California, in 1965 were regarded as most probably genuine
until 1968. Then questions arose from scientists and other UFO researchers
that remained unanswered until the 1990s, mainly because the four original
photos had been taken by unidentified persons posing as government personnel.
In 1993, Heflin's Polaroid originals surfaced unexpectedly under mysterious
circumstances, and reanalysis was resumed by a three-member team, including
two scientists and a veteran UFO investigator. State-of-the-art computer
enhancement has revealed new data that answer all prior doubts and questions
and discloses additional information that could not have been available
at the time they were taken. In this article, we address the validity
of the objections as originally put forth and the results of the computer-enhancement
analysis. A second article, to follow, details more technical aspects
of the computer-enhancement analysis performed.
Keywords: UFO photographs, vortex rings, Rex E. Heflin, photo computer
enhancement, Fort Belvoir, VA, James E. McDonald, Ph.D.
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Reanalysis of the 1965 Heflin UFO Photos
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