On October 8, 1981 at about 11:00 A.M., Hannah Mc Roberts is with her husband and their daughter are on a service area close to Kelsey Bay, on the East coast of the Vancouver Island. During their pause they notice a cloud which passes on the top of a mountainous peak and makes the impression of an erupting volcano in eruption spitting a huge vaporblast. They find the scene rather amusing and worth a picture.
Several days afterwards, when the photographs are developed, they notice on one of the photograph that there is a discoidal object in the sky. Their surprise is big, as they do not remember noticing anything in the sky at the time when they shot the photograph.
They contact David Dodge, director of the of Vancouver planetarium. He examines the picture and remains disturbed by this singular photograph. He contacts a ufologist, David Powell, who analyzes the pictures and cannot find any evidence of tampering.
Richard F. Haines, a retired NASA scientist who became a famous ufologist, gets interested in the Vancouver case. He carries out a thorough analysis of the negative and cannot discover any tampering either. His analysis is inserted in the scientific report of the Sturrock Panel.
References:
- Reddit: Reposting from 3 years ago as we have a lot of new users on this sub.
- Science et Vie #976, January 1999.
- Jacques Dumont, "Ovnis, un demi-siècle de recherches", Rebis publihsers, 2001
- Analysis by Richard F. Haines on the web site of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
by Informal_Cut_6609
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The family stopping for scenery, object not noticed at the time, only found when the photos came back from development. that’s about as clean as civilian photograph provenance gets. Haines being involved and the sturrock panel inclusion puts it in a different category from most photo cases.