I unsubscribed from the ever-entertaining UFO UpDates email list when I left for LA and only resubscribed today. Thankfully, Kyle King's excellent UFO Reflections is helping me get up to speed.
Interestingly, it looks as if one of ufology's "standby" photographic cases is in danger of going down in simulated smoke:
Heflin case . . . HOAX??
Well, might we have a solution for the Heflin photo case? According to an anonymous post to UFO Updates, the object is in fact a model train wheel, and the smoke ring in the final Heflin image is from an airshow. Let's take a look, shall we?
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I always thought the Heflin photo looked, if not necessarily fake, then certainly fake-able. So I put it in my gray box. (Np pun intended!)
Hey Mac -
Thanks for the shameless plug!
I had to drop from Updates due to apparently "unfixable" email formatting errors after switching from Outlook to Thunderbird. But I check the "100 latest messages" daily.
I was really disappointed about this latest story. It truly was the very first UFO photo I ever saw, and it got me hooked.
But it seems that many of the "truths" we hold dear eventually fall...or become less like "truths" at any rate.
My grey box runneth over...
A rite of passage perhaps... or maybe just a sign that at 45, I'm finally growing up...a little. :)
Thanks again!
Kyle
UFOReflections.blogspot.com
Hey Kyle,
The Heflin shots were among the very first I got interested in, so I was interested to see that someone's provided a plausible explanation. I've always been a little troubled by Heflin's testimony.
BTW, I suppose you've noticed the "kicked-up dust" along the roadside that happens to correspond with the alleged UFO. Happy accident or yet more fakery?
Agnostically yours,
Mac
Hey Mac -
The "dust" is actually not dust at all. As explained in the NICAP investigation report, the investigators found that the grass in that area is just kind of "dead". If you look at the full photos and check further down the road, there's another area with one of those "white objects" and dead grass aoround it.
But in almost EVERY story I ever read about the Heflin case, that area was described as a "dust cloud" or similar. Funny, but it seems that all those "in-depth" investigation reports were rarely read by subsequent writers on the subject. I imagine that is one reason for the apparent "defensive" nature found in Dick Hall's comments about the case.
Can't blame him, but he does get a little out of round at times.
But the "dust" sure did figure into most accounts of the case as I was growing up.
Re. the "dust": Ah-ha! I hadn't heard that explanation.
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