CASE (DELETED) PHOTOGRAPHS AND BACKGROUND ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SEEN BY RALPH MAYHER

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005516032
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: November 7, 1957

C00015398
Case - Photographs IF ahA Baokgrouad on dentifled Flying.
Object Been bRalph :.. Mayrher.
photographs NEWFQ--Tu inn amident 1 Object.
The photographs env forxarded herewith and any be retained for
days,
2. On print marked "A" is an enlarged photograph.
of the rftinal 16 an scoria stsip on which W. Kayber took the
photo. in 1952 The elm of the U70 any be gauged in relation
to the perforations on the file which are of known standard size.
The large print marked "$" is an outsized enlargement made from
a stepped up negative of one of the original frames.
3. It any be of interest to )mov bow the enclosed
prints were processed. Pictures were originally snapped on 16 ma
movie film from which a mn* er or hints were easde. roan by 5
negatives were processed from these prints, then 8 by 10 negatives
were processed from the latter. The three 8 by 10 printe are con-
tact prints of the 8 by 10 negatives. The large print, "B, is a
blow-up of one of the 8 by 10 negatives.
4. Background information follova:
5. Camera used was a 16 an movie, focal 2esagth of
lens was 63 mz, speed 24 trams per second. Altitude of the WO,
as estimated by .b as and other observers, was two thousand feet.
Maximum camera angle was estimated by source to be e50. The UFO
appeared to have the shape of a saucer, i.e., a rotating oblate
spheroid which seemed to flatten out as speed increased. The WV
was in view for about three aiaoutea cad was of a bright orange
color. At the time the film was talon the lens aperture of the
camera was f:2.7. Fits emulsion was fast panchromatie.' Time
elapsed between photographing the first image and the sixth image
(the first being the sandiest at the top of the film strip) was
approzimatev .25 see.
6. indicated that he would be glad to mks
such negatives as a available on a two weeks loan A'.:t4V.xauld
hands:
. In accordance with tole me request made by
on b Nov 57 we obtained fro.