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Teen-Age Times of Friday-Sunday, March 24-26, 1950. Credit: D. Marler.

This story could be told in two ways. Starting with the problem and ending with the solution, or the reverse. In the case of this controversial UFO photograph from the early years of the flying saucers craze, I will not follow the chronology of when researchers became aware of the facts but the historical sequence, that is, when things developed, although they were known later. La Voz de España, March 22, 1950 edition. Credit: J.C. Victorio Uranga. La Voz de España was a Francoist newspaper edited in San Sebastián city, province of Guipúzcoa, in the north of Spain, 20 km from the frontier with France. The cover page of the issue of Wednesday, March 22, 1950 shared its selected news with this amazing headline: “Flying Saucers [Platillos volantes]

By Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos UFO FOTOCAT BLOG 310-18

over San Sebastián”. It reported that at 3:30 pm on the prior Sunday, Mr. Mauricio Basurco, a dental technician, and his two twin sisters saw “something black” through one window of their apartment. “Immediately I thought of the flying saucers fad,” the man said. This object was lost to sight between roofs. One of the ladies went to the kitchen’s window and from there they witnessed two more objects. “They didn´t look like airplanes to us,” Mr. Basurco claimed. They were oval-shaped with a black stripe in the middle emitting sparks around. They crossed a cloud bank and reappeared on the background of the blue sky. Now, their shape was “black and they looked like a gramophone record.” Then, five more objects bobbed up, three of which marched almost altogether, “as in a squadron”. The sighting lasted 5-6 minutes.

In my view, this is the unsuspected prelude, never told before, to a long story.
The Teen-Age Times was a short-lived1 weekly magazine for youngsters edited in Dublin (Ireland). Sensationalism-bound, the March 24-26, 1950 edition carried on its cover page an extraordinary and exclusive news feature: Russians had developed a “suspension bomb” that would be “swinging like a red star over your city,” and this could somehow be related to the apparition of flying saucers. This piece was signed by “Nobel Price”. Hand in hand with the information was a photograph of nothing less than “the first sensational picture of The Flying Saucers.” Two bomb shells, indeed…if true. Regarding the so-called suspension bombs, nobody heard about this anymore. Regarding the picture, we will judge it later.

The present article has been motivated by David Marler, a US UFO researcher who was investigating this picture for a long time. ...
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Whatever you think about Flying Saucers, please believe they are the topic of conversation among students of a University class of Denver in basic science.

By Charles Little The Denver Post 3-9-1950

Several hundred students of the class listened in spellbound silence Wednesday afternoon to an "exciting" forty-five-minute discourse from a guest lecturer on the subject.

The students said the speaker told of three instances in which disks have landed on earth with midget-sized occupants inside....
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The mystery that shrouded the identity of "Mr. X," the lecturer who addressed a University of Denver science class last week on Flying Saucers was believed solved Friday.

By Thor Severson The Denver Post 3-17-1950

The picture presented for identification was that of Silas M. Newton, president of the Newton Oil company and Colorado amateur gold champion in 1942.
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"They appeared to be of a bright, shiny metal, like polished silver. Both were the same size and traveling at the same rate of speed, which was much slower then the jets that shot by shortly after I filmed the discs. Suddenly they stopped. It weas then I remembered the camera ...."

It just might be the most famous home movie ever shot in Montana. It's been uploaded by multiple sources, but this clip from the little-known 1956 film "U.F.O." shows Great Falls Electrics baseball

By helenair.com 8-21-17

team general manager Nick Mariana describing his home movie of what is purported to be two unidentified flying objects in the skies over the Electric City in August 1950.
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Bobby Mohon called the Jackson paper late Friday night from Crystal Springs with the story of how a flying saucer had struck a power company transformer on the night of May 12, causing an electrical outage in the city. He reported mangled bodies laying near the wreckage which had markings indicating it was an unusual military

By Curt Collins Saucers That Time Forgot 8-4-17

aircraft. In 1950, the term "UFO" had not yet come into usage, and "flying saucer" was used for unidentified flying objects of any shape. Mohon's saucer was actually described as cylindrical, and "definitely not an airplane." The Clarion Ledger scooped the nation with the saucer news, and credited the witness as co-author of the story, along with reporter Tommy E. Hederman.

The story was rushed to press and was on sale Saturday morning before all the facts were in. The investigation by Crystal Springs authorities was reported later the same day by other area news papers.
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...according to "confidential sources," one of the such flyings discs [UFOs] together with its occupants–all of them dead–had fallen into the hands of the American authorities. These visitors from another

The Nation 1-2-1950

world were killed, Pratt said when their flying disc entered the atmoshere of the earth.
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The Royal Canadian Navy deployed a remotely operated vehicle to investigate the object off the North Coast of B.C. It turned out to be a large piece of industrial equipment and not part of a nuclear bomb as originally speculated.

The Royal Canadian Navy confirmed today that a mysterious object found off the coast of B.C.'s North Coast is not a bomb or a lost nuclear weapon.

Roshini Nair CBC News 11-25-16

The navy was deployed at the request of RCMP to investigate the area near Haida Gwaii after diver Sean Smyrichinsky found a suspicious object during a diving trip near Banks Island.
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"I came out from the dive and I came up and I started telling my crew, 'My god, I found a UFO. I found the strangest thing I'd ever seen!'"

"My god, I found a UFO. I found the strangest thing I'd ever seen!"

The Royal Canadian Navy is sending a ship to determine if a diver has discovered "the lost nuke" — a Mark IV bomb that went missing after a U.S. bomber crashed off B.C.'s North Coast in the early days of the Cold War.

George Baker, Andrew Kurjata CBC News 11-4-16

Sean Smyrichinsky found the mystery object during a recent diving trip near Banks Island.


"I came out from the dive and I came up and I started telling my crew, 'My god, I found a UFO. I found the strangest thing I'd ever seen!'" ...
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A strange disc-shaped object was witnessed in the sky over Kalangadoo (Australia) at 12:45 pm on Thursday, by five railway men. (Click and or right click on image[s] to enlarge)

Five railway men reported yesterday that they witnessed a strange disc-shaped object in the sky over Kalangadoo at 12:45 pm on Thursday.

By Mt Gambies Border Watch 6-17-1950

There was a shadow underneath the object and he had never seen anything like it before.

Traveling faster then an aeroplane, it was almost directly overhead.
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Panamanian Indians witnessed "strange visitors" board a Flying Saucer (UFO) which then immediately took off

Atlanta Daily World 4-21-1950

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