Austin Popper
Emperor of Antarctica
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The Transdimensional Gas Station
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Disappearing photos are as annoying as they are common in these topics. My dad took a Polaroid photo of a very strange object, seemingly floating above a building, in the mid 70s. It turned out he had seen the thing before, in the same area, but said nothing to anyone about it. He was taking a photo of a nearby building, saw the thing nearby, swung around and snapped the photo. He said the sixty seconds or whatever it took for the photo to appear seemed like a week. The thing had disappeared as soon as he snapped the photo.
A few of us went poking around near the building in the photo, and of course found nothing out of the ordinary. One of Dad's fishing buddies was a professional photographer, and he took a keen interest. He copied the Polaroid and made several enlargements. I had one of the copies for some years. Dad kept the original in a drawer, and some of the enlargements he kept in other places. The original would often go missing, only to turn up in odd places later. Eventually it never came back. I have no idea what became of my copy. As of about 20 years or so after the photo was taken, we could find no trace of it or the copies. The photographer had closed up shop and moved away; none of us knows where to. I have considered trying to track him down, but never have. I don't recall his name. Dad will know, so I should ask him.
So what did the thing look like? Not a flying saucer. It appeared to be a green sphere with a vertical rod or antenna sort of thing sticking up, the length of which appeared to match the diameter of the sphere. Below the sphere was a red conical looking shape, again about the same size as the sphere. None of the shapes were very crisply defined, but they were unambiguously there, if a bit hazy around the edges, particularly the wide part of the cone, at the bottom. In more recent discussions with people who saw the photos, some think I have the colors inverted. That could well be. One of my sisters said she saw something very similar on a TV show about UFOs. As I recall, she said it was at the very beginning, in a montage or something. The narrator said it was from somewhere in the Soviet Union, if I'm correctly recalling what she told me. All of this was a long time ago.
The Transdimensional Gas Station
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-transdimensional-gas-station.23173/
Disappearing photos are as annoying as they are common in these topics. My dad took a Polaroid photo of a very strange object, seemingly floating above a building, in the mid 70s. It turned out he had seen the thing before, in the same area, but said nothing to anyone about it. He was taking a photo of a nearby building, saw the thing nearby, swung around and snapped the photo. He said the sixty seconds or whatever it took for the photo to appear seemed like a week. The thing had disappeared as soon as he snapped the photo.
A few of us went poking around near the building in the photo, and of course found nothing out of the ordinary. One of Dad's fishing buddies was a professional photographer, and he took a keen interest. He copied the Polaroid and made several enlargements. I had one of the copies for some years. Dad kept the original in a drawer, and some of the enlargements he kept in other places. The original would often go missing, only to turn up in odd places later. Eventually it never came back. I have no idea what became of my copy. As of about 20 years or so after the photo was taken, we could find no trace of it or the copies. The photographer had closed up shop and moved away; none of us knows where to. I have considered trying to track him down, but never have. I don't recall his name. Dad will know, so I should ask him.
So what did the thing look like? Not a flying saucer. It appeared to be a green sphere with a vertical rod or antenna sort of thing sticking up, the length of which appeared to match the diameter of the sphere. Below the sphere was a red conical looking shape, again about the same size as the sphere. None of the shapes were very crisply defined, but they were unambiguously there, if a bit hazy around the edges, particularly the wide part of the cone, at the bottom. In more recent discussions with people who saw the photos, some think I have the colors inverted. That could well be. One of my sisters said she saw something very similar on a TV show about UFOs. As I recall, she said it was at the very beginning, in a montage or something. The narrator said it was from somewhere in the Soviet Union, if I'm correctly recalling what she told me. All of this was a long time ago.
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