José Bonilla observation
| UFO event: José Bonilla observation | |
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| Country: | Mexico |
| Place: | Zacatecas |
| Date: | August 12, 1883 |
| Object: | Flying saucer |
| Hynek classification : | DD |
The José Bonilla observation is considered to be one of the earliest photographically recorded sightings of unidentified flying objects . However, the Mount Washington observation from the winter of 1870 is also said to show a UFO. On August 12, 1883, the Mexican astronomer José Bonilla, director of the observatory in Zacatecas , noticed the passage of at least 283 objects in front of the sun while observing sunspots . He took several photographs of these objects on wet plates with exposure times of about 1/100 of a second. The objects seen by José Bonilla are now generally interpreted as a flock of geese caught between the telescope and the sun.
Web links
- Joe Nickell: Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. P. 161 (English)
- Patrick Huyghe: Swamp Gas Times: My Two Decades on the UFO Beat. P. 72 (English)
- Report by José Bonilla (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joe Nickell, Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation . University Press of Kentucky, 2005, ISBN 0-8131-9124-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).