José Bonilla observation

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UFO event: José Bonilla observation
Jose Bonilla UFO observation 12 August 1883.jpg

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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).