The photo was taken exactly one month after the alleged UFO sighting by Lonnie Zamora in Socorro, New Mexico [April 24th, 1964].
Blowup of original photo
Most of the original photo
Our contributor Anthony Bragalia deals with the photo in his UFO Photo Hoaxes at The UFO Iconoclast(s) blog [http://ufocon.blogspot.com].
Mr. Bragalia contends the “spaceman” is, in reality, a jogger running up the hill that Mr. Templeton’s daughter was pictured upon.
(And Mr. Bragalia may now be suggesting that the image is that of a beekeeper, one of many who reside in the Cumberland area.)
We don’t find Mr. Bragalia’s suggestions to be satisfactory.
And we don’t think that James Templeton created a fake photograph.
Some -- see the comments section following Mr. Bragalia’s discourse, especially those of TemplarScribe – tie the photograph to an incident in Australia involving a missile test that was concomitant with a missile facility near the site of the photo.
Others believe the photo is actually that of a visiting spaceman, invisible to human eyes but caught by the exigencies of the photo camera.
None of the suggested explanations resonate with us, so we’ll be pursuing the incident further of course. (It’s truly intriguing.)
Meanwhile, what is your take on the photo?
