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Salem
Massachusetts
USA
July 16, 1952

Salem, Massachusetts UFO picture | Shel Alpert, a USCG seaman on duty in the Salem Coast Guard Station saw 4 bright lights in the sky. He called another USCG guardsman to witness the unidentified flying objects. By the time the other guardsman arrived, the objects in the sky had dimmed. When they brightened again, Shel Alpert took this UFO picture through the window of the Coast Guard Weather Office. The objects on the UFO picture was said to be reflections in the window, but this theory was eliminated considering that it was a screen window rather than glass, and furthermore that if they were reflections, they would appear in the same place each day. In 1962, the USCG repported that "it has never been determined what caused the phenomenal lights." | This UFO picture was investigated by Project Blue Book and was considered “unexplained”. | July 16 1952 UFO sighting | Cluster UFO shape