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Vancouver
British Columbia
CAN
November 30, 1937

UFO picture was taken by Leonard Lamoureux when he was 21 year old. He went with his brother Wilfred to see and shoot pictures of the 1 year old brand new Vancouver City Hall. They installed their camera on some sort of tri-pod to be able t take adjacent shots of all the Christmas lights.

Then they saw a UFO coming straight down from the sky, the very bright blue glowing light object that Leonard described as 'two saucers' open ends facing each other. The UFO moved very straight across the sky and after passing the flagpole of the city hall it almost stopped completely and that's when mister Leonard Lamoureux shot the ufo picture.

The UFO then flew straight back up into the sky. The object made no sound. The two brothers had never seen anything fly so fast ! They were so scared that they ran away.

UPDATE: Taken by a twenty-one-year-old Leonard Lamoureux and his brother Wilfred on a cold winters evening in Vancouver. Leonard and his brother Wilfred had decided to take a trip to City Hall to take pictures of the Christmas lights when they spotted a UFO and stopped to take pictures. Young Leonard was on leave from the army and the last thing he expected to see on his outing to City Hall was a UFO. While enjoying the Christmas light display they were suddenly shocked to see a bright blue light drop straight down from the sky.

After looking closely at the object in the sky, Leonard stated that the object or objects appeared to be two saucers with the open ends facing each other and glowing bright blue. They watched as the saucer shaped craft moved horizontally across the sky. Just as the object passed the flagpole on City Hall, it suddenly came to a complete and sudden stop. It was then, Leonard decided to click the shutter on his camera and capture the famous picture now dubbed The Vancouver UFO.

Without warning the object, just as suddenly as it had come to a stop, abruptly shot upwards and disappeared. Leonard and his brother stated that they had never seen anything fly so fast!. This was a rather scary scene, Leonard had been in the armed forces and knew that this was unlike any craft he had ever set eyes upon. Years on, Leonards daughter Debra DeCamillis, who still lived in the Vancouver area, retells the story that her father once told her. She remarks how vivid and excited her father used to get every time he was able to tell people about the strange scenes he witnessed in the Vancouver skies that night.

Sadly Debra s father, Leonard, passed away in 1992 and his brother Wilfred had passed away much earlier in 1955, so we only have Debra s second-hand account to go off when examining this case. One of the most remarkable things about this photo was the year it was taken which was 1937, back then the UFO industry was nowhere near as popular, talked about or discussed as it is today. This is probably one of the earliest UFOs recorded on camera.