The halcyon saucer days of the 1950s and ‘60s were the crucible in which modern UFOlogy was forged. This was a time when the most outrageous witness testimony was uncritically accepted and flaunted as evidence that ‘they’ were here. In a visual age, sci-fi films and photographs, such as those produced by George Adamski, played an important role in establishing the image of ‘flying saucers’ in the collective imagination. In the UK, four classic black and white saucer snaps set the template for the pictorial future of the subject. Stephen Darbishire’s was the first, taken in 1954 in theLake District. Two fuzzy prints appeared to show a classic ‘Venusian Scout Ship’ identical, some claimed, to those taken by Adamski.

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