The images are believed to have been taken from the USS Trepang SSN 674 submarine as it travelled between Iceland and Norway’s Jan Mayen Island.
A number of UFO hunters say the photographs are evidence of secret US aircraft tests, while others claim they are alien ships looking for places to drill for oil.
A set of Arctic UFO images from 1971 have set conspiracy forums ablaze. The images are believed to have been taken from the USS Trepang submarine as it travelled between Iceland and Norway’s Jan Mayen Island
Alex Mistretta, a paranormal investigator, studied the images after they first appeared in French paranormal magazine Top Secret, according to the Black Vault.
Mistretta claims sources told him the pictures were taken from the US submarine, with the admiral on board at the time said to be Dean Reynolds.
Official records seem to back up this claim, but the information is so readily available that some have said this doesn’t prove the validity of the images.
An inscription on one of the pictures reads: ‘Official Photograph. Not to be Released. CT’
Another reads: ‘Unauthorized Disclosure Subject. Security Certificat (sic) SSN 674. Criminal Sanction.’
Alex Mistretta, a paranormal investigator, studied the images after they first appeared in French paranormal magazine Top Secret, according to the Black Vault
Alex Mistretta claims sources told him the pictures were taken from the US submarine in 1971
The Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) recorded sightings of 1,179 mysterious unexplained crafts in June – an increase from around 600 in the same period last year
According to an international group of alien hunters, the number of UFO sightings doubled last month.
The Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) recorded sightings of 1,179 mysterious unexplained crafts in June – an increase from around 600 in the same period last year.
The majority of Mufon’s cases are in the US, and the organisation usually receives anywhere from 400 to 700 reports each month.
Around 10 to 20 per cent of these cases turn out to be unidentified when matched up weather phenomenon and man-made objects.
But Roger Marsh, Mufon director of communications, doesn’t think this means an impending alien invasion.
‘We feel [it] was directly related to the final two episodes of Season 2 of ‘Hangar 1: The UFO Files,’ he told the alternative news site Open Minds.
This History Channel documentary took a look at Hangar 1, a facility that houses an archive of more than 70,000 files that have been gathered over a period of nearly 50 years.
An inscription on one of the pictures reads: ‘Official Photograph. Not to be Released. CT’. Another reads: ‘Unauthorized Disclosure Subject. Security Certificat (sic) SSN 674. Criminal Sanction’
‘They are an odd selection of pictures that feature types of UFOs that have been regularly spotted by witnesses in all parts of the world,’ said Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual