Some more UFO stuff

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July 21, 1967: The ‘Little Man’ of North Carolina



Ronnie Hill, 14 years old, of Pamlico County, North Carolina, sends a color photo of what looks like a little man in a spacesuit standing in front of a spherical UFO to a New York magazine editor. It winds up in the hands of John A. Keel. Ronnie tells him the UFO landed in his backyard. Keel gathers affidavits from Ronnie’s teachers, parents, and the local 4-H club, and submits the photo to "several professional photographers" in New York, who cannot find evidence of a hoax.



Soon, however, Keel has doubts and the photo is revealed to be that of a small model positioned in front of an egg.

The study of the UFO phenomenon is, at times, a highly contradictory one. UFO enthusiasts will fight to their last breath to convince the world that a certain case, which has no physical evidence behind it, is absolutely true; yet, on other occasions, cases which have at least something physical to them are ignored.

For instance, we have the case of a boy named Ronnie Hill, aged 14, of Pamlico county, North Carolina. On the fine summer afternoon of 21 July 1967, he was playing in his family’s garden, apparently alone, when a strange scent filled the air. It was so bad that it made his eyes start to tear; he became suddenly concerned that this malodorous aroma had to do with the spaceship landing in a nearby field. Thinking, and quite rightly, that no one would believe him if he told them he’d seen a flying saucer, he ran inside to get a portable Kodak camera.

Returning to the scene, Ronnie saw that the spaceship, a spherical white thing that he estimated to be about 9 feet in diameter, had indeed come to rest in the nearby field. Ominously, from behind the craft stepped a creature clad in a shiny silver suit, with spindly, thin legs and an oversized gnome head. It carried a black object that it inserted into the ground, withdrew, and then returned to his ship, which departed for points unknown. In the ship’s wake, Ronnie could smell something similar to propane gas, but the thing that scared him the most was that this whole nightmare scene played out in absolute, dead, total silence. No birds chirping, no insects whirring, no nothing.

At first glance, this is the sort of alien encounter that occurs every day. Well, supposedly occurs every day. Fodder, perhaps, for the tabloids? Not so! Because Ronnie Hill, in a feat of either courage or total stuttering foolishness, snapped a picture of the space monster before he returned to his ship and departed for the stars.

Incontrovertible proof that space aliens have appeared on earth to kidnap her dirt and startle her children? Perhaps. Perhaps not. There are several noteworthy things about the photograph:

The Strange Tale of Ronnie Hill

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ETMN--

One bit about the critique of the photo.  In the top version of the photo, trees -can- be clearly seen, although I agree there is practically nothing to judge scale with.

The doll or whatever it is looks like one of those old-time dolls of a baby, the kind that looked more grotesque than loveable.

I wish, though, there had been more information on why Keel came to doubt the authenticity of the photo.

Be nice if an ageing Ronnie Hill stepped forward today to comment on the affair.

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Oh, and that "eggshell" -- look at it ... it appears to have contours or running along its length.  Maybe a gourd of some kind ?



Interesting discussion of the photo and why it is deemed fake here:

https://fotocat.blogspot.com/2012_05_29_archive.html

This page claims the alien was a doll wrapped in aluminium foil.

http://thebiggestsecretpict.online.fr/ufo_et.htm