Flying Saucers
"Where did they go?"
Despite the popularity of television's "The X-Files," the phenomenom of the flying saucer sighting is essentially a thing of the past. What happened? Where did the saucers go? This web page will examine a nearly thirty-year-old sighting, one that did not receive much attention, but one that nevertheless typifies the phenomenom.

On August 24, 1971, two residents of the Sandusky neighborhood in Lynchburg Virginia were witness to not one, but two flying saucers hovering and maneuvering about over homes in the area. Fifteen-year-olds Kipp Teague and David Bost were able to document this sighting user a Polaroid "Swinger" black & white film camera. To the left can be seen UFO #1, a saucer-shaped craft, as it made one of several passes. A blowup of the craft in this photograph is shown in remarkably clear detail to the right, and one can clearly make out what seem to be portholes.

The craft made several passes over the area, and the two teens managed to snap several photographs, including the photo shown below left as the object sped away over the treetops (click for a blowup).

In less than an hour following the UFO's departure, the boys heard a low pitched hum, and ran outside to discover ANOTHER UFO, which Teague photographed hovering low in the sky near a neighbor's home (see top of page). A blowup of this photo (shown right) reveals significant detail of the underside of UFO #2.

Teague and Bost showed the amazing photographs to their parents and to schoolmates, but did not report the sightings to authorities. To this day, the twin sightings remain mostly unknown to the public at large, and if it were not for the revelation offered by this photograph, this web-based account of these sightings might have rekindled the flying saucer craze of the 1950's and '60's.

To the left and right are covers from two Dell magazines published in 1967, when the UFO craze was still alive and well. UFO "believers" were undoubtedly disheartened by the degree to which alleged photographic evidence of flying saucers diminished in direct proportion to the spread of camcorder technology around the world, a technology that otherwise should have provided convincing proof of the phenomenom.

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