Enlarged with Bicubic Interpolation. Highlights and Shadows enhanced.

If you put a gun to my head I'd say this is just damage which is to be expected on a pic this old. I have NOT altered the colors. As you can see that part of the photo is a mismatch. A Marker is a great guess.

I think the purchaser got hosed. I have some of those style photo's in my collection. This one was worth maybe $20 without the damage if both parts are intact. There are too many of these around.

If the cover story is true and the owner is so open; why such a low quality scan and why is it called large? Why not show a high quality scan. Perhaps a high quality large image would show it is just damage and ruin the mystery perhaps?

[edit on 10/19/2007 by Blaine91555]

You mean someone beat Tesla into the air or aether.

I would only consider the photos and witness accounts of the FOO
fighter in WWII and being some type of electric flying machine.

The rest can be fake for all I care.

For now all you see is photos of dark or bright blobs or ones on Utube
videos. Well some accounts are well documented like in Belgium, so there
isn't much to go on.

The cylinder may have preceded the FOO with its weak motor even though
more powerful motors would be required. Front and back placement of
motors seem evident if a submarine was levitated.

Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
The cylinder may have preceded the FOO with its weak motor even though
more powerful motors would be required. Front and back placement of
motors seem evident if a submarine was levitated.

Okay, you've lost me now. Can you please elaborate on what you just said because to me it sounds like you are trying to tell us what technology UFO's are using.

Not sure they would use 'motors' though.

I am fairly certain that permanent markers were not available in 1870 or until long thereafter. They had pens that you dipped in ink. Mailbox w/posts, not back then you went to the post office to get your mail.

very interesting i like the older pics more

Originally posted by aceace
Mailbox w/posts, not back then you went to the post office to get your mail.

Sure, but of course fence posts were everywhere.

One thing everyone will notice about this photo is that at some point in the past someone scratched a Swastika on the exposed portion of the photo that shows the fence post.

That tells me that its likely someone took this picture of a fence post and years later someone else scratched a Swastika onto the photo in order to make it look like a photo of a NAZI Zeppelin. This most likely happened in the late 1930's before the war because the photo is supposedly from the U.S. although it certainly could have occurred later than that. However, there were no Zeppelins with Swastikas before 1933.

So the addition of the Swastika must have occurred after that year and more importantly it shows that someone many years ago was attempting to pass this photo off as a photo of a "mountain" and an "Airship" when it clearly was not.

Then of course there is Mt. Washington, NH itself, which is pretty distinctive and looks nothing like the snow bank photo in question no matter what year or season of photo you look at.

At any rate there is a good reason why this photo is labeled the "mystery airship" and not the 'mystery UFO'. That's because it's a hoax photo of "mystery airships" and the hoax likely predates the 'UFO' phenomena by a decade or so.

I'd think of it as the 'oldest known hoax photo' rather than the 'oldest known UFO photo'.



[edit on 20-10-2007 by lost_shaman]

Thats all very good, i see no swastika and the 'snow' bnk your reffering to is actually clouds.