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Rhodes UFO photographs

DATE7 Jul 1947
LOCAL TIME—
LOCATIONPhoenix, Arizona, United States
COORDINATES33.40°N, 112.13°W

Inventor and amateur astronomer William Albert Rhodes took photographs of what he described as a silent grey object that appeared after a thunderstorm. The Air Force investigated the photographs and concluded that they showed airborne "paper swept up by the winds".

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Photographic / visual media record