A bizarre sighting in San Antonio's skies started. On a rainy day a smoke ring appeared in the sky.
“It looked like smoke, but it was a perfect circle,” said Chuck Fehlis. “A mushroom cloud - dark gray… developed right above it,” said Rod Snowden. “It began to grow, grow, grow,” said Kelly Snowden. “It was actually sort of scary." People watched - transfixed.
Yolanda Young also saw the ring of smoke. She heard a crack of thunder, and saw the smoke from her office. “I looked out and saw a black trail of smoke and above it was this complete black smoke ring,” Yolanda said. “It was rising higher and getting stretched out.”
Officials say this was the result of a lightening strike but have a look at the following series of photos from a 1950s magazine, allegedly taken by a soldier at a military base with a Brownie camera.
The article said that "ring shaped UFOs" were a rarity, but not unknown and that these photos were the first record of such phenomena. Further:
"On many occasions, UFOs are reported to become gradually engulfed in a vapor cloud. The fully developed cloud then looks like any other cloud in the sky and affords the UFO a very convenient "hiding place."
"The series of photos made by the army private shows not only the rare ring object, but also shows it gradually becoming engulfed in a vapor cloud."
The photos were taken in September of 1957. It was around 9 in the morning and the private was working inside when several other men started yelling for him to come outside and see the strange thing that was coming overhead. He rushed outside and, seeing the estimated 60 ft diameter object, went to his car and retrieved his camera to take the photos. The sequence was taken within about a minute since the vapor cloud developed within an estimated 60 seconds.
Later, after discussing the object with his fellow soldiers, the private thought that it might have been some sort of secret army experiment and he ought not to have photographed it, so he determined to say nothing to keep from getting in any kind of trouble. The photos were only turned over to NICAP ten years later.
Prints were made and sent to Dr. James E. McDonald, atmospheric physicist, and Professor Charles A. Maney, mathematician and physicist. Dr. McDonald was, according to the article, extremely interested in the photos and contacted the army private for further information. Professor Maney had some interesting comments to make about it since he had investigated a mysterious double ring of a very similar nature that had been seen on March 31, 1952 by Mr. Charles Early.
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