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UFO. Norway

ID #1558639717
Added Thu, 23/05/2019
Author July N.
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Incident date: 
27.07.1909
Location: 
Дрёбак
Norway

About this photo differently saying that it was made in 1907 or 1909, and was first published as
photograph a UFO in 1967 by an Italian weekly.

Turns out it's cropped and retouched version of the previously published photos of noctilucent clouds Stamera Karl (1874-1957), Norwegian Explorer of the Northern lights and Professor of mathematics.

He initiated the project to measure height of Northern lights, as well as exploring the different types of clouds.
Project (1908-1912) consisted of separate stations for triangulation purposes, and one of them was in Drøbak. There were several hundred photos during this time and later he published a photographic Atlas of polar auroras.

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Original news

27 July 1909, night – Drøbak, Frogn
This photo is variously said to be from 1907 or 1909, and was first published as a “UFO” photo in 1967 by an Italian weekly magazine. It turns out to be a cropped and retouched version of a previously published photograph of noctilucent clouds by Carl Störmer (1874-1957), a Norwegian researcher into the aurora borealis and professor of mathematics. He initiated a project to
measure the height of the aurora borealis as well as various types of clouds.
The project (1908-1912) consisted of separate stations for triangulation purposes, and one of these was in Drøbak. Several hundred photos were taken during this time, and he later published a photographic atlas of the aurora borealis.

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Cloud (natural and man-made)

Clouds are the products of condensation of water vapor suspended in the atmosphere, visible in the sky from the surface of the earth. They consist of tiny drops of water and/or ice crystals (called cloud elements).


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