Richard Hall:
Aug. 3, 1965; Santa Ana, California
A county highway traffic engineer took three Polaroid photos of domed-disc UFO, and a fourth of a black "smoke ring" the object left behind. Computer enhancement and other analysis was conducted by Robert Nathan at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with first-generation prints and copy negatives made by the newspaper. Among other things, the analysis established photographic evidence to confirm the (reported) "light beam" on the underside of the object. The Air Force issued a statement declaring the photographs a hoax, which was strongly disputed by NICAP. In 1993, MUFON photoanalyst Jeffrey Sainio re-examined Spaulding's work and rejected the string hypothesis.