Giddierone

I was mulling over this recent quiz question that used a purposfully low quality blurry image so as to make Reverse Image Search hard or impossible to use. I'd convinced myself that that it showed a small white dog curled up in a basket under a...

Not that it's visible in #38 but I see that Passing Places have their own OSM Tag & unique identifier. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpassing_place

The Bellingcat tool did quite well (without coding) at giving back results that used just three features: road, river, and cemetery within 20m (assuming you had a hunch it was Scotland) - however like Whatiswhere it didn't pick up the correct...

To save anyone else typing that in: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1JIk Or if you pick a bounding box around the area: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1JIj

Answer in spoilers

https://www.whatiswhere.com/?page=help has a slightly easier negative condition structure. See example 11 on the help page.

Lots of good (if incorrect) guesses.

This might be very easy or quite challenging... Where exactly did I take this photo today?

Just came across this illustration in a 1954 edition of Saucerian. Note the Adamski-esque UFO top and a similar 'flying saucer' shape bottom.

Update to #1 I asked the National Archives where the video title and description came from and after a bit of back and forth where they at first indicated they may have come from Defense Visual Information Distribution Imagery agency (DVIDS) -...

Me too. Also reminiscent of Aerocene balloons. https://aerocene.org/

Another great book of that era is Visitors From Outer Space by Roy Stemman (1975) - memorably illustrated by Chris Foss. It has a page on throwing stuff in the air to create that perfect UFO snap. Interestingly it's now in the National Archives...

-With a bit of artistic license! (And some minor editing by me). Loved that book, along with its 2 companions, Ghosts and Monsters. (And Jets. And the spaceflight one. And The Future.) The World of the Unknown: UFOs, Ted Wilding-White...

Isn't discussion of this photo a "UFO & Aliens" topic rather than Skydentify? It's a famous UFO picture that's been claimed to be a possible alien device for decades. From the Usborne book of UFOs Circa 1970:

Just a visual reference using the coordinates and range from the DTIC report to show where the film was shot. They say it came down close to the target centre (blue pin marker) near to Ascension Island.