WE ARE NOT ALONE:
THE HIDDEN EVIDENCE OF THE
SOLWAY FIRTH SPACEMAN (UK,1964)
AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINAL PRINT SHOWS AN EVIDENCE OF
HUMANOID PRESENCE
BEHIND THE HELMET OF THE SOLWAY "SPACEMAN"
by Luca Scantamburlo
In the late May 1964 a British firefighter by the name of Jim
Templeton (13 February 1920 - 27 November 2011) took some
pictures of his daughter Elizabeth, while she was picking
flowers on the grass. The pictures were taken on Burgh
Marsh, an area located near Burgh by Sands, overlooking the Solway
Firth in Cumbria, in England. One of these pictures - later on
developed by a photographers' laboratory - became very famous in the
world under the expression of The
Solway Firth Spaceman (or else the The
Cumberland
Spaceman). Who is the strange man dressing what appears a
white space suit and which is visible behind the head of Templeton's
child? The camera that J. Templeton used that day was a Contax F
SLR with a Kodak colour film. Templeton - from Carlisle -
was an amateur photographer and a local historian. He was also
a veteran of WWII.
For sure some of you could ask me why I am talking about
Jim Templeton and his notorious photograph. The reason is the
following: a few weeks ago (at the beginning of May 2014) I began
receiving some e-mails from an anonymous individual who used
to sign his letters as "Michael
Ian
Black" (M.I.B.). He explained to me this is not his
real name but just a pseudonym he likes. What I have understood
until now, it is that he would not be an insider (that is a
whistleblower) but just a curious person who wants helping the
general public to understand better what there is behind the scenes
of the UFO phenomenon, and helping to identify possible
evidence of the alien presence in the Solar System
and particularly on Earth. He choosed me in Internet
because of my former involvement as journalist with the Apollo 19/20
disclosure, for which I became much more known in the international
ufological community after my investigation on the "Secretum Omega"
case.
Among the points he touched during our last contacts there is what
he recently found out analyzing the so-called spaceman's head,
behind the five years old daughter of Jim Templeton. My contact told
me that he has <<discovered
something that will turn the world uspide down and [...]>>
and that he needs someone
<<to get the information out there>>.
in the last years nobody has been able - so far - to debunk
this image. That's true, the photograph taken by Jim Templeton is
genuine and not retouched, in spite of many researchers and experts
are persuaded that the mysterious figure standing behind Elizabeth
Templeton would be her mother, or rather Jim Templeton's wife, and
not a spaceman coming from another planet.
When I saw for the first time the pictures that my contact M.I.B.
(Michael Ian Black) sent me by emails, I kindly asked him to
summarize the steps he had done with his software. He explained to
me that he used <<the Gimp
Image editor for the Linux system And all I have done to the image
is>> zooming up and changing contrast brightness hue
etc, <<and inverted the
image a few times to negative it's a simple easy process that I
can't believe no one else has bothered applying to the original
Solway Firth Spaceman photograph.>>
My contact's opinion is that in the photograph taken by the
British fireman there is <<a
genuine
Alien caught on camera in 1964 wearing no a space suit but a suit
that made him invisible to the naked eye. [...] Luca this will
change the world and our understanding of our very own solar
system>>.
This is an explanation which sounds rather logical and possible. Of
course from the very beginning I was very surprised but not still
convinced, so I kindly asked him once again to be more precised in
expounding his steps done with the Gimp Editor. Moreover, I asked
him what is the source of the image he has used. He told me that
he used a scanned image from an original print of the Jim
Templeton's photograph he got from a British ufologist, R.K., (he
told me his name and surname but I prefer mentioning just his
initials for privacy reasons).
Here you are step by step what is necessary to do to isolate the
details of the spaceman face:
- first enhance the head and shoulders of the spaceman using zoom
- adjust the brightness and contrast until it looks like this adjust
brightness down contrast up;
- invert the image and adjust brightness right down and adjust
contrast;
- as you can see the head is already starting to appear then from
here you will have to adjust hue brightness contrast; just play
about with the image keep inverting etc don't let the bright patch
on the right handside of the helmet get any bigger as you will lose
the facial features because of the reflection;
- as you can see by playing with the filters it starts to make
the head standing out
"Michael Ian Black" told me that he took him <<72
hours to define all the features>> of the spaceman,
so it not so easy to summarize all the steps required to point out
the features of the "alien" head visible inside the helmet. He
worked on an original print from the negative of the Solway Firth
Image taken by Jim Templeton, and only on the original image his
analysis - he said to me - shows greater details of the aliens suit.
About the dimensions of the head, my contact M.I.B. commented:
<< [...] the head looks too small for the helmet? Now this
can be answered quite simply by the fact we are not seeing the
whole of his head because half of the left hand portion of his
face is in that glow. I did the best I could to get as much of his
face as possible working around that bright patch on the helmet
right hand side. The bright patch itself is in fact a dark patch
in the normal image but because I have inverted the image the dark
patch has turned into that glow. Where the alien's head is in the
helmet look to the left that light at the left is where the
sunlight has penetrated the visor and is passing behind his head
and is then been reflected back into the helmet off the visor this
is why the dark patch on the right handside is darker it is doing
its job and is reacting to sunlight; i.e. going darker when
sunlight hits it. What happens when sunlight hits tinted windows
the windows react to the light by becoming darker same for
sunglasses same principal applies to that dark patch on the helmet
original photo>>.
But my contact did not only discovered an alien face inside the
helmet, but also <<a
circular object on the front of this spaceman suit>>.
This further feature - according to me - should dismiss the
possibility that the strange figure in white can be a woman, for
example Jim Templeton's wife. For decades and until his death Jim
Templeton - amazed at the photograph - maintained his account: there
was nobody behind his daughter at the moment of the photograph's
click. Here you are - as text - the investigation carried out by
"Michael Ian Black", my source of information. There was nobody in
the visible light perceivable by human eyes. "Michael Ian Black" is
convinced that the "space suit" was a sort of suit projected
for optic camouflage. The reader should bear in mind this
possibility. it is a case worthy of remembrance and the solution
promoted by my contact is quite logical in my opinion. Moreover, the
images from the original print that you can see, are self-evident.
Jim Templeton's Photograph
Location: The Solway Firth, Cumbria
Year: 1964
Investigation completed: 19/05/2014
By Michael Ian Black
There have been many investigations into The
Solway Firth Spaceman image captured by Jim
Templeton in 1964. I have read many theories on this
subject; the strongest of these theories was the fact that the
spaceman was Annie Templeton, Jim's wife, stood behind Elizabeth and
that the camera was trying to focus on Elizabeth in the foreground
causing Annie Templeton in the background to white out creating the
appearance of a spaceman and this is exactly what I set out to
verify; unfortunately it soon became apparent that theory was about
to be sunk. After studying this image and using a bit of out of the
box thinking I can safely say that the theory of a camera whiteout
is a load of nonsense as you will see.
Jim Templeton background
I'm not going to go into great detail of Jim's life as many others
out there have done a much better job of listing Jim's early life. I
would just like to point a few things out regarding Jim: one of
which is he gained the rank of Seargent while in the Army, he then
left the military and became a firefighter in his home town; he also
joined the Saint John's Ambulance Brigade and helped out the local
parish. This doesn't sound like a man who would make up such an
unbelievable story nor the sort of man who would put his family
through so much ridicule from friends family and neighbors. If
anything the man was of sound character and i wouldn't have thought
the sort of bloke to lie?
Jim Templeton's Hobby
Jim was an amateur photographer and on that day in 1964 he used
a SLR camera with Kodak colour film x set this type of color
film would have made it hard for Jim to process himself unlike the
old black and white photographs that most photographers could
develop in a dark room, which leads me on to another discrepancy on
the image itself; there are rather a few scratch marks on the image.
This I believe to be caused by Jim's long fingernails while making
copies of the image. On the image the scratches are evenly set apart
near enough which indicates that the negative on processing was
picked up using 3 fingers and a thumb, as Jim said himself he took
the film to his local chemist and they sent them off to be
processed. Now if I can recall back to my youth before all this
iphone business you took your holiday snaps to the chemist they sent
them off you called back a couple of days later and voila
photographs and the NEGATIVES. So if Jim was to fake this he
would have to have created a negative from the film within his
camera then spliced his negative and stuck it all back together to
be sent of for processing?
The Spaceman
The spaceman himself is an interesting figure once you start to see
the different objects on his clothing. At one point I was convinced
Jim Templeton had stuck some sort of space action figure behind his
daughters head, so just to eliminate that theory I have studied
every bloody dan dare comic book and dan dare toy from the era and
other space related action figures from the 1950's up to the day
that image was taken in 1964, and guess what no where have I been
able to locate such a figure with the distinct helmet and hood with
a circular clasp, nor have I found one with the circular object with
what looks like a light of some description located on the solar
plexus as shown on my images of the spaceman, nor have I been able
to locate a figure with all the above and the face that I found
within the space mans helmet as my images have shown you. Which
leads me nicely back to Jim Tampering with the film, If Jim had
somehow etched or carved this onto the negative or film he would
have had to have a really steady hand and he must have been the Picasso of photographic film
hoaxing as the details on the Solway Firth Space mans face are
outstanding. Then we have the sunlight: how did Jim Templeton fake
the reflection of the sun on a dark visor back into the helmet?
In the image sunlight is coming from the left as observed by the
shadows cast by Elizabeth, so picture if you will a helmet with dark
visor sunlight is hitting the visor from the left the visor has
allowed the sun to pass through it and behind the spaceman's head
where it has then reflected back inside the helmet off the dark
glass partially lighting up the left hand side of the visitors face
hence the bright glow on the right hand side of the helmet.
Men In Black
Now to add even more twist to a truly bizarre tale, Jim Templeton
was working his shift at the Firehouse when the bell rang and 2 men
dressed in black suits driving a black Jaguar car, asked Jim to take
them to the spot he had photographed the spaceman. When they got
there the Men In Black asked about the 2nd spaceman. Obviously Mr
Templeton didn't have a clue what they were on about that's when the
Woomera connection came about. Woomera Australia was the launch site
for for a new British ballistic missile called blue streak
incidentally the missiles were made not far from where Jim Templeton
took his picture on the Solway Firth. The missiles were being
manufactured at RAF Spade Adam, in England, about 25 miles East from
Burgh Marsh on the English/Scottish border. The blue streak missile
test on the 23rd of May 1964 had to be aborted because on launch
control cctv 2 spacemen wearing identical outfits to Jim Templeton's
spaceman appeared at the side of the rocket mid launch, although
they could be seen on cctv cameras they couldn't be seen with the
naked eye. Most recently Australian journalists have asked to view
the blue streak launch cctv footage, only to be told it's gone
missing. Make of that what you will.
The Space Suit
When looking at this image we automatically think this is a space
suit because of the helmet and that it looks like a space suit. My
own theory on this is that these suits are not for breathing
purposes but are for stealth purposes, much like the S.A.S when they
go into combat they first recon the area using stealth to identify
any hostile targets. These suits I believe to be some sort of optic
camouflage suit that must have some sort of refresh rate that both
cctv cameras and the SLR camera Jim used caught mid refresh due to
their refresh rate and shutter speeds, or the other possibility is
that these Alien visitors have studied Human beings and they know
our eyes can only see certain spectra of light and that if they
surrounded themselves in that light it would make them invisible to
the naked human eye. This is also another possible reason for the
behavior of the animals on Solway Firth that day: according to Jim
Templeton the cows and sheep were acting strange and had moved away
from the area he was in as though something had spooked them. Maybe
they could see what we humans couldn't?
Personal thoughts on the Image
If Jim Templeton was telling the truth and this all happened as he
says, it did and I personally have no doubt that what Jim
experienced was not of his making. Then that would mean Jim
Templeton was the 1st man to photograph another living being from
another planet and i believe it my duty to prove this man right as
Jim Templeton should go down in the History books let alone the UFO
history books for sticking to his guns, I can sympathize with what
he must have gone through I presented my findings to a select few
and I was nearly lynched by the "Look at the arm you can tell it's
someone with their back to the camera with their hand on their hip"
mob who if they opened their eyes before engaging their brain might
get better results. How does anyone know that the hand is on the hip
you can't see the hand on the hip for all you know his arms could be
six foot long dragging on the floor. The only explanation I have for
the arm is it's reaching from the left across to the right and is
been brought up like you would if you were pulling a pistol or sword
out your holster/sheath from the right hip and then flicking the
wrist to get it to point straight. I think he may have been caught
in that type of action. Maybe he thought Jim Templeton had seen him
and was reaching for a weapon?
Summary
The images and negatives were tested by police forensic
photographers
The images and negatives were tested by Kodak forensic experts
Jim Templeton was of sound mind and character and the fact he didn't
make millions punting his story and putting his family through the
whole ordeal
The Woomera connection
The Men In Black connection
The Spaceman Himself and connection to Woomera Spacemen
The Spaceman's Face now confirmed in the original image
Conclusion
What Jim Templeton photographed that day was certainly not from
around these green and pleasant lands. I believe Jim Templeton
happened to be in the wrong place at the right time and has had to
live with this all his life not knowing who or what or why this
Spaceman appeared in his image. it's just a shame I couldn't present
my findings.
© "Michael Ian Black"
May 2014
There are many articles about this controversial story and testimony. I suggest to the public to read the article written by David Clarke & Andy Roberts (published by Fortean Times 286, April 2012, see <<The Solway Spaceman photograph>>, and published by DR. DAVID CLARKE, FOLKLORE AND JOURNALISM) - and the research by Dave Armitage, <<The ?Real? Solway Firth Spaceman>>.
After reading these articles - to have a better idea and another
point of view - the reader should understand why I consider the
investigation carried out by my contact M.I.B. so important and
crucial.
Here you are some of the astonishing pictures coming from the
"Michael Ian Black"'s analysis of the Jim Templeton's photograph
taken in May 1964: the Solway Firth Spaceman shows - inside the
helmet - a typical alien countenance.
© Luca Scantamburlo
June 02, 2014
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In the following pictures, you can see
"the space suit" and "the helmet";
the Michael Ian Black's theory is that these suits are not
for breathing purposes
but are for stealth purposes.
Pictures - got with the Gimp Image editor for the Linux system -
by "Michael Ian Black" © 2014
In the following pictures you can see the circular object with what
looks like
a light of some description, located on the solar plexus of the
spaceman.
Pictures - got with the Gimp Image
editor for the Linux system -
by "Michael Ian Black" © 2014
Reproduction is allowed on the Web if accompanied by the
statement
© L. Scantamburlo - www.angelismarriti.it
Reproduced by permission.
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