Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: PHOTOGRAPHIC ATTEMPTS
During several contacts, Menger was able to take a number of photographs and films of the spacecraft and on a couple of occasions their occupants; alas, only in silhouette, owing to the darkness (see plates). At 00.45 on 2 August 1956, for instance, he took Polaroid photos of one of the craft as it came in for a landing.
I snapped away, hardly able to wait for even a minute while the pictures developed, but in the darkness could not see just how I was doing.
I noticed [that] one of the three ball-like objects under the craft became distorted and looked like rubber as it seemed to stretch and grasp the ground.
I could see the other two balls through the translucent flange. I wondered how they could make metal appear translucent, and also become plastic, certainly alien to our earthly physics . . .
An opening appeared and a man stepped out. He stood tall and straight, his long, blond hair blowing in the soft warm summer breeze. I could see the beautiful structure of his body; his broad shoulders, slim waist, and long, straight legs. He approached and when he was about 50 feet away I snapped his picture. He . . . was silhouetted against the glowing craft, a dramatic pose which I hoped would turn out better than my previous picture. But in the picture the craft seemed distorted and looked as if a gaseous, swirling haze encircled it [see plates].
The spaceman explained that the pictures had come out slightly distorted ‘due to the electromagnetic flux around the craft’, an effect which is seen clearly in the frames from the 8mm movie film taken by George Adamski in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1965.