Hi all just a little update on what little that i have managed to find out about that great little flying saucer picture that I stumbled on a while back,...Well I say update as I intend to keep an eye out for any more [better research] on the photo, but alas I can't really say that i'm too optimistic unless the negatives magically turn up from the unnamed American engineer [which I suppose is quite feasible even after more than 40 years...though a little unlikely I would have thought?] that there could actually be much more for someone like me [eager but low on skill] to find out... but never say never.
Anyway .... This is Roughly translated from the information that originated from the Indonesian UFO site....BETA-UFO Indonesia. ...
UFO in Cilamaya offshore, West Java
Apparently an engineer named Tony Hartono took the photograph on September 22, 1975 at around 3 pm. He was an engineer that was at the time just relaxing after lunch on the dining platform area of the offshore oil drilling rig that he was working on. Which was in the Arjuna oil fields approx. 83 km from Cilamaya, Karawang, West Java.
He noticed a red oval shape above the horizon .. firstly at a distance of about 10 km... it then banked sharply away again and he described the movement of the object as being 'boomerang-like' and that it moved at high speed and he estimated the size as being equivalent to that of a full moon, and as it approached made a sound like a top with a low frequency. Photography was a hobby of his, and he often took photographs wherever he was, even at work he had his 'Olympus Camera' which he grabbed ... [and here comes one of those old chestnuts] and found that he was down to his last film and could only take the one picture,... which he duly did.
And after getting this fantastic picture .. he showed it to his friend , another engineer ... an American that he worked with, whom told him that he was going back to the states and that it would be a good idea if he took the negatives with him for professional analysis ... which he agreed to . And has never seen them since .. It is a bit unclear just why he didn't get the negatives back as one source says that he asked for the return of them from 'his friend' ..but didn't get them for some reason?, .... And another source says that he lost touch with his American friend?
Either way it was about a year later when J Allen Hynek , who was appearing as a guest on the J. Salatun TVRI studio Senayan together with Willy Karamoy in December 1976 first saw the photograph and duly took it back with him for Dr. Fred Beckmann, an expert UFO phot-analyst of from the University of Chicago to trash or verify. ... He said that in his opinion... though the photo seemed authentic that unless he had the original negatives that he couldn't be sure.
Of course that is the right response , and though the picture looks very good to me, but as the expert says without the missing negatives ... all that it can remain is... a very good looking Flying Saucer picture. [Shame!...
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... However there is a slight bit of corroboration for Tony Hartono's picture and story, and that it is claimed that Dr. Ted. Telsch, a physicist from Flour Ocean co., Houston, Texas, witnessed a UFO the same shape at 18.00 [three hours later] in the same oil field. Which I find fascinatingly tantalising , but as yet I haven't been able to find anything about this 'Dr Ted Telch'.
UFO di lepas Pantai Cilamaya, Jawa Barat
Cheers.