This is the Ultimate UFO / UAP / Flying Saucer Photograph

At top is shown Gordon Faulkner and his Warminster UFO photograph.  Below are four more photos from Shuttlewood's case study books, as featured in previous articles at this blog.

The essential information about Gordon Faulkner's UFO photograph is presented in this blog article along with some significant aspects of the Warminster UFOlogy case being noted.  This blogger has found online numerous denialist attempts to invoke doubt about the authenticity of Gordon Faulkner's momentous photo that was selected for the cover of The Warminster Mystery (1967) by Arthur Shuttlewood (1920-1996).  These reports are typical of disinformation (from people serving either a propaganda or skeptical / denialist purpose) and misinformation (from writers repeating hoax claims unquestioningly).

 

Arthur Shuttlewood was a newspaper editor who went on to publish six books related to comprehensively documenting the array of phenomena experienced thereafter in his town situated in South West England.  His reporting includes finding himself an unprepared contactee chosen for interaction with space people and this apparently is the main reason that the gamut of details shared throughout his books have been pervasively excluded throughout mainstream news media coverage for more than 55 years. 

 

This is the photo first featured in a 1965 edition of the Warminster Journal and soon afterwards in the Daily Mirror.

Newspaper Article Excerpts

(September 1965)

 

With 30 years as a journalist behind me, I am chief reporter and editor of the Warminster Journal, selling about 4,000 copies each Friday, yet avidly read by more than the town’s population of 11,000.

Frankly, I’m a very tired editor at present after eight of the most hectic months imaginable in a country town.  Used to a working week of 60 hours, this has soared to an average of over 85 during the past month alone.

Why?  Because of the Incredible, Sensational, Stupendous and Fantastic THING!

And I use these glowing terms deliberately . . . I’ve been itching to do so ever since the first Thing story broke on Christmas Day. 

 
Look at this picture.  It was taken by Warminster Factory worker Gordon Faulkner last Sunday week.  I think it is the only photograph of The Thing.

 
A good 70 per cent of all visual reports since then have particularly stressed "huge eyes in the sky" or "car headlights glaring down."

Having seen Mr Faulkner’s remarkable, almost awe-inspiring photo upside-down, I now' see what these people meant —

All "eye" features and characteristics are decidedly clear to see!

Altogether I’ve dealt with 190 pieces of evidence in less than nine months.

 
Many of the phenomenal events that followed are profiled in articles at this blog.  (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)  Following The Warminster Mystery, Shuttlewood wrote five more books published in the U.K.: Warnings from Flying Friends (1968), UFOs — Key to the New Age (1971), The Flying Saucerers (1976), More UFOs Over Warminster (1979) and UFO Magic in Motion (1979).  Considering the interest in this subject worldwide, UFOlogy researchers today are left to deduce the reasons that no major American publishing companies ever released any editions of these books.

 

Before presenting in this current article the reporting from Arthur Shuttlewood's first book about the photograph, here's repudiation of the hoax claims that continues to be available online in British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) publications:

 

From John Spencer's April 26, 1994 Interview with Gordon Faulkner in UFO Times Number 31:

 

G:     19.8.1942.     Leslie Gordon Gilroy Faulkner.

 

 

G: . . . Regarding this question of ‘Is it a fake or isn't it a fake?’  I’m repeating what I’ve always said.  No, it isn't a fake.  There are people over the years who have gone to quite a lot of trouble to discredit the picture. . . .

 

From articles by Steve Gamble in later periodicals (1, 2):

In 1994 (Spencer, 1994) John Spencer managed to track down Gordon Faulkner and arranged an interview.  Faulkner maintained that he had not faked the photograph and furthermore he did not know Hooton.  So the story became even more curious!  Over the past year I have been in contact with Stephen Dewey who has recently published the results of his findings on the Faulkner photograph (Dewey, 1995).  Dewey tells us that the photograph was faked by Faulkner with help from Bill Newton.  He specifically points out that in the story he was told by his informant no mention is made of the involvement of Hooton.  ln August 1995 Dewey spoke to Faulkner who again denied it was a hoax.

 

Here's a comment from In Alien Heat (2006) by Steve Dewey and John Ries: 

 

. . . Faulkner still maintains his photograph to be genuine.  As he says in a recent Email communication (13 Nov 2005): "It is an authentic photograph of a UFO."

The hoax claims about the photo are one of many methods used by denialists to distract people from considering the entirety of occurrences documented by Shuttlewood throughout his books chronicling the plethora of eyewitness testimonials comprising the Warminster UFO / UAP / flying saucer / space people contact case chronology.

 

Examples of mainstream reporting include the trivial BBC article "'Warminster Thing' marked in 50th anniversary UFO mural" (2015) that would probably lead readers to think there's nothing extraordinary about this case chronology.  A selection of incidents are mentioned in the Daily Express article "The UK market town witness to mass UFO sightings, bizarre noises and cars breaking down" (July 25, 2024).  Although brief, this report is more objective than the articles endeavoring to debunk the occurrences in the same newspaper in 2016.  A declassified Ministry Of Defence (MOD) study prompted the reporting shown below.

 

 

Shuttlewood wrote in the first chapter of his initial UFOlogy book:

 

Reporters are a hard-boiled, cynical clan, a breed of their own; thick-headed, suspicious, and not easy to convince.  I was no simple convert to The Thing belief.  But I saw its big brother, the flying cigar, when I became the 199th witness on 28th September, 1965, over nine months after its dramatic hatching period.

 

 

Our chief picture was taken by Warminster factory worker, nineteen-years-old Gordon Faulkner, on the evening of Sunday, 29th August  [1965].

The chronology of documented UFO occurrences commenced on Christmas Day, 1964.  Here's the portion of Chapter Eight regarding this photograph most effectively expressing the anomalous aspects of the phenomenal interactions.

. . . Like a human eye . . . That recurring description is so relevant, I feel intuitively.

 

Look again at Gordon Faulkner's imposing picture of an eerie, silvery object flying low and soundlessly over our town; an all-seeing eye in the sky.

 

On the evening of 29th August, 1965, he stepped out of the back door of his home in Warminster.  He was going to visit his mother, and was taking his camera along because his sister Caroline asked to borrow it.  He shut the door behind him and was suddenly aware of the Thing.  "As it flew fast and low over the south of town I could just make out the unusual shape.  It made no noise.  Hurriedly, I got my camera free and pointed it at the craft, but the line of flight was too fast to follow.  So I held the camera well in front of it and pressed the trigger as it entered the view-finder.  I did not dream I would get anything on film at all and I was amazed when I saw what came out."

He sent the picture in to Mr. Charles Mills, general editor of and proprietor of the Warminster Journal.  "I thought it might be of some interest," he said modestly.  He thought Mr. Mills and I would classify him as a hoaxer, but neither of us was so narrow-minded.  We did not 'pooh-pooh' the negative and print, as this was a world scoop for us.  The camera is a Halina 35 mm. which cost less than £10 and was a twenty-first birthday present to the lad from his mother-in-law.  It was focused on infinity at 1 / 50th second.  Gordon, who emigrated to Australia in 1966, never believed in flying saucer stories; when he was told that national newspapers had offered £500 for an authentic picture of the Warminster Thing (one even made the offer to cover any fake picture, just to sabotage the whole business as a deliberate fabrication!) young Mr. Faulkner said bluntly:

 

"I do not expect any payment.  It was purely by chance—a million to one, probably—that I was fortunate enough to take it.  The print and negative are yours, free, if they are any use to you."

 

Falsely accused several times of faking this picture in the first place, he said indignantly: "I would not sell my soul for anything; I do not want money.  I do not want fame.  All I want is to be allowed to live my life in peace."

 

Experts assessed the merit of his remarkable picture.  Arthur Smith, science reporter for the Daily Mirror, said:

 

"It is one of the best photographs of a 'saucer' ever taken, but the lack of any knowledge of the size or distance renders its scientific value to nil.  Many pictures like it have appeared in the United States — most of them faked.

 

"The Warminster picture is in a different category — but there is no way of solving its mystery."

 

Apart from the whole of the art and the pictorial staff of the Daily Mirror, another to scan the photo was air reporter Peter Harris.  His verdict was:

 

"Sorry, but this picture is just too good to be true.  I do not say flying saucers—or 'Things'—cannot exist.  Just that this picture does not convince me."

 

Make of these remarks what you wish.  Living with the Thing all this whole, conversant with its foibles and frolics, its vari-coloured aeroforms, I am quite certain that the picture is completely genuine.  And Mr. Faulkner would stake his life on it!  He knows what his eyes saw that memorable evening — and what his camera captured for posterity.

A correlation between some Warminster UFO photos with one taken by contactee Daniel Fry in September 1964 is mentioned in the article "More UFOs Over Warminster", as shown below.

 

This photo taken in Warminster in 1966 (left) resembles the 1964 photo taken by Daniel Fry near Baldwin Park, California.  Below is another UFO photos comparison — first is the Oregon Trent photo #2 (1950) and shown beneath is an "almost identical" UFO photo (1954) taken by a pilot flying over Rouen, France.  (1, 2)

 

In the United States, Timothy Beckley's Global Communications in 1978 originated a version of Warnings from Flying Friends entitled UFO Prophecy.  In 1981 the company also published an edition of UFOs — Key to the New Age in a 66-page small typeface magazine format with the title UFO's: Visions of a New Age.  The back cover is shown below.

 

 

A 90-minute "The Warminster Thing" rare UFO documentary remains available at YouTube.  Researched and directed by Ken Rogers and dated 1990 in the end titles, the video includes footage of Arthur Shuttlewood describing some of his experiences and offering some  speculations.

The Warminster Mystery concludes with Appendix from Aenstria, recounting Shuttlewood's interaction with a trio of telephone callers who identified themselves as being from the planet (or 'cantel') 'Aenstria.'  This Appendix begins —

Although, as a realist, I still maintain that the mystery phone calls reaching me at my home in September and October were hoaxes—and therefore in somewhat dubious taste—I will concede that there was much common sense in their content.  Set against the background of extraordinary events Warminster has unwittingly harboured over the past sixteen months, they do not jar, if true.

This pronouncement by Shuttlewood seems to indicate his being influenced by the social consciousness motivation of 'information conflicting with perceived consensus beliefs engenders expectation of disapproval.'  The follow-up volume to Shuttlewood's first book would present his account of a personal visit thereafter from 'Karne' of 'Aenstria,' leaving Shuttlewood with no reluctance to affirm the startling and blatant authenticity of the Aenstrians' messages encompassing warnings about the effects of nuclear experimentation, the birth of a new and glorious age for humanity, and the necessity to 'save our planet from darkness and doom in a spiritual sense whereby all souls are retarded instead of being elevated to higher planes and dimensions.'  This interlude in the book is made available for readers with the blog article "Arthur Shuttlewood's Encounter with 'Karne' of the Planet 'Aenstria'".

The quotations of 'Karne' correlate with statements in other extensively documented flying saucer contactee cases.  (article)

 

Appendix from Aenstria quotations begin with this paragraph —

 

There was little expression in Caellsan's voice.  It was flat yet compelling, without any trace of accent.  He warned me: "Use nature's beneficial resources to the full for peaceful and productive objects.  Your heads of government must come to their senses before it is too late.  Do not rush into a bottomless pit of doom and destruction, contrary to the meaning of life that is precious.  Forget the mad lusting after power and domination, as we learned to reject it thousands of your Earth years ago."

 

More excerpts from The Warminster Mystery detailing Shuttlewood's interaction with the Aenstrians may be read in the blog article profiling the book. 

Considering examples of evidence for UFOlogy disinformation provided in the preceding blog article, how unnerving it is that military indoctrination may lead government officials and their intermediaries to misinform the public about the nature of the visitations of space beings.  Anyone who participates in this dishonest bureaucracy seems to be in denial of the fact that this behavior conflicts with the Divine Purpose of human life — and this corruption of individual morality through systematic indoctrination has been ongoing for many decades.  How tragic it is that many of these officials will not realize the extent of the damage done until eventually each one makes the transition to the ascended realm when the present incarnation concludes.  Then, the all-knowing spiritual Force will be in control of the entirety of their new circumstances in life.  'Karne' is quoted by Shuttlewood as having referred to "the Spirit of Universal Truth" and to "His Divine Majesty, from Whom all Love and Wisdom flows in an unceasing stream of Light."

The telephone caller from Aenstria known as 'Selorik' is quoted by Shuttlewood in The Warminster Mystery.

 

"We do need your friendship, so that we can share our knowledge with your scientists and doctors.  There is so much of value we can offer, freely and willingly, to your peoples.  Please tell them, by publications in all your cantel [planet] papers and writings, that we are not to be feared.  We come in infinite love and peace.  Yet many of you are still hostile to us.  Shots from earth-guns have been fired at our spacecraft.  We are immune to such attacks, when prepared to meet them.  But some of us have been killed, needlessly.

 

"You see, Shuttlewood, we cannot retaliate.  That is against the laws of our cantel and the demands of the Only One's code.

 

As with the other documented contactee case chronologies profiled at this blog (Truman Bethurum, Orfeo Angelucci, Daniel W. Fry), the involvement of an omnipresent organizing Universal Source Consciousness cannot be excluded from achieving a reasonable understanding of the Nature made observable through the gamut of aspects and phenomena detailed as having been revealed.

 

Shuttlewood wrote about the Aenstrian queen:

 

Traellison had a strangely sweet, sing-song voice, nicely modulated and yet like that of a child, although she wields great authority among her subjects.  She told me that Earth peoples have much to learn; the eyes and minds of many are clouded by misapprehension and lack of true understanding as to the prime purpose of life.  We are all children and living parts of the great Creator, the Living Force who controls every single particle of the universe, human or inanimate.

In comparison, Truman Bethurum wrote that 'Captain Aura' from 'Clarion' had spoken to him with "a swinging, rhythmic tone of voice, much like you read Mother Goose verses to your children . . ." and he also described her voice as "high pitched."  Here are two examples of her commentary as described by Truman Bethurum.  (Read the preceding blog article for more information about this.)

She said, "When this gets around, it will be the talk of the town,

     And I do it without a fee!"

 

I asked of food and drink and fuel
     And probed for the limits of her big Scow.

"We have that all figured far in advance
     And everyone of us know how.
We have no problems such as you,
     Because the right things we always do!

"The same could be upon your Earth,
     As God has been liberal and there is no dearth!
You people could figure instead of fight,
     And you'd certainly find your earth just right!

"Your deserts and plains could be transformed overnight,
     To a place, that from heaven, would look plenty bright!
The money you spend every year for a War,
     would bring water in, if need be, from afar."

Phenomena providing evidence of an omnipresent interacting Force are expressed with such terms as 'psychic' or 'transcendental communication' (encompassing 'channeling,' 'automatic' writing and art, seance room materialization and 'precipitated paintings,' 'Direct Voice' mediumship, 'Electronic Voice Phenomena' and 'Instrumental Transcommunication').  Evidence of this Force also spans cases of 'psychic photography,' synchronicity and 'spiritual healing.'  Photographic evidence presented as a facet of documented reincarnation case history books suggest that a human being may be the 'physical reincarnation' of someone who lived during a previous epoch, or their current life may present parallels with a life pattern of an individual who achieved some manner of renown during an earlier time to offer 'metaphorical reincarnation' correlations.  (Articles Index of Subjects and Titles with Links)

 

Some examples of photos in articles about cases of individual physical reincarnation are shown below.

 

(article links are included in the blog article "75+ Authentic Photographs Offering Evidence / 'Proof' of 'Paranormal Phenomena'")

 

The particular and peculiar appearance of the 'eye' motif in Gordon Faulkner's photo isn't something addressed by hoax claimants.

 

Understood or unexplained?  These NASA photos show (1) what some scientists have called a 'coronal triangle' and (2) 'The Hourglass Nebula' described in part at the HubbleSite.org with the sentences "What appears as a bright elliptical ring in the center . . . is seen on closer inspection to be a potato shaped structure with a symmetry axis dramatically different from that of the larger hourglass." 

 

Symbolism of the all-seeing eye spans ancient civilizations and American culture as well as UFOlogy evidence.  (For more information: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

The Alan Parson Project's "Eye in the Sky" is a hit song of 1982.

Each human being can be considered a 'channel' with conscious creativity expressing interaction with the Divine Mind.  This blogger has noticed that one of these processes is putting before a viewer grotesque melodramas as an attempt to encourage seeking more fulfilling sources to give one's attention that are capable of making possible expansion of consciousness regarding metaphysical, spiritual and cosmological aspects of earthly life.  (1, 2)

 

A pop song of 1982 is "Peek-a-Boo!" by Devo;

this week a new release is "peekaboo" by Kendrick Lamar.  A related article "Pop Culture as a Source of Metaphysical Reflection" includes information about UFOlogy commentary by authors Duncan Lunan and Stuart Holroyd, along with the 'Black Knight Satellite.'

These are some of the movies—from the silly and sensationalistic (second and fourth examples) to thought-provoking (first and third)—that I saw as a child and still remember a half century later.  I stopped watching TV shows and fictional narrative movies in 1997 because my metaphysical understanding about life had expanded to the point that I no longer consider the content worthwhile for being allowed to enter my consciousness.  I feel sorry for people who today experience  'entertainment' with such horrendous plot details as some of those that have been publicized by commercial news media.

 

The Arthur Shuttlewood case chronology is also a subject of the articles "UFOlogy: This Blog Is Making Known Proof of 'Extraterrestrial' Life for a 13th Year" and "Listen to These Ten UFOlogy Interview Recordings that Reveal Universal Cosmology and a Cover-Up Dating to 1948".  Among the blog articles that correlate with aspects of the Warminster UFO / Arthur Shuttlewood case chronology are "75+ Authentic Photographs Offering Evidence / 'Proof' of 'Paranormal Phenomena'", "A Channeled Discourse Transcript of the 'Tall Master from Venus' 1937", "This Is the Essential Insight for Considering Oneself to Be a True 'Illuminati'", "Flying Saucer Contactees and the New Age", "New Thinking Is Needed in the New Age" and "Channeled Communication about The New Age - Ten Documented Case".

 

12/35/24: The new blog article is "Extraterrestrial Interaction Accounts — The Warminster Mystery Commenced 60 Years Ago".

 

Also Available: Blog Articles Index of Subjects and Titles with Links