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Koi Alien Photo 1
The first photograph in APCAT is one of the most infamous “alien” photos, sometimes referred to as the "Silverman".
This photo was been discussed in several books and publications since 1950 onwards.
Most websites which feature this photo contain few, if any, of the details known about this photo. For example, at the link below the photo appears in a section entitled "ETs, genuine : The following pictures are most likely 100% authentic". On that webpage it has a caption "1949, New Mexico. Source and story unknown, but probably authentic. It can not be excluded the small being that can be seen is not of extraterrestrial origin": http://thebiggestsecretpict.online.fr/ufo_et.htm
A copy of this photograph appears in UFO documents released by the FBI .One resident of Winchester, Virginia forwarded a copy of the photograph to the FBI in 1967 and a response dated 3 October 1967 sent in the name of J Edgar Hoover stated "I can assure you the photograph you mentioned does not represent employees of this Bureau" (FBI., 1967). The same letter also states that "the investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects is not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI" - a statement that was rather misleading given the FBI's prior involvement in investigating UFO reports which has been demonstrated by other documents released by the FBI.
Putting together information from various sources, this photograph appears to have been:
(1) published in the German newspaper [magazine?] Neue Illustrierte (on page 3 of the edition published on or about 1 April 1950, with the title "Der Mars-Mensch").
(2) admitted to have been a hoax / joke just a few days later. This admission has very rarely been mentioned in discussions of the photograph online or in print.
The history of the publication of this photograph in UFO books and publications tells a rather sorry tale. Some correct information has appeared in a few publications but not been disseminated while, on the other hand, false information in popular books has been repeated.
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During 1995, Koi Alien Photo 02 appeared on the website of the Crop Circle Connector accompanied by a statement: "image by A. J. Samuels".
It subsequently appeared in the "Sightings" magazine, without the true story behind the image being published.
Koi Alien Photo 02 typically appears online without any accompanying text or a statement that the source is unknown.
Koi Alien Photo 02 seems to have been making a come-back in the last few years, having been used to illustrate several different articles on the Internet. For example, it was used by Robert Morningstar on the popular UFO Digest website to accompany an article in September 2006 with a caption stating "Purported Photo of Crashed Saucer Recovery (Source unknown)":
Slightly modified versions of the photo appeared on a few UFO blogs during 2008.
It has been referred to in one online discussion as being "one of the best pictures out there".
In fact, this photo was created by A J Samuels by compositing a:
(a) still of a flying saucer from an episode of The Twilight Zone called 'Death Ship', taken from a book;
(b) an image of an alien from Ray Santilli's "alien autopsy" footage.
AJ Samuels created a webpage, now defunct but available via the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive, on which he expressly stated that "This was my first attempt at image editing while I was playing around with my new copy of Picture Publisher in 1995. It later found its way onto the Crop Circle Connector web site as a joke, and seems to have got one or two people on the Net rather excited".
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Koi Alien Photo 03 has appeared on various websites but it is unusually rare for it to be accompanied by much, if any, text.
For example, this photograph appears at this link - but the only explanation accompanying it is simply : "Nazi and alien".
One popular website (alien-ufo-pictures.com) has the following text below Koi Alien Photo 03 "The above picture was taken in the years around where the Roswell UFO crash was reported. Some of the elite people of this world who had intimate knowledge of ufo's carelessly left this picture around and someone passed it around until it got onto this site".
Another website (arealiensreal.org) gives the following caption : "Probably another Roswell incident. In this picture it is clearly shown that an official is shaking hands with an alien, the alien seems unfamiliar with the action. A concrete proof that the government is indeed in contact with the aliens for quite some time now."
I have found a reference on a blog in (I think) Swedish which suggests that the photo was published in the German publication "Der Spiegel" in 1973. I have not yet obtained a copy of the relevant article, which the blog suggests is supposed to show Rudolph Schriever.
Photographs supposedly showing humans greeting aliens have become quite popular and there are several other examples of such photographs within the "Alien" Photograph Catalog ("APCAT"), including APCAT Koi Alien Photo 19 (President Bush shaking hands with an alien), APCAT Koi Alien Photo 24 (President Clinton shaking hands with an alien) and APPCAT Photo 73 (Hitler shaking hands with an alien).
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Koi Alien Photo 4
In 1981, Klaus Webner (still a local resident in Wiesdadener, and a UFO researcher) managed to track down the source of the photo as being an April Fools Day issue of the German newspaper "Wiebadener Tagblatt" in 1950. It was an April Fool's joke by then editor William Sprunkel and photographer Hans Scheffler.
Respected UFO researcher Chris Aubeck has commented "The fact that the author confessed two days later, yet the hoax became immortal, is just so typical" (Aubeck, 2008).
Sheffler's five year-old-son Peter Scheffler acted as the model for the alien, with the "alien" head being painted over him. The American military authorities gave permission for "Wiebadener Tagblatt" to use real military officers in the photograph.
The photo (along with a few relevant documents) also appears in the FBI's documents.
It also appears in the online files of the USA's FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), at page 54 of 84 of the FBI's UFO PDF file number 7, available online at: http://foia.fbi.gov/ufo/ufo7.pdf
The FBI files show that their copy of the photograph was received on 24 May 1950, from an Intelligence and Security officer at the New Orleans Port of Embarkation.
The FBI apparently took the photo seriously enough to discuss it with Colonel Borden in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Borden said his office didn't think it worthy of further study. The FBI files indicate that a translation of the captions accompanying the photograph referred to Wiesbaden, but the FBI did not manage/bother to trace the photo back to the relevant German newspaper, "Wiesbadener Tagblatt"!
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Koi Alien Photo 5
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