The Gulf Breeze UFO incident is a famous series of UFO sightings which occurred beginning on November 11, 1987.
Gulf
Breeze was a small city in Florida of approximately 6,000 at the time
of a wave of UFO sightings that began in late 1987. News of high-quality
UFO photos spread rapidly and worldwide and became the subject of
newspaper and magazine articles, television talk shows and feature
programs.
The "Gulf Breeze UFO Incident" most definitive evidence
is a series of photographs and contact claims made by Ed Walters that
began, for him, on November 11, 1987. Walters reported and documented a
series of UFO sightings over a period of three weeks. The photographs of
the craft were unusually clear and initially Walters' claims generated
great excitement. Research by Jerry Black in the early 1990s revealed a
trail of suspicious money leading to Walters, giving the initial
indications that the case was a hoax.[1]
Over subsequent years,
new evidence including the discovery of a model in a house once owned by
Walters, similar to the UFOs in his photographs, shifted majority
opinion to believe that Walters' photos of the 1987 sightings were
faked. The model was found by Robert Menzer, who was quoted stating,
"The model was 9 inches long across the top and 5 inches deep. Made of
"two nine-inch foam plates attached to two six-inch foam plates; a six
inch square blue-color gel (plastic film) and on six inch round orange
paper ring, a 3.5 inch long tube, and a 2 inch wide paper ring between
the 2 nine-inch plates. There were windows drawn on the model which was
covered with drafting paper."[2]
Although Ed Walters was the
nexus of the Gulf Breeze sightings, he was not the only person to claim a
sighting. According to ufocasebook.com, an estimated 200+ others came
forward with sightings, videos and/or photographs during a three-year
period.[citation needed]. On December 2, 2010, the Syfy series Fact or
Faked investigated another UFO video shot in 2009 where the object in
the video is similar to the one(s) Ed Walters caught on camera.
UFO
Hunters is an American television series that premiered on January 30,
2008 on The History Channel, produced by Motion Picture Production Inc.,
and ran for three seasons.
Jon Alon Walz was the Executive
Producer of the show and was responsible for selling the series to
History Channel after a bidding war for the rights to the show broke out
between History Channel and Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy).[citation needed]
The
concept for the show was tested in a segment of History Channel's 2006
UFO special entitled "Deep Sea UFOs", produced by Motion Picture
Production Inc, which featured two of the final four cast members. "UFO
Hunters" was not a spin-off from a 2005 History Channel special with the
same title.[citation needed]
The tagline of the show is: Hoax or History?
The
series should not be confused with a similarly themed and titled UFO
Hunters, a special that debuted the same day and time on the Sci-Fi
Channel, (now SyFy), and created by the producers of Ghost Hunters, but
which only aired one episode.
In the US, History Channel only
released the first two seasons on DVD in the correct airdate order.
However, the format was only released in full screen (1:33:1) instead of
wide screen. In the UK, History Channel released the third and final
season on DVD however, the episodes were released in the incorrect
airdate order.
In a 2011 interview with Jim Harold, William J.
Birnes claimed that after the Dulce Base episode aired, the show was
canceled by top level executives at History Channel.
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