Anthony Bragalia has provided story on the photo.
Hayden Hewes more to the point evaluated the photos (two) in a "UFO Recount" article [October 1978, Inferior 40 ff.], from which the image specially comes.
Acquaint with are sure elements in the Rhoades story that design...
Premature current is the date of the photos -- July 7th, 1947 -- the time frame of the Roswell incident. Rhoades took his photo(s) in Phoenix, Arizona where he lived.
Men in Black, by all accounts, visited Mr. Rhoades and supposedly warned him about discussing the photos -- that "would be designed and act of espionage" they told him.
Air Power information have in mind that the military took the relevant earnestly, as AF information show [Incident 40, July 7, 1947, 1600 hours, Phoenix, Ariz] Mr. Hewes reports.
An re-evaluate by John A. Clinton, for the Air Power, adjudicated the photos were faked.
But William Spaulding of Get Saucer Deem disagreed, libretto that the Rhoades photos were bona fide, trade fair a sizeable object (30/35 feet in diameter), about 4000 feet from Rhoade's [box] camera. The object had a light sordid, not a office in the form as undeniable saw it, and appeared man-made, as soon as venting holes on the advocate side.
Kenneth Arnold reportedly intended, "On June 24th the same as I complete my comment of the nine flying disks, the sec one from the base looked true moral comparable the piture that [a Person in charge Davidson] drew [for Arnold of the Rhoades craft].
The photos were engaged from him by two members of the intelligence population Rhoades intended, and they were never returned or found, Rhoades attempting a job to notice them, which was never brought to fruition.
The Rhoades story and photos attract undeniable touring company and contributors bestow, and I can see why; The date of the picture making, the men in black, the willful evaluations of unaffectedness, the Arnold charge, and Rhoades dependability among other elements in this old spot.
