“Best UFO photo ever” released for the first time – major breakthrough | World | News

More than 50 years after it was taken, a rare photograph has been released showing what appears to be a silver, disk-shaped UFO over a lake in Central America.

The grainy black-and-white photo was taken by aerial photographer Sergio Loaiza, who flew over Costa Rica at 10,000 feet, usually with a specially mounted camera.

The Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica has now published the photo and it has been described as one of the “best” UFO images ever taken.

Mr. Loaiza took several photographs of the site for a survey. The high-resolution black and white photos were then developed and one of the images revealed something inexplicable.

It was only when the image was recently enhanced that the UFO was discovered. It clearly shows something resembling a metallic disk floating high above the landscape below, the Daily Star reported.

The photographer was commissioned to explore a site prior to the construction of a hydroelectric power plant near the Arenal volcano, but noticed something strange.

While flying over Lake Cote at an altitude of about 10,000 feet, Mr. Loaiza took several high-resolution black-and-white photographs of the lake and the surrounding rainforest at 20-second intervals.

However, in a frame at 8:25, he captured a shiny metal disk, an image often referred to as a “flying saucer” in classic movies. The object is only visible in frame number 300 and appears to disappear immediately afterward.

Leslie Kean, an independent investigative journalist and UFO researcher, called the image “the best” UFO photo ever taken.

She said: “There was this disk-shaped object and you can clearly see the sun reflecting off this round object that has a little dot on top. The important thing is that it was a government photograph.”

“There is a clear chain of evidence. It has always been in the possession of the Costa Rican government, so you know it is authentic and it is completely unexplained.”

The National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica has made the image available to the public again thanks to an April 2021 article in the New Yorker titled “How the Pentagon Began Taking UFOs Seriously.”