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Hidden Under Our Nose: How the Simpkinson UFO Led to Confirmation of Strange Craft in Published NASA Photos
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UFOs & Extraterrestrials20th Century United States HistoryAir Combat
ISBN13: 9781633379404
Publisher: Ed Wilson
Published: May 20 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 2.62
Height: 0.94 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Hidden Under Our Nose: A Paradigm Shift
The Simpkinson lithograph arrived quietly, tucked among a binder of vintage NASA imagery acquired from the estate of Emily Ertl and her partner, Scott H. Simpkinson. But these were no ordinary figures in NASA's story. Simpkinson was one of NASA's founding engineers, instrumental in the formation of the original Space Task Group-the team that laid the foundation for Project Mercury and beyond. He served as a chief engineer through all three manned space programs: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Emily Ertl, meanwhile, was NASA's first female employee at Cape Canaveral and a core member of the same pioneering task force.
Together, they didn't just witness history-they helped build it.
Their personal archive, now detailed in my first book The Simpkinson NASA Archive UFO, includes over 568 original NASA photographs and documents. Many of these rare materials contributed directly to this investigation. Among them, the Simpkinson lithograph stood out-its formatting exactly mirroring the official Gemini XI Mission Report, lending critical authenticity.
What began as an inquiry into an unusual lithograph-possibly derived from a real NASA image-quickly escalated into a groundbreaking forensic investigation. Once artificial intelligence and archival analysis were applied, things changed dramatically.
Out of more than 16,000 Gemini XI mission frames sourced from the National Archives, one frame stood out. Part of the D-015 RCA experiment film roll, this frame bore a remarkable resemblance to the object in the lithograph. Enlarging it revealed clear, structured similarities that launched a cascade of findings.
This was not an anomaly. It was the beginning of a pattern.
Soon, we found that the same lenticular object appeared not just in hidden archival footage, but also in several publicly released NASA Hasselblad photographs-some stamped with red tracking numbers. These photos had sat in plain sight for decades. Yet their deeper implications had gone unnoticed-until now. The visual matches were too precise to be coincidental.
Then came the most startling revelation.
A cloud formation beneath the object in one of these Hasselblad images-frame S66-54585-matched the cloud structure in the lithograph exactly. A three-pronged formation, aligned identically along the Earth's curvature. This was not interpretation-it was verification. A perfect match of Earth's own atmosphere, frozen in time, confirmed the lithograph's authenticity with geophysical precision.
And just as this match came into focus, another anomaly appeared. In the same frame-S66-54585-just above the Agena Target Vehicle, a faint and oddly lit area hinted at possible photographic manipulation. Applying various image processing techniques-contrast enhancement, frequency domain filtering, noise field analysis, and lightband smoothing-we began to detect consistent indicators of image tampering or omission.
The evidence mounted. What began with a simple question-Could this lithograph be real?-evolved into a story of hidden truths. The lithograph moved from being a fringe curiosity to becoming a piece of verifiable forensic evidence.
What had long been dismissed as speculative UFO lore now pointed toward something far more significant: a pattern of documentation-through film, photos, and image analysis-that suggests visual suppression within public NASA archives.
If even a portion of this holds true, the implications are immense.
This is no longer just about one mysterious image. It's about what was captured, what was archived, and-most critically-what was allowed to be seen. The Simpkinson lithograph challenges not just our understanding of a single moment, but our assumptions about an entire visual record.
This is the beginning of a paradigm shift.
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