Case file · Sighting
Miguel Tohmé's UFO photographs, Bahía Blanca
On 21 May 1962, in the middle of a local wave of sightings, photographer Miguel Tohmé took two pictures of a ball-like object over Bahía Blanca; one ran on a newspaper's front page the next day.
1962 CE · -38.72, -62.27 · status: claim
The account
May 1962 was an intense month in Bahía Blanca: objects were reported at the Espora air base on 11 and 18 May, three truck drivers saw a glowing 'railway car' on Route 35 on 12 May, and reports came from the Puerto Belgrano naval base on 21–23 May. Tohmé's photos gave the wave its iconic image.
The sceptical view
The photographs show a small featureless object with nothing to fix its size or distance; no technical analysis is on record.