Cigar-shaped UFOs caught on camera by Joseph Ferriere and Harold Trudel, 1967/68

In the late 1960s, an era defined by the height of the Cold War and humanity’s first leaps into the cosmos, some of the most fascinating and controversial evidence in the history of UFO research was recorded. These accounts, captured between 1967 and 1968 by Joseph Ferriere in Hawaii and Harold Trudel in Rhode Island and West Virginia, depict elongated, dark objects with a distinct cylindrical structure, known among experts as "Cigar UFOs." Unlike the traditional disc shape commonly associated with extraterrestrials, the cigar shape is regarded within the ufological community as a "mothership" configuration—a massive craft designed for long-duration deep space travel, capable of carrying smaller vessels within its hull. Joseph Ferriere’s photographs, taken on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, in July 1967, left investigators stunned by the object’s structural precision and its high contrast against the clear sky. During that same period, Harold Trudel documented a series of similar encounters in the Eastern United States, capturing images of immense objects hovering silently over power lines and mountain ridges. Trudel claimed these objects displayed incredible maneuvering capabilities, including instantaneous acceleration and dead stops—traits that defied the known laws of aerodynamics for human aircraft of that era. Over the decades, the original footage and photographs have undergone numerous technological analyses to determine their authenticity. While skeptics argued they were miniature models or optical illusions, prominent UFO researchers pointed to the fact that Ferriere’s and Trudel’s sightings originated from entirely different locations within a similar timeframe, yet displayed nearly identical physical characteristics. The descriptions of these crafts—wingless, devoid of visible propulsion systems, and producing no smoke or noise—have become a milestone in the study of the unexplained, continuing to spark the imaginations of researchers trying to decode the secrets of these mysterious visitors to Earth's skies. These cases are an integral part of the "Golden Age" of UFO visual documentation, an era when analog photography was considered a reliable source and significantly harder to falsify than in today's digital age. The evidence provided by Ferriere and Trudel remains at the heart of the discourse on extraterrestrial visitation, raising poignant questions about the nature of the technology observed and whether government entities may have concealed the truth about the real nature of these elongated objects that cruised over North America and the Pacific more than half a century ago.

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