During 1995, Koi Alien Photo 02 appeared on the website of the Crop Circle Connector accompanied by a statement: "image by A. J. Samuels".
It subsequently appeared in the "Sightings" magazine, without the true story behind the image being published.
Koi Alien Photo 02 typically appears online without any accompanying text or a statement that the source is unknown.
Koi Alien Photo 02 seems to have been making a come-back in the last few years, having been used to illustrate several different articles on the Internet. For example, it was used by Robert Morningstar on the popular UFO Digest website to accompany an article in September 2006 with a caption stating "Purported Photo of Crashed Saucer Recovery (Source unknown)":
Slightly modified versions of the photo appeared on a few UFO blogs during 2008.
It has been referred to in one online discussion as being "one of the best pictures out there".
In fact, this photo was created by A J Samuels by compositing a:
(a) still of a flying saucer from an episode of The Twilight Zone called 'Death Ship', taken from a book;
(b) an image of an alien from Ray Santilli's "alien autopsy" footage.
AJ Samuels created a webpage, now defunct but available via the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive, on which he expressly stated that "This was my first attempt at image editing while I was playing around with my new copy of Picture Publisher in 1995. It later found its way onto the Crop Circle Connector web site as a joke, and seems to have got one or two people on the Net rather excited".
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2. Stories and claims relating to this image
Koi Alien Photo 02 typically appears online without any accompanying text or a statement that the source is unknown.
In December 1996 Sightings Magazine published this picture, claiming that it was of a model saucer created by two students in 1967 (as detailed below). The same photo appeared on the front page of that magazine the following month.
Koi Alien Photo 02 seems to have been making a come-back in the last few years, having been used to illustrate several different articles on the Internet. For example, it was used by Robert Morningstar on the popular UFO Digest website to accompany an article in September 2006 with a caption stating "Purported Photo of Crashed Saucer Recovery (Source unknown)":
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