Tagish Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada
The Tagish Lake Photographs
A photograph showing several dark or disc-like objects over Tagish Lake was brought to researchers' attention only in 1998, when investigators located a secondhand witness holding a duplicate slide said to originate from a much earlier photograph taken around 1970. The original photographer, exact d
Why This Case Matters
A useful provenance case: the image may be old, but the evidential chain begins decades later through a duplicate slide and secondhand ownership.
Chronology
- ~1970 claimed original exposure
- photograph remains privately held/obscure
- 1998 local publicity produces lead
- investigators locate secondhand witness with duplicate slide
- later UFO sites reproduce image as Tagish Lake case
The Witnesses
Original photographerpoorly established in public trail
1998 secondhand witness/slide holder
later investigators
Evidence
The following evidence types are documented for this case:
Evidenceduplicate slide/photo
Evidencesecondhand provenance
Evidenceno contemporaneous report, independent witness or technical metadata
Conventional explanations: Birds, aircraft, small nearby objects, copying artefacts or deliberate staging remain possible. Range and scale are unconstrained.
What Remains Unresolved
- Original photographer
- original film/negative
- exact date
- full chain of custody
- location verification
- adjacent frames.
Key Takeaways
- The biggest problem is the 28-year provenance gap. Treat the photo as archival curiosity unless the original source chain is recovered.
Sources
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