Grand Blanc, Michigan: Object on amateur Moon photo, FBI collects the print
At 1:00 a.m. on 21 February 1960, Joseph F. Perry of Grand Blanc, Michigan, photographs the Moon through his homemade telescope and later finds an object silhouetted against it; after he reports it to the Air Force, two FBI agents collect the photo, which NICAP's consultant later judges to be most probably a film defect.
Background
At 1:00 a.m. on 21 February 1960, Joseph F. Perry of Grand Blanc, Michigan, takes a photo of the Moon with his homemade telescope and later discovers that it shows an object silhouetted against the Moon. He displays the photo in his store window and then decides to tell the Air Force about it; in response, the Air Force apparently contacts the FBI, and two FBI agents show up and are given the photo. The case is covered by the Detroit Times and the Flint Journal in March and May 1960, and FBI documents on it are part of the PURSUE release. NICAP acquires the photo, and its consultant Max Miller reports that the object quite probably is a cinch mark, either foreign matter attached to the film during processing or underdeveloped emulsion, the latter in his view the likelier; the APRO Bulletin reaches the same conclusion of a film flaw in 1962. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.