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view. hypercritical eye. century. Overcoming his initial astonishment, Schedelbauer let his motorcycle fall into the ditch as he jerked the camera over his head and loosened the leather case. He had no idea how long the inordinately bright object would remain hovering in the one spot, but he wanted a picture of it before it vanished from Excitedly, he was able to snap the shutter once before the thing began to move again. The photographer later described it as looking like a "giant spider," and only after he had taken the picture did he notice the tremendous amount of heat the object was giving off. A low humming noise filled the early morning air as the object glided easily about. Without warning, the sound changed from a low hum to a deafening roar. Schedelbauer said it reminded him of a jet. Then the UFO moved out of view in the direction of Radkersburg. Schedelbauer raced to Vienna, praying that the picture which he had snapped of the object had been properly exposed. Taking pictures in the dark is tricky, even for a professional photographer, and he had barely had time to find the object in the camera's viewfinder before it powered out of sight. He developed the roll and found that indeed his camera had recorded the brighly glowing white object, although its movement had caused the outline to be fuzzy. The Weiner Montag published the photo together with the photographer's account. Edgar Schedelbauer was not entirely ready for what followed the publishing of this sensational photograph and story. He became the immediate center of a lot of attention. Experts subjugated both him and his photograph to a close examination. But no matter how he was tested, he stuck to his story. "The camera is my witness. Besides | felt the heat. For three days great red spots showed on my face and hands, but they neither itched nor hurt." His story was examined and re-examined. Vienna meteorological experts ruled out the possibility that the sighting was any normal natural phenomena, but skeptics viewed the photograph itself with a More than one experienced photographer began an investigation, fully as skeptical as anyone else, but ended up confirming the validity of the photograph and calling it the most sensational snap of the