A box of NASA photographs from a small Ohio auction led one researcher to a single image that doesn't quite match the official record. Our guest, Ed, spent two decades as a rare book and document dealer working with major auction houses including Christie's and Heritage Auctions — until this discovery changed the direction of his research. Topics Discussed:

How a rare-book auction led to a 31-binder NASA photo archive
The story of NASA mission control engineer Scott Simkinson and his collection
A 1965 lithograph labeled "strange object" from the Gemini 11 mission
The cloud-pattern match between the lithograph and an original NASA photo
How Cold War-era memos shaped NASA's photo review procedures
The origins of the National Photographic Interpretive Center
A power anomaly and communication gap during the Gemini 11 flight
Reviewing 16,000 frames of film from the National Archives
The theory that most of the visible universe is made of plasma
Filing Freedom of Information Act requests and what came back

Stories Discussed:

Ed describes finding 31 binders of NASA photographs at a small Ohio auction, originally catalogued under the name of NASA's first female employee at Cape Canaveral.
He walks through matching the cloud pattern in a 1965 "strange object" lithograph to an original Gemini 11 photograph, frame for frame.
He reads from a declassified 1965 memo outlining how NASA photography was reviewed before release — written years before public interest in the topic existed.
He breaks down the Gemini 11 mission transcript, where a sudden power drop and a multi-minute communication gap occurred just before a planned night-imaging experiment.
He explains how a well-known photography skeptic's analysis ended up supporting his own conclusions about the image.

Memorable Quote: "Nobody has ever seen more than a third-generation NASA photo."

Ed can be found:
Website: https://geminiufo.com/
Amazon Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ed-Wilson/author/B0GLGLSWSP?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=0f432781-7064-495f-95e6-4881d7da5243

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