Solway Firth Spaceman

[3] On 23 May 1964, Jim Templeton, a firefighter from Carlisle, took three photographs of his five-year-old daughter while on a day trip to Burgh Marsh.

[1] According to UFO book author David Clarke in 2014, the "spaceman" is most likely Templeton's wife, Annie, who was present at the time and was seen on another photograph taken that day.

Annie Templeton was wearing a pale blue dress on the day in question, which was partially overexposed as white in another photo; she also had dark bobbed hair.

It has been argued that, when using photo software to darken the image and straighten the horizon, the figure increasingly appears to be a regular person viewed from behind.

Over the four decades the photo has been in the public domain, I have had many thousands of letters from all over the world with various ideas or possibilities – most of which make little sense to me.

"[10] In a 2011 interview in the Dumfries Courier shortly before his death, Templeton, then 91, said that Elizabeth and grandson Thomas were taking over as custodians of his 20,000-image historical library.