Photo: light in triangular formation

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Since the 1940s, media has covered purported photographs of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Numerous examples have been determined to be hoaxes. Professor Branden W. Joseph has argued that there are "a substantial enough collection of photographs of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that one can begin to discern a distinct pictorial genre: The UFO photograph". Joseph describes the typical UFO photograph as "portraying a blurry, saucer-like form, with just enough horizon to indicate airborne trajectory, but not enough to allow definitive judgement of scale." Writes Joseph: "Although often explained as a result of the fantastic speeds or unusual composition of flying saucers, both lack of focus and ambiguity of scale are conducive to manipulation, whether in alteration of the print or negative or the reproduction of a scale model or other small, disc-shaped object." UFO photography has been featured in the artwork of Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler.