UFO picture information

The information printed on the back of the picture is extremely light so I'm typing out what it says below.

Public Information Division

U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

Washington, D.C. 20226

For Immediate Release

1 August 1952

Official U.S. Coast Guard photograph Rel. No. 5554

First Daylight Photo of - What Are They?

A U.S. Coast Guard photographer at the Salem, Mass. Air Station made this phenominal photograph at 9:35 a.m. on July 16, 1952, through a window screen.

He was in the station's photo lab pareparing to clean a camera. when he noticed several brilliant lights in the sky. He watched them for 5 or 6 seconds , then called another Coast Guard \sman in the nearby sick bay to (something left out on original description of what happened.) In these few seconds, the brilliant white of the lights had dimmed somewhat, but when it suddenly brightened again, he grabbed the camera, clicked the shutter, and this photograph is the result. Notice the bars of light that seem to extend in front of and behind the 'objects,' which appear in 'V' formation.

The picture was taken on super xx cut film with a 4/5 camera set at infinity, 1/30 of a second at 4.7 (?) Shell R. Alpart seaman, was the photographer, and his companion was Thomas E. Flaherty hospitalsman first class.

Credit - Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo

Added January 1964

PLEASE NOTE:

The U.S. Coast Guard has no further information or explanation to add so the above legend concerning this photograph, and has no official opinion to offer as to the identity of the lights. The legend remains the same as when originally released in 1952. The U.S. Coast Guard, therefore, is not and will not be responsible for any change of wording or distortion or meaning of the information printed by this office on the back of the photograph. This photograph has been kept in circulation merely to satisfy the persistent demands from the public for prints.