On May 23, 1964, Carlisle firefighter Jim Templeton photographed his five-year-old daughter on Burgh Marsh near the Solway Firth. When developed by Kodak, one frame showed a figure in a white space suit standing behind her, a figure Templeton insisted was invisible to him at the time. Kodak confirmed the photograph was genuine and unaltered.

Two men claiming to be government agents visited Templeton, refused to show identification, and drove away angrily after he maintained he had not seen the figure. Templeton later reported that engineers at the Woomera missile test range in Australia had halted a Blue Streak rocket launch after CCTV showed two similar figures at the pad, and independently recognised his photograph. Proposed explanations include the overexposed back of his wife Annie, who was present.