- Titles U.F.O (Proper)
- Artist Ionel Talpazon, American, born Romania, born 1955
- Medium acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Susie and Scott Robertson, AFI.896.2012
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature Recto, bottom right of canvas, etched into the darker undercoat of paint: N.Y. TALPAZON IONEL=U.F.O. NASA=SPACE=1990
- Inscription The back of the canvas shows two full handprints in blue paint, with other partial handprints surrounding it. Also on the back of the canvas, in red paint: N.Y. Talpazon Ionel; below the red paint is a white sticker with red stamps of a ship and three stamps of a lion. Etched in the lacquer that covers the sticker: Talpazon Ionel. Below the sticker in red paint: 1990. To the right of the sticker, two clay seals: left: a coin with the head of a Native American, surrounded by inverted text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. On the right, a coin with the image of a ship, with inverted text surrounding it: 1892; CHICAGO; WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.