James W. Cadle’s Earth flag

“Flag of Earth”

Last modified: 2005-08-19 by antonio martins
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History of the flag

The flag of earth was designed by an Illinois farmer named James Cadle shortly after the first manned landing on the moon in 1969. The intent was to create a flag for the planet Earth that represented us all as passengers on spaceship Earth, and instead of using a NASA photo as many others had done, create a flag that could be made readily in bunting. We used to make these flags at Paramount Flag Co, in the 1970’s and 1980’s they were purchased mostly by astronomers where the flag apparently became quite popular. It has been flown all over the globe, including the former Soviet Union at observatories. They were also popular with SETI.
James Ferrigan, 19 Oct 1999

The flag flies from several locations where the SETI (Search for Extraterresterial Intellegence) has operations. The earth object stretches nearer the upper and lower borders and in a light blue; the moon object in the lower fly.
Phil Nelson, 19 Oct 1999

This Flag of Earth was created in