65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

I
SA I
"
'l,
,,.
. ,
1%,.
,
' I
What Did The
.People Of
I
Devon See
·· ..·•
.
Last Week?
'
By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
W
EST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
publicity last week to reports of " flying
saucers " over Devon.
The saucers were reported by a number
of independent witnesses from places as far
apart• as
Woolacombe
(near
llfracombe),
Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and
Poignton (60 miles south of Woolacombe).
Eye witnesses' descriptions of what they saw are sub­
t ntiallY in agreement-there was no rnuise and a trail
s/fire streamed from the back. The observations were at
0 bout 11 p.m. in all instances.
a
Mr J. Stewart. 70-year-old
oolacombe pensioner, who
worked in aircraft fac.­
has
. two wars, was one of
tor!e~,Ye1 people who told the
the ter Express and Echo what
Ex;
n ad seen.
th Y
On Monday evening, he
A.t 10.so
object come insnore
noticed a ndirection of the north
from f tf endYat a " terrific speed."
I end O Hu A Franklin, of Beacon­
.Mr.
•. ton near Exeter, wrote
Jane V'{h1P . that while at Coun­
to the pa.P({wo miles ~outh-east of
tess wea1 1',1ondaY night, he saw
:Exete~\irar objeC~·
two en
sUNDAY DISPATCH
LONDON' ENGLAND
11- ,5-50
•
'Tht-y were of a brillia.nt sil­
v y blue. travelling south, one be­
hind the other In close formation: •
he said.
" After passing overhead
the
rear object appeared to catch up
with the front one and collide
whereon they disintegrated."
'
Bright Disc
T he object was described by Miss
J.. spurway, of Exeter-hill° Cul­
Iompton (12 miles north-east of
Exeter) 1 as " a bright disc travel­
ling with a circular movement a t
great speed."
Two and a half miles north of
Exmouth, the object was seen at
11 p.m. br. Mr. and Mrs. L. Mus­
, sell, of H1ll-crest, Lympstone. who
, described it as having been in ~wo
parts " apparently attached
in
some way with a lighted tail."
The sixth witness quoted in thll
Express and ,Echo is Mr. A. J.
Powell, of Sidmouth J unc:tion, who,
while between Patterson's Cross,
Otlerv St. Mary and Sldmouth
Jnnc(ion at 11 p.m. on Mondav,
, saw " two brilliant wh.l~J.!.!:.!l[s
t.ome 11no view to the ncinh-west,
from behind a bank of mist.
•
. \
J!3_~_ Y3_;; .
l
JM; J:J
1951
~~
"' ­
Mt.~
Jlr. Ut:-!u -~
Yc:i. !..x.r.i _~
~ !;~ -- ----­
2:.ll= c:.-~7 -----­
ii LJ
1Ji