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~g Red Trail '
"They passed swiftly," he saJd,
" in a southerly direction and aP­
peared to. be ' In line astern ' with
a long red trail to the rear . . .
both lights seemed to fizzle out as
I watched them-they were In a
clear patch of sky when this hap­
pened .•. I heard no sound."
·" Two
large
circular
objects
travelling south in a horizontal
position looking something like
large white flames " is the descriP­
tion given in the Western Morning
News of what Mr. Arthur N.
Beame. 55-year-old estate agent, of
Southfield-avenue. Preston, Devon,
saw at Paignton at 11 p.m. on
Monday.
Members of the crew of a liberty
boat
plying
between
Flagstaff
Steps, Devonport Dockyard, and
H.M.S. Defiance are also' reported
in the Western Morning News as
having
seen
"circular objects
travelling at an incalculable speed
and emitting a trail oJ fire " late on
Monday night.
T1-,,,~uay Heral4. §-""!!'"~
quot.es four other people who saw
.similar objects.
Bluish Light t
Frederick Bray_ fisherman, age
39, was lying in the bunk of hi
boat in Torquay outer harbour
when he saw a
" bluish-white
light" appear over Princess Pier
at about 11 p.m. " I watched the
flames for about ten seconds. They
seemed to surround a roundish ob­
ject which was travelling towards
Thatcher Rock" (to the East).
While walking along the sea
front to Torquay Station, Mr. D .
Jeffery, of Winner-street, Paignton,
saw something in the sky.
"I
thought at first it was a rocket fire­
work," he told the Herald Express.
"Then I noticed it was maintain­
ing a constant speed at a constant
height ... It was absolutely silent.
It seemed to disintegrate suddenly
and disappear."
A "ball of bluish-white light .,
was seen at about 11 p.m. in the
sky abovef Paignton
travelling
south
towards
Brixham.
Mr.
Harry Cove-Clark, of Marine-drive,
Paignton, said : "The ball of light
was preceded by a thin blue blur
which was overtaken by the main
body.
1 Like Feeble Rocket '
"Then another bluish-white light
appeared and a broken stream of
lights seemed to fall from it. They
all seemed to be following each
other straight across the sky, then
there was a spurt of flame from
th~ end of the broken pieces-just
like a feebJe rocket."
The last of the witnesses, Mr. H.
Warren, of East-street, Torre, Tor­
quay, saw from his bedroom win­
dow an object "going towards
Brixham, due soutli of Torquay."
Describing it in a letter to the
Paper he said : "I though~ -~ ~~
ht,- cthree stars with a Ion
a
Light trailing behind them...
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