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DAILY TELffiRAPH AND
MORN D.'JG POST
APRIL 11, 1950
LONOON, OOLAND
FLYING SAUCER !"
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MAY BE BALLOON
F"rnm Our Own Correspondent
PB.ESTON, Monday.
An object whictv they thought
might have been a " flving saucer"
was seen by th!·ee gi1:1s who were
walking along the Preston-Lancaster
main road near Preston yesterday
afternoon. "It looked like a very
bright star in the east. but was
brighter than any sl.llr." thev said.
One of the girls. Miss Lilian Spen­
cer, of Pole-street. Preston. said : "It
was oval-shaped and resembled the
wing of a silver plane caught in the I
sunlight. There was no sound of an
engine and it had a peculiar swing­
ing movement." It was going against
the wind.
An Air Ministry meteorological
official pointed out that it wa.s a
common error for people to speak of
something travelling in a certatn
direction when they really meant
that i~ was coming from that direc­
tion. 1f that wa$ the case here it
was possible that the object cou!d
have been a metoorologica1 balloon
blown over from Northern Ire!Md.
Many Londoners reported on AQril
that they had seen a " fly.
, ucer." Tne Air Ministry explain
t at it was a balloon used for pa ­
c ute Jumping which had brok
fr
Its mooring at an R.A.F. statJ
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