UFO Photos

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It was in view for nearly four minutes and in that time it travelled from south-west to south-east. Mrs. Potter supported her husband's statements. When interviewed later they both denied that what they had seen was a meteor or a weather-balloon. Mr. Potter is an experienced amateur astronomer and a member of the British Astronomical Association and of the Norwich Astronomical Society. Other Norwich residents came forward with statements corroborating Mr. Potter's report that something strange had been seen in the sky on that particular night. Their descriptions, however, were not as detailed as that of Mr. Potter who immediately drew what he had seen and submitted it to the editor of the Eastern Evening News. This drawing, with one of Adamski's photographs, were reproduced in the paper side by side and the resemblance is very striking indeed. In fact, the structure of the two objects would appear to be identical except for the fact that the three "globes" which hang from Adamski's saucer appear to be missing. These "globes" were said by Adamski to be landing-gear and retractable: as Mr. Potter's saucer was seen in flight the absence of these three appendages can, in the circumstances, be taken as further confirmation of George Adamski's story.

The only major point of difference is curious. Mr. Potter firmly holds to his opinion that as he was viewing the object through a refracting telescope the image was reversed. Mr. Potter therefore claims that he saw a saucer like the one photographed by Adamski, though upside-down.

When these facts were brought to my attention I felt that the sceptics would not be able to resist the weight of this evidence. Apart, however, from the Observer, which printed a letter from Mr. Potter and reproduced his drawing, this sighting was practically ignored by the national Press. Some months later, the Daily Mail did refer to the matter at length in a series of articles on flying saucers, but, at the time, the significance of the Norwich sighting was overlooked by the British public. Although the matter cannot be unknown to the Astronomer Royal and other pundits, they chose to ignore this incident altogether. At the risk of being repetitious, let it be stated