UFO Photos

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

not very important in itself, perhaps, was the following report that appeared in the Sheffield Telegraph of 24th April, 1953, some five months before the Adamski photographs had been made public:

## BOYS WATCHED "FLYING SAUCER" FOR 25 MINUTES

## AND ONE COULDN'T SLEEP

What was it that three Sheffield youths, Terry Platts, Brian Davies and Allan Green, all aged 16, saw in the evening sky? Allan's father's verdict was: "A

Allan's father's verdict was: "A reflection from a steel furnace probably." Terry's father looked at his boy's hand

Terry's father looked at his boy's bicycle to see if he had fallen off and cracked his head. Brian's father wasn't so sure.

Brian's father wasn't so sure. He interviewed the boys separately and then wrote to the Sheffield Telegraph.

Yes, a flying saucer! But their description was "like two plates put together". The boys, who all live in Newman Road.

The boys, who all live in Newman Road, Wincobank, are not given to telling fanciful tales, according to their parents. It was Monday evening and they were

It was Monday evening and they were watching some pheasants in a field from Greasborough Road at about 7.30. They saw what they at first thought was an aeroplane with the sun shining on it—until they noticed there was no sun. It was a dull evening. The boys say the object over Raymond

The boys say the object, over Rawmash way, gradually came nearer. It moved at a fast speed but sometimes would remain stationary for several seconds. On these occasions, a reddish glow coming from behind it would cease. The boys agree the object was ok

The boys agree the object was always a long way off, but they say they got the impression it was very big. They watched it, they say for twenty five

They watched it, they say, for twenty-five minutes. Said Brian's stepfather, Mr. C.

Said Brian's stepfather, Mr. George Moverley, last night: "I'm convinced the boys aren't kidding. My son was too full of it for that. One boy says he couldn't sleep for thinking of it, although his father ridiculed him."

## THE ADAMSKI PHOTOGRAPHS

I have seen a letter from Mr. George Moverley, Brian Davies's stepfather who made the comment that the sketch in the Sheffield Telegraph did not actually conform with the boys' description. This was re-drawn as under:

It will be seen that in outline it resembles the object that Adamski has photographed. Even stranger events were to happen later when the book had been published, but the cutting and the letter were in my possession before anybody outside my office had seen the Adamski photographs. An extract from Mr. Moverley's letter may prove of interest:

In regard to your letter received last Saturday, I am sending cuttings to show the interest caused by my son's and his friends' observation of the "flying saucer". The "saucer" was observed first.

The "saucer" was observed for at least twenty-five minutes in good light and, on close questioning, their accounts coincided on every main point. The newspaper account seems to have formed a wrong impression as to the speed. The point that seemed to strike them was how slow it could fly. It could dive and hang suspended in the air! Stop and start at will! What power of propulsion do we know of that could allow an object of such shape to perform so.

For most of the time it appeared on edge, but towards the end of the observation it banked and went away, and they were able to observe its circular shape.

On moving, it left a long trail of flame ending in black smoke that stopped when the aircraft stopped.

While the book was being printed, Mr. J. N. Mansour of Jetex Limited, the firm that makes model aircraft and the fuel for their propulsion, visited George Adamski and