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,... 91&@ people described it as a. · Airmen Saw It
"blob of brilliant whiteness "
and a " sheet of white h~=r==~-·1ots of four jet aircraft of . e
m etal " Royal Auxiliary Air Force corru g
in to land at Llandaw, near C r-
Chairman of Chard F.C., Mr. d •fI renorted a flash of llght t
William Taunton, sitting in the l5,o·oort: to the north-east of the
stand, said : "It came right over a irne:d.
the top of us like a brilliant streak At a football match at Easton-
~~1 ~~:~ ..seemed to dissolve before ln-Gordano, near Bristol, specta
tors saw a flash. Mr. M.y. Perrett,
S n k Sh of H::1m Green, said: It looked
a e - ape like a rocket coming_ down frqm
Miss Myra Scott, who was watch- 2,000ft. There was an 1ntense whit~
ing a football match at Perry flash which left a trail of vapour.
Street, three miles south of Chard, Spectators at the match between
said she saw a "low-flying, silvery Shaftesbury and Longfleet _st.
star with a tail " shortly before Mai·y reported what appeared hke
four o'clock. a gi:.1.nt rocket. It seemed to fall
At North Petherton, near Bridg- from the sky.
water, spectators at another match Bovlngdon airport In Hertford-
saw an object in the north-west shire 150 miles east of Llandaw.
sky shortly before four o'clock. also 'reported to the _Air Ministry
It was described as "a Jong that a brilliant white light was
snake-shape thing which streaked senn a long way to t he west at
through the sky at a terrific rate." 4.5 n.m Observers estimated that
Mr. T. Hollinghurst, of North it , i:>.s at about 20,000ft. anrt say
Petherton, said : "It appeared sud- th, t it vanished in a trail of smoke.
d enly and went away suddenly, A'.r Ministry said last, night:
l eaving a _creamy smoke. There " A thorough check _has b_eei:i made
was no noise and there were no and no aircraft is missii:ig or
planes about." b:1'.eved to have blown up m the
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• Channel Explosio n ·: , I t is most unlikely that an un
scheduled private flight could haveA f ew minutes later a- flash, as ta'.~en place at such a height. We
s een at a great height over the
though from an explosion, was .can:1ot explain the phenome_non.
Bristol Channel. 50 miles to the "No aircraft was flying m the
north of Chard. Port'.she3.d area.."
Repo~ts from plates as much as Game Stopped
at the Air Ministry.
130 miles apart were received
At Towyn, near Rhyl, North
Portfshead (near Bristol) police W 0 ,ies, Rugb.v players dropped the
rel)orted that' a white flash was b ?.ll a!ld, with spectators, sta_red
s een between 4.5 and 4 10 p.m. in!o the sky as a yellow ob,Ject
which appeared to be an explo t1 ,: s~c1.:·,· , flas:ied ar.i·oss rt.
s10n. It turned pink and dis It vanished over Tower Hill.
integrated. The estimated height Ab?rge!e, within ten seconds.was 20.000ft. At about 4 o'clock spectators at
Weston•super-Mare police re- Amersham: ~uc~inghamshire, f9ot
ted to the Air Ministr,Y tha t ball ground saw a brilliant obJect
y saw a similaa· flash m the " like a huge star " flash across ti:ie
•tishead direction at the same sky, leaving a volume of smoke m
t ~ - ~ its wake. .~ Another sighting was re;;;ted r Among people who saw the obJeet
f rom as far away as Durham. at Launceston, Cornwa ll, were r~o
ex-R.A.F. officers who were wa c •
ing a Rugby match. . .
The object. which was _c11cula1 ,
ga ,e off a bright bluish-white light.
•s •o•n :,yas that the
obiect w~s a meteor. If pi~es..of
mi:eor:Le are found," he said. 1t
w'll be only the tenth to have
fi:len in this country
" I would like to appea_J to any
one in the areas from which it was
r eported to report at once if the:y
notice a hole in the ground or a
damaged tree that was ,nf?t.l!lfile
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