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What Did The
.People OfI
Devon See ·· ..·•
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Last Week?'
By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
WEST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
publicity last week to reports of " flying
sa ucers " over Devon.
The saucers were reported by a number
of independent witnesses from places as far
a part• as Woolacombe (near llfracombe),
Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and
Po ignton (60 miles south of Woolacombe).
Eye witnesses' descriptions of what they saw are sub
t ntiallY in agreement-th ere was no rnuise and a trail
s/fire streamed from the back. The observations were at
0 bout 11 p.m. in all instances.
a Mr J. Stewart. 70-year-old oolacombe pensioner, who
worked in aircraft fac.-
has . t wo wars, was one of
t or!e~,Ye1 people who told the
t he ter Ex press and Echo what
Ex; n a d seen.
t h Y On Monday evening, he
A.t 10.so object come insnore
noticed a ndirection of the north
from f tf endYat a " terrific speed."
I end O Hu A Franklin, of Beacon-
.Mr. •. ton near Exeter, wrote
Jane V'{h1P . that while at Coun
to the pa.P({wo miles ~outh-east of
tess wea1 1',1ondaY night, he saw
:Exete~\irar objeC~·
two en
sUNDAY DISPATCH
LONDON' ENGLAND
11- ,5-50
• 'Tht-y were of a brillia.nt sil
v y blue. travelling south, one be
hind the other In close formation: •
he said.
" After passing overhead the
rear object appeared to catch up
with the front one and collide
whereon they disintegrated." '
Bright Disc
T he object was described by Miss
J .. spurway, of Exeter-hill° Cul
Iompton (12 miles north-eas t of
Exeter) 1 as " a bright disc travel
ling with a circular movement a t
great speed."
Two and a half miles north of
Exmouth, the object was seen at
11 p.m. br. Mr. and Mrs. L. Mus
, sell, of H1ll-crest, Lympstone. who
, described it as having been in ~wo
parts " apparently attached in
some way with a lighted tail."
The sixth witness quoted in thll
Express and ,Echo is Mr. A. J.
Powell, of Sidmouth J unc:tion, who,
while between Patterson's Cross,
Otlerv St. Mary and Sldmouth
Jnnc(ion at 11 p.m. on Mondav,
, saw " two brilliant wh.l~J.!.!:.!l[s
t.ome 11no view to the ncinh-west,
from behind a bank of mist.
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