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--THE : CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1953.

Two Experienced British · Airline Pilots Tell The Detailed, Expert Story Of How They Saw

THE FLYING SAUCER OVER THE CHANNEL

WO experienced British European Airways plots They Watched It, Measured

have reported to London Airport that on a recent flight to Paris they watched FOR 30 MINUTES a mysterious object in the sky that might have been

a "flying saucer."

Captain Peter Fletcher, of Putney, has been a pilot for

18 years, first with the RAF and, since its beginning, with

It, Discussed It Technically

First Officer Lemon' and I wo did not know how far away studied it intently. Wo had it was from us. The day was plenty of time.

I had the appearance of two shallow saucers with their rims together. We noticed thai:

so clear that it could have been an extremely large craft up to 100 miles away..

estimate size.

BEA; First Oficer R. L. Lemon, of Iver, Bucks, became a For Over Half An Hour 30 minutes that we had it under neither.

pilot in the RAF 14 years ago. Both are therefore trained. observers as well as skllled pilots.

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They agree, although they cannot prove it, that they were not deceived by a trick of light.

Here is their story, factual and unvarnished. It is

told by Captain Fletcher:

aircraft was over- taking me on my left.

UR Elizabethan flight that an

left London Airport at nine o'clock on the morning

October 9. of There was a certain amount of low cloud and fog, but when we climbed we found ourselves in an absolutely clear atmosphere.

We

on a course

A

the

IMPORTANT

WRA

me

Go

Captain Potor Fletcher and First Officer Lemon

have similar sun reflec- subtle difference tions.

the two.

Soviet Food Production In

the

top wing.

Russia

between

STORY OF FAILURE

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of

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one

Given the size of an object 1. Its relativo position to one can exlimate ita distance curselves remained completely away. Given the distance unchanged the whole can

We know

observation. It appeared to be It certainly looked as big as s!!|].

the Constellation and Won 2. The Intensity of reflected farther away from us. How far light from the top surface IC: we could not judge but we mained absolutely steady until estimated that it was romewhere the last ten minutes of observa- over Northern France. tion when it gradually dwindled away at a speed consistent with the changing perition of the

BU

It

3. The top reflecting curface was smooth and unbroken. was more highly polished than is normally the case with aircraft's "skin."

an

At first I had automatically classifed the "stranger" as Elizabethan that had taken

the

off

two or three minutes before me bound for Nice and reporting his cruising altitude as 19,800ft. But

the French coast on crossing af Dieppe this aircraft reported his position behind me.

No aircraft reported crossing the French coast at

TWO R.A.F. officers and

three airmen reported seeing a silvery circular object following a Meteor fot which was landing at a Yorkshire aerodrome during exercise Mainbrace Last

year.

They said that the "fly- ing saucer"" was at about 10,000 fect and after apparently revolving on its axis it sped to the

west- ward at a terriflo speed.

The Sunday Dispatch that the then revealed

serious made investigation into the re- port and did not dismiss it "meteorological pheno-

R.A.F. time that

would have put it in the position of the mystery craft.

I was at once interested in and my unchanging neighbour began to check up on the other aircraft in the vicinity.

SOME FACTS.

I noted the following facts: 1. Low fog had prevented aircraft not only leaving London Airport, but by and large most of the U.K. nerodromes up approximately 8.40 a.m., and L was the fourth to take off from

2. The three preceding me

to Brussels.

to

mona."

Recently the Air Minis- try said that the special department which was sel up to investigate reporta of "ying saucers" has ceived Captain Fiecher's report and experts are now evaluating I

To

Neither of us has any doubt about one thing: We were not deceived by a trick, of light.

WE HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE WHATSOEVER

A. SHATE APPROXUZZ SZA

This aircraft, a Constella- tion flying some 50 knots faster than ourselves, pass- few nhead and a ed on minutes later reached its cruising altitude of 18,500 position feet and was in a immediately ahead of intensely and above. The sky was blue. There Wag not 11

I just get a little technical Bearing in mind that all cloud, The sun shone bril-

Both my aircraft and the flying around here. At this stage the relative airliners

precisely Courtellation were on liantly. It was one of those

basically of could position of my aircraft to Europe are

same course and therefore rare days when you

remained see an aircraft 50 60 the Constellation and the similar linear size-that is its bearing from me

or miles away.

aun was such that the sun's a wing span of 100 feet exactly the same, but as it was It was so clear that when light reflected to me to 150 feet, I judged this drawing away from me

were over the English from the top surface of the other aircraft was flying greater speed, its relative post- Channel we could sen air- aircraft's wing, making the at approximately 20,000 ton to me slowly changed.

As slight irregularities occur- to feet, and was craft over the airport at lit surface very clear

about the red in the path of the Censtella Orly, 100 miles, away, and see, while a darker shadow sume distance from me as tion's light, the intensity

the Constellation. or light reflected from the upper if we had been high enough etched in the lower part. we could have seen

This is important in view probably a further 20 miles surface varied.

Even when tho Constellation London. away. Alps.

of later observations.

was getting on for 30 miles After watching the two ahead of me the Irregularities of I had reported our It was then that I first

no fuselage, erigines and tall could were a D.C.4 to Amsterdam, the position to Control when we noticed the "flying saucer." aircraft and I had were over Seaford, Sussex. It was apparently another reason up to now to think still be distinguished breaking Elizabethan to Nice, and D.C. OBJECT WAS SOLID.

3. No civilian aircraft leav- THAT OF AN AIRCRAFT We were en route for Paris aircraft above the Constel that the other object was up the reflecting surface of the

THAT IT WAS to not an aircraft-it became

But it was quite different ing Northolt would comply with of about 150 lation and a little away

the height, direction, etc., et CONSTRUCTED OF A METAL... to apparent that there was with our "fying saucer." degrees. London radar said the left, and it seemed

the mystery craft.

SIMILAR TO THAT USED This eliminated all civillon FOR AIRCRAFT CONSTRUC- aircraft flying from UK.. to TION ONLY MUCH MORE France. I was left with the HIGHLY POLISHED. possibilities of a Service jet or In 18 years of flying i have an Air France Comet,

never seen anything like it. If We ruled out the latter it had been visible for a few possibilities because neither a seconds or even for a few Jet nor a Comet would maintain minutes 1 would have dismissed for 30 minutes a courte exactly it as an illusion or a trick of the same without showing some light, plication of collectivired

variation in apparent. position Industrial techniques is a most relative to our own aircraft, for Inferior way of breeding beef they would be flying twice as But we had our "saucer"

of dairy fast. Remember also that the rulers of the Soviet to grain was still less than that would have plenty left for them- or creating supplies

wo under observation for a full produce. So Mr Malenkov, In Union are no nearer to of 1940, and the targets for total selves.

realised,

estimate. Its size.. parent-position in the Con alder it, to Ready-made Coats. Suits, Evening & Cocktail Dresses, Camel-solving the problem of the production were not

This has not been the case the speech already referred to, could see variation in the ap- half-hour. We had time to con

decided that Individual stellation.

Our radio officer saw it and we the Russians claim has peasant than they were at though it was claimed that 90 Although

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the beginning of the Revolu- percent of

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keep (Next to Princess Theatre) Kowloon. 120 Nathan Rd.

tion. Broadly, as Lenin saw done by

Certainly we saw something percent of

the harvesting and out the Soviet Union, there have cows privately and to sell and both of us was the absence of confirm what he saw. this problem, the peasant although the output of fertilisers bem recurrent and sometimes

me mal produce on the free market. Buctuation in the Intensity

material in the sky. Whether the reflected light. He laid

stress of bread and

great had to be won over to the was said to be double that of sovere shortages

I admit that at one time or not it was a "flying'saucer” throughout meat

satellite need to increase

dairy produce, cause of the Revolution by 1940.

than More important

any Europe. The reason is that the and a few days after the speech toyed with

But we will not dismiss it as it was announced that the Soviet mis the promise of land and then, gradually, he had to hures, is the restruined, but peasants in satellite Europe, Uke Union had imported 30,000 tons would obviously have had to be a trick of imagination not

tho nono

their brothers conclusive,

in the Soviet of butter from the, decadent an enormous balloon and later after 30 minutes of wondering be "collectivised." There admission recently

made

Western countries, and from observation confirmed the ellip- what it could be. Hnlenko about

the lion by lowering their could be no question in a Mr.

In his tion. This combined with was making arrangements to

to properties of an aircraft wing, tional aircraft, and I have given Communist State, of allow- grain position in Russia.

Russia's policy of importing food THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. ing the agricultural part of the Supreme Sovies, he quoted from the satellite countries at all buy more. Before the war the being roughly one-tenth as deep my reasons why we do not think

the population to continue the

Britain, for It was impossible to estimato Maybe your guess is as good even semi-gures showing that the produc- costs und in spite of the market Soviet Union was a regular ex-as it was long indefinitely дя

industrial crops such as needs of these countries, has porter of butter.

Inhabitants of example, in one year imported free producers; that would cotton and

sian butter. The present short- have been politically impos. larger than in 1940, but con- Warsaw, Budapest, and Buch- no less than 40,000 tons of Red the size of the object because as mine

tented himself with saying about arest are often short of bread.

age of protective foods, such as sible.

wheat and cereals that "our

animal fats, is an eloquent com- The advancez towards, and country is assured of bread." He Low Yields

the falling of Com- on morstary the retreats from, the collce- went on to my that in many

munist agriculture; particularly tivisation of the peasants of the parts of the country

Yiolda of cereals have always when one remembers that since Soviet Union from 1910 to 1953 and State farms had gathered been low in the Soviet Union, the war the Soviet Union has make a sad, though fascinating in small harvests of grain and There is no evidence whatever absorbed the rich dniry-forming story-which has not yet ended. allowed big losses. "As a con- that the average yield has in- areas of

Estonia, Latvia and The retreats from the process of sequence of the under-develop creased substantially since 1810, Lithuania industrialising the peasant have ment of agriculture, some of the and in the countries of Eastern The picture of food produc- been dietated, not by any change colletive farms still have ineuf- Europe there Is firm evidence tim in the Soviet Union, a ple- of heart in the Kremlin but the

revenue in money and that current yields are lower drawn from Soviet figures simple

fact that, the Soviet yield le to the collective than in 1930. About yields, Mr and corroborated by Mr Malen- Union needs food in ever larger formera." He put down what Malenkov made a most interest kov's admissions, is a very dif

Industrial he called "the intolerable lag in ing statement. He said that, to ferent one from that in which 1.3 Its quantities

In face livestock. breeding" to Increases, population

Intensity the struggle against the Soviet Union publicises lis of consistent passive resistance, shortage of

grains for losses of crops and to increase industrial production. The Com Bometimes savage on the part of animal fodder.

the amount pf grain, it was munist world, with its "aclen- the peasants, the State has been

essential to put an end to the file management" of agriculture forced from time 40 time to

incorrect practice of evaluating and stock-breeding its the results of the work of the output of tractors and feruliset, This shortage of grain is the collective farms merely on the is not, In fact, producing

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of

on the

the

NO TRICK

of

the loca that it we cannot say. might be a balloon. But it

by Union, have resisice produc- Australia and New Zealand, and tical shape. In this it had the

sugar beet was meant that the

corso

collective

Not The Case

number

the

the

Let us look very broadly at mare extraceday when it is busie of oppurent yields and not enough food adequately to feed

that before 1914 the basis of the amounts laclt. this fallure of the Soviet system reriembered

picduce enough food, and for some time during the actually harvested.

Disappointing Although the US.S.R. is one of "wenties the Soviet Union was This is a radical departurë the largest grain-growing areas a large exporter of wheat and

which Stallp

Rusala has much, perhaps, to in the world, the production of coLLERO

Compared with from the policy use grains. cereals.

trom the Bolshevik that period, its exports today are introduced in 1932 of queting all show Asian and African Co

yield figures in a form known as munists in the way of industrial Hovelution until today, has negligible,, particularly when it biological yields," Le based on production. No doubt, too, there scarcely kept pace with increases is borne in mind that Rursion esilmates of the crops 43 they

can be an impressive. "build up L the population.

This

is, agriculture no longer feeds the

of hors stood in the fields. This was to for

for visitors, to illustrate the admitted in the very restricted enormous

hide the real figures, which at growth of industrial crops such the Soviet needed for: traction. information which

Further traction. Government has published, and more, since the end of the last theme were causing anxiety as cotton in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union how land from

Mr. Malenkov's decision springs. But a visit to the main, food- which has been analysed in re wor tho

realisation that the producing, sreas of Use Soylet parts of the Economie Comimis control of the great. surplus

-producing areas of Poland, Government: : has become the ion would give a disappoint slon for Europe.

One victim of its own statistichl.dia- picturo. Collective d. Roumania.

agricul

•ture has failed to do

than would have expected that these torlionis own

The Soviet

Union seknowe provide for in from normal

steadily countries, cut

growing that cattle herds', are population a diet that continues In 1931 the output of grain trade relations with the West, ledges

than in 1930. to be overladen with starchy was three and a half million would have been able to end smaller. today

poor.1

in composition. tons below that of 1949, the ample supplies of grain, to help There have been many official foods and la

feed the Red Army, to stock for admissions about the unentis Though alarming shortages have year when output was expected to have recovered from the war, war purposes and to make much factory management of the large been prevented in recent years, collectiva farming propagmán glits of collective cattle farms in Central Soviet This could not be put down to advertised harvesting conditions which, of grains and other agricultural Ara. Pilfering by peasants and provide merely the dull dist of course, varied from good to bad commodities to Asian countries. fallure in management are the a: backward agrarian country over the vast expenses of the And having sold their surpluses, common crimes. It is increasing and not the dive required by a U.S.HR. In 1962, the area sown it was to be expected that they ly being found that the op-stolling industrial, working class:

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