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On the day of the eclipse of the sun, some of the crew and passengers of a BOAC stretch

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recruiter reported seeing mysterious objects in the sky over the Atlantic.

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When the airliner arrived back in Britain, the pilot Captain James Howard was asked to

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describe these objects by our reporter Peter May.

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Very conveniently, Captain, we've got a nice blackboard here.

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Do you think you could illustrate this phenomenon, sir?

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Could you show us what it looks like very roughly?

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I'll try.

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When I look out at the left-hand window of the nose of the catapult, I see something like this.

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Well, that is the health wing, one of the ends of the shell.

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On this occasion, the horizon, look at the vast蜆s, was low cloud, way beneath us.

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The sun was just set over here.

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And these objects appeared something like this.

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The large object appeared at times to be something like that.

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There's a smaller object in relation to something like this.

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There were sometimes ahead of it, sometimes behind.

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And the shape of this object is continually changing.

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Sometimes one end would appear to disappear, sometimes this was very much larger,

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sometimes it was almost that beam shape there, like this.

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It was always black and similar, and always quite a clear edge to it.

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And when it finally disappeared, it needed to go.

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Yes, the smaller ones just disappeared first, and this shrunk,

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shrunk down until it was no more than just a speck, and then even that sad district.

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Now, what do you say that this possibly was some sort of optical illusion,

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or what do you say it was an intelligent, navigated chart?

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At least 10 of us, the entire crew and some of the passengers,

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watched this object for 18 minutes, and it maintained station alongside us some distance away.

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And I think there's no question that it was no illusion, and that it was being intelligently handled.