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on the day of the eclipse of the sun

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some of the crew and passengers of a

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boac stratocruiser reported seeing

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mysterious objects in the sky over the

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atlantic when the airliner arrived back

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in britain the pilot captain james

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howard was asked to describe these

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objects by our reporter peter max well

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very conveniently captain we've got a

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nice blackboard here do you think you

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could illustrate this phenomenon for us

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could you show us what it looked like

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very roughly i'll try

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when i look out of the left hand window

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the

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nose of a static bruiser

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i see something like this

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well that is the uh

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porch wing

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one of the engines is there

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and on this occasion

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the horizon

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was at about that level

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with low clouds

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way believe us

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the sun had just set over here

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and these objects

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a large object appeared at times to be

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something like that with the smaller

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in relation to it

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something like this

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they were sometimes ahead of it

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sometimes behind

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and the

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shape of this object was continually

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changing sometimes one end would appear

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to disappear sometimes this was very

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much larger sometimes it was almost a

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it was always uh black and silhouette

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and all this quite a clear edge to it

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and when it finally disappeared it

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seemed to dissolve

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yes the

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smaller ones just disappeared first and

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this

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trunk

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just shrunk down until it was no more

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than just a

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speck

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and then or even that disappear

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now would you say that that possible uh

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some sort of optical illusion or would

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you say it was an intelligently

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navigated

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craft

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at least 10 10 of us the entire crew and

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some of the passengers

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watched this

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object

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for 18 minutes

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and it maintained station alongside us

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some distance away and i think there's

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no question that it was no illusion

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and that it was being intelligently

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handled we were on route gooseberry in

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labrador flying at our assigned altitude

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of 19 000 feet it was a lovely summer

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evening

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i was looking down on the left hand side

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of the airplane and i saw through broken

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cloud something moving

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alongside us

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there were seven in all objects

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there was one large one and six smaller

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ones

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the big one

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also appeared to be changing its shape

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gradually

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and it stayed with us

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and the passengers became interested

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naturally

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we couldn't tell the passengers what it

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was because we we just didn't know

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[Music]

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some laughing about it and some were

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saying oh it's

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martians have landed in silly things