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Wing Commander Cyril Withers was the

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principal scientific officer for the

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ministry of Defense at Raf boscom in

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Wiltshire when in 1952 he witnessed

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something which made an indelible

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impression upon him his job involved the

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secret testing of equipment aboard a

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Canberra pr9 this was a very special

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flight in that we'd been asked just

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a Canberra craft that was high in

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altitude as possible and find out

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exactly how high the aircraft would go

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we managed to get up to 55 000 feet

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mainly at that stage to test the radar

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unit just about as we were to call it a

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day we suddenly got a signal on the

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radar this we discovered at about eight

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miles away from us and shining very very

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brightly

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now this could have been

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entirely Sun reflection

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or it could have been self-generated

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brilliant we still wanted to confirm

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that it was not any sort of false

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indication and we could actually see in

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the distance something listening

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it was about 30 to 40 feet diameter with

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a central Dome we were quite determined

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to report this to the ground station

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when we got down in view of the fact

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that no other aircraft at that time

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could fly or be flying from any country

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that that's true

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to say what speed it was going and I

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would

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well be very difficult to say but it's

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certainly be well in excess of two

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hundred dollars well in excess of that I

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would think possibly more like 500

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because it vanished so quickly and I'm

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still convinced that this was some

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reconnaissance

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object from another planet and that

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I wouldn't like to guess I I I I would

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think that it was uh certainly generated