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a ufo invasion in england by charles

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lear 1967 was quite a year in ufo

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history in canada there was a falcon

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lake incident where a man with a grid

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pattern of circular burns on his torso

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claimed to have gotten them from an

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ascending ufo and the shag harbor

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incident where a ufo was seen to plunge

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into the water by citizens and was

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subsequently searched for by canadian

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officials meantime here in the u.s the

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air force funded ufo study at the

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university of colorado headed by dr

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edward condon was underway as was a

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major flap which included ufos cited

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around nuclear weapons facilities at

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malmstrom air force base in montana a

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bit of history that's been all but

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forgotten is an incident that year that

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involved six grounded flying

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saucer-shaped objects in england they

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caused quite a stir and were examined by

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the british intelligence service the

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army the raf a bomb disposal unit and

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police on september 4

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1967 british authorities became alarmed

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as six identical saucer-shaped objects

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approximately four feet in diameter and

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making beeping and hissing noises were

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reported to be lying on the ground

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across england they were roughly

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equidistant and lying along a 51.5

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degree parallel running from kent to

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somerset one of the saucers was found in

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bromley after cynthia tooth told the

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local paper that she had seen a strange

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light to send behind some trees as she

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washed it through her bedroom window the

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bromley police brought it to the station

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and informed scotland yard of the find

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later they received a reprimand from

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senior officials at scotland yard for

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bringing the object through town and

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risking contamination scotland yard then

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informed the ministry of defense just

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after 9 00 am once the mod was informed

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they took control

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the senior flight lieutenant in charge

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under condition of anonymity told john

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keeling author of how big or little

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green men his thought at the time was

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well what do we do now the first

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fear was that the objects were some sort

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of soviet weaponry radar stations were

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contacted and asked if anything unusual

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had been spotted the night before and

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the reply was negative whether enemy

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weaponry or alien craft the handling of

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the objects had been anything but

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careful they had been taken to police

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stations one was stored in a lost

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property office drilled punctured and

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one in chippenham was blown up by a bomb

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disposal unit one of the objects that

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had been drilled into showered police

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officers with a paper mache-like mess

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and they proceeded to wash it down a

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drain by the end of the day the mystery

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was solved not by the mod but by a

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reporter who remembered that students at

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farnborough's royal aircraft

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establishment had built a robot for rag

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week in british universities a week

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devoted to raising money for charity at

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around the same time the year before a

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press conference was arranged and

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farnborough students admitted that they

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had been the ones responsible for the

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saucers one stated we believe that

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flying saucers could land someday so we

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landed our own to give the authorities

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some practice

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the saucers were made from two

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fiberglass halves formed in plaster

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molds they were filled with battery

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powered electronic sound producing

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equipment that was turned on by a switch

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that was activated by turning the saucer

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upside down to give the appearance of

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being alien they were also filled with a

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mixture of flour and water that

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fermented to make a hissing

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foul-smelling slime the students spent

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the night before setting the saucers out

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at their locations along the 51.5 degree

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parallel they managed to do so

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undetected and were safely back in

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farnborough by the time the first saucer

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was found the british authorities were

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embarrassed but chose not to press

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charges as that would only bring more

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publicity to what was already an

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international story a bromley officer

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was quoted as saying we are taking it

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like gentlemen the publicity resulted in

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the farnborough students raising around

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2000 pounds one of the students involved

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chris sutherl told the bbc in 2017 that

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things would have turned out differently

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than 50 years on the times we live in

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now are much harsher and i don't think

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we could do it now we would end up in