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a ufo falls to the ground in yorkshire

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england by charles lear in 1957 the same

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year the soviets launched sputnik

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british authorities media and citizenry

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had their attention drawn back down to

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earth as they attempted to unravel the

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mystery of a flying saucer said to have

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been found laying in a moor it was

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dismantled studied and opinions were

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divided between its having come from

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space and its having been manufactured

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right here on earth over time the saucer

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went missing but the mystery as to its

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origin remained then in 2018 pieces of

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the saucer and its mysterious contents

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were found in the archives of the

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science museum in london the case was

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first reported in the december 9 1957

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yorkshire post in an article headlined

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mystery object found on scarborough

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moors with the sub headline has unusual

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hieroglyphics it was written about in

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detail in the march april 1958 issue of

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flying saucer review according to the

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flying saucer review article headlined

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the sofo moore mystery a man who writes

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under the pen name anthony avondale had

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examined an object lying in sofo more

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near scarborough the object is described

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as being shaped like a top weighing 35

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pounds having a diameter of 18 inches

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and having hieroglyphics on its outside

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it was made of a double skin of 3 16

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inch copper a burnt powdery substance

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was found inside along with a copper

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book rolled up and inserted into a coil

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of copper tubing the book was made of 17

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copper sheets containing 2 000 words

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engraved in phonetic type symbols

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avondale got the object from the men who

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first spotted it on november 21

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1957 date from follow-up article in the

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november december 1958 flying saucer

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review frank hutton charles thomas and

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fred taylor were in a car driving along

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sofo moore they were going up a steep

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hill when the car engine quit above some

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trees they saw a glowing object that

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seemed to be falling to earth hutton a

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passenger left the car to investigate

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located the object in some bracken and

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went back to tell the others as he was

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walking he passed a man and a woman

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walking in the opposite direction on a

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little used path when hutton and the

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other men returned to the spot the

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object was gone according to the article

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after apparently making inquiries they

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got in touch with the man that mr hutton

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had seen with the woman there was quite

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a little bargaining and eventually the

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object was passed over to them for ten

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pounds hutton took the object to

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avondale thinking him to be an authority

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on flying saucers avondale agreed to

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examine it and advise hutton on whether

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or not he should turn it over to

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authorities after examining the object

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evandale spoke to the press he said the

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base was made of copper and that he cut

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out a small circle for analysis the

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upper half was covered in a white

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plastic paint he looked for army

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markings but found none evandale

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reported that he went to the moor and

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found no impression where the object was

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said to have landed but he did find

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scorched heather he said there were two

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vent holes in the top with scorch marks

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around them and that there was a shaft

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that ran through the middle according to

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avondale the hieroglyphics on the

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outside were the key to deciphering the

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message in the copper book the message

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was deciphered and transcribed by p

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longbottom who put in over 100 hours of

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work according to longbottom the message

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on the outside read friends message

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inside to be dealt with by philosophers

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not officials good wishes

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the message in the book started with

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friends my name is ullo and i write this

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message to you my friends on the planet

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you call earth it goes on to say that we

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are a fierce race that no one from

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another planet has ever landed on earth

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and that radio waves are impossible to

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receive over long distances owing to

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natural waves in space unless specific

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frequencies are used the rest of the

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message was similar to those purportedly

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given to contactees of the era from the

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likes of ashtar and orthon urging us to

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learn to live in peace and not blow

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ourselves up with atomic weapons the

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full text can be read in the above

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mentioned follow-up article which was

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written by longbottom according to the

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article in the march april issue jade

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dale a flying saucer review investigator

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and president of the manchester flying

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saucer research society journeyed to

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scarborough to inspect the saucer and it

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was understood that he believed it came

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from space mr rush another flying saucer

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review investigator a member of the

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t-side ufo research society of

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middlewood went to take a look at the

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object with members of the society and

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it was a group's opinion that the object

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was part of a hoax the saucer went

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missing after reportedly being displayed

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in a fish and chip shop but researcher

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dr david clarke stumbled upon pieces of

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it after giving a lecture at the science

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museum in 2018

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he wrote about it in his blog posting

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titled yorkshire ufo crash mystery

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solved after 60 years clark's posting

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contains new details including charles

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thomas's real name frank dickinson

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anthony avondale's real name anthony

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parker that the man who was seen on the

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path was found after he responded to an

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ad placed by dickinson and that heir

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chief marshal lord doubting had examined

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the saucer and was among those who

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believed it came from space

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according to clark papers in the science

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museum tell of the salsa remains being

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sent to the museum for examination by

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experts the remains were turned over to

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gordon clarinville a specialist in

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meteorites and explosives at the natural

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history museum claringbol was convinced

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that the saucer was of earthly origin

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clark tells the reader that he was

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giving a lecture at the science museum

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on his work for the national archives

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concerning the release of the ministry

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of defense's ufo files after the lecture

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one of the staff asked him if he was

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aware that bits of a flying saucer had

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been kept in a cigarette tin in the

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museum group store for decades when

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clark looked at the pieces it was

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obvious these were the remains of the

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missing sofa saucer clark talked to the

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press and the story of the sofa saucer