U.K. Experts’ Theory On Flying Saucer Report

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 22

U.K. Experts’ Theory On Flying Saucer Report

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LONDON, May 8. British Ministry of Defence scientists do not believe that flying saucers have yet visited earth, according to the air correspondent of “The Times,” Arthur Reed.

“The many reports of unidentified flying objects passed to us have not provided evidence that extraterrestrial craft have visited the earth,” the Ministry says in a letter to Mr Angus Brooks, a retired 8.0.A.C. executive, who, last October, gave a vivid account of seeing a mysterious object near his home in Dorset Three Government employees, including a scientist and a Royal Air Force psychologist, visited Mr Brooks, heard his story, and went to the place where he made his sighting. In the letter, one of them Wrote-. "Our radar cover is such that we are quite satisfied that there is no clandestine aerial activity over the United Kingdom under terrestrial control” in his original report, Mr Brooks said he Was walking his dog in a force-eight gale at 11 a.m. on October 26, and, to shelter from the Wind, he lay on hie back in ■ Shallow indentation. He mid he then mw what eould have been the reflection of a craft high In the sky over Portland. This disappeared, and the craft, descending at lightning speed, levelled out, a quarter of a mile away, at 200 to 300 feet and stayed for 22 minutes. The Ministry suggests that Mr Brooks first mw an aircraft’s vapour trail, and the appearance of the craft is accounted for by "a vitreous floater—a piece of loose matter, such as a dead cell, floating in the fluid of the eyeball.” The letter also suggests that on lying down after walking over rough country in a gale, Mr Brooks might

have felt tired and fallen asleep. Publicity about sightings of unidentified objects "could have triggered off a dream in which the floater took on the more elaborate form which you have described,” the Ministry’s letter suggests. Mr Brooks still insists that he saw the object and, in his reply to the Ministry, says

he has been told by his specialists that floaters move upwards and downwards, but the craft entered his vision at 30 degrees and left at 320 degrees.

Rejecting the suggestion that he fell asleep, Mr Brooks Mid: “I walk daily for about two hours over rough country in ail weather conditions and wind forces.”