should sound reasonably excited)." Mr Nicol, who wrote from Pliinmerton in 1952 about the object he said he saw, admitted last evening that he had used some embellishments when he wrote that the object “had a band of brighter dots around it which may have been windows.” What the 15 or 20 students alleged they saw was described as two separate objects, one green and one blue, travelling south at speed.
Mr Nicol said that the hoax had been “well worth while.”
“It was good fun and it worked." he said.
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