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What Did The
People Of
Devon See —
By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
EST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
publicity last week to reports of “’ flying
saucers’ over Devon.
The saucers were reported by a number
of independent witnesses from places as far
apart as Woolacombe (near Ilfracombe),
Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and
Paignton (60 miles south of Woolacombe).
Bye witnesses’ descriptions of what they saw are sub-
stantially in agreement—there was no noise and a trail
of fire streamed from the back. The obsérvations were at
about 41 p.m. in all instances.
yr. J. Stewart, 70-year-old Woolacombe pensioner, who
Mieebed in aircraft fac-
in two wars, was one of “They were of a brilliant sil-
eople who told the | | very blue, travelling south, one be-
Bapress and Echo what | | hind the other in close formation,”
he said.
d seen.
ne||_ “After passing overhead, the
Oey eee rear object appeared to catch ‘up
eect rae north | | Wien the front one, and collide,
ihe aC a *terifie speed.” whereon they disintegrated.”
clin, of Beacon- i ‘
ee H. Aa nea Exeter, wrote Bright Disc
whipto?. 2; while ab Coun-|| |The object was desoribed by Miss
the/PAPer 9 miles south-east of || J.. Spurway, of Exeter-nill, Cul.
te Weer fonday night, he saw || lompton (2 miles north-east of
pxeter) Olay objects: Exeter), as “a bright disc travel-
two cireulal Ting with a
great speed.’
Two and a half miles north of
as a pest nee foe at
NITSP. G) pm. ir. Ant ts, L, hus=
suNDAY DISPATCH (, Sell, of Hillorest, Lymbstone, who
ONDON, ENGLAND described it as having been in two
LONDON parts “apparently attached in
41-5-50 some way with a lighted tail.”
‘The sixth witness quoted in the
Express and Echo is A, J.
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