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FLYING SAUCER?’ ~ REPORT pase ee sa qi MAY BE BALLOON | From Our Own Correspondent t be N, Monday. An object. whichyithey thought might have been a“ flying saucer” Was seen by three girls who were) walking along the Preston-Lancaster main yoad near Preston yesterday atiemoon. “It looked like a very bright star in the east, but was brighter than any star,” they said. One of the girls, Miss Lilian Spen- cer, of Pole-street, Preston, said: “It was oval-shaped and resembled the wing of a silver plane caught in the sunlight. There was no sound of an engine and it had a peculiar swing- Ing movement .” It was going against win An Air eee. meteorological official pointed out that it a common error for people to speak of something travelling in @. certai ‘direction when they really meani that i: was coming from that direc- tion. If that was the case here it was possible that the object could faye been a meteorological balloon blown over from Northern Ireland. . ‘Many Londoners reported on April thet, they ad seen a. % styl \aucer.”. ‘The Air Ministry explain}: that if was a balloon used for pai ‘i pomp ee brok ooring at an R.A.F. stati in Oxfordshire. te DAILY TELEGRAPH AND MORNING POST APRIL 11, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND