If we talk about the UFO phenomenon, then now everything is happening much calmer than it was several decades ago. One has only to recall the noticeable stream of UFO reports in Washington, the capital of the United States, in 1952, as well as the "flying triangle" that haunted the inhabitants of Belgium in 1989-1990. However, there was another major spike in UFO activity that was observed in the UK in 1967.
Declassified files from the UK Department of Defense show that from 1959 to 1966 there were about 450 reports of UFO activity in UK airspace, with many reports from ordinary citizens and much less from police and military personnel. In 1966 there were only 95 of them. But in 1967 everything changed dramatically. The Department of Defense was literally inundated with UFO reports. The actual figure was 362 reports, with the overwhelming majority of them in October 1967, when the people were literally crazy about UFOs.
October 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the peak UFO activity in the UK, but some of the incidents in late 1967 that caused a sensation and intrigued the UK Department of Defense remain unsolved.
On October 25, 1967, George Terry, Chief Constable of the English County of East Sussex, organized a conference in the city of Lewis, at which the local police were informed of the increased UFO activity. Many of the reports that caught Terry's attention came from fellow police officers.
One of them spoke of a large bright object that appeared over the city of Hastings in the same East Sussex. The police shared their observations with the Royal Greenwich Observatory, where they were "really interested" in the unusual object: “It is clear that an unidentified object is visible below the clouds. Now we know that something is there and it is not Venus."
And the reports kept coming in. On the following night, in Oxfordshire, two police officers saw two large egg-shaped objects moving over a local highway. They (UFOs, not policemen) instantly disappeared when they rose to a height of about 200 meters. Paul Quick, who was 21 at the time, observed an oval UFO flying over a forest near the village of Storrington. A shocked eyewitness saw that the ship had landed on the Sussex Downs. However, despite a search by the local police, no sign of a UFO was found.
In the Daily Telegraph on October 29, 1967, an article appeared entitled "Police Observed UFOs Over Sussex," which reported that several police officers, including Michael Sands, had seen a "silvery" ball-shaped UFO flying at high speed. over a police station located in the village of Lansing in the Adour Valley.
And UFOs continued to fall from the skies to such an extent that there was even a moment when the UK Department of Defense was considering cooperating with the Russians on UFO issues.
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Such bursts of UFO activity rarely occur today. Therefore, before the 50th anniversary of these strange events, it would be good to remember that short period when the skies of Great Britain were full of UFOs.
Voronina Svetlana