Photo: Sergeant Hughes, who earned the nickname "Sam the Saucer" after meeting with a UFO
Eisenhower, Churchill and the British Minister of Aviation, who joined them, did not doubt the existence of "flying saucers".
The sensational documents were discovered by researcher David Clarke of Sheffield University in the Winston Churchill archives at the Churchill Archive at Cambridge University. They refer to the involvement of Duncan Sandys, the British Secretary of State for the Air Force, in the investigation of the incident involving Royal Air Force pilot Roland Hughes.
Sergeant Hughes reported that on July 30, 1952, during a training flight over West Germany, he clearly saw a UFO. Like, at first he was blinded by a bright flash, then a shining object came down from somewhere above and flew right in front of the plane (Havilland Vampire). The UFO was quite close and straight ahead. Hughes saw that it was a silvery disc with an absolutely smooth and mirrored surface, as if covered with a thin film. The sergeant did not notice any rivets.
Hughes estimated the diameter of the disc to be about 30 meters. Like, a Lancaster bomber would fit into it.
Returning to the Royal Air Force base near Oldenburg, the pilot filed a report on the incident. And he reported that the sparkling silvery disc, after a few minutes of joint flight, sharply picked up speed and disappeared from sight.
British Air Minister Duncan Sandiz, who believed in UFOs
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The last UFO maneuver was spotted by the airbase radars. Their data indicated that the disk moved several times faster than any aircraft then existing.
Hughes was heard several times by his superiors. Reacted to the message of the 23-year-old pilot, surprisingly, very seriously. And soon arranged a meeting with Duncan Sandiz, who was then the Minister of Aviation. Already in his speech to the chief government scientist Lord Cherwell, the minister stressed: “I have no doubt that Hughes saw a phenomenon that was described by numerous eyewitnesses in the United States. And in the USA - in the late forties - early fifties of the last century - “flying saucers” became frequent.
The pilot's report ended up in the archives of Winston Churchill. And Hughes earned the nickname "Saucer Sam". Co-workers even painted a "flying saucer" on the fuselage of his plane.
BTW
To be silent for 50 years
The British Department of Defense has been declassifying UFO documents for a year now. They testify: "flying saucers" were noticed during the Second World War. And extremely worried
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Sir Winston Churchill), who reported on them in person.
From the declassified documents, for example, it follows that towards the end of the war, Churchill received information about the meeting of the pilots of the reconnaissance aircraft with a UFO. A large disc-shaped metal object caught up with them on their way from France - off the English coast. Behaved exactly the same as the object seen by Sergeant Hughes.
Gentlemen - Eisenhower and Churchill - decided to keep silent about the "flying saucers".
And the pilots were not told to tell
The British Prime Minister's personal TV guard witnessed him discussing the incident with Dwight Eisenhower, who commanded the Allied forces in Europe at the time. The consultant who was present explained that the object could not have been a projectile or a rocket. Since he performed actions unthinkable for them, he slowed down and accelerated.
What kind of thing got in the way of the reconnaissance plane was never determined. As a result, Churchill ordered to classify information about the meeting with a UFO for 50 years. Because, in his opinion, she is capable of causing panic in society. Eisenhower didn't mind.
Churchill himself sent a note to the Ministry of Defense in 1952. It read:
Why all this nonsense about flying saucers? What does this mean? What is the truth? Submit your report to me at any time convenient for you."
Ufologists racked their brains for a long time, trying to figure out what exactly provoked the British prime minister. Now it is clear: the occasion was just the case with Hughes.
Immediately after Churchill's "kick" in the UK, the DI55 unit was created, which began to collect and analyze information about "flying saucers" from military sources.
There is no evidence of early research on DI55. But in one of the declassified reports from 1985 to 1995, it is written:
“… If we explain the behavior of UFOs with hypotheses of extraterrestrial origin, then we must admit that this requires forces that are still outside the limits of human knowledge and are contrary to the laws of physics. It turns out that they possess anti-gravity, use teleportation, fly on engines that do not operate on jet thrust, use force fields of a nature unknown to mankind …"
HOW DO WE
Sergei Korolev: "Flying saucers", comrade Stalin, do not pose a serious threat to the country"
This is what Mikhail Gershtein, Chairman of the Ufological Commission of the Russian Geographical Society, told.
In 1947, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was summoned to the Kremlin and taken to a room where on the table lay a pile of materials about UFOs, mostly in English: clippings from Western newspapers, various documents, reports from Soviet agents. The Chekists said: nothing can be taken out, only look here. He was given an apartment to work and, since he only spoke German, several translators were brought in. The period for studying the materials was set aside quite sufficient - three days.
Keldysh (left) and Korolev at one time took turns reassuring Stalin about UFOs
When the scientist told the guards that he was ready to express his opinion, he was not taken anywhere, ordered to wait here. Fifteen minutes later, an inconspicuous door opened, and Joseph Vissarionovich himself came out.
- So what is your opinion? he asked without further ado.
Korolev replied that, in his opinion, "flying saucers" are not weapons of a potential enemy, they do not pose a serious threat to the country. But the phenomenon itself exists and, if time appears, it will be necessary to study it.
- Thank you, comrade Korolev, - thanked the leader, - besides you, I asked other prominent specialists. They have a similar opinion.
Sergei Pavlovich believed that Kurchatov, Topchiev and Keldysh received similar assignments. This story is told by very serious scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Perhaps such a story actually happened.