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EARTHDATE: September 10, 2017

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REAL LIFE NEWS: WHEN FLYING SAUCERS LANDED IN ENGLAND

by Hazed

Back in 1967 the police and the army were on full alert when flying saucers touched down in southern England. On 4 September they were discovered, their landing points forming a straight line that stretched across the country. For a few hours it was believed that aliens had arrived.

But it was a hoax. The alien spaceships were a stunt put together by apprentices at Farnborough’s Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE).

One of the students involved, engineer Chris Southall, explained that when they came up with the idea to fake the alien landings they were determined to make it convincing, with a design that would not be recognisably human. “We wanted to make something that looked really alien,” he said.

The fibreglass flying saucers were made in plaster moulds, built in two halves that were sandwiched together. They had no portholes or aerials. Inside was electronic sound equipment, designed to switch on when the saucers were flipped upside down. They also contained a substance made from flour and water which fermented like sourdough, so that when the saucers were drilled into, they exploded and emitted a foul-smelling slime.

Southall explained, “We were putting them out in secret, in the middle of the night, in the early hours, and we didn’t want them to make a noise until then. Only when we left, we turned them upside down and the noise started – and then we got away quick.”

The students coordinated their plans and formed teams of two or three to place the saucers in six locations across England, at the same time, forming a straight line from east to west: Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Bromley in south London, Ascot, the village of Welford, near Newbury, in Berkshire, Chippenham in Wiltshire and Clevedon in Somerset.

By the time the saucers were discovered, they were well away, back in their hostel, with no one any the wiser.

The response to the alien incursion was farcical. Mr Southall recalls that the responders from the police and the army blew up one saucer and dropped another. The slimy residue from the exploded saucer was simply washed down the drain, without any thought that it might be a hazardous material.

The whole affair proved that there was no coordinated plan for dealing with an alien landing.

Of course, as Mr Southall admits, these days the response to leaving things that look like explosive devices in public places would be a whole lot more serious!

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41110193

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