The article below was published in the daily newspaper Empire News and Sunday Chronicle, U-K., on September 26, 1956.
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EIGHT days after they thought they HEARD a flying saucer thousand of Lincolnshire folk thought they SAW one yesterday.
High over Cleethorpe promenade a mystery sphere glittered in the blue sky. "It looked like a glass globe with something white inside", said an eye-witness.
But a meteorological Office spokesman an Manby R.A.F. Station who studied the object through a telescope said: "I don't know what it is. It is certainly not a balloon from here." [A balloon from elesewhere or a meteor?]
Eight days ago, a mystery explosion rocked homes in the district. [A jet's sonic boom?]
