This article was published in the daily newspaper Le Provençal, France, page 1, on April 7, 1957.
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London. (A.F.P.)
All British radar screens have sought for two days a mysterious flying object which one could not identify yet. By order of the services of safety of the ministry for the Air the various radar stations are forbidden to reveal their observations.
The "object" was seen for the first time Friday on two screens of the air base of West Freugh, in the solitary base of Luce Bay, in Scotland. The station had been alerted of the flight of plane which was cancelled thereafter. Nevertheless, the observers of the screens being in two different buildings saw appear the alarm signal and followed during a few moments the evolutions of a flying machine.
"It was impossible to detect any characteristic of the machine, declared the base commander. All that we can say with certainty, it is it exists. We do not have the right to give the position, the direction and the speed which it had at the time when our devices detected it." The only known indication is that it flew over the Western coasts of Scotland.
The ministry for the Air ordered an "uninterrupted investigation by day and night" to all British Air stations, while experts examine the report of the base of Luce Bay.
