This article was published in the daily newspaper The Sunday Dispatch, U-K., on April 7, 1957.
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By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
That mystery object in the sky which was seen only on radar screens was too fast, too big, and too maneuverable (it turned at an "impossible" angle) to have been a plane.
This conclusion was reached yesterday by experts studying the clues of the sky riddle which was recorded exclusively by scientific apparatus that cannot lie.
Full reports of the incident have gone to the Air Minister in London. Their experts take a serious view of them, it was stated officially yesterday.
No planes about
The blips on the radar screens were reported last Thursday from an R.A.F. station at West Freugh near Luce Bay on the southwestern tip of Scotland.
The operators estimated the object's height as 60.000 ft (just over 11 miles up.)
The official world height record for a plane is 65.870 ft. Civil planes normally fly at 10.000 - 20.000 ft. over Britain.
A check with other stations showed there were no planes in that section at the time.
