THE EVENING POST,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1952
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‘Absurd, But I Think I’ve Seen A Saucer’
Two correspondents to “The Post” report having seen objects on Saturday night which they consider may fall into the category of “flying saucers.”
The first correspondent says that at about 10.10am on Saturday, while travelling from the city to Karori, he saw “two objects in the sky, flying at high speed. There was a strange sound and sparks were flying out from the back part. They were ovold in shape, and one was flying above the other all the time. The ‘saucers’ were of two different colours—the highest was a bluish colour, and the lower one was greenish. They emitted a phosphorescence which was quite spectacular.
“They circled at high speed and then parted. One flew off in a southerly direction, and the other seemed to fly off in a south-westerly direction.”
FROM PLIMMERTON.
“I hope you will not think this absurd, but I think I have seen a flying saucer,” reads the second letter. “At Plimmerton on Saturday night I saw a green luminous object to the east, travelling south at great speed towards Wellington. It was followed by a hissing noise, and had a band of brighter ‘dots’ around it, which may have been windows.
“It was round like a ball, I think, but definitely not the lights of a plane, which I at first thought, because it was going too fast, and was too bright.”
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Strange Objects In The Sky
*(Special to the “Evening Post”)*
PALMERSTON NORTH, Today.—Four reports of strange objects in the sky have been received. They are from independent witnesses, one at Feilding, one at Kelvin Grove, and two others at Palmerston North.
They say they saw a strange phenomenon between 9.45 and 9.50 o’clock on Saturday night and at about 12.45 am on Sunday.
A Feilding resident states that one of the objects was green in colour and travelling in a south-easterly direction towards Palmerston North. The “saucer” was egg-shaped and moving at a fairly high speed and accompanied by a faint hissing sound. While watching this green object approach Palmerston North, he saw a similar object, blue in colour, approach from the Hawke’s Bay direction. The blue seemed to be slightly above the green, and they then proceeded together on a more or less southerly course, with the blue just above the green.
Two other witnesses independently corroborate this account almost to the letter.
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> 10.10 a.m. is a misprint for 10.10 p.m. so that the time ties in with the second report from Palmerston North.