British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister. In 1912 he fielded questions in Parliament over the Sheerness incident, confirming an unknown aircraft had been heard over the town and that it was not one of Britain's own airships. He told of meeting Lincoln's ghost at a White House fireplace after a bath. As Prime Minister he called the Helen Duncan witchcraft trial obsolete tomfoolery. On 28 July 1952 he asked the Air Ministry what all the talk of flying saucers amounted to. A later family story claimed he ordered a 1944 RAF encounter classified.
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Pro earlyFirst Lord of the Admiralty; answered in Parliament and privately blamed a German airship
Pro earlyPrime Minister who called the trial "obsolete tomfoolery"
Pro earlyBritish prime minister who reported meeting Lincoln's ghost
Prime Minister alleged to have ordered the incident classified for at least 50 years
Prime Minister whose July 1952 minute asked the Air Ministry about flying saucers