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Sighting record / 1953

The BEA "Two Saucers Rim-to-Rim" Sighting over the English Channel

October 9, 1953 · English Channel, on the London Airport (Heathrow) to Paris Orly route, International waters
24Thinly documented UAP Disc / saucer 6 sources

October 9, 1953. A British European Airways airliner left London Airport at nine in the morning, bound for Paris. The air was clear. Then London air control warned Captain Peter Fletcher of faster traffic to his left. At first Fletcher took it for another aircraft. It was not. It looked like two shallow saucers with their rims together, highly polished, catching the sun. For some 30 minutes it seemed parked in the sky. Then the reflection dimmed, and the thing faded away. Back in London, the crew learned that Northolt radar had tracked an object high above them.

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Context

Autumn 1953 was a busy season in British skies. Newspapers reported that the RAF was exchanging information with American air force officials about a run of sightings, and the press on both sides of the Channel was paying attention.

Sources (6, most influential first)

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