Sighting record / 1967
Wednesday 25 October 1967. A quarter to five in the morning in East Sussex. Policemen in five police cars, spread out around Lewes, Ringmer and Halland, reported the same thing. A bright light, travelling north in total silence. The newspapers called it a flying cross. One motorcycle officer, PC Bryan Cawthorne, pulled over between Ringmer and Halland to get a better look. At first he thought it was a star. Then he lined it up with a telegraph pole, and it was moving. Only a day earlier, two Devon constables had chased a flying cross between Holsworthy and Hatherleigh. Britain was in the middle of a wave.
October 1967. Britain was in the grip of a UFO wave. On 24 October, at four in the morning, PCs Roger Willey and Clifford Waycott had followed a "Flying Cross" between Holsworthy and Hatherleigh in Devon. The story went national. Within 24 hours, police officers at the other end of southern England were watching the sky.