Back in 1959, when this story first got attention in Flying Saucer Review , vol.5, no.3, May-June 1959, what you see in the image below was it.
This is one of the first such incidents in the UK and yet it was ignored because that is how such reports were treated unless they involved "Venusian space brothers" with messages for Mankind!
I have just emailed a number of Scottish newspapers in the hope that the witnesses can be tracked down because of the historical nature of the incident and to learn more.
If anyone reading this has contact with any local or national newspapers or news services in Scotland then please pass this on. Thanks!
"Hello.
It may seem odd that I am writing about an
event so far back, however, at the time this incident received only the most
basic of reporting (see attached jpeg).
In fact, it may seem odd at all that anyone
should find it of interest, however, as a meddler in astronomy amongst other
subjects, it always astonished me that the old flying saucer enthusiasts would
take very seriously the idea of interplanetary craft whizzing about our planet
but would never seriously consider that “someone” must be flying them.
The witnesses were, in 1958, teenagers so
would now be in their sixties. Police records at that time would have been
routinely destroyed every few years. My
former RAF colleagues tell me that the Air Ministry at the time were never
involved. To an historian this is
awful. This would have been one of the
first such cases in the United
Kingdom at a time when there was no craze to
report aliens in every media.
I would very much like to track down these
two men, if still alive, or their families since the incident is said to have
affected them so badly and the police were involved it is no doubt an account
that has been passed along. There is no
pre-judging here, nor any attempt at ridiculing these witnesses, but it is very
important that some form of account/record be made –it is too important an
event to just ignore it.
Anonymity will be strictly maintained though,
of course, in any published account pseudonyms would be used.
I can be contacted via the email given or
through my address.
My thanks in advance.
Terry Hooper-Scharf"
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