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The Farnborough Discus

Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough

A test pilot sees a disc making impossible turns over the airfield.

Flight Lieutenant Stan Hubbard was walking across the Farnborough airfield when he heard a humming, hissing sound. He saw a flat, pearl-grey disc, like a sports discus seen edge-on, making tight S-turns at what he estimated was up to a thousand miles an hour.

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When
14 August 1950
Where
51.2760, -0.7560
Group
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Farnborough Air Sciences Trust museum is beside the old airfield.

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UFO Cases of Britain

Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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