Some more UFO stuff

[EndtheMadnessNow]

A great short story https://www.youtube.com/shorts/99nLHohRA...ture=share

Joe Rogan was talking about that wild bizarre story from Mr Ballen today on his show. 

Starts at the 6 min mark:




The original source is from 1976. Goto the Youtube page as it has a long write-up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j76KiSfLx44


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July 30, 1952: Saucer Sam — RAF Oldenburg, Germany
Flight Sgt. Roland Hughes of No. 20 Squadron RAF is on a training flight in a de Havilland Vampire FB-9 jet fighter and returning to base at RAF Oldenburg, Germany...



...when he sees a “gleaming silver, metallic disc” drop down from above and fly alongside his aircraft for several seconds before speeding off.The object is about 100 feet long. Its surface is shiny “like tinfoil,” highly reflective, and “without a single crease or crinkle in it.”



On August 5, Hughes is ordered to fly to RAF Faßberg for further questioning. He arrives and finds a number of officers, including his commander and the UK Minister of Supply, Duncan Sandys (Winston Churchill‘s son-in-law), who asks Hughes how many beers he had before his saucer sighting. The Air Commanding Officer then reveals that the object had also been tracked on radar going faster than any known aircraft.



This convinces Sandys that the case is a serious one, a view that he communicates to Lord Cherwell (Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell), the government’s chief scientific adviser, in a letter, saying there is "ample evidence of some unfamiliar and unexplained phenomenon."






"The UFO experience stayed with Sgt Hughes for the rest of his life, but he could never understand why his three colleagues failed to see the flying saucer. Before he died in 2009, at the age of 79, he confided in his son that he wondered ‘if it had some means of stopping the others from seeing it and only allowed me to see it’.!"

"In official papers Duncan Sandys implied that his interview with Sgt Hughes turned him from a sceptic into a believer in flying saucers. Responding to the sceptical Lord Cherwell, he said he had no doubt Sgt Hughes ‘saw a phenomenon similar to that described by numerous observers in the United States."

Sources:

The UFO sighting that convinced a Government minister (The Telegraph, 27 May 2012)

David Clarke, The UFO Files The Inside Story Of Real Life Sightings, 2nd Ed., pp. 44–46