(i) MARTIAN MOTHER-SHIP SPIES OUT THE LAND
Our picture shows a silvery Martian saucer turning gracefully in
the sky over Ealing. 'I have never seen anything like it before,'
said 47-yr-old bachelor Wyn Goldcrest who snapped the
picture.'One minute I was staring out of the window looking for
migratory duck formations, and the next - there if was. It must
have been about fifty metres across and moved without making any
sound at all. Later it flashed off into the sky at an amazing
speed. In the past I have snapped one or two of the alien craft,
but this is the first time I have obtained a clear picture. I
believe they have tuned in to my brain waves and will return.' Mr
Goldcrest, a dealer in latex materials, is an ardent flying-
saucer enthusiast. Some years ago he was involved in the Hyde
Park Landing controversy. The mystery of the three saucer- shaped
depressions in the turf has never been cleared up. Mr Goldcrest,
who discovered them whilst taking a stroll one morning, insists
to this day that they were left behind after a scout ship from
Mars landed to leave behind messages to benefit the world. A park
keeper who inspected them told our reporter at the time that they
looked like a piece of digging with a trowel, and he was certain
the soil on tire concrete path near the Serpentine swimming area
showed where it had been dumped.'That was just a decoy,'
explained Mr Goldcrest.
(ii) HOUSEWIFE SHOCKED BY SILVER SAUCER
Mrs Edith Lemming, thirty-two-year-old former artist's model from
Glasgow, was surprised to see a translucent, silvery flying
saucer appear over her house last weekend.'It made a kind of
whirring noise,' she told our reporter at her home in Inverkochie
Mansions, 'and then flew over the house' and vanished.' She
described it as 'pulsating,' rather like a glowing pedestrian-
crossing beacon. Mrs Lemming, who was separated from her
cat-breeder husband two years ago, took a picture of the saucer
with a box camera before it vanished. 'I'm afraid the focus isn't
very good,' she explained, 'but I am not used to this camera yet
as I only bought it last month to take some studies of pottery.
Edith Lemmiing hopes to have the photograph reproduced as a
postcard for sale in local shops.'It would sell like a bomb,
don't you think?' she said.
(iii) SPACE CRAFT FROM 'ANOTHER WORLD' SEEN ON MOON
In an amazing shot of the Moon's surface, taken through a
home-made telescope, nineteen-year-old student nurse Desmond
Wilberforce claims to have discovered evidence that flying
saucers visit the Moon. 'A circular saucer-shaped reconnaisance
craft was seen on the Moon last Wednesday at I730 hrs. It was
photographed through the special lens of my XLY Russian camera,'
he stated today. The picture pi. 20 shows the typically cratered
surface of the Moon. On the silvery saucer that is clearly
visible near the centre is a raised central portion which Desmond
claims is the control module. A series of tracks running away
from the craft shows the path taken by exploratory mobile units
that left the saucer for survey work, he says.
Desmond has been experimenting with secret lenses for a number of
years. He showed our reporter a strange contraption which seemed
to be built on to a reflector like a shaving mirror. We were not
allowed to take any pictures of it or to look through it
ourselves. 'I aim to patent my discovery when it is perfected in
a few years time,' Desmond stated,'and until then it must remain
a secret. Besides which, it is only in a crude state of
development at the moment.'
(iv) UFO SEEN OVER SWANSEA
On August 18th, schoolboy Dafydd Williams took a photo of this
strange object in the sky hear his home. Flying-saucer experts
believe it to be a picture of a new type of Unidentified Flying
Object, or UFO, perhaps from the planet Pluto. Fourteen-year-old
Dafydd, who was walking with some friends near Langland Bay in
the afternoon, described how the object appeared 'as though from
nowhere' in the sky. He quickly took a picture before it flashed
out to sea over the Mumbles. He told our reporter that he had no
special interest in flying saucers, though he had read some books
about the subject. He thought some of the accounts were odd, and
claims that some pictures of flying saucers in them are
forgeries. 'It is only now that I have seen this one for myself
that I know they exist,' he added.
A local flying-saucer expert, who cannot be named for
professional reasons, states that the picture is clearly genuine
and shows a new type of long-distance ship. It possibly comes
from the planet Pluto, he stated. A police spokesman said
yesterday that no reports had been received of any such object,
though there was no reason to believe the photograph was tampered
with in any way.
(v) STOCKTON MAN VIEWS UFO FORMATION OVER MOON
James Q Everett Jun, of Stockton, Calif, today claims to have
photographed 'moving lights' in the vicinity of the Moon. Mr.
Everett, who is an amateur astronomer, snapped the moonship in
late October, but did not release the picture earlier 'for fear
of ridicule.' 'I have only recently acquired a telescope and new
camera,' he stated,'and shortly after commencing observations one
evening I observed the formation. In my haste I did not note the
settings on the camera, which I was not accustomed to. The
formation is similar to those that have been reported by other
astronomers in the past.' Picture editor, Ed Dirkset, states
there is 'no reason to doubt the authenticity' of the Everett
snapshot. NASA Officials have requested copies of the picture but
claim no similar sightings were made on the night in question. In
recent years there have been persistent reports that government
agencies have been hushing up reports for fear of provoking
worldwide panic. States Everett: 'There have been many reports
that UFO travellers are due to visit earth. Perhaps the formation
I photoed is in preparation for a visit, or invasion.' Pentagon
officials refused to comment today. Meanwhile renewed watch is
being kept on the Moon from throughout the delta area.