The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space AgeMenzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard)
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The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard)
Unidentified flying objects
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_Chapter_ VI
LIVING LIGHTS
A gamekeeper in Norfolk, England, in the year 1897 observed the flight
of an unusual luminous object. According to his story, he was “... out
one very dark night stopping up fox-earths. While I was so engaged I
saw a very bright blue light pass close to my face and was very much
startled as I saw it going away from me ... I put it down as some
insect.” After the mysterious light reappeared a few nights later, the
gamekeeper prudently began carrying his gun and eventually he managed
a shot at the light. To his amazement he brought down “a poor old
half-starved barn owl, _Tyto alba_, whose body continued to glow for
some hours after death.”[VI-1]
_The Luminous Owls of Norfolk_
Some ten years later, on the night of February 3, 1907, another
Englishman and his son while taking a walk observed a similar luminous
phenomenon. Apparently about a quarter of a mile away, it moved
horizontally over a course several hundred yards in length, reversed
direction, then rose into the air to the height of forty feet or more.
“It then descended and again went through the same evolutions many
times. The light was slightly reddish in the centre, and resembled
a carriage lamp for which we at first mistook it. We watched it for
twenty minutes and were quite at a loss to ascertain its cause.
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