Night of the Aliens ; Spacecraft the Size of Warships Flying Over Scotland at Impossible Speeds. Spotted by the Raf, yet Hushed Up for More Than Half a Century. So What Really Happened On Our... [Scot Region]

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THE insistent ring of the black bakelite telephone dragged Flight Lieutenant Ken England back from the edge of sleep. It had been a long night. The bomb test range coordinator was waiting for one last aircraft and it had been delayed, so he had signalled his mobile radar tracking stations to stand down temporarily. The officer shrugged off the reverie, picked up the phone and said: 'RAF West Freugh.'

A voice, struggling to maintain professionalism over excitement, replied: 'Sir, there is... something... out there. You should see this.'

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Night of the Aliens ; Spacecraft the Size of Warships Flying Over Scotland at Impossible Speeds. Spotted by the Raf, yet Hushed Up for More Than Half a Century. So What Really Happened On Our... [Scot Region]

By chance, one of the units around the range, next to the Wigtownshire base, a few miles from Stranraer, had not received the message to switch off. Now it was following the progress of an unidentified flying object capable of hovering at fantastically high altitude, travelling at speeds far faster than the aircraft of the era and manoeuvring at angles that were described later as 'impossible'.

The UFO, while too far away and too fast for visual recognition, was a 'solid echo' on th...

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