British UFOs - September 5, 1967

[zorgon]

British UFOs - September 5, 1967

Its weird how you can spend 30 plus years looking at UFO stories and suddenly one pops up all over the place...  I never heard of this one before, never came across these images in any UFO gallery before...

[zorgon]

British UFOs - Student Hoax
September 5, 1967

HOAX - Police constable examines object resembling a flying saucer that was found on a golf course yesterday at Bromley, England. It was described as being about 4 by 3 feet, made of molded plastic and fibreglass and emitting a "beeping" noise. Five other such objects were found in different parts of southern England. A short time later, it was leaned the six objects were made and planted by students at Farnborough Technical College as a hoax. - AP Wire photo by cable from London.

British UFOs
Held Merely
Student Hoax

LONDON (AP) - Six 85-pound "flying saucers" found in a line across southern England were made and planted by students at Farnborough Technical College as a hoax.

Chris Southall, 21, who masterminded the project, said he and his chums wanted publicity for their school's rag week, during which they hope to collect $5,600 for local charities.

"we also thought we would give the police an exercise in dealing with alien spacecraft, because it could happen one day," said Southall.

Southall said he and 13 other students planted the silver-gray objects Sunday night at intervals of about 30 miles from the Thames estuary to the Bristol channel. Made of molded plastic and fibreglass, about 4 by 3 feet, they sent out "bleep-bleep" signals and gave off a foul smell. Some flashed red and green lights.

Sources and Credits:
Project Red Book by Richard Meyer (New York)
Newspaper Cutting Source: Unknown - Tuesday September 5, 1967
AP

British UFOs - Student Hoax -September 5, 1967

[zorgon]

The amazing 1967 UFO practical joke hoax


It was an "obviously very successful practical joke" that mobilized England's air defense system.

Here's another entry in my series of how to do a great practical joke, this time from the 1960s in the UK.

In 1967, a bunch of engineering apprentices created six fake UFOs, then placed them in a line, an equal distance apart, miles across Britain. The UFOs, which looked like sleek sunny-side up eggs, were programmed to make a strange wailing noise, and secreted inside was a strange foul-smelling goo (a boiled bread concoction made by the pranksters.) From a recent Daily Mail article:

    "The students constructed six oval flattened objects, 54 in long, 30 in wide and 20 in deep, moulded from fibreglass and laced with artist's graphite to give them an other-worldly sheen. They looked more organic than mechanical, and indeed the team always referred to them as 'eggs' rather than flying saucers."

The hoax was helped by a coincidence. The night before the flying saucers were found, a local woman alerted a newspaper about strange lights in the sky. In reality, none of the saucers flew at all. They were merely placed in their various locations the previous night by the students, who hid the saucers in their cars. Some were put in fields, and one placed in a golf course.

When the six saucers were discovered, authorities responded with a bomb disposal squad, RAF helicopters, intelligence officers and four different police forces.

"I think I have the heavy end."
"Oh, quiet."

The amazing 1967 UFO practical joke hoax


The military was mobilized before it was realized the 1967 alien invasion was a hoax

[Pimander]

Funny you posted this as a friend of mine did a UFO hoax that went a little too well.

Before Chinese Lanterns were popular (in fact I don't think you could buy them back then) a mate of mine called Gary made some home made Chinese Lanterns out of bin liners (garbage bags in American lol) wire and bottle tops with a short of candle in.  They looked very mysterious and clearly looked like something other worldly from a distance.  He then forgot about the whole thing.

Days later though, Gary had a reminder.  First of all "UFO investigators" started to call around his and several of the neighbours.  eventually he owned up to it (after teasing them) and finally he dot a call from military intelligence or military police (if I remember right it was RAF) warning him quite threateningly NOT TO DO IT AGAIN!  It obviously upset someone higher up in the military at the local AF base lol.

Just goes to show how seriously the UK military took this type of thing. This was in the 80s or early 90s I think).  I bet they hate lanterns. 

[COSMO]

Funny you posted this as a friend of mine did a UFO hoax that went a little too well.

Before Chinese Lanterns were popular (in fact I don't think you could buy them back then) a mate of mine called Gary made some home made Chinese Lanterns out of bin liners (garbage bags in American lol) wire and bottle tops with a short of candle in.  They looked very mysterious and clearly looked like something other worldly from a distance.  He then forgot about the whole thing.

Days later though, Gary had a reminder.  First of all "UFO investigators" started to call around his and several of the neighbours.  eventually he owned up to it (after teasing them) and finally he dot a call from military intelligence or military police (if I remember right it was RAF) warning him quite threateningly NOT TO DO IT AGAIN!  It obviously upset someone higher up in the military at the local AF base lol.

Just goes to show how seriously the UK military took this type of thing. This was in the 80s or early 90s I think).  I bet they hate lanterns. 

I did something similar, with dry cleaning bags and lighter fluid in an aluminum foil cylinder with cloth wicks, and to the bottom I attached a piece of magnesium ribbon which had to be ignited with a propane torch.  The magnesium ribbon was so bright you could read a book under it when it was 50 ft in the air and once they gained altitude they looked amazing.  The ribbon went out before the lighter fluid burners but I had some of them with the lighter fluid burners still going that went for many miles.  I went to school one day and my friends were talking about the ufo they saw.  They really worked well in the winter when it was cold, calm and clear.

[Pimander]

I did something similar, with dry cleaning bags and lighter fluid in an aluminum foil cylinder with cloth wicks, and to the bottom I attached a piece of magnesium ribbon which had to be ignited with a propane torch.

Cool idea.  I might have a play lol.

That reminds me, I think some of the polythene caught fire.  Imagine this dropping from the sky.

[COSMO]

Cool idea.  I might have a play lol.

That reminds me, I think some of the polythene caught fire.  Imagine this dropping from the sky.

LOL, yes, that happened more than once! 

[zorgon]

Like THIS one?

Exploding UFO 2006

[zorgon]

The Embarrassing Alien Arrival


The ufos found in several places in UK. Credit:BBC

The year 1967 was a huge year for UFO sightings in the UK and a group of engineer apprentices at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough decided to make the headlines.

Through meticulous planning they created a fleet of UFOs and planted them on the same line, the same distance apart, across the country from the Bristol Channel to the Kent coast.


It was a small armada of six flying saucers that arrived on September 4, 1967, and the crafts were made of shiny plastic pods that looked like gigantic fried eggs.

The hoax caused panic among intelligence agents, senior police officers and top-flight mandarins. And it put Britain on alert for a full-scale interstellar invasion.

"It was the most effective and elaborate flying saucer hoax ever perpetrated in the world. And the hoaxers did it all for 30 pounds," said author John Keeling that published a book on this subject.

The hoax exposed the fact that at the height of the Cold War, the British authorities had no idea how to respond neither to an alien invasion nor to an attack by a human foe using unconventional weapons.

Authorities didn,t know for several hours the nature of this disks. Credit: BBC

There were 360 British "sightings" that year of 1967, nearly one a day, and the media were taking the subject of extraterrestrials seriously.

It was the perfect time for a handful of clever, mischievous trainee engineers from the MoD's Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough in Hampshire to perpetrate one of the most audacious pranks in student history.

The ringleaders were Christopher Southall and Roger Palmer, both aged just 21, and the prank had been conceived to raise money for charity as part of the college's Rag Week.

But the team had a second, darker motive. They wanted to see how the authorities would react if there was an alien invasion, and to find out just how prepared Britain was.

The Farnborough Rag committee agreed to the plan in January 1967. But it would not be until September that the invasion would be launched.
The students constructed six oval flattened objects, 54in long, 30in wide and 20in deep, moulded from fibreglass and laced with artist's graphite to give them an otherworldly sheen.

They decided that they would have to have something "alien" inside them before they were sealed up. So they concocted disgusting jelly-like goo made from bread dough boiled at a high temperature.
It looked like mashed human brain and stank to high heaven. Anyone who tried to break open one of the UFOs was going to be in for a nasty - albeit harmless - surprise.

The embarrassing discovery.

Also inside each saucer, which weighed about a hundred and just about fitted in the back of a car, was placed a small electronic loudspeaker, programmed to emit an unearthly wailing noise if the UFO was disturbed.

Once all the crafts were found, the MoD took over, but the first thoughts in Whitehall were not, in fact, of aliens, but of Soviet weaponry.
Britain's top intelligence officers and policemen were mobilised and decided to keep the saucers secret, but news had already broken.

In the end, the hoaxers' cover was blown, not by a top detective or MI5, but by a newspaper reporter who knew that the Farnborough students had form.
Towards the end of that extraordinary day, the hoaxers held a press conference, at which they admitted their guilt.

"We believe that flying saucers could land one day, so we landed our own to give the authorities some practice," they stated.
The police and government bodies looked ridiculous. They were furious and there were threats of prosecution.

As a result of all the publicity, the students raised about 2,000 pounds for charity, and they received offers from all over the world for the surviving saucers.

source: ANI

Reprinted from Daily Cosmic News
The Embarrassing Alien Arrival

2,000 pounds at 1967 value  SWEET!!

[stealthyaroura]

Speaking of magnesium anyone ever get to the bottom of this one?
it is very white hot like.

[COSMO]

Like THIS one?

Exploding UFO 2006

Hey they got one of mine on film!  lol   

If you do want to use magnesium ribbon, remember, that stuff burns very hot, an extreme fire hazard.  Something we were not too concerned about when we were kids.  Also, it does take a hot flame to get it going, a propane torch worked well for us.  And yes....we had NO adult supervision and please kids, do not try this at home!  lol

[Pimander]

LOL, yes, that happened more than once!

Which might explain many of the UFO sightings where "molten metal" is seen dripping from the craft. 

[Pimander]

Speaking of magnesium anyone ever get to the bottom of this one?
it is very white hot like.

Kevin Randle might have got to the bottom of it yes.

I wondered then, and I wonder now, why these investigators don't bother with checking with the White Sands Missile Range. I did that and Monte Marlin said that he once had an email response prepared that he sent out to all who asked about the video. It struck me that for him to do that, it meant that there were many others who also asked the question about the footage which isn't a bad thing. I mean there were enough people asking about the validity of the tape that he felt compelled to create a generic response to save himself some time.

SOURCE: http://kevinrandle.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=missile+test

[stealthyaroura]

Thanks Pim, still not conclusive but it's all we have. It does make sense though
being in white sands an all and being filmed to perfection. a test.

[Pimander]

I remembered thinking that it might be an infra red video.  That's why this immediately rings true.

Marlin, in his email to me said that this particular video was part of "an infrared shot of a Navy missile test...The high powered optics tests are part and parcel of our test mission here at the missile range. The data we collect belongs to our 'customers,' the weapons developers and is used for technical purposes. Once in a while the clips make their way to the general public..."

SOURCE:  http://kevinrandle.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=missile+test

Unless further information comes to light, that's case closed for me.  My only doubt is that I got no reply from White Sands but then I don't have a US military background.