UFO Mini-Disc over Blackbushe August 27, 1979 Hampshire England
Today in UFO History - Mini-Disc over Blackbushe
August 27, 1979 Hampshire, England
2:30 p.m. Flying instructor Laurie Adlington has just left Blackbushe Airport in Yateley, Hampshire, England, with Lt. James Plastow from Sandhurst Military College for his pilot’s license test in a Cessna 150. They are at 2,000 feet heading toward Basingstoke when Adlington suddenly grabs the controls and throws the Cessna into a steep bank and descent to avoid a collision.
An UFO suddenly speeds past the front of the aircraft, coming within a few feet of the windshield. The rotating UFO is about 12 inches in diameter, shaped like a doughnut, reflects light with a silvery glow “like a blob of mercury,” and has a honeycombed surface. They can make out the hint of an aerial on one side. The object begins flying around the plane for a short time before it flies underneath it and then streaks upward and away to about 3,000 feet. Possible early use of a drone. [Eberhart]
Source: Jeff Knox F.B. Omar Fowler, “Mini-Disc over Blackbushe,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 (June 1980): 18–19
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