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It was July 17, 1955 when Margaret Fry spotted the object as she was making her way to her GP’s surgery in King Harold’s Way from her home in Hythe Avenue. Mrs Fry described it as saucer shaped with a “blue/silver/grey/pewter texture, yet none of those colours”. She said it had three spheres set into its base, one of which “flopped out”, landing on the ground at the junction of nearby Ashbourne and Whitfield roads.
A group of twelve children who were playing nearby saw the sphere and went over to have a closer look, before it rose up from the ground and into the sky, disappearing from sight after a few minutes.
Retired policeman John Hanson, from the West Midlands, was appealing for a group of children who saw the craft land in the King Harold’s Way area of Bexleyheath in 1955 to get in touch with him, as he is researching the incident for a book. Mr Maynard was 15 at the time and was working as a labourer on a building site in nearby Streamway.
He remembers the incident vividly.
“We were on our lunch break when we heard something was happening in King Harold’s Way. So we went up there to have a look. “This thing had landed in the roadway. It took up the whole width of the road and overlapped onto the pavements. “It wasn’t on the ground, it had about eight massive suckers. The centre was still, but the outer rim was spinning slowly and it had white lights flashing, like a camera flash,” he recalled.
“There were about 30 of us staring at it. We could hear it humming. “It had what looked like windows but the glass was concave and moulded together so you couldn’t see in. A couple of us went forward to try and touch it and it began to spin faster. “Then it lifted slowly off the ground and hovered above our heads, tilting slightly.”
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2 Comments
Very Cool 👏🏽, I’ve never heard of this incident. Very interesting when it’s seen by several individuals.
Yes. This day in age with how easy it is to provide realistic fakes, there’s really no substitute for eyewitnesses. The more the better. You can call one person crazy but 35? Starts looking like something.