UFO kids urged ‘phone home’ (From This Is Local London)

UFO kids urged ‘phone home’

3:09pm Tuesday 3rd September 2002

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A former policeman who is researching UFO sightings in Britain is trying to trace a group of Bexleyheath children.

John Hanson, who lives in the West Midlands, is writing up a journal of UFO activity between 1941 and 1982.

He believes the children, now well into their 50s and 60s, could have been witnesses to an extraordinary sighting in Bexleyheath in 1955.

The incident took place on July 17 that year, in King Harold Way, when Margaret Fry, who lived in Hythe Avenue, was making her way to her doctor's surgery.

She and the doctor, Dr Thukarta, both saw what she described as an "enormous craft" hovering over the doctor's car.

She described the craft as saucer-shaped with a "blue/silver/grey/pewter texture, yet, none of those colours."

Mrs Fry said it also had what looked like three spheres inset into its base, one of which "flopped out", landing on the ground at the junction of nearby Ashbourne and Whitfield Road.

A group of twelve children who were playing nearby saw it 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.

Dr Thukarta died in 1965 but Mr Hanson has spoken at length to Mrs Fry, who now lives in North Wales, about her experience.

They would both like to know whether anyone else remembers this incident, particularly the children.

If you were one of those children or know anything about the incident, email Mr Hanson at hanson45@btopenworld.com or write to him at PO Box 10467 Kings Norton, Birmingham B30 1WF.

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