The article below was published in the daily newspaper Slough and South Bucks Observer, Slough, Berkshire, U-K., page 5, on July 18, 1947.
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IT was a mathematical certainty.
Someone from this area was bound to see a flying saucer sooner or later. First to claim the peculiar honour is a Richings Park man, Captain Norman Waugh, ex-R.A.F. flyer who is now ferry pilot for a commercial firm.
On Friday, Capt. Waugh, was flying in a Viking aircraft with a crew of two over the Bay of Biscay. It was 10 a.m. and they were at 8,000 feet. A smudge was sighted on the horizon.
"We all kept a keen watch," Capt. Waugh told a newspaperman at Gibraltar. "We felt a bit worried at first, then calmed down."
"The object was travelling at lightning speed and looked like a grey tadpole. Within 15 or 20 seconds it passed about six miles off. It vanished, leaving a long vapour trail."
They estimated the "object" was going at about 600 miles an hour at about 16,000 feet over the sea. They came to the conclusion that it could only be a flying saucer.
Capt. Waugh is well known in Richings Park. He is a member of the Sports Club and only the previous Saturday was playing for the cricket team.
