The article below was published in the daily newspaper Truth, Sidney, New South Wales, Australia, page 42, on July 13, 1947.
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(TRUTH'S SPECIAL SERVICE)
LONDON, Saturday. - After a lull of a few days in world-wide reports of "flying saucers," and various explanations of the phenomena, two fresh reports have been received from places as widely separated as the Bay of Biscay and the Lakes of Killarney.
The report from the Bay of Biscay was from a responsible source and was considered seriously enough to be reported to the Air Ministry.
Capt. Norman Waugh and his crew, flying an airliner from London to Gibraltar yesterday, reported having seen "flying saucers" over the Bay of Biscay.
In a radio message to the London Airport Waugh says: "Crew and self report 'flying saucer' over Bay of Biscay. Air Ministry informed."
Michael O'Sullivan, of Caherciveen, a little west coast town in County Kerry, gave another report.
He said he saw a "flying saucer" and pointed it out to four witnesses.
They said that the object skimmed in from the north-west at a high speed and zipped along soundlessly at a 1000 feet altitude.
They described it as a disc like a doughnut about five feet across, with a white halo and a hollow centre.
It was visible for about 10 seconds just west of the Lakes of Killarney, which lie to the south-west of Tralee.
It is the general opinion in Britain that there must be some concrete reason for world-wide observation of phenomena similar to the "saucers."
It is recalled that Scandinavian some months ago reverted ghostly aircraft doing a shuttle service over the peninsula and in close proximity to Russia.
It has been suggested that the Soviet authorities were experimenting with new type weapons which had been partly developed by the Nazis.
In the case of the United States observations it is difficult to line up the Soviets with the stories unless the wastes of Siberia are being used as a taking off ground for new missiles.
With the Scandinavian projectiles, or whatever they were - just as with the U.S. saucers - everyone eventually burst out laughing and in the face of so much merriment the mysterious missiles vanished from the skies.
