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Old 1st Jan 2014, 21:09
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Am attempting to locate any surviving crew members of XP 347, who retrieved a Flying Saucer shaped object on Mon 4th Sept 1967.
Ah yes, the brilliant September 1967 RAE Farnborough students' prank! I remember seeing it on TV. 6 small 'saucers' were placed along the 51.5N line of latitude and caused mayhem to the establishment when they were discovered.

Full story here: UFO fever gripped Great Britain in the late Sixties - and a handful of students perptrated a very big hoax | Mail Online

But it raised £2000 for charity - and made officialdom look ridiculous!
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