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Location: RAF Gaydon Warwickshire United Kingdom
Date: 21st October 1957 9:18 pm
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Description : D.W. Sweeney, a Meteor jet pilot on a training exercise from RAF North Luffenham, reported a near miss with an unidentified flying object over RAF Gaydon, Warwickshire. The incident occurred at 9:18 p.m., at an altitude of 28,000 feet. Sweeney took urgent evasive action then tried to approach the object, whereupon its six lights went out and it disappeared. The pilot's report was confirmed by radar a few minutes earlier at RAF Langtoft, when the object was tracked over Gaydon at about 28,000 feet.
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Height & Speed:28000 feet
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