Despite a check with the Meteorological Office, Mr C Spencer, of Great Bedwyn, can still not find a rational explanation of the bright spherical flying object seen by his wife and him at midnight on Sunday.

Journal du Wiltshire (Royaume Uni), 1^er juin 1966 s1Article de "UFO Archive 1965", Weird Wiltshire

An ex-Army man, Mr Spencer was trained in basic aircraft identification. He told me: "My wife and I saw this extremely odd object the other night. It took two minutes to travel across the sky due south.

"At first we thought it was a shooting star, but the intensity of light was much brighter than that of any plane. I have had a talk with the Met Office and they said it could have been an American weather satellite.

"It travelled across the sky in a curve, and when my wife fetched her binoculars she said it looked like a spherical object.

It did not make any noise." Mr Spencer said that he never really thought about flying saucers before seeing this object, and even now he is keeping a strictly open mind about them.

But an object that travels across the sky - from horizon to horizon - in less than two minutes, wavers from side to side and is brighter than any star or aircraft light, is something that remains to be satisfactorily explained.