Back in early September I posted the item below. This is an up-date.
I contacted FSR and got this response from Harry (?):
"Dear
Terry, I previously read through the FSR archive relevant to this story
but did not find anything on this case as I would have kept it out as
something worth looking into. Tarland is your best bet, talking to older
people in the area who may have heard something at the time. You would
also need to find out what TA regiment it was and where they were
billeted. You might be able to get a list of names and message these
people on face-book, it would only take hitting one of the colleagues by
chance to crack the case. It only takes narrowing down to improve your
odds. I do have an entire set of UFO news clippings for Autumn 1958 so
you might have luck yet. I'll take a gander tomorrow for you."
That was 24th September and nothing since.
FSR is the source of this case report and it was used as a case by Charles Bowen in The Humanoids. However, Bowen only quoted FSR as a source and gave absolutely no original source of the report -whether a newspaper item or other. This was reputedly the international journal of Ufology but like so many Ufologists and publications the most basic information is missing.
The Braemar has been included in many books or online posts as a "genuine" event and FSR is always quoted.
There are many early CE IIIK cases that FSR reported on as genuine, and continued to promote as genuine right up into the 1990s -decades after they knew those cases were proven psychological or hoaxes.
Unless some original source can be located I am going to have to up-date the AE CE IIIK Catalogue entry for this to "Dubious".
Was someone, perhaps, looking to create a UK version of the Flatwoods incident?
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November, 1958, Braemar, Deeside, UFO Landing...and Aliens?
Back in 1959, when this story first got attention in Flying Saucer Review , vol.5, no.3, May-June 1959, what you see in the image below was it.
This is one of the first such incidents
in the UK and yet it was ignored because that is how such reports were
treated unless they involved "Venusian space brothers" with messages for
Mankind!
I have just emailed a number of
Scottish newspapers in the hope that the witnesses can be tracked down
because of the historical nature of the incident and to learn more.
If anyone reading this has contact with
any local or national newspapers or news services in Scotland then
please pass this on. Thanks!
"Hello.
It may seem odd that I am writing about an
event so far back, however, at the time this incident received only the most
basic of reporting (see attached jpeg).
In fact, it may seem odd at all that anyone
should find it of interest, however, as a meddler in astronomy amongst other
subjects, it always astonished me that the old flying saucer enthusiasts would
take very seriously the idea of interplanetary craft whizzing about our planet
but would never seriously consider that “someone” must be flying them.
The witnesses were, in 1958, teenagers so
would now be in their sixties. Police records at that time would have been
routinely destroyed every few years. My
former RAF colleagues tell me that the Air Ministry at the time were never
involved. To an historian this is
awful. This would have been one of the
first such cases in the United
Kingdom at a time when there was no craze to
report aliens in every media.
I would very much like to track down these
two men, if still alive, or their families since the incident is said to have
affected them so badly and the police were involved it is no doubt an account
that has been passed along. There is no
pre-judging here, nor any attempt at ridiculing these witnesses, but it is very
important that some form of account/record be made –it is too important an
event to just ignore it.
Anonymity will be strictly maintained though,
of course, in any published account pseudonyms would be used.
I can be contacted via the email given or
through my address.
My thanks in advance.
Terry Hooper-Scharf"
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