South Yorkshire Times January 12, 1957
Flying Saucer Reported Seen
Turned in Most Strange Way, Says Wath Youth
Mr David Ward, a 17 years old apprentice painter and decorator, 16 Cadman St Wath, never believed references in science fiction magazines to flying saucers, or what he read about them in newspapers – until last week.
Then while walking with a girlfriend along Wentworth Road, West Melton, last Wednesday about 9 p.m. he saw what he describes as “a spinning object surrounded by a dome and surrounded in a luminous halo” which he is convinced was a flying saucer.
Looked Weird
David told a “South Yorkshire Times” reporter at his home on Monday that when he first saw the object in the starlit sky, he thought it was a shooting star, as he had seen these before.
“I was flabbergasted, it looks so weird. It was about twice the size of a star, shaped like a saucer with a dome on top. The middle was a silver colour, but it was surrounded by a luminous halo,” said David.
“It was spinning faster and spun towards Cortonwood Colliery, not making any noise. I watched it, thinking it would fall to the ground like a shooting star, but over Cortonwood Colliery it turned in a most strange way and came back overhead, disappearing in the night. We must have seen it for nearly 2 minutes.”
David said he would never forget his unusual experience. He had previously thought that stories of flying saucers were ridiculous, but now that he had been seen something that resembled one it was difficult to get anyone to believe him.
I am certain
“I am certain it was a flying saucer. It was definitely some sort of machine by the way it was spinning.” David said, adding that shortly after the object disappeared a jet plane flying the direction of the object as though it was pursuing it.
His girlfriend, Miss Maureen McMullen (18) of 15 Foljambe St, Parkgate, confirmed to our reporter that she had seen the object, but she too, said that no one would believe her.
“It makes you think when you see something like that,” she said.
Davies mother said she definitely believed her son, was a serious type of boy. “We were talking about it for two hours when he came in.”