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The thread about Spaceships over Edinburghers; the Scottish flying saucer craze of 1950

Sunday 24th September 1950 was a momentous day in Scotland. Just over 3 years after American aviator Kenneth Arnold sent the world flying saucer crazy, the Scottish local papers (the West Lothian Courier to be precise) reported the arrival of the phenomenon in this country, specifically over the Firth of Forth! (Except the paper only published once a week, so this breaking news had to wait until the next Friday…)

An Edinburgh Lawyer, Mr A. M. Leggat, and his family were on a Sunday drive to South Queensferry. They had just got out of their car and were watching a train cross the Bridge when they spotted something at a height of about 2,000ft, “a cigar shaped object, moving east to west“. Mr Leggat said that he joked to his wife “it’s probably a flying saucer“, at which point the object turned and climbed higher. “It became a circle, with a quite definite dark outside rim” he told the Courier, “it looked exactly like a perfect smoke-ring. We watched it for about 2 minutes.” He estimated it to be about 50 feet in diameter and that there were others who had seen it too. The Daily Record also joined in the reporting, its columnist The Gangrel scoffing that it caused “no excitement amongst Edinburghers” as “almost anything leaves these chaps cold”. The Linlithgowshire Gazette was dismissive too: it was a well known fact amongst informed locals, it said, that “residents often observe similar phenomena under certain weather conditions, when the smoke from passing trains forms rings and rises up soon to disappear from view“.

In a very strange coincidence, just the week before, another local paper – the Falkirk Herald – announced that the new B-movie The Flying Saucer was going to start running on the Odeon Circuit in the country from 9th October.

Flying saucers of a feather, flock together, and soon there were two: on Sunday 22nd October, Mrs Mary Mulvey, a newspaper seller, spotted three “round dark-coloured objects with small tails” flying over St. Andrew Square in the city. Her husband and a bus driver – Mr Bob Kirkhope of Lauriston Terrace – corroborated; “I saw three disc-like shapes fairly high up and travelling in the Daklkeith direction” said Mr Kirkhope to the Aberdeen Press & Journal. The resident meteorological officers at Turnhouse and Pitreavie airfields were scornful and said they must have been “low cloud formations or weather balloons“. But the folk of Annan and Peterhead begged to differ; they had seen them too!

Sixteen year old twins, Ann and Elizabeth Weightman of Newington Avenue, Annan, told the Sunday Post that they had watched them in the sky at night, approaching from the north and hovering over the town for 10 seconds. And in far off Peterhead, 15 year old schoolboy Ian Cruickshank of Prince Street, reported to the police that he saw a flying saucer “hurtling across the sky“, as reported the Dundee Courier. His mother said “my boy was quite excited about it. It was quite genuine“, her son adamant that “It is no schoolboy joke. I had just come out of the house when a high-pitched whistling sound from the sky attracted my attention“. His friends did not agree and he would tell the Courier that they teased him over the matter.

On 28th October, an un-named “Glasgow Sunday paper” received a report of a flying saucer over Kirkintilloch. They refused to print the story or be directly identified with it but the Kirkintilloch Herald didn’t! The paper joked that as a dry town (i.e. there was no sale of alcohol on public premises in the town, until 1967) that the only flying saucer was the head of the man who came home late and drunk from the fair. There would be no Spaceships Over Glasgow until Tuesday 5th December when a man came into the office of the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser to report seeing a flying saucer over Raywyards (an area of Airdrie). The paper was able to correlate this with sightings over Glasgow and Loch Long shortly afterwards.

The craze inevitably reached the Kingdom of Fife, and on December 19th the Courier and Advertiser published a remarkable photo of an actual flying saucer over Leven municipal golf course!

But don’t dismiss the photo as a hoax, it was a real flying saucer: but just a flying model of one, the work of two young friends – George Russell and Don Beaton of Leven Aeromodellers Club,. The pair had been flying their saucer and shocking (and entertaining locals) over the course at the end of their string since May that year. The two were trying to rekindle interest in their club, which they had been members of when younger in the war years, and had ordered the plans of the Sorcerer model by mail order and built it, complete with tiny 2-stroke engine, themselves.

After this year of Saucery, things quietened down in the new year. They would flare up every once in a while in the next few years as a reported “sighting” would lead to copycats. The Evening News’ resident poet “MacNib” penned a humorous verse in response in July 1954

Saucy Saucers.

Those flying saucer yarns are back
Some say, a prelude to attack
By Martian airmen one foot high
Who guide these saucers as they fly.

These little fellows have been seen.
With big eyes and a nose between.
Clark Gable ears which they can wriggle.
Antennae such as clipshears wiggle.

These flying sorcerors, as they’re called.
Are highbrow and completely bald
And far advanced in many ways,
A friend of mine who knows them says.

I’m scared about these little creatures.
Not just for their revolting features:
The thought that sends me off my rocker
Is – ten to one they’ll take up Soccer.

“MacNib”, Edinburgh Evening News – Wednesday 7th July 1954

In November 1954, publisher Ian Girvan (of that town in Ayrshire) formed Flying Saucer Service Ltd. to act as a receiving and clearing house for information on UFOs. His business partners were Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, authors of the best-selling Flying Saucers Have Landed. As well as being a prominent UFO-ologist, Ian Girvan (also known as Waveney Girvan) was immersed in right wing politics, having been in the British People’s Party, National Front and Independent Nationalists movements. He nonetheless found time to publish the quarterly Flying Saucer Review until his death in October 1964.

In May 1955, Girvan and his partners received the unlikely support of the otherwise sober and unimpeachable figure of Lord Dowding, (Air Chief Marshall High Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG), the former Commander-in-Chief of the RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Dowding, a national hero credited with a crucial role in the air defence of the nation, shocked everyone and verified to the Daily Sketch paper that the reports from February 1954 of a flying saucer that had landed at Lossiemouth in Morayshire and where a “Martian” had made contact with the witnesses, who had taken photographs, were all true. Dowding had apparently been won over to the belief of flying saucers by Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed co-author and partner in the Flying Saucer Service, and became a firm UFO believer in later life.

But Dowding’s bold Lossiemouth claim was actually the result of him being the victim of an elaborate and highly convincing hoax by Cedric Allingham, a fictional figure created by Peter Davies and his friend one Patrick Moore (yes, that Patrick Moore), to take advantage of the gullibility of the British UFO-ologist scene. Cederic Allingham fabricated a photograph of the Lossiemouth UFO and “Martian” and also a corroborating, sworn statement from an entirely fictitious but unimpeachable witness, local fisherman James Duncan. He published these claims and other verifying evidence in apopular 152 page book, Flying Saucer From Mars.

Allingham’s blury photo of the “Martian” he claimed to have met at Lossiemouth looked remarkably like a photo of Peter Davies with his back to the camera wearing an outfit including suspenders… But somehow Dowding, who had proved a dedicated, single-minded and organisational mastermind at Fighter Command, was taken in by it.

It was probably Patrick Moore who wrote the book, and he even acknowledged “meeting” with Allingham to lend credence to his existence. But he and Peter Davies sensibly denied all knowledge of it and made sure that their creation was impossible to pin down for interviews or meetings. But Dowding wouldn’t take no for an answer and used his personal reputation to track down the understandably elusive Cederic Allingham, and to convince him to give a lecture to his local Flying Saucer Club in Tunbridge wells. Moore and Davies were backed into a corner by Dowding and it would prove necessary for Allingham to appear if they were to maintain their illusion. And so appear he did, to deliver the lecture to a triumphant Dowding. Except it was actually Peter Davies in a false moustache

Moore and Davies would keep up their silent pretence for over 30 years, long after Dowding had died, before other authors pieced the rather obvious clues together and identified them. Moore was careful to never completely confirm his part in it, despite convincing proof to the contrary (including the photo of Davies as Allingham, in his garden with his telescope).

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