During the evening of May 13^th., 1977, I received a telephone call from a Mr S of Spencer Avenue, Thurmaston, regarding the sighting of a Light in the sky he had observed on the previous Wednesday, the 11^th., in daylight at around 8.45 p.m.

I made arrangements to visit him on the following Sunday afternoon. The object he witnessed was a brilliant ball of white light, possibly reflected, that moved along the horizon in the East, and then shot abruptly upwards and disappeared within seconds.

After talking to Mr. S, I decided to walk around Thurmaston asking various people along the way if they had seen anything unusual in the Eastern sky during the previous week. All of them said they had not. I was about to give up when I saw a group of children playing on some waste ground. It was a long shot, but I thought I’d ask them if they had been playing there the previous week. They had not but asked me why I wanted to know. I told them that I was investigating a light in the sky report. One of the youngsters then stepped forward and said that one of his friends had claimed to have seen a “flying saucer” during the previous week. I met the boy in question, a Lance C of Beacon Avenue, Thurmaston, and, with his father present, he related the following to me which was corroborated later by Adrian and Neil D, and Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.

Mr. S’s report of a ‘light in the sky’ became a classic daylight disc report and I agree with the witnesses that they did indeed witness something unusual that warm spring evening, and that something forms part of the “May flap” that was occurring in the U.K. at that time.

Subsequent enquiries to the local Police, airfields etc. drew no further reports, the aircraft was never traced.