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Show Midnight 'Ghost Plane' Stirs Mystery in Great Britain LONDON. Recurring reports of a midnight "ghost plane" swooping out of the east at tremendous speed gave the British press a sensational aviation mystery, but the royal air force, while admitting the whole I thing was "slightly mysterious," re-i re-i fused to get excited. Eyewitness accounts said the mystery craft, first plotted by radar i early in January, zooms over the ! east Anglia coast as though it i came from the continent and dis-I dis-I appears inland at a speed of 400 miles an hour or more. What is even odder is that the plane never has been seen making ! the return journey from England to j the continent. RAF night fighters have tried regularly to intercept the j "ghost plane" but so far have been unsuccessful. "Radar has plotted some strange I things in its time, from children's ! kites and raindrops to formations of geese, but it surely never plotted a stranger thing than this," said the I Yorkshire Post, adding: "Is it a diamond or drug smuggler? smug-gler? Is it conveying a secret agent : from one foreign power to another? i The only version we have not yet I heard is that the aircraft's wings have been seen to be covered with snow." . |