John Robert ‘Jack’ Symonds, of Potters Bar, Dereham, died at 88 of pneumonia and heart disease at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
…. He was even interviewed by MI5 around 1954 after he took a picture of a plane landing on a beach near Trimingham.
“After he took the picture these guys came over and arrested him because the plane was connected with the secret service.
“Luckily he had stuffed the plates down his socks and as they seized his camera and took him away he said he needed the toilet and popped into a house.
Ideas anybody?
Moggy
(Extracted from the EDP online)
By: JagRigger - 23rd October 2010 at 07:26
Probably for being capable of time travel, the Queen Bee was retired eight years before this event!
The article looks like a work on confused memory to me, and if did get to smuggle away his plates I assume the pictures survive somewhere?
Hence the brackets and question mark ! Muckleburgh was still open when this happened though…..
By: D1566 - 23rd October 2010 at 06:56
Luckily he had stuffed the plates down his socks
Taking plate film out of a camera and stuffing it down his socks sounds like the stuff of a Monty Python sketch??!!
By: Bager1968 - 22nd October 2010 at 23:47
Check your local UFO group… they probably have copies (or at least “photos” they claim are copies)!
By: pagen01 - 22nd October 2010 at 23:08
Probably for being capable of time travel, the Queen Bee was retired eight years before this event!
The article looks like a work on confused memory to me, and if did get to smuggle away his plates I assume the pictures survive somewhere?
By: J Boyle - 22nd October 2010 at 23:00
An aerial target ( Queen Bee ? ) out of nearby Muckleburgh AA Camp ?
Why would anyone be arrested for seeing a Queen Bee?
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd October 2010 at 22:57
…. short trousers …. spotty face ….
Keith. 😀
Not changed much then!!!!!!:dev2:
By: keithnewsome - 22nd October 2010 at 21:21
Newforest ! Thanks mate !!! I was 6 years old …. short trousers …. spotty face …. and still holding my mums hand ?????
Keith. 😀
By: Newforest - 22nd October 2010 at 16:17
Maybe Keith from NWI has a photo of it? :p
By: JagRigger - 22nd October 2010 at 10:42
Two thoughts spring to mind:
Trimmingham is a radar site, so could it have been a calibration aircraft of some type, possibly with transmitters/sensors on board.
Or
An aerial target ( Queen Bee ? ) out of nearby Muckleburgh AA Camp ?
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