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Jun 14, 2012 · Hughes eventually told his story to Duncan Sandys, the U.K.'s aviation minister, seen below, who completely believed the pilot's story. This, according to Pope, began a behind-the-scenes UFO debate between British officials. "You had this 'perfect storm' of a reliable witness and the radar evidence that backed it up," said Pope.
- Lee Speigel
May 27, 2012 · Hughes reported the sighting and was sent to visit Duncan Sandys, then aviation minister, to give his account in person. He described seeing a flash of 'silver light' which rapidly descended...
- Chris Hanlon
Apr 30, 2023 · Sandys tells the governments chief scientist Lord Cherwell that he found the story and radar evidence convincing. In reference to similar UFO sightings by US pilots, what became known as Foo Fighters , Sandys says in the document: I have no doubt at all that Hughes saw a phenomenon similar to that described by numerous observers in the United ...
May 27, 2012 · In one document – written a few days after the interview with the 23-year-old Hughes – Sandys tells the government's chief scientist, Lord Cherwell, about the meeting and states that he found the...
May 1, 2018 · But Duncan Sandys was sceptical of the certainty expressed by the Government scientists. He insisted that the evidence for flying saucers was no different to the first reports of German V2...
Norwegian Campaign. Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys [1] CH, PC ( / sændz /; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II .
When Hughes reported the encounter to his senior officers he was sent to speak to the aviation minister Duncan Sandys. Sandys was so intrigued by Hughes' story that he went on to tell several senior civil servants about the case including the government's chief scientist to whom he wrote a letter stating that the account coupled with the radar ...
