4 June 1952 (The Evening Citizen,
Ottawa, Canada)
Quote from the article:
“Rear-Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell,
a sub-lieutenant aboard the HMCS Aurora at the time, said he saw one near
Barbados on the night of January 6, 1922.
Writing in ‘Crow’s Nest,’ a
Canadian Navy publication, the admiral told of seeing ‘a green light, about the
size of a soccer ball and travelling very rapidly in level flight about 500 feet in the air.’
The incident so struck the then
junior officer that he recorded it in his Midshipman’s Log. It read:
‘Extraordinary incident took
place at 10 p.m. when we were just off the north west corner of Martinique. A
brilliant green light appeared on port bow. Looked quite close and was moving
rapidly astern. It went out, came on again, and then finally went out. Its
movement was quite even, not a trajectory, but level. I can’t explain it.’ ”
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