London England — December 1950

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Keywords: britain, heavenly, london, sunday, rja7j, rnpcwnry, tvnriolj, tlnclassified, tnmaparent, aembliq, bricks, ha11t, cbjtcta, 1rrnust1pt1on, aotb1q, erimnta, be1ds, llert1cea, eaucen, 1nsgeate4, br1t1ah, ooataoted, daitasia, 1d01dezrt, eclass1fied
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rJA7J: u, <I ?orr COlll\:~1' IlO. lll GHO' Jfl r flv.t.'a- mo:'rcm-:s 'l\:rnpcwnry A'1'IC MTF IU TO A'l'IC - - - flPl:Ul - -- TYl"F or;-t~n:.F.:tVNriOlJ Unexplained chunks over Britian. tlNCLASSIFIED t ' 1 tnmaparent obJtot re:aembliq bricks ha11t dropped rro. U. uy 1n Great Br1 It vaa atate4 that several of tbeM cbjtcta were tO\lM but aD 1rrnust1pt1on 'Uiat t.M obJects aotb1q to c1o v1 th ea;eriMnta be1DS conducted b7 a111 ta17 llert1cea. In conclua1on, one tlf.q eaucen." It 1e 1Nsgeate4 that tbe Br1t1ah be ooataoted tor hrther dAitaSia on th1a 1D01dezrt ~WNGRADED AT 3 y b.\1~ 1)\iri ",. 1>ECLASS1FIED AF'fEH 12 Y~l~ UNCLASSIFIED DAILY NEWS Heavenly Ice "Bontbs" Hot Subject In Britain BY ROBERT l'ltlSEL LONDON, ~c:. 9.-(UP)-The c:aae of the heavenly ice cubes was r~n~ today, just when the British air ministry was congratulating itself on avertinc another fiying-saucer acare. For the last f~ months, chunka of Ice have fAIIt'n from the akiea on various Art'aa of Britain. One sliver hit And killed The Ice bomblnc coincid~ with lt'rials in two Sunday news -. papers hinting that \'lsitors from another world were watching the earth from llylnc aaucers . Hundreds of reAders or the pseudo-scientific articles link~ the lee and the ''men from Some persons took a flippAnt view. They claim~ the other world was proving it had refrig- erators-still scarce in Britain. Tht' mysterious appearance of the Ice caua~ 10 much com- mt'nt that Air m inistry t'XP<'rts ' asked for samples to be for- their laboratorit>s. LAst T h u r s d a y the matter reached the floor of the House of Commons. 8F..CRETAn1' of State for Air Arthur Henderson told the House 'he was able to report t t ice apparently formed pipes from which plan ca ter waahing waf I t . \ Adjustment re being rrJde, he saici ... ice-cube peltings D.tf, u, yestt'rday a bi()Ck f/1 about one foot, square c shed on the h igh road out- i e London and no planes wt-re ard at the time. Even more shattering to Ht>nd- erson 's hope~ w ere old r ccorcts which stlO\u~d that lumps o r ice clauered down on Shakcllpcarc's old home town of Stratford-on- So now lhe air mlniatry had SUNDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1 nso to find another explanation. Until ita upcrt" do so, A new throry II' llkc.'ly to be popular. Som e folk hold that the ice really dCX'S come from "nothe r \\Orld pro b- bly by clin.:an' to mctrori'J.