United Kingdom · 24 October 1967

Near Hatherleigh and Okehampton, 1967

Reported

Uniformed officers chasing an object across Dartmoor in a patrol car forced the MoD to run actual field investigations rather than filing the reports.

Where

Near Hatherleigh and Okehampton, Devon; wider flying-cross wave

When

24 October 1967

Who reported it

Two serving police constables on night patrol who pursued the object by car, plus further officers and civilians

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED

Evidence class

GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNKNOWN

Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.

What is not settled

The 1967 wave is the one period where S4(Air) demonstrably conducted in-depth field enquiries. But the standing explanation for the Devon pursuit is the planet Venus low in the sky, which accounts for an object that paces a moving car and cannot be overtaken. Officer names and the exact date come from press, not from an opened file.

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