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Sep. 09, 1967 - The flying Saucer Riddle is solved: A 21-year old student admitted last night that he led a great flying saucer hoax that baffled experts yesterday. Chris Southall said be and 13 other students of Farnborough Technical College, Hampshire, organized the hoas as a rag stunt. The glass fiber flying saucers, each weighing half a hundred weight and giving off and odd sounds were planted at 30-mile intervals in a straight line across southern England. They were found at Clevedon in Somerset, Chippenham in Wiltshire, Newbury and Winsor in Berkshire, and Bromley and the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. All the objects were rapidly taken into police custody and assorted experts were called in. They were baffled. One of the objects was blown a part by the Army. Another was chiseled open by an engineer. Inside both were found and evil-smelling liquid and battery-operated bleeping device. Then the police knew they were looking for a hoaxer. And last night the students owned up. Photo shows Chris Southall (21), on right, who led the great flying saucer hoax, seen with a mold for one of the flying saucers. With him is another of the plotters, David Harrison

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