from English newspaper (title not known), October 4th 1962:
TRYING TO SHED
LIGHT ON THE
'FOO-FIGHTERS'
FROM all over the world during the past few years, hundreds of letters, photographs and newspapers cuttings have been pouring into a house in Penge, where they have been sorted and classified into one of the most comprehensive libraries of information about flying saucers in existence.
This is not because the district has any apparent affinity with outer space, or because it has been a favourite target for flying saucers in the past, but because Penge is the home of the organiser of the 300-strong Anglo-Polish U.F.O. (Unidentified Flying Objects) Research Club, whose members live in various countries.
Mr. Antoni Szachnowski first arrived in Britain with the 2nd Polish Corps in the winter of 1945. Only 16 when the war broke out, he was shipped in a cattle truck to Archangel by the Soviet Army, and spent months in a Russian concentration camp before the Soviet Union joined the Allies and he was able to join the Polish Army.
He saw service in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy before coming to England, where he met many Polish pilots who had fought with the Allies throughout the war.
Double Delusion
Some of them told him stories of weird lights and shapes they had seen on some of their sorties. They had christened them "foo-fighters," and believed they were a strange German contraption.
Later, Mr.Szachnowski found that German pilots had seen exactly the same sort of lights and shapes - and had thought they were a strange Allied contraption.
Mr.Szachnowski had always been interested in astronomy, and he was intrigued by these stories. He remembered one occasion during the war when he saw both the German and Allied anti-aircraft batteries fire at a curious, shining object in the sky.
With the end of the war, some of his compatriots decided, as he did, to stay in England. Others went abroad to countries all over the world. Mr.Szachnowski decided to run a corrspondence club so that all his friends could keep in touch with each other.
Inevitably, as the letters cam in, one of the most popular topics was the one they had discussed so often - that of the "foo-fighters" and the weird shapes in the sky. Mr.Szachnowski began to get photographs of, and newspaper cuttingss about, these "flying saucers," as they were beginning to be called.
The volume of information grew, and in 1955 the club was was given its present name.
Mr.Szachnowski moved to Oakfield Road, Penge, five years ago. Now a senior clerk with a large shipping company, he has a two year old daughter, but still finds time to run the club.
Last week he addressed the inaugural meeting of the British U.F.O. Association, which has been set up to carry out serious research on the subject.
He admits that there have undoubtedly been many faked pictures and questionable evidence about flying saucers, but, even so, there is still a vast amount of unexplained evidence.
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