Case file · Sighting
Brixham coastguard sighting
Around noon on 28 April 1967 a dome-shaped object with a visible door hung at about 1,600 feet over Brixham, Devon, for an hour, watched from the HM Coastguard station at Berry Head.
1967 CE · 50.40, -3.49 · status: account
The account
1967 was Britain's busiest UFO year, with 362 reports to the Ministry of Defence against 95 the year before.
The sceptical view
A balloon held in light winds is the most likely cause of a long, stationary daytime sighting.