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with those given to me by my colleague. The result was quite staggering. The estimated velocity of the green object had been in excess of 43,000 mph (69,000 km/hr)! Furthermore, from the elevation angles and triangulations from the three sites it seemed that its altitude had been only 16,000 ft.! So it looked as though the Earth might have narrowly escaped an almighty collision on that morning.
    Soon afterwards I was informed that fireball events had occurred in the Midlands, virtually at the same time. This information came to me from Mr. Anthony Pace, co-author of Ref.1 who was, by that time, BUFORA’s Research Director. He had interviewed the witnesses in that area and, subsequently, he supplied me with that information to enable me to carry out an overall study and to produce a report.
    It became quite clear to me that several different objects had been seen during a five-minute time interval that morning. In the Stoke-on-Trent region a shower of apparently insubstantial fireballs had been reported. The paths followed by these would have taken them over Newcastle-under-Lyme to descend into fields close to the M6 motorway . There had been no reports of explosive collisions and no meteoric material was ever found. This led me to think that they had been balls of glowing plasma and that they may have been produced in the wake of that primary object seen from the Manchester area. That idea was given further credibility by a report of another meteoric object seen overflying Stafford. If a fragment of the primary object had broken away somewhere in the region of Colchester on the East Coast and that fragment had then progressed over Stafford, the division of the ionised wake of the primary object might have produced self-contained balls of spinning plasma, which then slowed and finally descended over Stoke-on-Trent to dissipate their stored energy on collision with the ground.
    Overall, I concluded that those Spring Equinox events had been caused by a very rare natural occurrence. My guess was we had been very fortunate that morning, because, to have survived the rigours of a such a hypervelocity pass through the dense layers of our atmosphere, that primary object would have had to have been huge when it first entered our atmosphere! Something the size of Snowdon mountain perhaps?
    The Fireball Cycle
    During my study of British UFO reports for the period 1967-73, plasma-like fireball events were analysed separately. This was because I suspected that there might be natural explanations for them. One such possibility that came to mind was that they might originate from space, the Sun’s corona being one conceivable source. Would it be possible, I wondered, for a ball of spinning plasma to be hurled out from the Sun and then follow the Earth’s magnetic field lines before being projected into our atmosphere? I did a little exercise of that kind, but as it was outside my normal range of applications, I decided not to persist with it. Instead, I turned my attention to investigating whether there were any date connections with UFO activity of the vehicular kind. In some cases this seemed to be a possibility, but the main pointer came from a very simple exercise, which is reproduced as Fig. 8
    After superimposing the occurrence dates for all the years of the British study in the manner shown, it became apparent that the phenomenon was cyclic. Plasma-ball events had generally occurred within +/- 6 days of 10 equally-spaced dates throughout the year. However, in no single year was a complete set recorded. The dates are shown in Fig.8 and, below, they are listed and compared with the dates of well-known periodic meteor showers.
     

    Fig. 8
     
    Mean ‘Fireball’Dates Meteor Dates Meteor Shower
     
     
10th January 3rd
-4th January
Quarantids
14th February
–- –-
22nd March
–- –-
27th April 19th
– 22nd April
Lyrids
–—
1st – 13th May
Aquarids
3rd June
–- –-
9th July
–- –-
15th August
22nd July – 17th