'Ghost Plane'
From East Has
R.A.F. Baffled

LONDON April 30 (AP)–Reports of a midnight "ghost plane" swooping out of the east at tremendous speed gave the British press a sensational aviation mystery today.

Eyewitness accounts said the mystery craft, first plotted by radar early in January, zooms over the East Anglia coast—as though it came from the Continent—and disappears inland at a speed of 400 miles an hour or more.

What is even odder is that the plane has never been seen making the return journey from England to the Continent. R.A.F. night fighters have tried regularly to intercept the "ghost plane," but so far have been unsuccessful.

"Radar has plotted some strange things in its time, from children's kites and raindrops to formations of geese, but it surely never plotted a stranger thing than this," said the Yorkshire Post, adding:

"Is it a diamond or drug smuggler? Is it conveying a secret agent from one foreign power to another? The only version we have not yet heard —perhaps because of Mr. Bevin's return from Moscow— is that the aircraft's wings have been seen to be covered with snow."