http://www.ceuig.com/archives/976 Fresh notes and old stories from Uig Historical Society, Isle of Lewis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ceuig.com/archives/976#comment-2943 wattj86@yahoo.co.uk Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:09:02 +0000 http://www.ceuig.com/?p=976#comment-2943 I was stationed at Aird Uig, RAF Early Warning Radar Station 1959/60. I happened to be off duty and in my 'billet' staring out the window to the East, when a ball approx estimation 20ft. smoking hissing (as I remember) passed the camp some 150 yards from my billet, it travelled from the North to South at a low trajectory, just a little above my eye level. The billet and that part of the camp was approx 50ft above sea level. I was not alone on the camp to see it, and I can describe it as a 20ft ball of burning hell, which zoomed past the camp. A party of off duty RAF personnel, myself included were mustered and we made our way in the direction of the falling meteor, we came upon the area with the usually two familiar lochans, the North lochan was a number of feet above the lochan to the South, but the North lochan was drained of water and a mud-slide gouge had been ploughed from the position of the now empty lochan down to the now enlarged lochan to the South. A search was made, but no sign of meteor rocks were found only mud, at the time I was not aware if anyone had trawled the newly made lochan to try to net any large unusual rock formations, but if there are any, then it's my guess they will be found buried deep in the mud and soil at the bottom of the lochan ( IF IT'S STILL THERE ) I was stationed at Aird Uig, RAF Early Warning Radar Station 1959/60. I happened to be off duty and in my ‘billet’ staring out the window to the East, when a ball approx estimation 20ft. smoking hissing (as I remember) passed the camp some 150 yards from my billet, it travelled from the North to South at a low trajectory, just a little above my eye level. The billet and that part of the camp was approx 50ft above sea level. I was not alone on the camp to see it, and I can describe it as a 20ft ball of burning hell, which zoomed past the camp. A party of off duty RAF personnel, myself included were mustered and we made our way in the direction of the falling meteor, we came upon the area with the usually two familiar lochans, the North lochan was a number of feet above the lochan to the South, but the North lochan was drained of water and a mud-slide gouge had been ploughed from the position of the now empty lochan down to the now enlarged lochan to the South. A search was made, but no sign of meteor rocks were found only mud, at the time I was not aware if anyone had trawled the newly made lochan to try to net any large unusual rock formations, but if there are any, then it’s my guess they will be found buried deep in the mud and soil at the bottom of the lochan ( IF IT’S STILL THERE )

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