Scope and Contents Letters submitted to the RGO by the general public and deemed unworthy of a response. Most have no clear astronomical question or request, and many are submissions of personal theories, musings, or random thoughts, or relate to astrology or religious beliefs (e.g. letters asking the distance to heaven or writing on a perceived link between apparitions at Lourdes and Halley’s Comet). Some letters are almost unintelligible. The majority are from individuals who wrote repeatedly to the RGO,...

Scope and Contents Contents of a file so titled. Letters from the public requesting further information on unidentified flying objects they witnessed. Most concern sightings of likely fireballs and meteors. The file includes colour drawings by children, sketches of the path of observed flying objects, two news cuttings, and a report enclosing five black and white photographs (1973).A letter of 18 September 1970 by Alan Hunter to J.J.A. Hennessey of ‘The Diplomat’ explains that records were kept and...