Eustace McGill
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| Eustace McGill | |
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| Born | 12 March 1898 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, U.K. |
| Died | October 1973 (75) Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, U.K. |
Eustace Herbert McGill (March 12, 1898 - October 1973) was an English inventor who claimed in 1947 reports of the Sydney, Australia-based Sun newspaper that he and a friend, Tom Richards, had designed, built, and flown flying saucers that were spotted in early July by witnesses in Sydney, and that these saucers were propelled by perpetual energy machines, described as "a few wheels and some ball-bearings," which he had likewise devised. The newspaper further reported McGill's statement that he believed Richards had taken one of the saucers abroad ("to Siberia or Northern Finland"), and may have established a syndicate to develop them, so explaining foreign sightings of flying saucers during the same time.
Press Coverage
- "6 Claims They Saw 'Saucers' Over Sydney", The Sun (Sydney, NSW, Aus.): 1, 8 July 1947, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229693978
- "It's all done by perpetual motion! 'Inventor' reveals all about 'saucers'", The Sun (Sydney, NSW, Aus.): 2, 13 July 1947, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229693230
- "'FLYING SAUCERS' CLAIM", Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld., Aus.): 1, 14 July 1947, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118398577, "There was no mystery about 'flying saucers,' claimed Mr. Eustace McGill, George-street, Sydney. He said he and a friend had invented them, and his friend had taken the idea out of the country on a ship that went to Siberia or Northern Finland. Pictured above is Mr. McGill with his experimental model of a 'perpetual motion machine,' which, he says, is used to power the 'flying saucers.'"
- "He thinks more clearly in the nude", The Sun (Sydney, NSW, Aus.): 2, 28 Dec. 1947, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230551194