Gareth J. Medway and Mark McCann
Magonia 66, March 1999
The term 'flying saucer' was coined in 1947, but the year was by no means the first in which reports were heard of airborne kitchen utensils. On Wednesday 11 April 1651, a Mrs Holt was sitting in the doorway of Highway House, between Madely and Whitmore in Cheshire, with a little girl in her arms, when she "perceived the Sun to shine exceeding red, and casting her eyes upwards, she beheld a dark body over the sun, about the bigness of a half moon ...