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August 29th 2003 Model makers tease drinkers at Avebury WEEKEND drinkers at the Red Lion pub at Avebury were not fazed by the recent sight of a flying saucer hovering through the sky in broad daylight. After all, the village is steeped in mystery, the pub is allegedly haunted and it's slap bang in the middle of crop circle country. Customers hardly batted an eyelid when the flying saucer appeared over the village and zoomed past the Red Lion. Far from being taken in by the alien object the drinkers sitting outside the pub on August 16 just took it in their stride and realised straight away that they were victims of a spoof. It was a trial run for the £50,000 remote controlled craft made by London based Cutting Edge effects - who have devised special effects for many recent movies including the last four Bond films - for Chrysalis TV. It was made for a Channel 4 documentary called How To Build a Spaceship, which will be broadcast later. The spaceship was nothing more than a helium filled balloon stretched to the shape of a flying saucer by a lightweight carbon fibre skeleton. It was powered by German-made high-tech electric fan motor that enabled the craft to fly at about 20mph. It had previously been tested in a hangar and for its first public outing it needed a team of seven operators along a three-mile route to fly it by remote control. Film producer Mark Raphael said members of the public were not fooled. He said the team did not come across anyone who believed it was a real flying saucer even though a group of UFO enthusiasts were spending their annual skywatch weekend in the village. He said that while celestial gazers spent whole nights at Avebury looking for UFOs, they were completely unfazed when one appeared on a summer Saturday afternoon. Channel 4's Danny Cohen said: "We were trying to see whether we could build a convincing looking spaceship and in that regard undoubtedly we succeeded. "Dozen's of people saw it and could not work out what they had seen so I think it did work. "It stayed quite high in the sky and looked harmless, so it frightened nobody. I think people were more bewildered by what they were seeing. "They were left rubbing their heads and wondering what was going on." Simon Beard and David Hayes, who were enjoying a quiet pint at the Red Lion, filmed the craft with a camcorder. Mr Beard said: "It was travelling very slowly and was spinning around with one light blinking on and off. "It travelled over the top of the pub and everyone stopped to see it but it was making a buzzing noise and I didn't believe it was a UFO." Mr Beard added: "Everyone was talking about it but most people were just laughing." |
 
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