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Search for UFO hoaxers

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It was the summer of love, hippies and psychedelia, but 1967 was also the year of an apparent alien invasion.

Police, scientists and the RAF were scrambled to examine a number of UFOs which had appeared in fields around Britain.

One of those locations was on the Isle of Sheppey where the flying saucers turned out to be a student hoax.

Now an author is hoping people involved in the incident will contact him.

Robin Gibson takes a look back.

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