London, England: Air Ministry tells Commons it received 54 UFO reports in a year
On June 10, 1958, MP George Chetwynd asked in the House of Commons how many UFO reports the Air Ministry had received; Under-Secretary of State for Air Ian Orr-Ewing replied that there had been 54, mostly meteors, balloons, aircraft and satellites.
Background
MP George Chetwynd asked the Air Ministry in the UK House of Commons how many UFO reports had been received in the past 12 months and what steps had been taken to look into them. Under-Secretary of State for Air Ian Orr-Ewing replied that 54 reports had been received. He said that most of them were meteors, balloons, aircraft and satellites. Flying Saucer Review called the reply an unsatisfactory answer. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.