Blackbushe, England: Cessna swerves to avoid small doughnut-shaped silvery object

At 2:30 p.m. flying instructor Laurie Adlington had just left Blackbushe Airport in Yateley, Hampshire, England, with Lt. James Plastow from Sandhurst Military College for his pilot's license test in a Cessna 150. At 2,000 feet, heading toward Basingstoke, Adlington suddenly grabbed the controls and threw the aircraft into a steep bank and descent to avoid a collision as an object sped past within a few feet of the windshield. The rotating object was about 12 inches in diameter, shaped like a doughnut, reflected light with a silvery glow "like a blob of mercury" and had a honeycombed surface, with the hint of an aerial on one side. It flew around the plane briefly, passed underneath it and then streaked upward and away to about 3,000 feet. Eberhart notes a possible early use of a drone and cites Omar Fowler in Flying Saucer Review (June 1980). 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.