Buccaneer part landing in Hull.

On 20th August 1959 a Hull newspaper made mention of a cylindrical metal object, some two feet six inches long, that landed in middle of North Hull, it was handed to police and was held at Gordon Street Station. Officers from Leconfield airfield came to inspect it and said it wasn't theirs but suggested that it could be from the NA.39 strike aircraft which had been seen to criss cross the Hull sky daily around that same period. The makers of the NA.39, Blackburns of Brough, were on annual holiday shutdown at that time. It was possibly from the NA.39, or what became known as the Buccaneer. Or it was from an alien spaceship.

Pilot - Name unknown.

Blackburn NA.39 Buccaneer XK486 was the Buccaneer prototype and had first flown on 30th April 1958. The object was possibly from one of the nine pre-production build of nine prototypes or from one of the fourteen development batch that came after. The first production batch was ordered on 25th September 1959 and this was after this Hull incident. Blackburns were test flying over East Yorkshire at the time of the incident.

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