2026-10-04 British Newspaper Archive (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk / .com)

Purpose: the historical record of John Searl (priority 4): the 1968-1983 press coverage and the 1982-83 raid and prosecution the book reports second-hand on p.108.

Query: "john searl" saucer, date range 1950-01-01 to 1999-12-31. URL tried: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1950-01-01/1999-12-31?basicsearch=%22john%20searl%22%20saucer&retrievecountrycounts=false

Result: blocked. Chrome loaded the page, but the extension has no read permission for this domain ("Permission denied for reading page content on this domain"). Web-fetch fallback: 301 redirect to britishnewspaperarchive.com, then HTTP 403 Forbidden. No CAPTCHA was seen; the block is the access-permission level.

Retry next run: grant the Chrome extension permission for britishnewspaperarchive.com (owner action), or read the free search-result snippets by hand. Suggested queries: "Searl" Mortimer 1983; "John Searl" "flying saucer"; "Searl" "electricity board" Reading; "Searl" levity disc; also the Reading Evening Post and Reading Chronicle 1982-1984, the local papers pointed to by a search snippet (see the google note, query 7).