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Council 1977/8

PreidentC A E O'Brien, cBE cr MA FGs FRAS

Vice-presidentsThe Rt Hon Earl of ClancartYLeonard G Cramp, ARAEs MsIAProf Bryan Winder, Bsc cENG FTMEcHE

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Founder presidentGraham F N Knewstub, cnNc MIERE FBIS

Council chairmanLionel Beer, rnasVice-chairmanNorman Oliver, rnas

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BUFORA JOURNALVolume 7 Number 3 Septemberioctober lg7g

Editorial Address : 95 Taunton Road, London SE12 8pA

Contents

Bufora Ball Lightning Project

Book Reviews

Uforum

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Points from the Press

From Ghosts to UFOs

Sighting Summaries

British Authors-ArthurShuttlewood

Special Announcement

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DditorialIt's 'not donert you know !I have frequently heard it profferedas a ' black mark' against someindividuals reporting UFO incidentsthat 'they knew who to report it to 'or 'they've a friend who's a ufologist.'I really fail to see the logic in this.Admittedly, such people are more

likely to have a 'UFO background'than others, but why, in the name ofsanity, should that preclude them fromseeing UFOs ?

Investigators, researchers too, will findhands thrown up in horror shouldthey have the temerity to claim aCEI, CEII or-sin of sins-a CEIIIexperience themselves ! True, theirknowledge of the subject could enablethem to put over a better hoax thanmost people should they so wish, butmight it not also be true that theirdeep interest could make them morelikely subjects anyway ?

One is tempted to wonder-and cert-ainly this is not just my own opinion-just how many active researchersdeliberately tone down or repress allmention of personal experiences lestthey be regarded as 'beyond the pale'by some of their (possibly) less for-tunate colleagues. Is one perhapsexpected to drop all public UFOactivities in such cases lest 'scientificsusceptibilities ' be offended ? If so,ufology would certainly be the poorer.

Norman Oliaer.

London LecturesSat. 4 November 1978:

Sat. 2 December 1978:

7 pm. UFOs-The Psychic Connection.Speaker: Sir John lVhitmore.

7 pm. Annual General Meering (members only).8 pm. Audio-Visual presentation of Close En-

counter Cases by Alan West.

Meetings are held in the Lecture Theatre of Kensington Central Library,Campden Hill Road entrance, London W8.

Important: Please note that all meetings commence at 7 pm. The timeof commencement was unfortunately omitted from the pro-gramme card.

Bufora Ball Li$htnin$ ProjectIntroduction

Ball Lightning, or Kugelblitz, is ashort-lived, rare phenomenon which,in common with other phenomenareported in a random, unrepeatableway by untrained observers, has beentreated with scepticism by the scientificcommunity. Given that it may exist,there is also considerable speculationand controversy about its likely nature.

The description of the phenomenonis very variable, although there aregeneral trends which run through theobservations which enable ball light-ning to be defined as a generic term.llowever, there are those investigators(including the present author) who areof the opinion that there may beseveral independent causes for phen-nomena whose empirical propertiesappear the same, or similar.

While usually observed in connectionwith thunderstorms, ball lightningmay also be seen under other atmos-pheric conditions (as two of theaccounts below confirm). Its lifetimeis usually of the order of seconds,rather than of minutes. It is oftenspherical with a diameter of severalcentimetres, although other shapes andsizes are often reported. Because ofits unfamiliar nature and rarity, balllightning is often reported in thecontext of unidentified flying objects,and this is enhanced by the fact thatit shares many characteristics with the' classic ' UFO effects such as odours ofozone or sulphur, interference withelectrical apparatus, burns, groundmarks, and so on. It may well be thatthere is a relatively high incidence ofball lightning events among UFOreports, which would exPlain whyUFOs have acquired these ' classic'descriptions in the first place.

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In acknowledging that it probablyreceives a number of ball lightningreports, Bufora decided in 1977 Julyto launch a Project to collect andevaluate reports of ball lightning.The Proiect has so far received onlyfour first-hand accounts of ball light-ning which are summarised below.

Observations

1 One correspondent writes that inAugust or September of 1922 or 1923when he was a schoolboy, he went intothe garden of his Paddington home atabout 21h00 and saw a series oforange-coloured balls of fire, each about thesize of a large soccer football, runningalong a line antenna in a neighbouringgarden. They moved from the houseend of the wire right along to the chinainsulator at the far end, which wasattached to a pole. There, he saw thefire dripping off in a long tail. Therewas a faint popping or crackling sound.

2 On the Tuesday following \Y/hitMonday in 1931 at about 20h00, a

violent thunderstorm occurred in Port-rewydd, Gwent. The storm lastedeight hours and caused considerabledamage. At about 00h00, the wit-nesses (two boys) saw a bluish ballabout the size of a football strike a

brick wall and bounce onto the road,disappearing in a shower of sparks.Next morning, they found a hole inthe wall and a small crater in the road.

3 One afternoon in July t937 ataround 17h30, two men were drivingnear Llangollen, North Nfales, whenthey met a thunderstorm. The rainhad almost stopped, and they hadpulled up to a halt in some traffic,when a light-yellow, spherical object,about 20 cm in diameter with anindistinct outline, rolled slowly down

the roof of some buildings. It fol-lowed a meandering path with 'almosta hopping motion' until it met thegutter. It then turned through 90degrees to roll along the gutter untilit touched an ornamental spike, dis-appearing with a bright flash whichwas accompanied with 'a clap ofthunder.' The incident lasted about20 s, and the phenomenon was aboutl0 m from the witnesses.

4 In Newgate Street Village, Herts,on 1977 March 28 at 21h00, a whitelight about 10 cm in diameter wasseen through a window, hovering atground level about 6 m away. Itsintensity was similar to that of a bicycleheadlamp, and after about 4 to 5 s itsuddenly disappeared. The followingday, the grass where the object hadbeen seen was found to have beenburned yellow-brown over a diameterof 12 cm. There was also a smell ofburning and some ash or cinders.There were no thunderstorms in thevicinity but there were cumulonimbusclouds and it was showery. There wasa heavy frost the following morning.

CommentsIt will be noted that two of these eventswere reported to have occurred duringthunderstorms, but that there was nomention of storms in connection withthe other two events (l and 4). How-ever, it does not always seem to be thecase that ball lightning is associatedwith conventional lightning, and onemight suppose that all that is requiredfor the formation of at least some typesof ball lightning is an intensificationof the local electric field. In normalconditions, there is a 'fair weatherelectrostatic field' of about 130 V/mnear ground level. This potentialgradient will increase with changes inconditions such as the formation ofcumulonimbus clouds (Case 4).

The cause of Case 1 was probably St.Elmo's fire (coronal discharge), aphenomenon which is distinct fromball lightning because it follows pathsdetermined by electrical conductors(such as the line antenna). It isusually blue or blue-white, contraryto the orange colour described above.!flithout a more detailed descriptionof the antenna, it is difficult to accountfor the ' fire dripping off in a long tail.'It is suggested that Case 2 might havebeen caused by conventional lightningwhich struck the wall and then theroad, vaporizing sorne of the materialwith which it came into contact andenhancing the luminosity in the regionof the strike, and giving the observerthe illusion of an independent plasma.On the other hand, if this was a genuineexample of ball lightning, it seems tofall into the category of 'dense balllightning.'

The witness in Case -l holds a C Engqualification and is a Member of theInstitute of Chemical Engineers. Itseems that he witnessed 'genuine balllightning.' Because the downwardmotion of the ball was slow, andbecause it followed the gutter shortlybefore its annihilation, it would seemto fall into the class of 'buoyant balllightning.' Its downward motion may,in fact, have been caused by itsattraction to an earthed conductor.Its final explosive disappearance oncontact with the ornamental spikemust have been caused by the highelectric field intensity found at sharppoints-the spike was acting rather inthe reverse manner to the way alightning conductor operates. Thisprobably allowed the charge stored inthe ball to ionize the surrounding air.This is certainly the most interestingcase repofted here.

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Case 4, although unspectacular, doesseem representative of 'genuine balllightning.' The witness did not reportit as ball lightning when she contactedBufora. Like Case 3, this seems to be'buoyant ball lightning.' One mightestimate from the event and the damageit caused that the thermal powerradiated by the ball was less than 10 kWand that it therefore had an energy ofless than 50 kJ. The visible lightemitted probably had an energy lesstlran 100 W. (This case is No 77-067on the Bufora files.)

It is interesting to note that three outof four of the cases are more than fortyyears old. This is consistent with myearlier work, where I have found thata disproportionate number of balllightning cases come from the periodbefore the Second World War. As Isee it, there are two possible reasonsfor this. Firstly, there may since havebeen some change in the environment(such as air pollution) which hasreduced the incidence of ball lightning.

Secondly, the alternative is that thereis some sociological factor at work here.Could it be that increasing awarenessabout aerial phenomena-and especiallythe idea of UFOs-has meant thatmore and more people report balllightning in this new context ? Thiswould certainly be consistent with myearlier comments about UFOs andball lightning.

This is not the place to review theories

about ball lightning, since none of theabove cases seem to give special weightto any of the existing hypotheses.There are, however, some excellentreviews of ball lightning theories, thebest of which is Stanley Singer's book,The Narure of Ball Lightning (PlenumPress, 1971).

Conclusions

Four incidents of alleged ball lightninghave been received by the Bufora BallLightning Project and reviewed above.Two seem to be likely examples oftrue ball lightning. One of theseevents is rather spectacular, and theother is useful in that it allows an energyestimate of up to 50 kJ to be made forthe phenomenon reported.

It is to be hoped that many morereports of alleged ball lightning will bereceived bythe Project. Please addressany correspondence concerning theProject to the address below-fromwhere Ball Lightning report forms maybe otltained.

Mark Stenhoff2 July 1978.

Mem SrrNuorF, BSc(Hons) FRASAFBISBurone Barr LrcnrNrNc PnoJncrNewchapel ObservatoryNewchapelStoke-on-TrentStaffordshireEngland

Now that Bufora is able to support Investigators financially whilst work-ing on major cases, the Treasurer is responsible for reimbursing expensesclaimed, though he has first to validate claims before making payment.If a claim is sent direct to the Treasurer he is involved in correspondencewith the NIC for validation. Therefore will Investigators who haveclaims please make them direct to the NIC, Mr Larry Dale, at the ad-dress shown inside the front cover. He will pass on validated claims to theTreasurer who will be able to make prompt payment.

Book ReviewsThe UFO EnigmaDonald Menzel andE H Taves

Doubleday 1977$8.95

Professor Donald Menzel, who diedshortly before the publication of thisbook, had been for many years thedirector of Harvard College Obser-vatory and was a noted astrophysicist.He was also an indefatigable campaigneragainst what he saw as the modern mythof UFOs. During the last 25 yearsof his life he wrote three books as partof his attempt to ' rationalise' thenever-ending flow of reports and histheories were to become accepted bymany scientists and the public as thedefinitive scientific view of UFOs.

This book, therefore, might be lookedon as an important final word fromMenzel on the subiect. To me it wasa disappointment, as much of the bookrepeats what he has said before. It issurprising how much of the more up-to-date material is taken from Klass'book UFOs Explained, and one isslightly irritated to read yet againabout the biblical version of Ezekielinterpreted through meteorological op-tics. In the final two chapters, VonDaniken and the Bermuda Triangleare slapped down, perhaps to implyguilt through association!

Predictably, in the circumstances, a//the unexplained cases of the CondonReport are dealt with. To give anexample of the kind of treatment metedout to some of these reports: in oneinstance the conclusion is reached thata case is a hoax, not that there is anyevidence for this, but simply that'fabrication is a much more rationalexplanation than a spectacular silverydisk.' With such an attitude, what is

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the UFO Enigma ? In all fairness, theconcise analysis of the alleged extra-terrestrial map by Betty Hill is adecisive blow against the more extra-vagant claims made for it.

Why did an eminent scientist devoteso much effort to attacking claims forthe extraterrestrial origin of UFOs ?

It seems that Menzel was peculiarlysensitive to the irritant of UFOs havinga far greater popular attraction thanscience, while remaining elusive, neitherencompassed by scientific method, nordecisively rejected.

That his campaign failed is obvious-indeed the period since his death hasseen unprecedented interested in theUFO phenomenon. Perhaps it was adisappointment that he had to keep onwriting, for in 1952 he believed that' the flyin7 saucers will ztanish-afrightening diversion in a jittery zuorld.'

Philip Taylor

Prelude to the Landing on PlanetEarthStuart HolroydlV II Allen f,6.95Stuart Holroyd, an established writeron psychic matters) has given us abook that will make you think! Chro-nicling the very limits of humancredulity and gullibility, it is largelythe account of a series of hypnotic-state communications with represent-atives of a galactic civilisation. Theprincipal figures in the events areAndrija Puharich, the former associate

of Uri Geller: Phyllis Schlemmer, thepsychic channel for the messages, andSir John S7hitmore.

They came together at Ossining, afarm-commune in New York Statesponsored by Puharich, beginning toreceive messages from an entity iden-tifying itself as 'Tom.' Holroyd at-tempts to make out a case to provethat information in the messages couldnot be known to Phyllis and must comefrom some other source than the onesknown.

I strongly recommend this book,which is certainly well-written. Hol-royd has a good style and is not astotally taken in by 'Tom's' antics asthe subjects of his book, but he stillviews it in entirelv literal terms.The book has great value as a warningof how far the retreat from reason cango once the mind's critical abilities aredulled by wishful thinking. Clearlythis book is compelling reading for allresearchers in Ufology.

Gods of AquariusBrad SteigerW H Allen {5.95This book is a veritable potpourri ofcontactee information and philosophy

-both its strength and weakness. In

gathering information, Steiger has gonearound USA interviewing many peoplein order to give us, chapter by chapter,their ideas, philosophies and beliefsabout research and investigation intothe subject of Unidentified FlyingObjects.

The results of these excursions andinterviews with a wide variety ofcontactees make up the bulk of thebook. One reads about 'The StarMaidens and the Worldwide Productionof Linle Uri Gellers''. ' Healing withUFO Energy': ' Women and UFOs':'New Age Prophets and the Time ofTransition ' and a lot more. It appearsquite clear from Steiger's account thatthere are thousands of'silent contact-ees'-people throughout the USA whoclaim to have had some form of contactwith Extraterrestrials but who have notrun to the news media with theirreports.

I found the book verlr interestingreading and quite informative: it isa disturbing book in many ways as itstrikes hard at the roots of what manyof us have learned in the past and havegrown up believing to be beyondchallenge. It is a book that warrantscareful reading and a worthwhilereference book to return to again andagain.

Bryan Hartley

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Lucius Farish, Route I :i::l1ttt,t ? " one excellent Y?y ofBox 220, Plumerville

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Each monthly issue is a 20-page report containing the latest uFo accountsfrom the US, England, Canada, Australia, SouttiAmerica and other coun-trie_s. Let us \eep you informed on worldwide UFO activity. !7ritetoday for subscription information and sample pages from our service issues.

UforumI perused the letter from P W (Essex)in the May/June Journal not withoutperhaps certain misgivings in respectof its veridicality, yet nevertheless Iaccept its textualism vis-a-vis its scien-tific accuracy.

However, stripped of its pretentiousverbosity, the writer does have a pointwhen he states that 'we must seek

beyond appercepth)e modes of qpparentinterpretation,' for I myself have longcontended that whilst objective criteria,as we know them, must of necessitYbe satisfied in respect of all ufologicalinvestigations, all this could be nullifiedif we neglect or reject the subjectizse

implications of the phenomenon.

Indeed, in any section of SYstemsScience, which the study of ufologicalimplications must inevitably entail, itis at long last beginning to be appreci-ated that in many instances one simplycannot hope to master the systems and/or methodologies bY adoPting ournormal, routine and classical approachto the ' science ' of ufology as we knowit.Godel's theorem, for example, showsthat one cannot prove the consistencyand completeness of any axiomaticsvstem usins onlv the axioms and therlles of infeience-of that system, which,from the ufological point of view,currently simplY do not exist.

But I myself am becoming guiltY oflongiloquent verbiage.

Since, however, you have asked Yourreaders to pass on P W's lefter, Imust confess that I have alwaYsregarded such communications, eruditethough they may be, as exhibiting, acertain 'grossierite,' in their apparentendeavour to'blind with science ' thosenon-scientists amongst our Journal-reading members.

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Or, as the late Sir Winston Churchillonce wrote, ' this is the sort of Errylishup with which I will not Put !'

R Jones Pugh, RIC S Wales

. . . . I cannot refrain from commentingon the letters in the latest Journal:the one from Mr Murphy is anextraordinary classic of pseudo-science,riddled with errors and non-sequiturs.The one from'P W' is still incompre-hensible to me, despite several referen-ces to the dictionary!

P Taylor, Eastbourne.

In the 22 June issue of the New Scien-ist, an article was published concerningthe discovery of a megalith site innorth-westefn Kenya.

Apparently there are some nineteenbasalt pillars aligned to the 300 BCrising directions of seven star formationswhich are of significance in the Cushiticcalendar still in use in the area today.(Cushitic-local inhabitants). This isthe first find of an Archeo-Astrono-mical site in Sub-Saharan Africa andsuggests there was a calendar based onastronomical observations in operationsome 2,300 years ago. The site wasnamed ' Namoratunga z7' because of a

similar site at Namoratunga (trans-lation-The Stone PeoPle).

The stones were arranged in linespointing eastwards from three largestones in the west. The article alsostates that the chances of these align-ments being accidental are very remoteand that the find adds to the ever-increasing evidence concerning thesophistication of prehistoric cultures.

Perhaps in some way this may beconnected to the ' Ancient Astronaut'theory.

S C Battman, Basingstoke.

Barry King's Dagm-ham Paranormal Re-search Group had astand at the DagenhamJuly Shozl. Barrywrites:-

Public interest inUFOs and UFO re-search is monumental

-as we discovered atour recent exhibition/display stand " Scien-rific Ufology " in theannualDagenhamTownShow. Our stand wasfeatured in the pro-fessional ' Social andRecreational' marquee.

Over 8 and 9 July over 51,000 attended the Show and due to an intensive pub-licily campaign prior to the Show's opening, a high proportion of them paidus avisit. This resulted in a ' two-way traffic ' as a number of people also-reportedUFo incidents and those visiting included police officers and military persbnnel.our 24-hour 7 days a week UFo hotline first introduced in March 197 was alsofeatured. The stand was manned by Roy Lake, Andy Collins and myself for10-12 hours each day with others coming in to help from time to time.

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huge success and an Open Forum meeting is to be held during August and Sep-tember to cater for those who were unable to air their views fully al the stand.

PeopleWe extend a welcome to the following whohave recently been admitted to membershipof Bufora:

London : M Bull, G R Carvalho, N A Cun-ningham, T Davitt, Miss J Day, V Farrow,P J Gale, P J Haywood, V G Healey, Miss CHill, S Gwynn-Jones, J Morgan-Kane, J CMaletka, Miss J Naismith, Miss A Newton,J D Roberts, W T Stewart, Ms Villiers-Stuart.Home Counties: Mrs. M. B. Bowen, RCharrington, C S Gare, P R Harris, R Hild-itch, T Hudson, M Kitchener, A Lownds, RIJ0 Pollock, A B Pusey, Miss I Stanczyk, PTaylor, Mrs F E Trent, Mrs B B Weyers.

National : A Arch, S W Banks, C Bedford,C Bell, N Branigan, D Brehaut, J A Carson,

J Copsey, R \f Crawford, T Crawford, MissS M Cresswell, N C Dart, D Eddles, PEdmonston, S Elliott, Mrs E Evans, H J Fish,L Felton, J Forrest, L Fry, S C Garfield, DrA G Gibson, M J Goodwin, F Gordon, JGordon, A Hancock, G S Hands, Mrs AHayman, T Hooper, E J Horton, Mrs R D\Tilliams-Hubbard, J W Humberstone, KHunter, P A Jackson, Miss S Jenkins, T Jones,M Kemp, C N Koerner, C Kyriacou, R B M!ey!ck, J A Lowe, A C Mann, A E Manning,E Marris, B F Maxwell, Mrs S Mclver, MisP Mooney, D J Moore, M Newington, R JPower, Mrs P A Power, K C Roberts, MissH Rudge, I A Scott, Miss E Solomon, LSwerdlow, P lJf Turner, Mrs J E Ward,P A \7ebster, Miss M Wheler, P D Wright,Miss S F Vylie.

Overseas : D J Bosga, R Hight.

AWARENESS, the Journal of Contact UK. Details from: The NationalChairman, Contact UK, 59d \Tindmill Road, Headington, Oxford.

Report-Extra ! Presented by Norman Oliter

A muhi-witness report from different locations is a rare b'ird-or, in z;iezo of some ofthe descriptions, perhaps' fish' would be more appropriate ! Vhen, though, amongstthe witnesses are numbered ten or nlore police fficers----zuell ! Yet such was the casein the Windermere area of Cumbria just after midnight as Sunday 28 August, 1977commenced its allotted 24 hours. Presented here in obseroational order, readers mayzoell consider that sezteral of the more detailed accounts hazte much in common withthe' f,,atfish' objects reported ooer Kent skies in earlier issues . . . .

A ' Classic' from Cumbria Inzt R Hall

1. 11.47 pm Peter Simpson, aged 12,together with his parents, observed twoyellow/white lights travelling eastwards.I{owever, viewing them from theirOxenholme, I(endal home, it wassuspected these might be on an aircraftshowing landing lights, and indeed,this report is twenty minutes earlierthan any of the others.

2. 12.10 am Police Constable IanMackenzie in Bowness noticed twovery bright lights to the right of theLangdale Pikes. These slowly ap-proached-so slowly that witness dis-missed the possibility of a plane-and became brighter: dimmer lightscould also be seen at the front and rear,though as the object passed overheadthe bright lights were no longervisible on the large noiseless ' shape'which, after gliding through the skyabout 1,000 feet above him, movedslowly to the south-east and disap-peared behind trees.

3. 12.10 am Police Sergeant JohnMcMullan, aged 39, describes how hewas walking in Keswick when he sawtwo ' car headlights' in the sky justabove the skyline to the north. Hewatched for between seven and tenminutes as, with three other policemenhe observed the 'object ' travellingsouth slowly and silently, though whenoverhead it appeared to move offfaster. He considered it had the shapeof a hang glider or diamond: the large

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white lights were on the ' wings' anda faint red/amber light could be seenin the centre. These lights weresteady and were unlike navigationlights. The only sound to be heardwas a quiet hum as the object movedaway.

4. 12.20 arn Police Sergeant JamesTrohear and Police Officer John Fish-wick were on duty at Fallbarrow ParkCaravan site on the shores of Lake$Tindermere in the company of otherofficers: four or five civilians were withthem. The two lights-horizontal toone another-were seen approaching,and when overhead Sergeant Trohearcould see a lesser light forward of thetwo lights and another just behind thehorizontal, giving the impression therewas a triangular or slightly diamond-shaped object between them. Anotherconstable at this spot described theoutline as' being the shape of a stingrayfish;5. 12.22 an Police Officer AlexanderInglis, aged 36, was driving home toCarlisle from Keswick along the A591I(eswick to Bothel road with threeother police officers when all noticedtwo extremely bright white lights to thenorth-west over the hills. They all

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left the car when it was apparent thatthe object was travelling slowly (incomparison to an aircraft) towardsthem in the direction of Skiddaw. Itwas remarked that the lights were hugeand seemed part of the same objectinasmuch as the distance betweenthem did not alter. No-one couldmake out the shape of any fuselagebetween the lights, but when directlyoverhead a very faint ' purring' noisecould be heard. Two fainter lightswere visible at the front and rear.The obiect then disappeared into thedirect light of the Moon.

6. 12.25 atn PC Joseph Maw, aged28, was on duty with another officer onthe A592 at Miller Ground, Bowness.They too saw these extremely brightlights in the direction of Buttermereside by side low over the fells comingslowly towards them. Again, as theycame overhead, two further lights werevisible, all apparently on the sameobject whose shape could not be madeout. A slight buzzing noise was heard.The ' shape' continued on its coursoand disappeared in the distance.

12.25 atn Mrs Mary Mortlock,High Portinscale near Keswick

watched the object pass over her houseafter first seeing it approach from thedirection of Bishop Rock in the north-west. She first saw the two lights sideby side, then a third between the twofront lights-amber in colour-becamevisible and witness thought it seemedto be a small section lit up on the inside.She said it was impossible to make outthe bulk of the object, because sincethe starlight was so faint in the lightof the full Moon it was not possible tosee whether the object was triangularwith three brilliant lights at eachcorner, or whether the illuminatedamber section had three antennae withbrilliant lights at the end. There wasno noise, the lights cast no beam and as

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the object disappeared towards Hel-vellyn only the amber light was visible.

8. 12.27 arn Police Constable DavidWild, aged 25, on foot patrol on theA592 Rayrigg road at Bowness, sawthe two lights apparently hoveringover the hills about 1500 feet up. Ashe watched, they moved soundlesslytowards him and a third light couldbe seen at the rear. Although unableto distinguish an exact shape, Con-stable Vild said he had the definiteimpression it was kite-shaped or ' Iikea skate fish.' The object must havebeen 'very large indeed and solid inconsiluction.' No sound was heardand a check with Air Traffic Controlrevealed no aerial movement anywherein the vicinity. Three other officerswith him were also witnesses.

9. 12.30 am John Platt, aged 63, ofGrange-over Sands, Cumbria, togetherwith his wife and relatives saw theobject just before retiring for the nightand put out the lounge lights to get aclearer view. The object travelledslowly towards Cartmel Fell, thenstopped completely and began totravel towards the house: they all wentinto the garden and could see first two,then four lights, the lights being sobright that the shape of the object wasobscured. It 'floated ' noiselesslyacross the sky not quite overhead,then moved off towards Grange in aneasterly direction. The whole exper-ience was ' uncanny and rather zleird,'

10. 12.30 am Constable Ronald Jonesaged 24, was with Police SergeantGeoffrey Merckel when a report of anunusual object was received over thecar radio. From their position nearSkelwith Bridge on the A593 theywatched a' diamond, kite-shaped object'with four lights as it moved noiselesslyout of sight towards Grange over theMorecambe Bay area.

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11. 12.30 am A husband and wife atSilverdale gave perhaps the mostdetailed description of the object. Asthe lights approached, witness fetchedhis binoculars and focussed themstraight up into the underside' f was looking up into what appearedin shape lihe a giant ocean-going cata-mqran with tusin hulls. A large transomat the front supported what appeared tobe two giant lights (without beams).'His wife described these lights as

'large bulkhead areas intensely illu-minated.' The transom also joinedtogether the twin hulls which term-inated in side-rear windows of light.There were two small dull orangeglows on the underside. The moon-light did not reflect from the surfaceswhich were a dull shadowy charcoalcolour' * * *The description given by the lastwitnesses (who requested anonymity)should, I feel, be given full consider-ation, since although somewhat atvariance with the others, it appears tohave been the only instance of bino-culars being used, and, apart from the' Kmt Flatfish '* mentioned eadier, italso brings to mind the 'HampshireCatamaran.'*

Surely, this occurrence will standcomparison with even the more 'clas-sic' sighting reports, for how manyhave included more than ten trainedobservers in different places, andcertainly the account of the last witnessalso reads most reliably. Perhaps this'craft' will be kind enough in futureto put in a daylight appearance: hadit done so at \Yindermere, one cannotbut feel that in the holiday seasondozens ofphotographs would have beentaken.*Bufora JournalVol 6 No 6 pp 16-17 Newington'Skate'Vol 6 No 3 pp l0-ll Hampshire

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Table of reportsTime Heading Chief lVitness

2345 to2347 \(/ to E P Simpson0001 to 0011 N to S J McMullan0010 to 0O2Ol25 Nu(r to SE I D McKenzie0015 to 0025 NW to SE M Mortlock0020 to 0025 NW to SE J I Trohear0020 to 0030 N to S B Nicholson0020 to 0030 N to S J Fishwick0022 to 0027132 NW to SE A L Inglis0025 to 0030 N\7 to SE J R Maw0027 to 0032 NW to SE D \rild0027 to 0030137 NE to S\7

il;T:.,lot. ",0030 to 0032 N to S

Y,'J::;i:,0030 to 0032+ NE to S'W R Jones0030 to 0033 N to NE

by N J Platt0030/40to 003414r'. NE to S'SU G A Merckel

Overall apparent course of obiect-North toSouth. First seen north of BassenthwaiteLake, went down Lake Derwentwater, LakeWindermere and was finally seen heading outto sea over Morecambe Bay,

***Tottenham 6 Torch'

Imt K Grayling

Mr Solomon, a North London clericalofficer, came out of his flatlet around9.30 pm on 2 October 1977 to getsome fresh air. Whilst standing bythe flat he glanced upwards to see anilluminated torch-shaped obiect movingsoundlessly from the north-west at anelevation of about 60'. When at anelevation of 80" in the north-east itsuddenly disappeared.

The object had been clearly definedand in view for a total of some thirtyseconds. No colours were noticed.The speed had been 'comparable tothat of a commercial aircraft.' Witnessconsidered it was at a high altitude.

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Mrs Rutherford, of Penn, Wolver-hampton, was driving along the A464at 1 am on the morning of Monday 17April 1978 towards Wolverhampton,and was in the \Trottesley area, whenshe noticed an object to her right.At this point there is an orchard andthe ground at the side 'dips,' the roadlooking down on to it.Mrs Rutherford described the object as'an upside-doznn fir *ee, jagged inoutline with a luminous green circlearoitnd the body.' At its rear thereappeared to be reddish exhaust sparks.In view for about a minute, it wasestimated to be around four feet long.It seemed to hover and then shot offover the brow of a small hillock atgreat speed keeping low. The objecthad been lying horizontally about 100metres away and appeared metallic: asit shot away it looked as though it washugging the contours ofthe land.

***Clapham 'kite' emits6laser beam'

Inzt S KellardChristine Arnold, aged 32, a Clapham,London, housewife had been outshopping on 10 April 1978. It was4 pm, she had just returned home and

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was about to go out again to collecther daughter from school when shenoticed an unusual grey object in thesky. She became scared, dropped theshopping and ran to her motheiis houseseveral doors away where she, hermother and sisters went into the backgarden to watch it. Its shape wassimilar to that of a box kite, and indeed,the witnesses were on the point ofsettling for this when it disappearedinto a black cloud and on its re-appear-ance (if, in fact it was the same object),a very strong red beam of light cameout from it rather like a laser beam: thisseemed to point at the witnesses andone of them screamed. A number oflittle white lights flicked on and offseveral times, then the object andlights disappeared sideways into thecloud leaving a white line.

$7hen the object came back out of thecloud, its original 'box kite' appear-ance (like two squares atop one another)had changed slightly with one squarepartly separated from the other hor-izontally. The object(s) and lightswere seen against a background of somevery dark clouds following a heavysnowfall. The whole episode occupiedbetween five and eight minutes and wassufficiently impressive to make two ofthe witnesses frightened and a littlehysterical.

***Humming obiect disturbsfamily

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Mrs Mary Moffat, 23, of Bucknall,Stoke-on-Trent) was woken up at 3.15am on Monday 17 April 1978 by herbaby crying. She attended to him andas she was putting him back, heard ahumming sound. She returned to bedbut the sound continued and on goingover to the window and looking out, inbetween two houses she could seeangled a clearly-defined metallic greyobject which was the source of the hum.She watched it for between five andseven minutes, then came away anddiscussed it with her husband who hadalso heard the noise but had not goneover to the window.

Suddenly the hum ceased. Mrs. Mof-fat returned to look, but the object wasno longer visible. llowever, a coupleof minutes later the noise started upagain very loudly as though the objectwas right over the house, waking MrsMoffat's five-year-old daughter whowas very frightened: then after afurther minute or so it went. Thenight was dry and cold with a littlescattered cloud though many starswere visible. The whole episodelasted some .*.lrt*t"t:u,.r.

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Mrs Alice Thatcher and a friend weretravelling by car along the A525Ruthin to Denbigh road one Wednes-day in January 1978, and at 11.45 amwere passing through the village ofRhewl, when they noticed to the rightwhat at first they assumed to be ahelicopter flying very low: they thenrealised there were no rotor blades, nowings and the object was noiseless.It was cigar-shaped-' like a cigar,plump in the middle'-with what onewitness described as 'sihter with redmarkingsr' the other as ' orange snuts(about 3) sticking out at an angle of 45"from the base of the siloer body.' The

object gleamed in the sunlight as ittravelled slowly across the sky in an arc,apparently coming down into the fieldor woods ahead to the left. When thispoint was reached, however, nothingwas to be seen.

Another witness, who requested anony-mity, was working in Rhewl andviewed the same or a similar objectfrom a kitchen window for at least twominutes. It was a cold dav with nowind: there was a clear, bhie sky andwitnesses remarked on the intensity ofthe sun's rays as they were reflectedfrom the silver body ofthe object.

Chatham disc with 6family'(Cooer illustration byJennifer Cook) Ina J Castle

On Sunday 1 January 1978, witnesswas in bed at her home in Chatham,Kent, when she heard a high-pitchedhumming sound that continued forabout 1wo minutes. It was just aftermidnifht and. she called her morher.Together they went over to the windowfrom which they saw a large silver-greydisc, compared in brightness to that ofa street light. The disc stopped, a' door' opened and five smaller yellowobjects came out of its interior whichappeared blue. The large disc man-oeuvered for a couple of minutes thenwent over to the front of the house:the lights that had appeared from itsinterior made high-speed movementsfor some fifteen minutes, then rose andwent out of sight leaving large trailsbehind them.

The original height of the disc wasgiven as 'about the height at which apriaate (light) plane would fly.' It wasa cold, dry night with a clear sky andmany stars were visible. The hum-ming noise was heard also by a nextdoor neighbour and was persistentenough to give one of the witnesses aheadache.

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On \Tednesday 11 January 1978, GlynThomas, aged 31, of Cimla, Neath wasout walking: the time was 6.35 pm.He heard a ' bleep, bleep' sowd and,looking up, saw an oval object 'lowdozon and not far away.' This had areddish underside and what appeared tobe a' blue cockpit ' on top. From thecockpit came a white flashing light ofhigh intensity, the flashes being emittedat two-second intervals. The' bleeps'synchronised with the flashes and thespeed of the object was estimated at150 mph. In view for about threeminutes it finally disappeared oler thetop of a hill as it travelled in thedirection of Swansea. W'itness statedthat although it was dark at the timeand the object did not glow, contourswere clearly visible.

The synchronisation of bleeps and flashesseems to me puzzlinq since sound takestime to traoel and unless the object werewithin a hundred feet or so all the timeone would not expect them to be heardand seen together-Ed.

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Scorched UFOs over StaffsInzs A Pace

\fhat seems to be an observation of thesame 'object' from three differentlocations was reported on the eveningof 5 April 1978:-9.50 pm. Mr Roy Twemlow, of\X/eston Coyney, Staffs, was driving

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from Ash Bank to Leek Road where helives, when a bright light was seenahead. Mr Twemlow speeded up andthe light was still visible on reachinghome: hurriedly finding his binoculars,he looked at the light and as he did sotwo more lights came on. Bringingthem into focus he found three smallerlights were visible above them. Allthese lights were in the form of a tri-angle, but no actual connecting shapecould be discerned. As he watched,the lights began to move and an orangelight appeared also and started to flash.The lights then swooped down to theright of the house and disappeared inthe direction of Ash Bank: no sound washeard.

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10.05 pm. Mr Douglas Cooper, hiswife, daughter and son-in-law observeda bright stationary light. For fiveminutes it remained still, then, noise-lessly it approached, a circular shapewhich had a dome on top emitting avery bright light. As it passed lowoverhead, dimly lit portholes could beseen with three coloured lights in thecentre of the object in the form of atriangle. Its underside was ' sootyblack as if scorched.'

After passing slowly overhead it movedout of sight over the top of a block offlats. It had been in view altogetherfor around ten minutes and had firsthovered, then moved slowly towards the

startled witnesses before vanishing fromview.

10.12pm. Mr J F A Moss, a sur-veyor and town planning consultant ofHartshill, Staffs, entered his bedroomand noticed a bright, white light in thesky a long way off but approachingfrom the direction of Longton. As iicame closer, the light increased inintensity and a cluster of red lights wasnoted above the white light which wasin fact so bright that it was impossibleto make out any shape. The lightspassed over the Basford area and,moving to the front bedroom, Mr Mosswatched them disappear towards Port-hill. The line of flight was straight: theestimated speed 500 mph and theheight estimated at around 8,000 feet.

***Skateboard UFO

Cr Omar Fowler {t SIGAP News

On Monday 30 January 1978, at app.

8 pm, two boys, one 13$, the other 14,were playing on their skateboards on aquiet road in the Brighton Hill Estatearea of Basingstoke, Hants. Somestreet lamps were lit but there werefew people about.

The boys were playing with two otherswhen they all noticed a bright light inthe sky moving towards them. One ofthe others commented that it was mostlikely an aeroplane, then went off,leaving the two by themselves. Thelight had now moved closer and thetwo could begin to make out a roundshape in the middle of the glowingorange-yellow light. As it camenearer the whole glowing light seemedto be spinning: it continued to approachand commenced to hover: onlv aseries oflights around the centre ofthebody continued to rotate.

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Oval in shape, the object approachedto about 100 feet from the ground: theboys could see it had a row of yellowlights rotating around the centre (est-imated at 80 revolutions per minute)and as the lights spun, a small greenlight could be seen at each revolution.The yellow lights were clear in outlineon the leading section but were blurredon the trailing part of the light, that is,half round in front and blurred at theback.

Other lights could also be seen and ared dome was situated on top of thebody. Behind that, a red light seemedto be suspended just above the body, asthough on some kind of aerial, althoughno details of aerials could be seen. Awhite light was positioned on theforward part ofthe body and a rhythmicdroning noise, like that of bees, washeard.

The object was seen to reverse a little,then come forward again, continuingto hover. The boys describeci theobject as being the length of a houseroof. By this time they were scaredand began to run for home. One ofthe boys dropped his skateboard, butquickly retrieved it and ran on. Aftera short time they stopped and glancedback-but the object had gone

Strange encounter at GenovaI am indebted to Massimo Varrichio,an Italian member who has sent indetails of a ' humanoid' encounter inItaly. lfe writes.:-'Irene Lucente, a 14-year-old girlliving in the Via Lagaccio, Genova hadan un-nerving encounter with a strange' thing' on 26 October 1977 at about9 pm. As she was walking home, shesaw the form of a'man ' near a tree.This.form began to walk very_slowly,seeming to stagger in a drunkenmanner. Irene said the 'man' ap-peared very white and held his righthand near his neck as one might do ifexperiencing a shortage of breath.There appeared to be only two fingerson each hand. The figure was about 1

meter 60 in height and was wearingsome form of helmet: the legs werenot visible below the knee (presumablybecause of undergrowth). At thispoint Irene became very scared andran home. Similar ' forms' had beenreported from La Spezia, also inLiguria.

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Tell Your Friends About Bufora

Larry p3!e hag been busy recently in the field of lecturing as well as in hisrole as NIC. on 9 June he gave a three-hour talk in the icademic block atsouthamptox General Hospital which was chaired by Lt commander AlanFowler.. The meeting was voted a great success- and Larry has beeninvited back later in the year.

6 August say +9 general release of the film ,, CEIllK,,, and Larry re_turned from holid^ay to speak at the Rochester odeon at its first scre6ningthere. other Bufora me-mbers and investigators were present and a UFoexhibition was provided for the foyer.

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Points from the PressValerie Martin

The Taoistock Times of 28 April B:had an account and drawing by l:Joan Amos, who with 3 other r'_patients in Tavistock Hospital sawat 6 am on a clear sunny day abright white light high in thesky with a saucer-shaped crafthoveringmotionless in the centre. Thehalo of light emitted by the objectwas elongated outwards at either sideandthe 'saucer'was tilted, clearly show-ing domes on top and bottom. It hover-ed for about 3 minutes, then tilted tothe right and veered away to the northeast, the light around moving with it.The paper also mentioned the numer-ous bangs at night when it was notConcorde time, and terrific whiteflashes in the night sky.

In the Aldershot lVeekend News of 14April, a MoD Official politely scoffedat the reports of UFO sightings in thearea. Both he and RAF Odihamrefused to discuss suggestions that theUFO was an RAF helicopter using aspecial light, and said it was top secret.The latter said they had certain lightsfor aircraft and the MoD agreed therewas some classified flying in the area.

***The Shields Gazette of 17 May had areport on the US Navy radar technicianwho tracked a UFO across the Floridasky at the Pinecastle electronic warfarerange in Ocala and said he had neverseen anything like it before. A dozenother workers spotted the brightlyJitobjects late on Sunday, one objectappeared to hover, then turned abruptlyand sped off. The duty officer saidseveral people had called after seeingan object 50 to 60 feet in diameter with

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flashing lights, which computer- equip-ped radar could*not follow.

The Grimsby Evening Telegraph of 18and 19 May carried articles on theillustrated lecture given by NormanOliver to Cleethorpes Space ScienceGroup at their headquarters, the BeaconHill Observatory. The talk, whichcontained examples of close encountersgenerated so much interest that num-erous people were unable to gainadmittance, but a spokesman explainedthat on a previous occasion when a largehall was booked, only 30 people turnedup.

***The Snearham. Neuss of 19 and 26 Mayhad stories ofstrange lights seen on thecommon. Twoschoolchildrenplayingfootball saw an oblong ball of fireappearing to move in a controlled wayonly 5 feet above their heads, whenthey went to collect their ball from thewoods. Two residents claim to haveseen it 2 or 3 feet above the groundheading towards the common, and awitness looking out of a window saw around ball of fire travelling just aboverooftops, which suddenly veered off attremendous speed. Norman Olivercommented that there may be a con-nection between these sightings andwhat could have been 'landing marks'found on the common in March.

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The Yorkshire Eaening Posr of 19 Mayhad an article on a series of late-nightbangs on Humberside, which fright-ened many people. Worried callersjammed police switchboards, and allpatrols were put on alert and madecareful investigations, but the causeremains a mystery. The explosions, 4or 5 of them, shook houses about 11.30pm the previous night in towns as farapart as Hull and Scunthorpe. Twoladies living in the Bransholme area ofHull reported that within 5 minutesthey saw an object like a spaceship inthe sky. The MoD could offer noexPlanation'

* * *The tilestern Telegraph of 25 Mayreviewed Torch Theatre's 'The BlueStones of Preseli,' a well-researchedentertainment full of historical andlocal detail, part of which connects thespate of UFO sightings in \7est STaleswith the magical properties of thestones, and was scripted through inter-views with a*f

":o ;potters.

The Sunday Mirror of 28 May ran rheheadline 'UFO's szooop on Air Bases,'which seems to be the only explana-tion for unidentified hovering craftspotted by military observers andradar trackers. Pilots attempted un-successfully to give chase, but thePentagon tried to explain away theincidents as unidentified helicoptersflown by unknown pilots. Details ofthe 1975 'space spies' were disclosedby Ground Saucer Watch Inc, sinceunder US law the public has the rightto informati""

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The Eastern Daily Press of 30 May inits International Commenrary columndiscussed UFOs being good stockmaterial for the media during slackperiods, and insufficient attention is

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given to rational explanations. UFOis a military term denoting somethingnot conforming to official identificationpatterns, or which could be identifiedunder more favourable circumstances.The relevant authorities are reluctantto identify objects for security reasonsand use the UFO label as a convenientextension of the Official Secrets Act.There are programmes for killer satel-lites, cruise missiles, neutron deto-nations, thermal imaging, and sightingsof cigar-shaped, domed, silent, hover-ing, flashing and wingless craft docorrespond to structural principles ofaerospace technology, even in its mostbizarre forms. Remotely piloted veh-icles generally have muffied enginesand are tested with night-time lasertracking and illumination systems, soradiating strange lights. As they areexpendable, they are sometimes dest-royed probably giving rise to strangesightings then mysterious disappear-ance. Protective suits for personnelcould give rise to sightings of oddlydressed folk in

jt..tt.;nrv of a UFO.

The South Wales Echo of 31 May givesan explanation for the 2 sphericalobjects, glowing red and moving slowlyin formation across the sky in a north-erly direction about 9.30 pm overAbergavenny. Cardiff amateur ast-ronomer Gerard Dolan says the des-cription fits Venus and Jupiter and thered glow would be caused by lightp assin g thro*1*n"_.":t's atmosphere.

The Leicester Mercury of 5 June had asimilar explanation by Trevor Thorn-ton of the Unidentified Aerial Phen-omena Research Organisation, for UFOsseen in part of that county. Seenthrough binoculars there is a prismaticeffect which splits the white light andmakes the object appear coloured.

The Eoening Sentinel of 5 June men-tioned the UFO exhibition and mini-conference staged at Crewe CivicCentre by the Federation of UFO Re-search of Crewe, with guest lecturersTony Pace and Lionel Beer of Bufora.

***The Halifax Eztening Courier of 21 Junehad a report of more mysterious objectsin the night sky over Calderdale, butTrevor Whitaker of Bufora had dis-counted one which he and anotherwitness had observed as Venus. Theprevious Monday a man saw a bluestar-like object moving at differentspeeds between Calder Valley andSouthowram. Two other sightingswere reported on Saturday and Mondayof a light splitting into three, overOgdan and near Fly Flats Reservoir.

***The Nezas-letter (Belfast) of 10 Junegave an account of an object describedas 'tube-like' or ball of fire whichcame whistling from the sky and hitthe ground with an explosion felt overa radius of 60 miles in a desolate regionbetween Buenos Aires and La Paz, onthe night of 6 May. Border guards,scientific experts and reporters weresearching. Two US Air Force Offi-cers reported as members of NASAwere trying to determine if it wassimilar to the Soviet satellite whichcrashed in Canada, but a US EmbassyOfficial said the men were carrying outa training flight and were nothing to dowith NlSl.

***The Sunday Mimor tells how 8terrified children ran home in a panicafter seeing a silver light as big- as adouble-decker bus, which after turningred, vanished, turning nearby treeisilver. One child said it was noiseless

and they thought it was going to takethem away when it came towards them.A father, who is a Special Constable,thought it was a hot air balloon or heli-copter, but nearby RAF Lyneham saidnone had been in their air space theprevious day.

***The Catering Times of 15 June reportedthe UFO Conference at Frome) whichhad to move to the Grand Cinemabecause of alleged double booking atthe Portway Hotel. Only 50 peopleturned up out of an anticipated 600from all over Europe. The cinemamanager said it was so badly organisedthat it brought the town into disreputeand blamed the owner of the hotel.Undaunted, the latter said the con-ference didn't come up to expectationsbut another may be staged next year.

***ln Reoeille of 23 June, an Italianaviation expert, Carlo Di Folca, claimsin the authoritative review of the Ital-ian Air Force that America and Russiasigned a pact in l97l to swop infor-mation about UFOs and keep the restof the world in the dark, so thatneither power would mistake UFOs foratomic missiles. Also that they wantto discredit the idea that UFOs exist,to keep their positions as masters oftechnology.

***The lVesrern Daily Press of 27 Junehad an article on Lord ChristopherThynne, 2nd son of the Marquis ofBath, who helps run the family home,and who has become president of thenewly formed Warminster UFO Cluband intends going out on skywatchesas often as he can.

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The Gloucester Journal of 26 Augustincluded a comprehensive three-col-umn feature headed Inztestigating themystery of those flying saucefs, con-tributed by Mr J R Casey of theBritish Flying Saucer Bureau (Founded1953). Details of the Bureau's activ-ities and its long association with Buforawere given together with a great dealof interesting background material andreports.

***The Lancashire Eoening Telegraph of27 June had a short item and photo ofthe domed-shaped object snapped overShiraz by an Iranian student. The

original, in colour, clearly shows 3windows. A week later he saw 3 moresaucers flyi"C ,T.,ler*in the distance.

Lastly, t}:'e Daily Mail of 6 June andother papers in giving details of theCutty Sark Whisky Offer, names thefirst claimant, Californian grandmotherSusan McMahon, who has offered thefirm's director and 3 other people a ridein a flying saucer to a small planet sheclaims to have discovered recently.Director Russ Taylor thinks there willbe claimants, but Bufora's Chairman,Lionel Beer, considers the chances ofsuccess nil.

From Ghosts to UFOs Paul Deaos.As Paul remarks in his article, lnany UFO researchers regard Warminster with deepsuspicion-and certainly manjt hoaxes haoe been perpenated tltere, some hoodrninkiigeuen the most respected ufologists. Neztertheless, in 14 years of UFO researcy't,Warminster is the only place I haae seen anything I could not identify-on twooccasions. I consider, ,therefore, we should be careful not to'throw the baby outzuith the bathwater' solely because of 'hoax' and'fringe' associations.-Ed.-Part l-WarminsterThe possibility of a connection betweenpsychic and UFO phenomena hasoften been put forward. The purposeof this article is to record occurrencesat two different locations which havebeen attributed to different causes,but when considered together seem toindicate that the same force may be atwork.Accounts of electro-magnetic pheno-mena in relation to UFO sightings arelegion, and may be found throughoutUFO literature. Many such caseshave occurred at lfarminster and afair selection is to be found in ArthurShuttlewood's first book, The lVar-minster Mystery. A classic examplewas reported by Leonard Pike, abusinessman motoring through \Var-minster in 1967. As he passed CleyHill, the interior of his car suddenlybecame unbearably hot, and he felt his

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eardrums almost shatter as a high-pitched whining noise disrupted thesilence of the night. The enginebegan to cough and whimper, then cutout altogether. As soon as his carhad stopped, Mr Pike jumped out:directly above him he observed aglowing white disc, which, after hover-ing for a few seconds, sped awaytowards Cley Hill and disappearednorthwards.

Although such' vehicle stoppage ' caseswere relatively commonplace in the' early years ' at Warminster (1965-6-7),over the last two or three years theyhave become increasingly rare. Never-theless, one or two have been reported

-for instance, Neil Pike, writing inWessex UFO Record No 6, describedtwo such incidents which, although noUFO was obvious on either occasion,

would seem, if taken at face value, tobe without an immediately apparentexplanation.

The first incident occurred just after11 pm on Saturday 29 June 1974.Mr Pike had just left Starr Hill Barnand was driving along the farm tracktowards the main road when his enginesuddenly cut out. The vehicle coastedon, coming to a halt about 250 yardsfrom the main road. Mr Pike lookedaround under the bonnet with aflashlight, but was unable to trace anyobvious reason for the failure. Therewas more than enough fuel and allconnections seemed in good order.After fifteen minutes or so Mr Pikegave up all attempts to restart andwalked the rest of the way to his homein the town. He felt that water in thecontacts or dynamo could be ruled out,since at no time during the day hadthe car been standing out in the rain.Indeed, on returning the followingmorning-and there had been tor-rential rain overnight-the car startedinstantly !

The second incident took place onMonday 21 October 1974, again atStarr Hill, but this time he was notalone. Mr Pike's car is equipped withparking lights which, at the time, hadnot been working for several months.As such lights are not a legal require-ment in England, Mr Pike had notbothered to have them fixed. Atprecisely 9.05 pm, the passenger sidelight became illuminated. All atremptsto extinguish it by any means otherthan the main switch failed, and afterturning the light off by this switch,they were unable to turn it on again!Prior to extinguishing the light, thewiring and bulb holder had beenexamined without success. As MrPike put it: 'P*haps therc are logicalreasons for both occulTences, but I findthe expuiences, especially the latter,rather mystifying.'

So-here we have two incidents which,if accepted as genuine, are both puzzl-ing, but when considered within theframework of the whole UFO enigmaare almost commonplace. With re-gard to the principal witness, I metNeil Pike at Warminster myself in 1974and he impressed me as a soundreliable observer.I am well aware that reports of strangeoccuffences at !(/arminster-UFO re-lated or otherwise-are regarded withthe deepest suspicion by many UFOresearchers. Whilst I can understandsome of the reasons for this attitude, Istill feel that there is something verymuch ' aliae' there-even if now onlyon the psychic level of interest. Itseems as though the continued ' on-slaught of UFOs' since 1965 may, insome way) either have instigated orre-activated the psychical properties ofboth Cradle and Starr Hills-not myown theory, but one propounded byArthur Shuttlewood and others.There have been many reports of whathas become known as the ' InoisibleWalker,' both in the copse at CradleHill and around the barn at Starr Hill.One night in August 1973 at Starr HillI was told that the night before,observers at the barn clearly heard sixheavy ' almost metallic' footsteps com-ing down the road towards them fromthe direction ofthe track leading up toStarr Hill proper. At first, theythought it was a soldier coming to warnthem about straying onto the nearbyArmy ranges, but when nobody enteredthe torch beam they hastened up thetrack to investigate. No explanationcould be found.

Only in three instances can I findrecord of actual physical indications ofa 'presence' being witnessed in con-junction with footsteps-all were re-ported in lYessex UFO Record No 7

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by Neil Drinan, one of the principalwitnesses in all three cases.

The first incident occurred on 20 July1974, when Mr Drinan, of Gloucester,was at Starr Hill with a couple offriends. They spent the night in thecar and next morning Mr Drinan waslooking at the remains of a tank on thehill opposite through a telescope, whenhe heard footsteps behind him. Heturned round, expecting to see hisfriend, but no-one was there. Thegravel was being moved as thoughtrodden on by invisible feet. Thefootsteps stopped about ten or twelvefeet from him.On 10 August and 2l September 1974respectively, Mr Drinan had similarexperiences. In August, after hearingfootsteps coming across the barleyfield towards them, he and his comp-anions observed the barley beingpushed aside and underfoot by someinvisible force or being. Then, onthe night in September, while MrDrinan was setting up his ' bed' onone of the hay bales at the back of thebarn, he and a friend observed the barngate open and heard and saw hay andstraw being kicked by the 'Inois-ible Walker.'Other phenomena reported from StarrHill have included the appearance of'giant figures ' which seem to standimmobile, silently watching the barn:these figures were first seen at CradleHill in 1971 but now, apparently, havemoved to Starr !

How seriously should we take thesereports of ' giants'? Whilst skywatch-ing alone at Starr Hill in 1972, I was

particularly impressed by the almosttangible atmosphere of the place-anatmosphere that would, in all pro-bability, be dispelled by a large crowdof people. In this contexr, it isinteresting that in all cases I have comeacross of observations of giant figures,relatively few observers were present.Perhaps alien forms find it easier tomanifest themselves when only smallnumbers of people are around-orperhaps the answer is simpler thanthat. Neil Pike himself,, in one of thearticles referred to earlier, wonderedwhether these giant figures would havebecome such an integral part of theUFO scene at Warminster had he notbeen so hasty in reporting his originalexperience in 197I. Suggestion, part-icularly at locations already establishedas centres of UFO and paranormalactivity, is a force to be reckoned with.Stating the obvious, perhaps, but I feelthat the role suggestion can playcannot be emphasised too strongly.However, at the same time, I wouldnot wish to be too sceptical or dogmatic,since I have been fortunate enough toexperience minor visual and auditoryphenomena at both the hills mentioned,though I would hesitate to state theywere both definitely paranormal inorigin: nevertheless I have as yetdiscovered no satisfactory explanationfor them.

So, for me, at any rate, Warminsterremains a place well worth visiting.

In the second part of this article weshall leave Warminster behind andproceed to the source of our compari-sons-Borley.

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Si$htin$ Summaries Presentation by Pauline Grego

Code No. Date Time Plgce Report Investigator/Credit

1936 Sept 2000 Hilderstone, Staffs Camouflaged cigar C3c

r955- I ? pm Nr Cheltenham,Glos

Circular obiect-lighted windows

c3b G Baxex

1955-2 t3114.4.5s 2200 Ripponden, Yorks Large white round/bell shapes

B3b C Locxwooo

1960 Summer 2OOOl22OO Hampshire ' Cross ' C3c K PHILLIPS

64R Iuly 1700 Catterick, Yorks Silver/white Spheroid B4b A PACE

75- 6.7 .7 5 0300 Glastonbury Cigar & Saucer-likeobiects

c3h WCUFORA

75-272 17.8-75 0t00 Weston-Super-Mare,Avon

rvhite light C4c WCUFORA

75-274 19.8.75 0900 Mendip Hills 'White/orange light c4bWCUFORA

15-275 19.8.75 0920 Mendip Hills White obiect c4b

75-276 0800 Ilminster, Somerset ' Bird shape ' C3c WCUFORA

76-412 Octotrer pm Westbury-on-Trym,Bristol

' 2 saucers atopanother '

c3b G KNDWSTUB,BFSB

76-4t4 5.9.76 o004 Gainsborough, Lincs Five white circles c4b

76-4tsl6 2.7 -76 2130 Mendip Hills Orange disc c3b WCUFORA

76-417 18.7.76 0015 Weston-Super-Mare,Avon

Cigar changing colour c4b WCUFORA

76-4t8 28.12.76 1716 Southmpton, Hants Several round whiteobiects

C4c

76-419 3.4.76 2255 Bristol Brilliant white lisht c4b WCUFORA

76-420 23.8.76 2130 S Frmce Starlike obiect C4c WCUFORA

76-421 29.9.76 2000 Bristol Red pulsing light C4c WCUIORA

7't-168 21.6.77 I 300 Nelson, Lancs Silver/grey cigar c3b B HARTr-IY

77-416 12.7.'17 2125 Batley, Yorks Black triangle c3b T WHITAKER

77-435 12.1t.77 t94t Cleland, Lanarkshire Dome shape with lights c3b T O'NETLL/S Ceupnnr.r.

77-436 3.10.77 1700 Ware, Herts Four yellow ovals c3b M Lnwrs

77-437 t9l2o.8t9'17

2130+ Brookmans Park,HeIts

Coloured balls c3b M LEwrs

77-438 2.10.'t7 0140 Dudley. !? Midlands Round silver-greyhumming object

C3c M PRITCHARD

'17-441 8.1t.77 0935 Rowley Regis, VMidlands

' Silver tennis bat' C3c M PRITCIIARD

77-444 26.9-7'l 0735 Kilve, Somerset Grounded egg shape C2c

77-44'1 October 2300 London, SE2 Blue/grey saucer shape C3c M \?EAVEN

77-448 23.1O.77 201 5 Clare, Suffolk Vari-coloured lishtsand triangle

c3b A CoLLrNs

'17-449 4.9.77 2100 Haverhill, Suffolk Whiteisilver lights/balls

C4a A CoLLrNs

77-450 Iulv 0250 Haverhill, Suffolk Silvery cigar C,4c A CoLLrNs

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Code No. D.te Timc Ploe Rcport Clms InvcEtlgstor/Credit

77-451 6.9.77 2300 rJfitham, Essex ' Warming pan withsparks '

C4c A CoLLlNs

77-4s3 Nov 0630 Penryn, Cornwall Two white discs B4c A PACE

77-454 t4.l 77 0020 Worcester Brilliant orange obiect C4c

77-45s Nov 1915 Crawley, Sussex Red and white lights c4b B EAsroN

77-45'l Sept l9r5 Bexhill, E Sussex Sparkling red oval c4b P TAYLoR

78-017 19.1.78 1830 Pavenham WoodsBeds

Eight obiects withlights

c2b K PHILLIPS

78-01 8 2.3.78 2045 Radwell, Beds Red and green light c4bK PHTLLTPS

78-Ot 9 9.1.78 2000 Radwell, Beds Red and green light c4b78-020 6.3.78 2048 Oakley, Beds Four flashing circles C4c K PHILLIPS

78-021 8.3.78 2t30 Felmersham, Beds Red and green lights c4bK PHILLIPS

78-022 9.3.78 2000 c4b'18-024 I 5.1.78 2053 Ivybridge, Devon Blue domed obiect C3c f wnnsrn78-028 3.2.78 I 800 Sfhitechapel, London Cigar with red lights C3c B KING

78-O29 16.4.78 0t00 Cirencester, Glos Brownish triangle C3c G BAKER

?8-030 24.2.78 2145 Clapham, London,sw4

Metallic tin helmet C3c S KELLARD

78-03 I 5.4.78 2045 Bristol Silver circle withblue glow

c4b WCUFORA

78-016 25.t.78 o745 Woolwich ferry,London

2 silver-whiteovaloids

c3b B KING

78-O37 l.1.78 o400 Berhill, E Sussex ' Bright cereal bowl ' c3b P TAYLoR

78-038 9.3.78 2l 30 Eastbourne, ESussex

Red oval c,tc P TAYLoR

78-039 30.3.78 1900 Humming saucer C3c

P TAYLoR78-O40 30.3.78 t9to-2230 Multi-coloured spin-

ning objectc3b

78-041 30.3.?8 t9t0-2230 Two coloued pointsof lisht

c4b

78-04.2 13.4.78 2030 Dartford, Kent Red and white saucer' c3b M VEAVEN

78-043 March 2055 Dartford, Kent Two manoeuvering C4c M VDAVEN

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' Two years ago the small LYiltshire townof Warminster was sudden$t gripped bya series of Flying Saucer sightings whichhaoe persisted right up to the presentday. No town in England, or for thatmatter in the world, has registered so

many authentic rePorts of UFO's.'So read the introduction to ArthurShuttlewood's first book The lVar-minster Mystery published in 1967.\Thether or not one considers thatWarminster has registered more auth-entic UFO reports than anywhere else

Arthur Shuttlewoodis a matter for debate, but it cannot begainsaid that the area has consistentlyattracted ufologists of' all persuasions-from the outright sceptic to the mostconvinced 'believer,' and it continuesto do so. I am constantly being askedfor information about the area, andwhether or not the claims made for itare justified, there is certainly noshortage of people who wish to find outfor themselves !

For 30 years Arthur Shuttlewood was ajournalist-20 of them as a newsreporter on the Warminster Journal andWilrshire Times. A Grenadier Guardfor seven years, an additional threewere spent with the Air MinistryConstabulary. He has also been aWarminster urban councillor. Hisbooks:-The Varminster Mystery:Spearman (hardbach)* Tanden(paperback)*

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