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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. Strange and Historical Stories of UFOs in Great Britain This is a wonderful collection of historical UFO sightings in Britain recorded by the British Tourist Board. The first reports of ‘modern’ UFO sightings seem to have occurred in 1909 of airships and they continued right up to the start of the First World War. This is where the fun starts, surprisingly there are weird accounts going back to almost the start of the modern calendar. As modern as it gets…! And I don’t mean present day… In AD 664 (see what I mean?) recorded by the Venerable Bede (who?) a light that “made the sun at midday dark” appeared at one side of Barking monastery before moving on to the other side. (Fair enough…!) Here’s an early abduction case for you… Reported by Venerable Bede of a nun watching a corpse being “carried upwards”. A little later (14th century), during the funeral of the Abbot of Durham Abbey, a “light like the rays of the sun” descended and moved around. Now then – in World War I – long before Roswell, in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, a woman saw a round platform object floating 10 metres off the ground. It had a handrail around it with about ten men on the platform wearing blue uniforms and little round hats. It remained in view for more than five minutes. In 1939, a grey bell liked object was seen hovering over a field near Brockworth, Gloucestershire. In 1954, there were a number of sightings in the north of Britain and one of the clearest photographs taken of a ‘flying saucer’ was shot in Coniston, Cumbria in February of that year. Two weeks later, a man claimed to have ‘spoken’ to an alien near Lossiemouth, Scotland. In 1957, a radar station followed a large UFO all over the west of Scotland. A huge flying saucer was seen by people over Wardle in Lancashire in that same year. In 1960, a tramp who had gone missing from Carlisle, Cumbria claimed he’d been on a five-year voyage with aliens. In 1972, a security card in Oldham, Greater Manchester, heard a humming noise, when he turned round he saw a UFO about 30 metres in diameter. It had a large window brightly lit with a blue light. After five minutes, it turned on edge showing it was saucer shaped with a large dome. Then it shot straight up into the air. At Tittensor, Staffordshire, 1977, a cigar shaped object was seen, it was 12 metres long with a small dome on top and was flying about 30 metres above the ground. It was in view for about thirty seconds. In 1979, a pilot over Bolton, Lancashire, saw a bright circular object about 12 metres across moving below him. Minutes later he saw two more moving in the opposite direction at about 250 miles per hour. In 1988, a stranded flying saucer was spotted at the side of the road near Kendal, Cumbria. But the best places in Britain to find UFO activity seem to be Warminster in Wiltshire, Barmouth in North Wales and Bonnybridge in Scotland. And, yeah, Britain had its own Roswell incident involving a crashed saucer or even saucers, though Britain has seen more than its fair share of crashed saucers according to reports. On January 24th 1974, Cader Bronwen, witnesses in Cheshire and Lancashire saw a number of green lights crossing the sky haphazardly. Just after 8:30pm, an object crashed into Cader Bronwen, a mountain in Clwyd, Wales. Just what the police investigating the scene of crash saw has never been made public, though black unmarked helicopters were on site almost immediately and possibly carrying rapid deployment personnel. The army arrived that night and cordoned the area off, dismissing police and crash investigators. A nurse living in the vicinity of the crash states she saw a saucer the size of the Royal Albert Hall crash into the mountain. She allegedly walked to the crash site and saw bodies that were not human. She was then silenced in the interest of National Security, and from that time, it is said green pieces of metal recovered from the rocks of Cader Bronwen have been shown to give off an electrical charge. Shortly before New Year 1981, there were a number of UFO reports near Ipswich, Suffolk, where it is claimed that a UFO crash-landed in Rendlesham Forest, 2 miles from U.S. Woodbridge airbase. According to investigators, an officer at the airbase claimed to have spoken to the occupants of the craft (they were about 1 metre (3 feet) in height) who asked for help in repairing the craft. (Well would you believe it?) The aliens, well, they fixed it themselves, and took off and the soldiers, or airmen, that took the photos, wait for it, had them confiscated. In separate verifications of the unnamed officer’s account, Forestry Commission workers reportedly found a number of burnt trees in the vicinity of where the crash happened. More closely to the truth at and appropriately you can find a full MOD report in .PDF form at http://theparanormaljournal.fsahq.com http://www.theundergroundfiles.com. I can assure you this interesting… Well known British MPs in on the act – actually wanting to know the truth of what happened out there, accepting what did happen… Something landed out there… It’s a well know incident that has had many a discussion in the Houses of Parliament. Wiltshire, England, Boscombe Down, August 1994, several witnesses saw a UFO over Salisbury Plain near Stonehenge. It crashed into Boscombe Down runway - it was taken to a U.S. Air Force Base in America. Make what you will out of this little lot…! Strange and Historical Stories of UFOs in Great Britain written by Bill Barber |
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