The Bridge Abduction

 

   In 1996 I was in touch with Robin Cole who headed the Circular Forum group based in Gloucestershire and that in turn led to my involvement in the Gotherington Gargoyle case (The Case of the Gotherington Gargoyle, in Some Things Strange & Sinister). Knowing of my interest in CE3K reports, Cole asked whether I would be interested in looking at an abduction report they had on file. Obviously, my answer was “yes.”

   What I received was slightly shocking because, despite my reputation, I would not have expected to find the address, telephone number and percipient’s name unredacted.  As it happens it may just be that I am the only person who now has the full report.

   In-keeping with the report in the group magazine (The Bridge Abduction, Circular Forum vol. 1 no. 1, Winter 1996) I identify the percipient as “Mr. X”.

   At around 21:40 hrs on the 15^th February, 1995, Mr. X was driving along the M50 and heading home from work when he noticed a bright object travelling at speed over the countryside. The object was heading in his direction but he lost sight of it as the road cuts through a hill at that point in his journey and a bridge blocked his view. Once he had driven under the bridge he was confronted by the object which was approximately 80 feet above the road but then descended to around 50 feet as he continued 250 yards from the bridge.

 

   As Mr. X strained to see just what the object was he describes himself as suddenly becoming “docile”. Then “a voice from within” told him to pull over to get a better look and he did so.  His next recollection was being in the middle lane in third gear and travelling at around 50 mph and a voice was telling him to “Keep going, there is no traffic, keep going.” Not much further along was the junction he would normally take but he pulled off of the road and got out of the car. He was unsure whether he had been involved in an accident of some kind but on checking his car was undamaged.

 

   On checking, he found that some 40 minutes had passed and he had no recollection of anything during that period. His journey home normally took twenty minutes but on this night it had taken just over an hour and on getting home told his son about the experience.  That was the end of an odd event until he started having vivid flashbacks and odd things upset him. While treating his wooden fence two slanted black knots in the timber frightened him and yet he could not understand why.  He was equally shaken by the motif of two black, slanted wings on his son’s motorbike.

 

   By 1996, Mr. X decided that he needed to contact someone which is when he contacted Cole. According to Cole; “We now have over forty pages relating to this case” yet the “full report” I was sent has only 15 pages which is 25 pages short of what Cole claimed. He did state that the late Tony Dodd had seen the report and a copy had been sent to Professor John Mack for his analysis and, at the time of the Circular Forum article a copy was in the hands of Nick Pope. However, as only 15 pages are available we are lucky that this includes Mr. X’s original account which adds much more to the report and I have left the spelling etc. intact:

      “…I left work at exactly 9.30 p.m. in the evening to go home…the journey

      which I take home is about 9.25 miles. I have been travelling this road for 7

      years. The same route every day.  This journey should take no more than 15

      minutes maximum.  It consists of 1.8 mile bypass to M50 at Ross-on-Wye,

      3.75 miles motorway M50 and 4 miles on the Newent/Gorsley B4221. I

      arrived at the roundabout at the M50 Travellers Rest end at approximately 9.40

      p.m.  It was dark but clear. I looked across the valley through a gap in the hedge

      towards Ponts Hill. On the far horizon about 10-12 miles, low down was a large

      bright light in an otherwise star less night sky.”

 

   The account now gets a little confusing as the continuation of Mr. X’s account refers to a previous sighting but then jumps slightly. I assume that the next part takes up the narrative from after Mr. X had lost sight of the object due to the bridge and then saw it above the road:

 

      “I don’t know whether this was a hole in the underside of the craft. There was

      no noise (not helicopter or plane). The light as bin the first sighting completely

      enveloped the craft.  It appeared flurescent a bit like aqn aura around the outside

      of the craft.  But it shimmered when you looked at5 it.  I only had a few seconds

       to see this and estimated that it was about 80 ft. above me and about 2 bus

      lengths wide (diameter). I am now fidgeting about in the car as the light is

      bothering me.  All of a sudden I hear a voice in my head saying   “Pull over and

      you can get a better look!”

 

     “I went from worrying about the light and being agitated to totally docile

      looking straight ahead not at all concerned about the encroaching light that

      was descending on me.  I looked along the hard shoulder for a safe place to

      stop as I had been told.  At this point the hard shoulder4 disappears and a small

      road runs underneath the motorway. A barrier with warning posts appears in

      front of me. A voice warns “Unsafe! Unsafe!” as I start to pull over.  I straighten

      up the car taking notice of the voice.  I am sure these voices are some sort of

      telepathy.  It’s as if they can see through my eyes everything that is going on,

      and are guiding me.  I am under some form of hypnotic control. I can see

      everything that is going on but I have to obey the voice.

 

     “From the bridge to this point it takes about 20-25 seconds everything is

      happening very quickly.  The craft has to descend between two rock faces

      and position itself above my car as well as fitting between the four lanes

      carriagway.  It is large but has fantastic control.  It is at this point I think I

      was abducted. It was as if I blinked my eyes and I was back again. The only

      thing I can compare this with is if you are watching a very good film and it

      jumps a frame. You notice something but because you are engrossed in the

      story it appeares continues.”

 

   I believe in that last line Mr. X meant “continuous” and I should also note here that a bus length is around 30-35 feet depending on the model so the object seen by Mr. X was approximately 60-70 feet in diameter.  In the 1994 Silbury Hill case Paul and Sonya also believed that entities were “using” their eyes to see things.  Mr. X continues:

 

      “I am now looking straight ahead on the same bit of road. The car is in gear

      now (5^th) I am doing about 50 m.p.h. I am still not bothered about the light.  

      Everything appears normal and another voice says; ‘Don’t stop now! Keep

      going. There is no traffic either side of the motorway. Keep going.’

 

      “I estimate it was between 5-10 seconds after this that I came out of the

      hypnotic state and the craft had gone.  They had released my mind. I

      exclaimed aloud ‘Where’s the light. Where’s the light.’ Not realising it was

      all over.  They had gone.  I continued driving as I was told but I was now

      completely conscious and in control. I noted there was no traffic what so ever

      as I had been told and I kept going.  When I reached the slip road at the

      Gorsley turn off (B4221) I stopped before turning on to the B4221 for Newent.  

      I put the hazard  lights on and got out of my car looked across the motorway

      at a small wood opposite.  I saw lights going down beyond the wood but could

      not swear that they were the same lights that had plagued me earlier.  Still no

      traffic.  I got back into my car. Put the hazard lights off put my seat belt on and

      then noticed my digital clock was reading 10-22 p.m. that meant that a 3.5 mile

      journey which would normally take 3-4 minutes took 40 minutes.  I remember

      feeling pleased when I saw the lights of a car coming from the Gorsley Golf

      Club. The first car I had seen since entering M50.  As the car passed I pulled

      out behind it but it turned right onto the motorway to Ross-on-Wye.

    

     “I continued home arriving at about 10-35 p.m. still wondering what had

      happened. The light still haunting me.  Which it does to this day.  I checked

      the car over and myself to see if I had been involved in any form of accident.  

      No damage to the car and no marks on my body.

 

     “The only explanation to the lack of traffic on the motorway and loss of

      Time would be if I had been taken when there was a lull in the traffic and put

      back there was a lull in the traffic 40 minutes being lost inside the craft for

      what purpose I do not know. My conclusion is I was taken by a F.F.O. similar

      or the same as described in my earlier sightings with its outer lights on.  This

      light acting as a type of strobe giving it a shimmering or pulsing effect, thus

      hypnotizing me, while taking  the car and myself up into its hull and then up

      into the sky and out of sight for 40 minutes to do whatever they had to do to

      me and then bringing me back to exactly the same spot on the motorway to

      continue my journey.

 

     “I think that U.F.O.’s are using motorways as easy access for abductions and

      now that the American Air-Force has gone its left the gate wide open for them

      to do what they want. Up until 1993 my first sighting where I saw two craft, I

      had never seen anything in 47 years of my life.

 

     “When I arrived home at about 10-35 p.m. my wife was in bed asleep so was

      my youngest son Stephen in his bed asleep. Andrew my eldest son was out

      with friends, Richard my mid son was laying on the settee watching T.V.

      (football) after the news had finished at 10-30 p.m. he was wearing his blue

      towling dressing gown. I hung my jacket up put my work bag down and went

      into the T.V. room to tell him about my incident with the light.  He was

      watching an action replay shot and asked me to be quite until he had seen it.  

      I then told him about this bright light and was bewildered at this time as to

      what it was. He can verify the time I got home about 10-35 p.m..

 

      “At no time do I remember stopping the car during the incident it

      appeared continues. Apart from the problem with the light (U.F.O.).”

 

   The interesting aspects of this account are what Ufologists tend to leave out because we read here what Mr. X was thinking at the time but also it shows that he was not “vague” afterwards. He notes that his wife and one son were asleep and that another was out with friends –he obviously checked this so he was “thinking straight”. He noted that Richard was watching a football replay on TV following the 22:00 hrs news and that he was wearing a blue dressing gown. He had also checked the car and himself for any damage or injuries.  Mr. X even managed to write out a sequence of events for the evening of 15^th February:

 

1) Clock out 9.30 p.m.

2) Walk to car park (2 mins)

3) Drive to M.50 using by-pass (5 min 30 secs)

4) Entre M. 50 9.40 p.m. approximately

5) First gap in hedge light on far horizon

6) Second gap light streaking across valley

7) I go under first motorway bridge

8) Craft descends on me

9) Open window of car and look up at craft

10) Voice tells me to “Pull over and you can get a better look’

11) Voice warning “Unsafe. Unsafe” as I go to pull over. Barrier in way

12) Voice again “Don’t stop now. Keep going. There’s no traffic either side of the motorway keep going”

13) Drive to slip road and junction B4221 at Gorsley 10.22 p.m.

14) Drive home to Newent arrive 10.35 p.m.

 

   One morning at 04:00 hrs in 1993, Mr. X had looked across the yard (from where he worked?) and seen the Moon as well as two “flying saucers” although this appears to0 have been just a sighting with no missing time. With regards to the flash-backs of the 1995 incident Mr. X recalled being observed by entities  but also of being in a laying down position in a white room –oddly enough, for no known reason he eventually repainted the interior of the house white.

 

   The remark about the US Air Force no longer present refers to local bases used by them closing down or being used as “stop over” airfields. As I found out in the 1980s in conversations with USAF personnel there their presence had never seemingly been of any concern to “UFOs” locally.

 

   It would be nice to know what the “40 pages” contained especially since it was stated that; “At one point we became very concerned for the “abductees” health and safety, as it seemed he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder directly as a result of his experience.”

 

   Without the necessary details it is difficult to gauge whether this was incident was a psychological or physical event.  Circular Forum suddenly became defunct and it was impossible to track Cole down though I did come across him on a ghost forum in which the “ghost hunter” Elliott O’Donnell was discussed. I was told Nick Pope had the full report but when I contacted him he was unsure -“I get sent so many things” which sort of ended my attempts to find out more.

 

   Mr X was 50 years of age in 1996 and would now (in 2020) be 74 years of age if still alive. Unless someone has a copy of the full report Cole indicates went to Tony Dodd (deceased), John Mack (deceased) or Nick Pope this is another case we have lost.

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The Watchers

  

As we head toward blog closure date how about I tell you about "the watchers"?

Back in the late 1970s I was a member of the British Flying Saucer Bureau (f 1952) and the crackpottery that went on could fill a book.  However, I managed to arrange a number of Sky watches and the purpose of these was to acquaint people with the night sky. One of these sky watches and its location, was altered by the BFSB committee for some silly reason so no choice. We ended up in the quiet countryside, in a field surrounded by hedgerows in Failand which is near Bristol.

At one point I noticed an odd silence only broken by whispers occasionally. I looked at my friend Franklyn (Franklyn Davin-Wilson) and asked what was going on? He had no idea so we sidled up to two committee members and asked what was going on and why people were spooked? One looked at us and whispered "The Watcher!"

It seems that in previous sky watches (the reason they stopped doing them) a dark figure had appeared standing at a distance from the sky watchers but watching them. Never said a word and never approached them. Eventually the figure vanished. 

You have to remember that after Albert K. Bender's breakdown and his Men In Black story he had sent a warning to all sections of the International Flying Saucer Bureau that "The Men In Black are coming!" and the BFSB put a lot of its records ands materials in a safe box and waited with dread. That was in the mid 1950s. They were still waiting in the 1970s and 1990s. 

None of this ever made sense to me. You are going to continue with flying saucery but some papers and files are stored away "safely"? HOW does that stop MIB visiting you? And, after four decades the files and records were still being hidden -as head of investigation and research I was not even allowed to view files. This was the silly mindset that had to be dealt with. Even in the early 2000s Denis Plunket (in his late 70s) was talking about the MIB and how they might visit any day. So, the whole watcher thing seemed silly.

I told Franklyn to keep an eye on the Watcher as I moved back into the crowd then made my way carefully through a hedgerow and circled around and then reached a point where I could see the greyish figure and then moved closer as quietly as I could in the dark. I then leapt and grabbed the Watcher.  The shock and surprise resulted in some good Anglos-Saxon words coming from his lips.

The "Watcher" was a man out "rabbiting" who had seen this "strange group of people standing still in the middle of a field, in the dark and looking up at the sky". He though he had stumbled on a witches coven or worse. I explained what was going on and got a strange look before he left the area.

I moved into the field to tell my companions and all I heard was a woman scream and a man say out loud "Bloody hell -he's coming toward us!" I put my torch on and called out. The mystery of the Watcher was solved. Or was it?

A couple of people swore blind that the grey figure had vanished before I got to it and thought the poacher had then turned up. How could they see where I was behind a thick hedgerow when they did not even know I had left the group? How did they see all of this in the pitch black as they were at least 200 yards(200m) away and I could not see more than 10 feet (3m)?

Naturalists, farmers and even poachers out at night probably explained away previous "Watchers" but no -they were not having any of it. After all "The Watcher" had been seen, what -10 times? or was it 20 times? No, someone was sure that it was more than that. Until I set the 1970s sky watches in motion the BFSB had not had a sky watch in the 1970s, 1960s and possibly for a great deal of the late 1950s. Yet, this legendary Watcher was always seen?

These are the sort of people who when you tell them that "Ancient Egyptian scripts noted quite clearly that two large glowing flying saucers had landed near to the pyramids with hundreds of observers" will immediately say "See? Historical facts how can you explain that away?" and another will add "Well, we know they built the pyramids" and end of story. Will any of them check sources? No. Why? Well "Why would he say and write that if it was not true?"

From 1948-2022 that mindset still exists and the bunko Ufologists continue to make money out of them and no matter how many times you expose the frauds...the suckers will keep buying.

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Exo Planets: Water Covered Planet and Carbon Dioxide Detected

 Astronomers have discovered a nearby exoplanet that may prove to be the first such world covered in water.

Jon Kelvey

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-nearby-planet-entirely-covered-221640595.html

TOI-1452 b is an exoplanet slightly larger and more massive than Earth about 100 light years away from our planet in the Draco constellation. In a paper published Wednesday in The Astronomical Journal, researchers from the University of Montreal determine that the mass of the planet suggests it is largely made up of something less dense than rock, but denser than gas — a potential sign of a global ocean.

“TOI-1452 b is one of the best candidates for an ocean planet that we have found to date,” University of Montreal astrophysics PhD student Charles Cadieux said in a statement. “Its radius and mass suggest a much lower density than what one would expect for a planet that is basically made up of metal and rock, like Earth.”

TOI-1452 b first came to astronomers’ attention through Nasa’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or Tess spacecraft, which studies distant stars for telltale dips in their light that signify an exoplanet passing in front of, that is transiting, the star. Tess data suggested the existence of an exoplanet, but the observation was not definitive.

The star TOI-1452 b orbits is part of a binary star system, and Tess does not possess the power to resolve the individual stars in that system. The University’s Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) observatory, however, along with new analytic methods, was able to confirm that TOI-1452 b exists.

“The OMM played a crucial role in confirming the nature of this signal and estimating the planet’s radius,” Mr Cadieux said. “This was no routine check. We had to make sure the signal detected by TESS was really caused by an exoplanet circling TOI-1452, the largest of the two stars in that binary system.”

An instrument installed on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawai’i then measured the planet’s mass.

Unlike Earth, which is a mostly rocky and metallic planet with water covering around 70% of its surface, TOI-1452 b appears to be made largely, but not entirely, of water, with about 30% of its mass coming from the liquid. That’s a sort of deep global ocean more akin to the deep waters believed to lurk beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus than the oceans of Earth; water makes up less than 1% of our planet’s mass.

Exoplanets are located outside of our solar system.

It’s still not certain that TOI-1452 b is an ocean world, and just what that might mean for the chances of discovering alien life in its waters, but the researchers note that the James Webb Space Telescope should soon be able to help penetrate the mystery of this strange new watery world.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/james-webb-telescope-finds-evidence-154427737.html

NASA’s new space telescope has been providing us with awe-inspiring images of the cosmos since it went into operation this summer.

The James Webb Space Telescope has already unveiled parts of the universe that had previously never been observed, as well as showcasing stunning images of the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.

But the telescope’s capabilities don’t end there.

• 

  In pictures: Jupiter and its moons seen in stunning detail in new James Webb Telescope images

Scientists have found the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a breakthrough discovery that could open the door to similar observations on planets more hospitable to life.

That’s a planet that is outside of our solar system - in this case, a gas giant orbiting a star similar to our Sun, some 700 lightyears away.

"As soon as the data appeared on my screen, the whopping carbon dioxide feature grabbed me," said Zafar Rustamkulov, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University and member of the JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science team, which undertook this investigation.

"It was a special moment, crossing an important threshold in exoplanet sciences".

James Webb's abilities

The findings, accepted for publication in the journal Nature, show that the telescope may therefore be able to detect and measure CO2 in the atmospheres of smaller rocky planets.

The planet, WASP-39 b, is a gas giant a little larger than Jupiter. It was first discovered in 2011, from ground-based observations of dimming of light from its host star as the planet passed in front of it.

Previous studies have revealed the presence of water vapour, sodium, and potassium in the planet’s atmosphere, but only James Webb’s superior infrared sensitivity was able to confirm beyond a doubt the presence of carbon dioxide.

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"Detecting such a clear signal of carbon dioxide on WASP-39 b bodes well for the detection of atmospheres on smaller, terrestrial-sized planets," said Natalie Batalha of the University of California at Santa Cruz, who leads the team.

NASA says the results show the telescope’s ability to gather insights into the composition, formation, and evolution of planets across the galaxy.

"Carbon dioxide molecules are sensitive tracers of the story of planet formation," said Mike Line of Arizona State University, another member of this research team.

"By measuring this carbon dioxide feature, we can determine how much solid versus how much gaseous material was used to form this gas giant planet. In the coming decade, JWST will make this measurement for a variety of planets, providing insight into the details of how planets form and the uniqueness of our own solar system".

Let Me Ask YOU A Question

 It's a simple question: why are you visiting this page?

I ask because, since I set up this blog in 2018 to specifically focus on Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Alien Entity reports I have posted over 400 items and there have been almost 9000 views. However, only one comment.

I closed (paused) the Face Book group on this subject and no longer update the Anomalous Observational Phenomena blog nor its FB counterpart because after almost 20 years -nothing. No comments on posts, no "Have you heard of this report?" or any kind of feedback.

There are specialist books I have written and published on this subject (and others) but no one buys. These books offer never before seen photos and a lot more but not the slightest interest -even the Pentagon has copies but that's it.

I do know that there are a lot of plagiarists out there who steal original posts or information and use it as their own -no credit given to me or the blog. Those info thieves get lots of feedback.

So I am in the position where I have to decide whether this blog is worth maintaining. Writing posts and gathering the information takes time and so far all I have learnt is that I may as well just keep it locked away in my files.

If there is no feedback then this time next week there will be no blog. Less work for me and the info thieves (I include the copyright thieves who use my original illustrations without credit or permission) will have to go back to copying and pasting from dubious sites that fake a lot of information.

To start things off I am deleting posts (some of these have already been copied by others).

I gave it my best shot but if all you want is the same stale old internet crap then...You Tube awaits you.

BARDNEY (LINCOLNSHIRE ) Mid June 1976. Afternoon

“A group of schoolboys saw something like a stick man, black with a round head, jolting along without making any noise, 150m (490 ft.) away, behind a hedge. No investigation took place”.

   Bearing in mind that the Anders report was from 1977, when I read this and the entity description I had a rush of excitement mixed with disbelief. As far as I was concerned the entity described by Mr Anders was unique, if similar to others but it was early days and I had not collated all the material at that point.  My mind was expecting to find enough differences to avoid having to face two reports that matched –and neither party involved knowing of the other.

Above: Bardney from the air

   It turned out that the quoted source was Nigel Watson and I had corresponded with him on UFO cases back in the 1980s so we at least knew each other.  I tracked down Nigel’s current contact email and wrote to him to explain that the report is very similar to another from the UK report as well as one from France and the US around the same period it would be interesting to try to find out more.

   Nigel responded quickly:

   “I mention the case in Portraits of Alien Encounters but I don't think there is much further info to add. I remember it was provided by one of the boys in a short letter”.

   I checked the book in question but nothing on this case so I wondered whether there was a later edition and got another copy but the contents were exactly the same. I went through the book line-by-line four times.  Not a mention of the report.  So I got back to Nigel and asked what page the account was on; he checked and got back to me: “I just checked and couldn't find it either! I'll check elsewhere it might have been in an article I did for Strange magazine - I'll check that out”.

   Prior to final editing of this work I thought I would try and see whether Nigel had found the missing report –he had.  It was, in fact, in a BUFORA publication and what made me want to bang my head repeatedly into a wall was that I had a PDF of the very publication!  Here is what was written to Nigel by a ‘UFO investigator’ and included in his article in which he looked at attitudes toward children as witnesses in UFO sightings:

   “Concerning the reference made by the schoolboy to a 'stick man: I dismissed it partly because there was only one person who saw it, and secondly…that the lads had claimed to have seen so many UFOs in that area" (Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire) .

"Anyway I'11 quote from the letter I received from the lads.

'On Sunday afternoon boys are allowed to go to Bardney. In the summer term, 1976, about mid-June, we saw a "stick man" jolting along. It was black with a round head, not making any noise. It was about 15O yards away from us, and it was quite hard to see’.

 "In my letter to Ken Phillips (BUFORA National Investigations Coordinator) I said that if the 'stick man' had been seen by more reliable people, and also if these young boys had not seen so many 'UFOs' (and many of them sounded like phantoms) I might have felt that the report justified an intensive investigation. However, even if the report was investigated little could be achieved because (a) it took place (allegedly) in summer 1976, (b) its value is very limited as I certainly would not hope to have to resort to reports made by young boys who; (i) could not be bothered to report the incident in 1976, (ii) probably have very strong imagination”.

   In the case cited by Nigel Watson it is quite obvious the alleged ‘investigator’ had a few credibility problems of his own.  Firstly, only one of the boys had seen the “stick man” but then we have a quote from the letter: “we saw a ‘stick man’” which seems to suggest that there was more than one observer of the figure.  Just what exactly were these “phantoms” –light phenomena?  

If the witnesses were youngsters then it was probably not easy for them at that time to find out to who they should report these things.  It is even possible that if they told their parents they might have been told not to say anything for fear of ridicule or worse.  The ‘investigator’ seems to have put a lot of work into “why I cannot be bothered” to even talk to the witnesses.  

The Anders case was 1977 so could it be that these boys saw a similar entity but there was associated UFO activity?  

 

Autumn 1964 Karslake, Cornwall -Missing Time?

 Final one for today based on cases uncovered by John Hanson. Karslake was a row of houses and over the years the tenants were moved on and the area is today a camping ground. Many families from the St Austell area can apparently trace their heritage back to the 24 houses that made up Karslake Row. The first china clay to open in 30 years, back in 2012, at Higher Moor, near Roche, is situated near where Karslake stood. So it was a sparsely populated area in 1964

John Hanson  Haunted Skies  vol. 2  pp204-206

Joan Vincent had served in Local Government in various positions as well as Borough Councillor. It was only 40 years later, now being retired, that she broke her silence and told Hanson the following sighting of her and husband Roy:

Above: retired Councillor Joan Vincent

“We read about some students from Fowey College, who reported having seen ‘flying saucers’ over Carloggas Downs, and decided to go out and have a look for ourselves.  After driving for a short time, we stopped at 5.00pm in Karslake, where we scanned the surrounding skies, hoping to see something.  Ten or fifteen minutes later, the whole of the open countryside was enveloped in brilliant light.  Startled, we stood there, trying to identify the source of this light, and realised it was coming from a field behind a hedge, about 50yds away from our position.

“We walked over and peered behind the hedge, and were flabbergasted to see a large dome, with an upper surface that appeared to be translucent like glass, with a lower solid body, grey or green in colour, about 6ft in length and 3ft in height.

“Unfortunately, as our view was restricted by another hedge, we were unable to determine whether the craft was actually resting on the ground, although it appeared that way.

“We could see what looked like a large cabinet, with dials inset around the outside with what looked like portholes.

“At this stage, I felt frightened and asked Roy to take us home.  We decided to keep quiet, knowing we would be the subject of ridicule”.

Which would seem to be a standard UFO sighting until we learn that Joan found:

“a small lump on her right leg, out of which –to her horror- grew something resembling a blade of grass, that could only be cut off using scissors.

Above; the object sighted.

“Despite seeking medical advice over the  years, the condition remained undiagnosed until it stopped growing, leaving a small scar….She confirmed she had found some marks on her leg identical in size and depth to other marks and scars brought to our notice by people who believe such ‘scoop marks’ are evidence of alien surgery carried out following ‘abduction’”

Which beggars the question of whether there was any missing time.

Joan-and-Roy-Vincent-at-the-scene-of-their-close-encounter

20th July 1966 Isle of Wight -What Happened on the Isle of Wight

 I have made it very clear that after over four decades of research and investigation I do not believe UFO abduction incidents are as common as popular Ufology wants us to believe. It is a pop culture phenomenon that is a good financial earner for many unscrupulous people.

There are, however, cases where there is evidence that "something" happened that was neither altered state or misidentification based. John Hanson has, with his Haunted Skies series unearthed a number of previously unknown cases. There are cases that were reported on at the time but as the (despite what debunkers claim) Betty and Barney Hill case was little known.

There are problems in shouting out "You may have been abducted!" and telling someone they need to undergo hypnotic regression; if they have undergone an experience that is suppressed in their memory and , perhaps,  had the odd dream but decide decades later to undergo hypnosis -tainted memory. We have had three or more decades of TV, newspaper, magazine articles about the subject that can seep into accounts.

The other factor, which is why I decided not to suggest (non hypnotic)  ways to recover partial memories is this: If the person involved underwent what would be a world view shattering experience and they have suppressed the memory and led normal lives why press them to try to find out what happened?  Why open up a whole can of worms just to see what happened because then they will need to live with that and although I can talk to these people to help in some way what might be unearthed could well require years of therapy. I am not a qualified psychologist and I am not interested in just collecting accounts to earn money from them.

Time and again I have made it clear that these are human being not cash cows

reference: John Hanson Haunted Skies Vol. 3  pp  65-66

 Isle of Wight couple, Miss Angela L. Cotton, and her boyfriend, at the time, John, were seated in a car on the Blackgang side of the Landslip car park, at 21:30 hours on the 20^th July, 1966. Angela had the odd sense that something or someone was close by and watching them and looking out of the window, they both saw a yellow glow over towards the hills that was blocking their view of the sea.

Blackgang Chine, The Undercliff 1913

   Both were curious and so they wound down the car window and were almost immediately aware of a vibrating sound, apparently coming from the direction where the glow was situated. John decided they should return home and so they set off along the country lane that led onto the main road.  It was now that something unusual took place. According to Angela:

   “Suddenly, ‘John’ doubled over the steering wheel, clutching his stomach. He gripped his right arm on the inside of the elbow joint and his foot began to slip off the accelerator.  His face went white, almost blue.  I told him to put his foot back and I would steer the car to the main road, which I did. After arriving home, ‘John’, told me he felt as if his stomach had been gripped in a vice and rolled up his right sleeve.  On the inside of the elbow joint, there was a mark, like a bruise, about the size of a penny, showing numerous holes, like the punctures made by a test vaccine. The next day, he told he had similar marks on his stomach. By the weekend, these marks had gone.”

   The following day the couple drove back to the Blackgang side of the Landslip and noticed what looked like a furrow on the side of the hill, almost as if the earth had been scooped out of the ground.  They made their way there on foot and they examined the area. Angela noted “It looked as if something had been rubbing against the earth to produce the effect, like a large wheel, some six feet in partial radius. The earth around the edges of this furrow was very dry and the grass around the edges was not charred, but brown, as if heat had been applied. I don’t know what the ‘glow’ was.

   “It certainly wasn’t the beam of St Catherine’s Lighthouse, or the sunset. I can’t explain what happened”.

   John traced Angela now living in the United States in 2007 and spoke to her about the 1966 incident.  She told John:

   “I have never forgotten the incident you mentioned, as it is one of the few moments in my life for which I could ‘kick myself’ for not having the courage to walk to the edge of Sugar Lump Hill, (as it was known then), and look down at the source of the light seen.  If I had seen what was causing the light, I would have perhaps known what caused the scuff marks on the side of the hill that we viewed, the following evening, from the opposite side of the Landslip.

   In answer to John’s questions about the discovery of the mysterious strange marks found on her boyfriend’s stomach, she replied, “They looked like weal marks.  I have no idea what caused them, although I do wonder if some form of hysteria could have induced them to occur, rather than through physical assault.”

Blackgang Cliffs c 1960

   It would be odd to just see a light and feel the vibrations and decide to drive away and then get some form of psychosomatic reaction.  Of course Ufologists will ask the questions about time to ascertain whether there was any missing time or deeper encounter. But this case was reported back in 1966 and the UFO world was so much more different than today It is probably likely that John was ill, perhaps the “weals” were psychosomatic or an allergic reaction to something –perhaps a food or other severe allergy.

   Fred Smith, of the Isle of Wight UFO Society –at that time literally a national UFO reporting centre- is John’s source along with the IWUFOS publication UFOLOG. If John Hanson can track down a UFO witness from 1966 it leaves no excuses when it comes to looking into old cases for evidence.

   In a way John and Angela were lucky because in 2018 they would probably be told that they might have been abducted.  There is another case from the 1960s that was reported on –is still referred to- but appears never to have been thoroughly investigated: Felixstowe.

UK 2nd June, 1964 Leam Lane, Gateshead

 

 Another interesting case brought to light by John Hanson and if known at all it was forgotten by British Ufology as a "silly season" story  -as most CE3K/AE reports were (unless there was publicity in it)

Source: John Hanson  Haunted Skies  vol. 2  pp 180-181

Harry Lord, April, 1964

At around 1730 hrs, David Wilson (14) decided to walk down to Leam Lane Farm to collect some straw for his rabbits.  When he got there he observed a group of about ten children standing some 20 yards away from a hay stack.  He then saw:

“Six or eight small human beings on top of the stack; they were about two and a half feet tall and dressed in bright green suits.  They appeared to be digging into the haystack, as if searching for something.  Their hands seemed like lighted electric light bulbs”.

David then went home and told his parents what he had seen and then decided to go back but was stopped by the farmer.  However, in conversation with another child he was told:

“She had seen a circular silvery object take off from the ground in a spinning motion giving off an orange glow”.

Lesley Otley contacted the local press who told him that they had heard none of this but got the names of those involved (!) and contacted them. On the 9^th June, 1964, the Newcastle Journal published the story: “Spacemen of Felling –Flying Saucers and Green Invaders” have split the whole neighbourhood”. Included was a quote from local head master M. Coates, of Roman Road Junior School, who denied calling a special assembly of the children to discuss the ‘little men’ and warning them to keep away from the farm.  It was all “silly rumours”.

On 6^th June, several members of a UFO group decided to visit the area.  This should have been done before even considering talking to reporters and allowing rumours to spread.  The ufologists spent time speaking to residents and children about the incident.

One child admitted to having seen the ‘little green men’ and told them that “The leader of the men was dressed in black and carried a baton with pink stripes” Another girl reported that this leader was sat on the roof of a barn watching them.  Invariably there were the silly sounding stories of this leader being seen “riding on the back of a cow”.  

There was also a rumour that an aircraft had dropped something accidentally and airmen were out searching –police later were said to have carried something from the field.

According to the farmer:

“The claims are a load of nonsense, if anything had landed I would have known about it.  I have a dog kept in the yard, he would have warned me if anyone had been prowling around the farm”.

But it was not seen or mentioned by Wilson and certainly a dog on guard would bark at ten children in the yard surely?

“The investigators concluded that whilst there was no reason to doubt the valoidity of the reports concerning the strange noises and flashes , they felt that under the circumstances one should treat reports of ‘little green men’ with some misgivings, taking into consideration the problems involved with accepting evidence verbatim from young children whose behaviour may have been influenced by fear or panic following the wave of uncontrolled excitement which spread through out the community, after the sightings became public knowledge”.

Green clothing AND black.  What noises and flashes and did no one think to at least put together some sort of sketch of what these entities looked like?  As was found with the youngsters at Broadhaven School in 1977; there can be slight variations in accounts but also a lot of consistencies.  The local UFO group should have been contacted before the press but I hope someone has more details!

5 July 1972 -MAUREEN PUDDY

I have, since 1975, met a number of people who have been with other people, sometimes as a passenger in a car, who have observed entities appear in front of them. Solid looking entities so clearly seen that veins etc are noted. The other person(s) present see nothing and are sometimes questioned by the experiencer as to how they cannot see "it".

This is not a mental disorder. These people are not crazy but are perfectly normal with the exception that their brains somehow create alternative realities in which they can see, feel and even smell something that is not physically real and in some cases there may be physiological after effects.

This I have termed "Ruth Syndrome" after a very well known book detailing one such (non UFO case study). It is a little too complex to explain here which is why I did so in UFO Contact? and cited instances that are repeatedly used in Ufology/online blogs as well as some never before reported on.

Interestingly, I believe that Maureen Puddy's case fits perfectly but FSR were not interested in such a "debunking" theory (Quite. They 'knew' it was all demonic by that point) and I received no responses from Australian UFO organisations -in fact getting any type of response from Australian Ufologists is near impossible.

The following (links included so that the Reader can check for themselves if necessary) gives a good summary of the events and there is an indicator of what might have sparked off the syndrome in this case.

But I repeat: this is not a mental disorder

 5 July 1972 -MAUREEN PUDDY

https://hauntedauckland.com/site/maureen-puddy-case/

Above: Maureen Puddy beside her car

In this case, the word ‘abduction’ is a misnomer identifying a wrongfulness to an event beyond the experiencer’s understanding.  The interview offers a description of two UFO sightings and incidents of voice hearing (disembodied) phenomena.

Maureen Puddy’s first UFO sighting occurred on July 5, 1972.  The 27-year-old woman was coming home from the hospital after visiting her little boy.  She noticed that “the road lit up in a blue iridescent glow” and at first thought the light was from the helicopter that had taken her son to the hospital.  After stopping her car, she saw an “enormous flying saucer” approximately four times wider than the road.  She said that the only noise was a “low hum.”  Puddy saw no flashing lights or windows on the object as it hovered above the trees.  She returned to her car and the flying saucer followed her for eight miles until she reached a populated area.  The object then changed direction, reversing without swerving.  There was a streak of light and it was “gone in a flash.”

She immediately went to the Rosebud police station to make an official report and the following day she phoned the air force.  She was mailed a questionnaire that inspired her to comment, “You need to be a pilot to understand some of the questions.”

Puddy’s second sighting occurred on July 25 in the same vicinity and at around the same time of day.  When the road lit up again, Puddy said, “I knew what it was straightaway, put my foot on the accelerator and off I went.”  After traveling half a mile, her engine completely cut off and she found that she had no control of the car although the headlights were still on full beam.  The car glided to a stop.  She next described having the feeling of receiving a message that she couldn’t understand: “I don’t speak any foreign languages and I felt that I was receiving this message in a foreign language.”  Then, the message was translated into English.  “Not English like we speak — beautifully spoken English . . . I wouldn’t say that I could clearly know that it was male or female, it was just a voice stating a message.”  She recalled the message as: “‘All your tests will be negative.’  Then there was a pause and it said, ‘Tell the media.  Do not panic.  We mean no harm.’  Then there was a long pause.  And then it said, ‘You now have control.’  The car started up . . .”

After the second sighting, Puddy went again to the Rosebud police station and again insisted on making an official report.  She also stated that she eventually filled out another air force questionnaire.  The day following the second sighting, she contacted a radio and TV station.

Answering the unidentified interviewer’s questions, Puddy said that there had been no earlier similar experiences and she had no previous interest in UFOs.  The interviewer then recalled that she’d mentioned briefly some experience during the interim between the two sightings and asked her about it.

On the Monday night before the second sighting, Puddy recounted hearing someone calling her name: “. . . the whole night long I was kept awake by this voice repeatedly calling my name ‘Maureen’ over and over again.”  Her son was in the hospital, her five-year-old daughter was sound asleep and there was nobody in the backyard.  Nor had her husband heard the voice.  When the interviewer asked Puddy if she thought the voice might’ve been in her mind, she replied, “I think it might’ve.”

I previously mentioned Maureen Puddy’s case in my article reviewing Flying Saucer Pilgrimage (1957) by Bryant and Helen Reeve.  Details of the case are presented in the article “The Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy by Judith Magee” at the website of the Victorian UFO Research Society (VUFORS).  Magee wrote about the case in articles published in Flying Saucer Review in 1972 and 1981.

The VUFORS article was last updated in October 1998 and revealed that Puddy’s contact experience hadn’t concluded at the time of the interview heard on the Faded Discs archive CD.  The article reported that Puddy’s son had been taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne by helicopter after an accident at school when a cupboard had fallen on him and broken his leg.

The article “UFO over the Mooraduc Road” was included in the book Encounter Cases from Flying Saucer Review (1977) edited by Charles Bowen.  In the article, Judith M. Magee reported: “The witness . . . impressed everyone with her sincerity.  She has an invalid husband and two children, a boy of seven and a girl of five.”

Magee wrote in the VUFORS website article:

 

Naturally, we questioned Maureen regarding her experience in the car.  What did the messages mean?  She said she had not had any recent tests done, but some about six months ago proved negative.  There was no use telling her not to be afraid, she was terrified!  As for telling the media: she ‘phoned three of the four TV stations.  One was mildly interested since they were showing “Chariots of the Gods.”  Two made light of her news, so she did not bother to contact the fourth.  I heard through a radio talk-back program, which in desperation, she had contacted, because the UFO-nauts had said to contact the media and she did not want to see them again!!

 

After a telephone conversation with Puddy, Magee arranged for her to address a VUFORS meeting where the standing room only audience was described as having been kept spellbound.  As the article continued, Magee chronicled herself witnessing with another VUFORS member an experience of Puddy’s that occurred about six months later and was estimated by Magee as “purely psychic.”

 

One Wednesday, I received a ‘phone call from a rather agitated Maureen Puddy, who said she  had been trying to contact VUFORS.  Her story goes: For some days she had been hearing a voice calling to her to “return to the meeting place.”  Believing she heard someone calling her name at the front door, she went to open it and her husband, who was an invalid in a wheel-chair, asked who it was, but there was no-one there!  When she went shopping, she heard “Maureen, Maureen, return to the meeting place,” and she looked around to find there was no one near.  She felt she had to go to the meeting place but she was too scared to go alone, so I told her that Paul Norman and I would be available when she wished to go.  

With very little gentle persuasion she agreed to go that Wednesday evening. . . . We were early and it was not yet dark so we could see Maureen’s Holden station wagon when she arrived.  She got out of her car and ran towards us saying she nearly “went off the road back there.”  I suggested she tell me about it as we drove to the meeting place. Before going further I should perhaps add, that as I entered her car, I had the odd feeling that something was amiss, I was experiencing a tingling sensation (like that of a mild electric shock), which passed off quite quickly.  Maureen then told me that in the centre of the front seat, between where the two of us sat, had appeared an entity completely clad in a type of gold foil suit.  As she turned to look in his direction, she was so startled she almost ran off the road.  

It  was quite obvious she was quite shocked by the eventful drive. By this time we had reached the meeting place which was somewhat hidden from passing traffic by a few trees.  We drew to a stop and Paul came to sit in the back seat of the station wagon while I stayed in the front with Maureen. We were talking about the latest incident along the road, when suddenly, she grabbed my arm and pointed across her car, exclaiming: “There he is!  Can’t you see him?” and she shook my arm saying that I must be able to — I tried to explain to her that it was like closed circuit television — from him to her. She said he was coming closer to the car, in fact, so close that if I put my arm out I could possibly touch him.  He was now standing almost beside the front headlight, so I asked Paul to take a little walk around the car.  As he came to where the entity was standing, the entity moved back to allow Paul to pass between him and the car.  At this point the entity beckoned to Maureen to follow him, but she adamantly declared that she would not.  I told her I’d go with her and to gently ease her out the car door, but she hung onto the steering wheel and would not budge. The entity then became impatient when she would not follow and she became a trifle upset.  He apparently disappeared behind bushes and she suddenly commenced describing the interior of the UFO.  

She told us that the entity was standing there pointing to a  large “mushroom” like object in the centre of a large circular room. The centre object, which was taller than an average person, was a little like jelly, moving all the time; there were lines like those of Roman numerals around the lower portion.  The top of the “mushroom” had lines on it and the whole thing seemed fixed to the floor.  She was apparently looking around the room and became very agitated at this point, crying, “I can’t get out!  There are no doors or windows.  I can’t get out!”  I put my arm around her shoulders in an attempt to calm her, and could feel tears on my hand.  She was really upset and as I clearly visualized what Maureen was describing, I decided to direct my thoughts to the entity; nothing to lose and maybe something to gain — as I was very concerned about Maureen’s state.  I felt she may have had a nervous collapse or even a stroke.  I silently requested he take pity on the poor girl and suddenly she said, “he wants me to close my eyes.”  I replied that she should do so and almost immediately I felt her relax as if in a trance.

 

Again she began to describe the interior of the object and once again became agitated when she could see no way out of the vehicle.  After a brief period she “came back to us” and we switched on the car’s interior lights and asked if she would care for a cup of tea from our thermos flask.  I had just handed Maureen her cup when she said, “Oh, I’m back in there again,” and repeated the description, but this time somewhat more calmly, before stating, “he’s gone.  This time he’s really gone.  I can tell.  It feels different.” She now seemed quite normal, so we went on with our supper, discussing the “mushroom” and trying to identify it.  I asked if it could have been a gyroscope, but Maureen was not apparently familiar with that term so “compass” was suggested.  She picked up a little gadget from the dashboard of her car and to my amazement it was exactly what I had envisaged from her description of the “mushroom.”  A small compass on a suction cup.  I have not seen one before or since. We did not dare let her drive home alone, nor did she wish it, in case of a return visit from our ‘friend,’ or nerves on her part.  I drove in her car with her and Paul followed in his car.  I believe it was between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m. when we arrived at her home which was quite some distance away.  We did not take particular note of the time, but it was fairly late.

In her article about the case, Judith Magee noted some of her own unanswered questions, including: “Was I also able to communicate with the entity?  Did he really receive my thoughts regarding her agitated state?”

One of the things I, myself, find revealing about these incidents chronicled in Puddy’s case concerns one of the declarations made by the voice in particular: “All of your tests will be negative.”  The issue of tests and testing would impress me as being important when considering some incidents of interaction where ‘unexplained phenomena’ are a factor although it is apparent that more are involved with revealing/teaching.  Furthermore, the customary expressions ‘auditory hallucination’ or ‘verbal hallucination’ seem to me to be obvious misnomers in connection to many incidents of ‘hearing voices’ and this is supported by what is recorded about the Maureen Puddy case.

Puddy’s comment that she contacted the media to avoid yet another UFO encounter in this case seems a sensible response; however, the usual association of voice hearing with schizophrenia and psychosis in news reports has become cliché to the extent that the perpetrator of a crime may use this excuse in an attempt for sympathy.

A recent article about the shooter in the Washington Navy Yard attack is representative of how reporters may focus on circumstances concerning voice hearing although another NBC News article about the shooter quoted a friend who said the shooter “felt a lot of discrimination and racism with white people especially . . . he felt slighted as a veteran . . . .”

 Mark Russell Bell     http://metaphysicalarticles.blogspot.co.nz

 

The Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy
by Judith Magee

These encounters occurred in 1972, but were never written up in our publications until the 1983 "Review". Maureen addressed one of our quarterly meetings in 1995 and was attentively accepted. It has been said by some 'researchers', who have never even met her, that her case was an 'abduction', but to Paul Norman and myself with whom she spoke at length, it would have been more like a form of mind control or hypnosis. Maureen had three odd experiences, all in 1972 and documented faithfully by VUFORS, but unfortunately not always by others.

Her story starts with a visit to the Royal Childrens' Hospital in Melbourne, where her son had been taken after an accident at school when a cupboard had fallen on him and broken his leg. He had been taken to the hospital by the "Angel of Mercy" Helicopter Air Ambulance Service.

While driving home from a visit to the boy on the 5th July, 1972, she called in at her mother's home for a cup of tea and a chat, leaving there at about 9.15 p.m., taking the shortcut along the Mooraduc Road from Frankston.

On this occasion, she saw a blue light reflected down over the car and thought it was the helicopter flying overhead, and may be trying to get a message to her, although how they could tell her car in the dark had not occurred to her, so thought she had better stop and see what they wanted. She had not bargained on what confronted her. A large circular object, like two saucers placed together, with one upside down - the usual "saucer" shape. The object was possibly, in her estimating, two telephone poles high, and would have spanned the strip of road 24 feet wide, also taking in the 'nature strip' on either side of the road, making the 'saucer' approximately 100 feet across.

Having already alighted from the car, she leaned back against it, took a long look at the object and wondered what it was she was seeing. The object's surface was smooth with no joins, welds, seams or rivets, no doors, windows or portholes and no wheels. The huge object was radiating a brilliant blue light all around - an intense glow - there was no movement, no wobbling or rotating, but a faint humming could be heard.

She must have noted all these things while wondering what sort of aircraft it was and before fear took over; at which time she quickly got back into her car and drove off as fast as she could, only to find the object was maintaining its position just above and behind the car. No matter how fast she travelled, the object seemed to remain at the same distance.

Aware that the blue light was no longer with her, and seeing a very bright light streaking off in the opposite direction, Mrs. Puddy realised the chase must be over. It had followed her for about eight miles!

The witness reported her sighting to the Police at Dromana, some family members and also some friends, who considered it all a bit of a joke, so she decided to say no more about it............. until about three weeks later.

Then on Tuesday 25th July, 1972, after having visited her son again, she followed a similar routine, a 'cuppa' with her mother enroute home, and left at almost the same time, about 9.15 p.m.

Maureen arrived at the Mooraduc Road, travelled on a short distance of about one mile, when the blue light appeared over her car once more. "Oh no! Not again!" she thought. "This time I'm not going to stop". She grabbed the steering wheel more determinedly and put her foot flat to the floor, but the car just drifted to a stop on the side of the road. No matter what she did the Holden would not reply to her demands. She was wondering "where do I go from here". Terrified, she gripped the wheel and looked out the windscreen to see the object hanging silently in the air above her car, the countryside bathed in blue light. Then a voice spoke to her, not audibly but in her head she said, as if words had been put into a computer and come out in the most beautifully modulated voice and perfect English she had ever heard. During this time she experienced a most unusual sensation. She said that 'if you could be in a vacuum' then she had been - Perfectly silent and still.

The message was: -
"Don't be afraid ... we mean you no harm…..your tests will be negative ... tell the Media (longer pause) you are now in control".

At that moment the car started up again as if she had turned the key. She sat there for a moment or two, then drove off as fast as she could.

She stopped at the same police station only to find it closed, then went to the next, still on her way home. She told the officer, "I want to make a report of a sighting of a flying saucer", "Oh yes, Madam", came the reply. She insisted, in fear and frustration, so the policeman humoured her and she had it recorded.

Next morning she 'phoned Laverton R.A.A.F. Station to ask if they could offer any explanation of what she had seen, to which they replied that it could not have been an aircraft or balloon as neither would have been in the area at the time; but don't say anything as it could cause panic. They would send her a questionnaire to complete, but when later asked about this told me, "you'd have to be an astronaut to understand it", and I believe she did not bother to return it.

Naturally, we questioned Maureen regarding her experience in the car. What did the messages mean? She said she had not had any recent tests done, but some about six months ago proved negative. There was no use telling her not to be afraid, she was terrified! As for telling the media: she 'phoned three of the four T.V. stations. One was mildly interested since they were showing "Chariots of the Gods". Two made light of her news, so she did not bother to contact the fourth. I heard through a radio talk-back program, which in desperation, she had contacted, because the UFO-nauts had said to contact the media and she did not want to see them again!!

At this stage I had not actually met Maureen, only spoken to her on the phone - for one hour - but when I invited her to address one of our meetings at the National Mutual Theatrette, she agreed, and kept the full-house spell-bound for about two hours. The hall was crowded, there were even people in the lobby listening through the speaker system - thoroughly fascinated!

During the question period that night, Mrs. Puddy was really 'put through her paces'. "Did she think what she saw was a psychic phenomenon?" "Did she suffer any burns or after effects?" To both these questions she answered "No". "Did she think there were any other witnesses?" She thought there must have been one at least, because as she was approaching a railway crossing, she saw a man with a torch, leading a cow up one of the side roads. Surely the UFO must have passed very close to him, but would have been going in the same direction. Later the man's wife contacted her and also a lady living on a ridge, not far from the highway, - both had seen the light!

The third experience, which was purely psychic, occurred about six months later.

One Wednesday, I received a 'phone call from a rather agitated Maureen Puddy, who said she had been trying contact VUFORS. Her story goes:

For some days she had been hearing a voice calling to her to "return to the meeting place". Believing she heard someone calling her name at the front door, she went to open it and her husband, who was an invalid in a wheel-chair, asked who it was, but there was no-one there! When she went shopping, she heard "Maureen, Maureen, return to the meeting place", and she looked around to find there was no one near. She felt she had to go to the meeting place but she was too scared to go alone, so I told her that Paul Norman and I would be available when she wished to go. With very little gentle persuasion she agreed to go that Wednesday evening.

Paul fuelled his car while I prepared a hot drink and some supper, for we didn't know whether or not we would be just sitting for most of the night and we would require some 'fuel' to keep us warm even though it was supposed to be summer.

I need not have been so apprehensive because the UFO-nauts had our evening all worked out for us. I had, over the 'phone to Maureen, described Paul's car and told her where we would meet her, opposite the electricity sub-station, where the road widens, at about 8.30 ~ 9 p.m. We were early and it was not yet dark so we could see Maureen's Holden station wagon when she arrived. She got out of her car and ran towards us saying she nearly "went off the road back there". I suggested she tell me about it as we drove to the meeting place.

Before going further I should perhaps add, that as I entered her car, I had the odd feeling that something was amiss, I was experiencing a tingling sensation (like that of a mild electric shock), which passed off quite quickly. Maureen then told me that in the centre of the front seat, between where the two of us sat, had appeared an entity completely clad in a type of gold foil suit. As she turned to look in his direction, she was so startled she almost ran off the road, It was quite obvious she was quite shocked by the eventful drive...

By this time we had reached the 'meeting place which was somewhat hidden from passing traffic by a few trees. We drew to a stop and Paul came to sit in the back seat of the station wagon while I stayed in the front with Maureen.

We were talking about the latest incident along the road, when suddenly, she grabbed my arm and pointed across her car, exclaiming: "There he is! Can't you see him?" and she shook my arm saying that I must be able to - I tried to explain to her that it was like closed circuit television - from him to her.

She said he was coming closer to the car, in fact, so close that if I put my arm out I could possibly touch him. He was now standing almost beside the front headlight, so I asked Paul to take a little walk around the car. As he came to where the entity was standing, the entity moved back to allow Paul to pass between him and the car. At this point the entity beckoned to Maureen to follow him, but she adamantly declared that she would not. I told her I'd go with her and tried to gently ease her out the car door, but she hung onto the steering wheel and would not budge.

The entity then became impatient when she would not follow and she became a trifle upset, He apparently disappeared behind bushes and she suddenly commenced describing the interior of the UFO. She told us that the entity was standing there pointing to a large "mushroom" like object in the centre of a large circular room. The centre object, which was taller than an average person, was a little like jelly, moving all the time; there were lines like those of Roman numerals around the lower portion. The top of the "mushroom" had lines on it and the whole thing seemed fixed to the floor. She was apparently looking around the room and became very agitated at this point, crying, "I can't get out! There are no doors or windows. I can't get out!" I put my arm around her shoulders in an attempt to calm her, and could feel tears on my hand. She was really upset and as I clearly visualised what Maureen was describing, I decided to direct my thoughts to the entity; nothing to lose and maybe something to gain - as I was very concerned about Maureen's state, I felt she may have had a nervous collapse or even a stroke. I silently requested he take pity on the poor girl and suddenly she said, "he wants me to close my eyes". I replied that she should do so and almost immediately I felt her relax as if in a trance.

Again she began to describe the interior of the object and once again became agitated when she could see no way out of the vehicle. After a brief period she "came back to us" and we switched on the car's interior lights and asked if she would care for a cup of tea from our thermos flask. I had just handed Maureen her cup when she said, "Oh, I'm back in there again", and repeated the description, but this time somewhat more calmly, before stating, "he's gone. This time he's really gone. I can tell. It feels different".

She now seemed quite normal, so we went on with our supper, discussing the "mushroom" and trying to identify it. I asked if it could have been a gyroscope, but Maureen was not apparently familiar with that term so "compass" was suggested. She picked off a little gadget from the dashboard of her car and to my amazement it was exactly what I had envisaged from her description of the "mushroom. A small compass on a suction cup. I had not seen one before or since.

We did not dare let her drive home alone, nor did she wish it, in case of a return visit from our 'friend', or nerves on her part. I drove in her car with her and Paul followed in his car. I believe it was between 10.30 and 11.00p.m. when we arrived at her home which was quite some distance away. We did not take particular note of the time, but it was fairly late.

Some thoughts on the third Puddy incident: -

1. Was I also able to communicate with the entity? Did he really receive my thoughts regarding her agitated state? If so, what thoughts can they receive from more important and 'delicate' situations than that particular one'? Can they transmit to us?
2. Have you ever watched a "fun" hypnotist at work? "When I snap my fingers, you will go into a deeper trance" etc. Was the second meeting (July 25th 1972) about which Maureen stated that while she was sitting in her car, just prior to the voice speaking to her, "that if you could be in a vacuum, then I have been in one" - such an incident? There was no sound, nothing moved, all was calm and quiet, then the voice delivered the message. Was this third incident due to the 'snapping of the fingers' when they urged her to act?

If this is so, how many people can they hypnotize, perhaps even in their sleep, so we react when "they" wish, whenever "they" 'snap' their fingers? I find this a very sobering thought.

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