Taken from Earth: The Lost Contacts
Considering that I have highlighted so many failures in Ufology when it comes to on board experiences I thought that it was worth noting a case in which all that could possibly be done was but the experience is still lost. In fact, when it comes to the Linda Taylor case you will not find anything online as there was no detailed abduction experience recovered and, therefore, no money or views in it.
Above: Linda Taylor and Harry Harris (c)2024 respective copyright owner/ British UFO Archives
The main source for this report is John Hanson and Dawn Holloway’s Haunted Skies (vol. 9 1981-1986; pp. 148-149).
On the 10th January, 1982, Linda Taylor was driving along the East Lancashire road. It was 1900 hrs and in the rear seat of the car was her mother and up to that point it had been a normal journey. Then they spotted a strange “light” behind some trees that was performing strange zig-zagging movements before shooting up into the sky and disappearing. Linda’s car then began to oose speed and so she changed gear and put her foot down on the accelerator; the car began vibrating and the headlights flashed on and off.
A 1930s style black car then “appeared” in front of her own with its bumper almost touching her own car bumper. The car had no lights and no number plate that could be seen and as in such vehicles (in some cases the windows are small and square) there was a small, oval rear window. Linda stated:
“I could see the driver. He was a very large figure, with broad shoulders, dressed in dark clothing, with a bowler hat. ..my mother shouted, ‘Look out, we are going to crash into it’. I changed down into second gear, to avoid crashing into it, and opened the window, thinking to shout at bthe man, and saw a UFO covered in lights, each about five feet in diameter – all different colours. I screamed and put my head back inside the car. As I did that, the car in front vanished.”
Linda then pulled into a garage forecourt just before the M63 motorway and with her mother watched the huge “light” and as they watched the object began to circle the garage. Linda explained:
“It was as if time stood still. I am sure it circled us, three times, although my mum thought it was only once – then it stopped above a tree, made a quick movement, tilted, and began to vibrate, before rising up into the sky.”
As far as the duo was concerned it had just been a UFO sighting and Linda dropped her mother off at her home in Hulme and the drove back home. On arriving home and parking the car, Linda realised that it was almost an hour later than it should have been. She was very shaken and felt nausea as she knocked on the front door of her house. Her husband opened the door and, looking at her, thought Linda had been involved in an accident:
“I told him to phone my mother, to find out what had happened, and went straight to the toilet, where I was violently sick. I then noticed my legs were covered in strange black and red marks. They disappeared, the following day. I kept quiet about what had happened for 9 months, but after seeing a TV documentary about UFOs, contacted UFO researchers Michael Sachs and Harry Harris, who arranged for me to be hypnotically regressed.”
Here is where the Reader might expect to hear about Linda being placed on a table of sorts and examined by aliens of one type or another. In fact, despite hypnotic regression Linda could remember no more than is outlined here so I will look at this as an utter sceptic.
Linda and her mother were too busy watching the UFO (a misidentification) and did not see the car over take them and they then watched something else they perceived to be a UFO and neither can get the story straight on this – it circled three times ot once? Watching a UFO programme on TV Linda fell into the trap of believing that she had been abducted which is why she remembered nothing else under hypnosis. Even Ufologists have fallen into that trap and suddenly believed that they had life long abductions. File closed.
Now I will look at it based on what Linda recalled. Firstly, yes, it is possible that concentrating on the UFO meant that Linda had not noticed the car over-taking. A 1930s car on the road in 1982 would not be bizarre. I knew a couple of men who used to be car enthusiasts and restored “junk” 1930s cars as a hobby as well as for profit. In 2020 I watched an old 1930s Ford being driven along a road and it looked in immaculate condition and was not as loud as I thought it would be. The man wore a bowler hat; sorry, I can find nothing peculiar there especially if the person driving the car was into everything vintage as some people are. He looked big; these old cars are quite compact and if the person driving it is big built then nothing strange here. The car “disappeared” and here is where I think something may be unusual.
Linda and her mother had been watching the “light” so that may have distracted both of them into not noticing the car pulling in front. Remember that Linda wound down the car window to give the man a “red ear” but looked up and saw the large UFO and then screamed. Looking forward the old car was gone. This may well be when something happened which may or may not have involved the car in front and that would be pure wild speculation but if we look at this based on other cases.
Above: Linda Taylor on a 1990s Granada TV Missing Time Discussion programme (c)2024 respective copyright holder.
Possibility 1 is that it could be when Linda screamed that something happened and then they were both placed back in the car but later on and so the old car had simply continued its journey.
Possibility 2 is that when Linda screamed “something” was done to prepare the women (I can find no information on what her mother described) for what was about to happen; perhaps taking control of the car and both women so things were “slowed down” enough so that the other car was far enough away as its driver was of no interest.
In other words the women could have undergone an on board experience at that location.
Possibility 3 is that it was put into the minds of the two women to drive into the deserted garage forecourt to stop and watch the UFO. This is a strong possibility as otherwise it is unusual that a large object that had frightened both and made Linda scream when she saw it was considered something to stop and observe. Yes, it could have been curiosity getting the better of them but worth noting.
Possibility 4 is that the initial sighting and then the observation at the forecourt (where there seems to be some confusion) was merely “them” making sure their selection was the right one. Again, in UFO reports there are cases of UFOs being seen and moving in close to witnesses before a later on board event.
This gives us two possible points in the account where something may have happened; the road when the car overtook(?) and the garage forecourt. But there is Possibility 5 and that is that Linda and her mother did not have on board experiences but that Linda did on her journey home after dropping off her mother and when she was alone as her mother being older would be of no interest?. The nausea and shock is something noted in the aftermath of on board experiences and then we have the black and red markings that disappeared; again something noted following on board experiences.
It is obvious that the events of that night puzzled and concerned Linda. It may well be that following the TV programme on UFOs she was not convinced that she had been abducted but an investigation might provide answers or even an alternative solution. Harry Harris’ files are gone (we know where some are but we cannot access them) but even those would not provide any answers.
In this case Linda waited nine months until she learnt of a possible way to get at the truth as nothing had been recalled over that period. The hypnosis failed. No aliens, no medical examination or any of the usual recalled details. Linda’s car was, apparently, undamaged so she had not been in an accident after dropping her mother off. The dark markings indicate that something happened as does the shock and vomiting but just what is complete speculation and there are other seeming time loss reports where not even hypnosis can break through a mental block -pushing and pushing to break such a block is what got us the “Greys”.
I have no doubt that something did happen to at least Linda Taylor but if it has not been recalled after 42 years I doubt it ever will be. The debate might well be whether recalling what happened that night would be good for Linda Taylor?
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