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Tuesday, 20 September 2022

I delete posts after a certain time

 A repost to explain as I have been putting a lot of work in to translate and edit and people are stealing (ie publishing on their own sites without credit).

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Exactly what I said would happen months ago. Someone was not reading the posts properly, were they?

I post a feature such as a report or long general article and I leave it up for 48 hours, sometimes I leave it a little longer. When, after that time, I see only 10 or 12 people have checked it and there is no response or comment it gets reverted back to a draft. Reverting it back to a draft means that those info thieves online can stop stealing and using my original research work.

As I have noted before -in 2021, 2020 and 2019- I am not indulging info thieves. Some of the posts may well form chapters in later books and though the books might not sell they provide proof of who did all the work that was stolen online.

Imagine you work all week and then when its time for that pay cheque you are told "Charlie says he did the work so we are paying him."  All the hours you worked and the effort you put in and Charlie gets the credit (even though you have no idea who Charlie is) and the money and praise.  Unfair? Yep, but its an example of how internet thievery works. A couple weeks back I posted a long report and added in photos and maps -many months of research. By the next day that work was chopped up and used by three others who also added fake info that will now go as 'fact'. Lots of congrats on all the work and effort.

You see what I mean?

So I delete posts after a certain time.

Bill Herrmann's hypnotic regression concerning his 1978 UFO experience a...

Monday, 19 September 2022

20th November, 1968 Staffordshire



 

   One might assume that Ufologists in the UK knew of this old case, however, I have not come across one who does which is a pity. The Ufologists involved in this were N. M. H. Turner and W. Daniels and their report was published in Flying Saucer Review (“The Milakovic Report”, FSR vol. 15 no.1, January 1969: pp. 2-3).

   On the 20th November, 1968, a Yugoslavian couple, Milin and Doris Milakovic along with their son Slavic (11), were driving to their home of 432 Cannock Road, Hednesford, on a farm road across fields, near Hanbury, Staffordshire. Hednesford was described as “a rather small, drab town surrounded by mine workings and not far from the southern end of Cannock Chase.

   Trio had left Hednesford on a house-hunting trip, journeyed through the countryside to Rugeley, Abbots Bromley, and on the road home stopped at Hanbury to view Hanbury Hall, to look at an old house. They were on the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border, midway between Uttoxeter and Burton-on-Trent; there was an Army Central Workshop 3.5 miles to the northwest and a  Royal Air Force ammunition dump 2 miles to the northwest as well as a World War IT airfield used by the Ind Coope brewery firm for light aircraft 2 miles to the south.  The time was between 17:30 – 17:45 hrs and dusk was rapidly approaching.

 


   They first noticed a rabbit running away in the field on their left, then soon several more rabbits fleeing from a hedge on the left side of the road. They then noticed in the field on their left a brilliant object. It was at this point that Mr. Milakovic stopped the car to look at the object as it rose slowly and then flew above the car. All three had now left the car to watch the object and Doris noticed the air temperature felt much warmer as the object flew overhead and then decreased again as it flew away.

 

 Above a sketch made of the Milakovic object

   The object continued flying over the field to their right and then hovered over a house some 100 yards away; Doris specified that the object appeared to be as wide as the house below it.  Here the object quivered "like jelly" –possible heat haze? As for the shape of the object it had a dark bowl-shaped bottom with a clear dome on top. This dome was divided into vertical thirds – one third showing white light, one third, amber light, and the final third, green light.  Inside the lit dome area several humanoid figures were seen moving around and sometimes appeared to bend down as though looking at something below the rim. The trio observed all of this for an estimated 5 minutes.

   After that period of time the object began moving up in a "pulsating or jerky" movement; its light intensity greatly increased and Mr. Milakovic felt his eyes were burning. Mr. Milakovic, normally a brave man, became frightened and pushed both his wife and son into the car and drove away quickly.

   The object made no sound during the entire sighting. The wristwatches of the couple which had been working perfectly before the sighting had, afterwards, been running slow and it was suggested that they might have become magnetise. The Milakovic car was not tested for residual magnetism.  But there is, again, no chronology. We know roughly when the trio were in the car and that at some point they saw the rabbits which drew their attention to the object. There is an estimated 5 minutes of watching the object and entities within but no one seems to have asked at what time the family arrived home.  This could be important for certain reasons.

   Firstly, Mr Milakovic, when driving around with the investigators to find the house with what he thought was an aircraft hangar nearby could not find it. He seems to have become quite worked up over this and then claimed a certain spot to be the locale. He did not think it necessary to go back out with investigators again as he decided the place he picked was correct. Doris had pointed out a location with a house that she was sure was the site of the incident. It should be pointed out that on their journey before the sighting they had to stop and ask an elderly couple for directions. Mr Milakovic was certain the incident had taken place near an airfield.  Slavic would offer nothing as he did not wish to contradict his father.

   All of this confusion regarding location in itself could just be down to losing their way, though both were adamant on the sites they had pointed out.  We then have the second point to note. Mr Milakovic was described as being a fairly brave individual and he had been watching the object with his wife and son but, and only at this point, when the object moved away and the light from it increased and hurt his eyes (“felt as though his eyes were burning”) did he become “thoroughly alarmed”. Doris and Slavic felt a mixture of excitement, curiosity and apprehension. As they drove off the object was still over the field.

   Did more happen to the trio? We will never know because there appears never to have been a follow-up. There were reported threatening phone calls to keep away from the airfield and a group of students were supposed to turn up to take photographs and ask questions but never did.

 

 

Why Scientists Think They'll Find an Alien City Very Soon | Unveiled

Humanoid Encounters 1900-1929 : The Others Amongst Us by Albert Rosales

 




  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09FS2TR45
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (6 Aug. 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8548708656

The World's most amazing Humanoid encounter cases. 

The bizarre, real, global reports of; UFO occupants - Ultraterrestrials, Extraterrestrials, Intraterrestrials, Robots and more. Mysterious beings - Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Lightbeings, Skinwalkers and even stranger exotic humanoids. 

Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases.

Can I just say that the line "Albert S. Rosales is the world's leading expert on humanoid encounter cases" is absolute bull-poop. Firstly, not all the cases involve humanoid entities and really you need to investigate and research and even then you most certainly are not an "expert" -after almost 50 years I would never call myself an "expert". There is also the intro where Rosales calls out unnamed people for using his data uncredited. That is a huge pile of bull poop. and I will explain why.

Firstly, there are no investigations or case studies and this appears to be just a listing of known cases -a list you can find by going to the Hynek Center for UFO Studies and checking out Ted Bloecher and David F. Webb's Hum Cat index cards. Add a few cases such as you can find in many online sources and that's it. Aleister Crowley is on the cover and I looked twice and could not recall any account of his meeting humanoids (aliens etc). Well, the photo is again included in the book as someone one associated with Crowley is mention. uh-huh.

If you go the URE CAT (English and French version) you will find many of these reports (unless they are investigated and very few are investigated, you cannot call them cases) I know are fake, hoaxes and some are inaccurate which is why I gather as many sources as possible for my files. So calling out people who Rosales thinks took 'his' work (and it is available online anyway) is a tad rich.  Compiling a list of report summaries does not make you an expert on any subject let alone UFOs or CE3K/AE reports.

Now that I have disposed of the bull-shit let's look at the actual book. Typing the summaries up and compiling a book is work so even if some cases are not kosher (genuine) that deserves credit. What this series will be useful for is research and if you are looking up UFO sightings from 1900 or the 1920s and wonder whether there were any CE3K/AE reports from that period -open this book up and you can check. Never ever take it as 100% accurate but look at any reports and seek out other sources to see if they are consistent and always go back to the original source quoted. 

Hyperbole is part and parcel of selling and in publishing it is almost a must so I can look past that and the fact that no investigation or research is carried out and shown I can see these volumes as very useful for their reference sources as well as for adding cases you know of to it. I am about investigation and research so I may seem a tad harsh (people quote their "favourite tales" from the book like it is a collection of old fairy tales!) but that does not hide the fact that for reference this book is fine.

Will I be buying other volumes? Hmm. Possibly for a set of handy references (my files are far too bulky to keep pulling off the shelves!) so if you just want a collection of reports for a read or to base your own research on this is okay. 

The Watchers: The Secret Design behind UFO Abduction -Raymond E. Fowler

There are 386 pages in this book and to be honest I had only read through a few before I groaned. Fowler is a man who had the reputation of being a good old fashioned Ufologist who dug into cases until he solved them or they were left as unidentified.

Now I am beginning to wonder and re-assess.

Just how the whole Andreasson Affair as it is known stretched to so many books and won accolades I have no idea. I read the original book when it was published in...1979? At that time I thought the account was mind-blowing but I had concerns as things never sounded quite right -that dawned on me after the second reading.

Betty Andreasson (Luca after marrying another "abductee", Bob Luca) is a person with fundamental Christian beliefs -a little like Fowler. Normally a person's  faith is unimportant (some say that it is) but on reading the books it is evident that some aspects of Betty's experiences are tainted by those beliefs.  At one time this case was called "the best investigated abduction" but I am sorry to say that, in the abduction research, it can be called anything but.

Just as Dr Karla Turner's books are classic examples of how a rational person can be drawn into believing that they have undergone UFO abductions after no real interest in the subject so Fowler has provided us with a classic case of "Ufologist turned abductee". Investigating abduction claims can be mind blowing if you are not prepared and in Fowler's case he notes how even a standard CE3K would have been labelled as "crackpot claim" in the early days of his work. In the books we see him slowly stagger into the belief that he has been abducted from an early age and -as noted before- others do not verify things he believed happened when he was with them. Fowler also seems to put far more faith in hypnosis than he should have.

In this book, as with the previous ones, Fowler admits that he is totally blown away by the things Betty declares under hypnosis and how it indicates a technology we can only see as magical because it is beyond our understanding. We are led to one conclusion and hypothesis after another as Fowler tries to grasp just what is going on. At not one point, despite the incredible things Betty 'reveals', does Fowler even begin to question things. In fact he points out that he was basically on the edge of his seat waiting for the next taped hypnosis session to arrive in the post.

Now, whether Betty is prone to altered states -and some people (probably far more than we suspect) are- I do not know. The questions and study needed to ascertain this never seem to have been undertaken. To be fair, I do not think that the concept of altered states even entered the Ufology subject when this saga began. I was only made aware of it in the mid 1970s. Study the subject for yourself. A person can quite literally "zone out" in front of you and everything that happens to them in that state is real and happened. It actually did happen for them but did not happen for anyone else.

Again, I need to emphasise that this is not a mental illness. These people do not require locking up or referral for a psychiatric hospital. Their brains are active in a way that is normal for many people but not others. While some people see music in colours (synesthetes) others can see the world as numbers and equations. While some are highly literate others cannot be and suffer dyslexia and there are people with sharp mathematical minds  others suffer a numerical dyslexia known as dyscaculie. Musical geniuses and the tone deaf. Not everyone's minds work the same. We need to study how this all works far more and for UFOs and the "paranormal" I set out guidelines in UFO Contact?  

Think about the abductee who claimed to have started miscarrying a foetus and how the bathroom floor was covered in blood yet she got to a barn where she hid the hybrid foetus in a jar but then carried on normally. I've known women who have had premature births or lost babies in early pregnancy and they do not simply get up and on with the daily routine. And why did the abductees spouse not see all of the blood or his wife leavuing the house and bleeding profusely? The same reason an abductee claims to have had to go help the imbecilic alien hybrids hiding out on Earth to buy and move furniture and arrives home supposedly late but no one notices. The mind is a complex thing.

The problem with the Andreasson case is that hypnosis was used. Not in a sensible and measured way but with an almost cavalier manner. Because the hypnotist working with Fowler, Fred Max, could not make enough time for sessions and when Betty and Bob moved to Florida it was Bob who took over hypnosis sessions after Max implanted an hypnotic suggestion so that Betty could be regressed to the point covered in her last session. At this point I actually threw the book onto the floor. Bob had trained up with hypnosis and felt confident but let's make some points here:

(1)  Only a professionally qualified hypnotherapist should be employing regression hypnosis and here I am far from the way Max was using this.

(2)  Bob was not an experienced and qualified hypnotherapist and  without someone such as the investigator overseeing sessions and monitoring questioning this makes the sessions tainted.

(3)  Bob and Betty had discussed their UFO experiences and Bob was in his mind an "abductee" which makes his controlling the hypnosis sessions an extreme "no-no!" Do we ask bank robbers to investigate other bank robbers? The very idea that one person who claims to be a UFO abductee and who marries another claimed UFO abductee and that they discuss their experiences and he is put in charge of the regression hypnosis -that is almost unbelievable until you realise that you are talking about Ufology.

(4) Let's assume that Dr Leo Sprinkle was correct and that in some cases there may be a basic form of telepathy then where does that put us in this case? 

Even excluding telepathy this is on a par (almost) with David Jacobs and his phone sessions. Looking at it another way this could have been one big act with Betty and Bob deciding in advance what they were going to put on tape. As evidence those tapes are valueless. In fact, I think it can be safely said that the Andreasson books demonstrate that Dr Benjamin (who correctly used hypnosis on the Hills) and his worst fears were realised and that hypnosis was going to be misused and seen as a a tool to get unquestionable 'truth' from UFO percipients (again see UFO Contact?).

Looking at it from an investigation point of view the assertion is made that "so many people under hypnosis come up with the same descriptions and facts -so these have to all be genuine accounts!" No. People here or see TV shows and think "Odd. I'm sure that happened to me -does that mean....?" Waking up at various times naturally now becomes an "indicator of abduction" and "I have a scar and even my mother can't remember how I got it (30-40 years ago) -does that mean...?"  And time and again we read or hear "I was walking through the mall and I saw this alien face on the book cover and it struck a chord in my memory" -they buy the Streiber or Hopkins book with that image on the cover and start reading. After months or weeks at best, they contact a Ufologist who is told all the usual guff and he/she declares "Sounds like you are a UFO abductee" and I am sure that more than one sees a book or TV appearances coming up.  

There is a great deal of cross-contamination amongst alleged UFO abductees accounts and where things do not match no panic -we know Jacobs can put a twist on that and we have learnt that Hopkins "stacked the decks" to make things match. People read the Streiber, Hopkins, Jacobs and Fowler books to see whether they "might" be abductees and then you have the influence of TV shows. All of this gets into the memory and when the hypnotist says "Can you dig deeper and think of anything else about that incident?" in pops the appropriate false memory as 'fact'.

The hypnosis sessions with Andreasson spans the 1970s and into the 1980s (for this book published in 1990) and the number of sessions is something that any serious person should baulk at as the mind will build on one sessions revelations after another.  Hypnosis should only be used by someone who is fully qualified and only when it is necessary to help a possible percipient with something that is causing mental and or physical health issues. "Let's see...we had Part 1 then Part 2 so let's go for Part 3!" is not acceptable.

I do not think that Fowler deliberately exploited Andreasson and neither did he oversee the misuse of hypnosis. In fact he did not oversee the sessions carried out by Bob and he, like many Ufologists, fell into the false belief that regression hypnosis only revealed true events -hence he fell into the trap of self delusion -believing he is a UFO abductee- as well as false belief in that "aliens own our bodies and souls" and that we are so far beneath them technologically that we can do nothing and, possibly, maybe these are not extra-terrestrials. All based on jumping head first into a case he was not prepared for.

We have the first classic -Karla Turner then the second classic case of a Ufologist allowing himself to believe that he is a UFO abductee and the third classic; the Andreasson Affair where things started easily but soon spiralled out of control to the point where everything is abduction oriented. Turner, Fowler and Andreasson (as a case) should be must reading for anyone who is thinking of concentrating solely on CE3K/Alien Entity cases which are rarer than Ufologists would have you believe and the massive pop culture "Greys generational abduction of humans" has bogged the subject down for over three decades.

The book is fascinating reading but for the wrong reasons.

Sunday, 18 September 2022

1941 Kidderminster, Worcestershire

 Source: John Hanson, Haunted Skies Vol. 1, pp 26-27

 

“Alison Richards, a woman in her late 60s, whom we met on a number of occasions at her Kidderminster home.  We were accompanied by Phil Hoyle of the Shrewsbury UFO Group, a man who specialises in counselling women claiming to have been the subject of alien abduction experiences.

“Alison outlined her early childhood memories, from when she was aged between five and six.

“These included a series of bizarre, frightening experiences while living with her badly crippled mother in a tiny cottage lit by gas and candles…

“At the time her father, a soldier with the Ninth Army, was away fighting in North Africa, during 1941:

‘When Mum went to bed she had to bandage on a metal splint to her leg, as her only way of getting about was to hop.

‘It was always an unwritten rule that if I needed her, perhaps because of sickness, I would always go to her, except for when I had a visit from what I can only describe as ‘horse beings’, who always entered the room from out of the linen cupboard, next to the window over the stairs, when I would scream and shout for her.

‘By the time my Mum had reached the bedroom they had left via either the window, or the linen cupboard.

‘I kept telling Mum what I had seen.  She insisted horses could not physically get into the house, but I knew they were real because, on at least four occasions, they actually hurt me.  I would end up with flesh gouged out of my left leg on the shin bone, about the size of a five pence piece (Approx. 20mm). The injuries to my leg, (which always happened after the shortest one came into the room), frightened my mother.

‘She thought, to begin with, that I had caught the leg on a loose mattress wire on the bed spring.  She and a neighbour thoroughly checked the bed but could find no trace of what was causing these injuries to occur, always in the same place on the skin.’

Hanson notes:

“Sadly, Alison died in August 2008.  however, knowing her quite well, we wondered if the ‘horse entities’ she described had parallels with the small beings often described as ‘greys’. Whose role in abduction phenomena are well documented”.



THS:  The illustration accompanying this account clearly shows two ‘typical’ Greys so with no other description it has to be assumed that this is what Alison was referring to.  I do wonder with the mass of accounts of ‘demons’, ‘aliens’ and ghosts as well as many other evil things coming out of bedroom closets and cupboards in the UK and US how many people think of bricking them up.

The annoyance here is that we have “horse beings” as a description yet an illo of Greys who can in no way, shape or form be called horse-like. It is interesting that these encounters happened at night and that the entities vanished one way or another before Alison’s mother arrived –but in the abduction scenario we are told that people sleeping in the bed next to the abductee and in other rooms cannot be woken.

People, through diet or illness can develop leg sores –I know of two people (male) who have had these for years. It happens so even if we rule out self-inflicted wound there is still no evidence of this being caused by ‘aliens’.

Obviously we have no case history.  Any corroboration of strange events or even when Alison first contacted Phil Hoyle or what actions he took.

Conclusion: Repeated dreams or hypnagogic –she was awake enough by the time her mother arrived. Like so many cases nothing of interest unless one is interested in the number of ‘abductees’ who exhibit signs of hypnagogia.

1961-04-18: Joe Simonton Pancake Encounter

September 1977 Somerset

This account comes from the British UFO Research Association and, sadly, although they also published this on their website BUFORA appears to not want to discuss the case or whether there has been any follow-up since.

Kate Walker (pseudonym) and her family underwent two extraordinary events in September
of 1977 whilst travelling from Yeovil to Chard in Somerset. Mythology and folklore surrounds the particular area of Windwhistle Hill.  John Heptonstall conducted the investigations and research into this case and interviewed Kate. 

 Windwhistle Hill lies at the southern tip of Somerset and stands over 700 feet above sea level where two coastlines can be seen from the summit -the Bristol Channel and the English Channel. Made of sandstone, limestone and green sand it is a covered by woodlands of tall beech trees.
 
Whynne Hammond in Ten Somerset Mysteries notes the mysterious side of Windwhistle
named very aptly because of the winds whistling through the tall tree-tops.  Strange lights, sounds, figures and shapes and other unusual and eerie phenomena have been reported in the area. In fact Yeovil and other Somerset towns and villages know strange orbs of light as "The Devil's Eye". A witch is also said to haunt the area. Local news services have also reported on the area:
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/spooky-somerset-road-a-hotbed-6887653
 

 



 
In September, 1977, Kate Walker her husband and two young sons, aged seven and six years old were returning home to Chard from visiting relatives in Yeovil. They left Yeovil at 21:30hrs and were driving on the A30 approaching Windwhistle Hill, a couple of miles outside of Chard and a very isolated area.
 
As they came to the top of the hill Kate and her family all observed a huge orange light diffused by cloud, to their left-hand side and at the far end of Windwhistle Hill. It seemed to be right beside the road, not very high up, and was partially obscured by cloud, but they did not feel any alarm as there was a power station and pylons further along. However, as they drove nearer to the light, it was easier to observe and Kate states it was massive and totally static and very low and bright. She describes it as
being cigar shaped and vast in size, maybe 200-300 feet, and she estimates the light to be approximately 800-1000 feet above them. As they got closer she noticed that the pub on the right hand side of the road, The Windwhistle Inn , was almost in total darkness, except for a light in a small upstairs window.
 
Kate looked at her watch to check the time as she felt it was strange that the Inn was in darkness so early as it was very popular and she remembers wondering why it had closed so early. The time was 22:10hrs and Kate looked up again at the light, which was almost on top of them by now right beside the road. She felt very uneasy and told her husband to 'put his foot down' The next thing she was clearly aware of was seeing a cyclist's headlamp coming the other way, which seemed to appear from nowhere, and continued on the road to Crewkerne.

Above: visual

 
Upon arriving home Kate discovered, curiously, that it was now 22:50hrs. Their journey from Windwhistle Hill should have taken them only ten to fifteen minutes maximum, therefore she felt there were twenty-five to thirty minutes that appeared to be unaccounted for. As her husband did not remark on this possible time discrepancy, Kate just forgot about it, but on reflection finds this odd due to the fact that their journey from Windwhistle Hill should have only taken a maximum of fifteen to twenty minutes.
 
A few days after this puzzling incident, Kate and her family were once again making the journey back to Chard after visiting relatives, and as they were coming over the brow of the same hill, and about 200-300 yards from the first incident, they saw in front of them on the left hand verge, two people, one who appeared to be lying down, and the other standing. Their initial thoughts were that someone had been injured and went to slow down, when to their astonishment, the person standing took one step out
in front of them..one foot remained on the grass verge at the roadside and other foot was right over the centre of the road!
 


 
 
Kate describes the figure as being 'abnormally tall with legs that were horrendously long and thin'.
Her husband swerved to the far side of the road, and around the figure, and they kept on driving and did not look back. They all agreed that there was no one who could possibly have legs that long.
 
Kate fully expected to hear something about this in the local paper, maybe someone being injured or taken ill on Windwhistle Hill, but she never heard anything about an incident there at all. She has commented to me that it seems very odd in retrospect that they all took these events so calmly and just got on with their lives, and never discussed it at all.

 
This story becomes more significant eighteen years later, when Kate, now remarried and her sons now aged 25 and 26 years, were intriguingly finally discussing the events  of that night. The three of them were together talking about family holidays and the places they use to go together when Kate ask them both whether they recalled the orange light they had seen beside Windwhistle Hill. This generated a conversation on their personal recollections of this night.
 
Her eldest son, Jeff's recollections refute the fact that they had driven under the object. He can recall Kate telling his father to 'put his foot down', but says that as he did so 'the engine died, and the headlights went out'. His father started to panic and tried to restart the car, but nothing happened. He goes on to say that at this point things became very strange and everything was in slow motion. He recalls his father lunging across the front of the car to the passenger seat and at the same time there was a very deep, humming vibration, slow and rhythmic. The passenger door was open, but he comments that he couldn't understand why his Dad lunged across the passenger seat as he had no recollection of his mother being in the passenger seat and all memory of her had gone. He then remembers his father punching the dashboard repeatedly, but everything was still in slow motion with no sound. He felt frightened and turned to ensure his younger brother was okay but Tony was looking out of the side window and seemed excited, but Jeff didn't know why, and his father was pointing and obviously shouting, but Jeff could not hear any sound and somehow things were different. He then realised his father was looking past him
out of the back window and was terrified. Tony was kneeling on the back seat looking out of the rear window and pointing at something saying "Look Jeff, look Jeff" and although Jeff could now hear him speak… his lips and movements were again in slow motion.
 
Jeff then realised that there was something behind the car and felt almost paralysed by terror. He put his head down and covered his face and then for some reason said he had no memory of Tony either in the same way as he had no memory of his mother, Kate. He felt there was only himself and his father in the car. He could then see a white light through his fingers so he looked up and the light was everywhere, inside and outside of the car. It was a very bright white light and he describes it as … like being inside lightning,… but it didn't hurt his eyes.


above: visual
 
His last memory is of seeing a dark shape outside the car, beside the window. He describes it as being very tall and bending toward the window looking in, and having the impression that the shape was human, although he knew it wasn't, which was the reason he was so afraid. Jeff's next memory is of looking back at the orange light and seeing the 'headlamp' coming towards them only a few yards away and he remembers saying 'where's he come from'. He then looked back and the orange light had gone. He
explains that initially he only remembered seeing the orange light, the cigar shape, feeling and  hearing  the hum and vibration.
 
Through the years fragmented memories of that night have returned, but as no one talked about it he felt he shouldn't mention it. He also recalls just after the incident that boys at his school were talking about strange sightings at Windwhistle Hill. Geoff's vague recollections of the incident are that he did lock the car door when his mother told him to and that he never looked behind, but can recollect knowing there were five black figures. He also feels, in his own words, that "all four of us were taken" and that when something looked in at him through his window, it was his turn to 'go'. This, Kate, emphasises is not just a feeling, but a conviction.
 
 
Geoff goes on to say that he seemed to recall these events more clearly in 1996 when he, his brother and Kate were finally talking about this incident. They were all surprised to find that they had varying memories of the event, except for their observation of the huge orange light and the time discrepancy
I would like to conclude this with Kate's comments in her letter to me where she writes;" I find it incredible thinking about it now, all these years later, that we could have dismissed it so casually at the time . We just never discussed it and life went on as usual. It has been a great relief to tell someone".
 
Robert Moore conducted research into this particular area in order to establish whether similar cases have been documented there. There were, apparently (though BUFORA could not supply any details) observations of unusual lights and an entity over a ten year period at Cricket Malherbie which is within 3km north west of Windwhistle Hill.
 
A newspaper article in the Yeovil Weekly News generated a number of unusual reports from around this area, some of which I would like to mention here.

Witness A tells of a strange incident experienced by her husband, grandson and herself in 1991, which involved what they perceived as a tall strange figure, which they claim was looking through the farm window followed a few days later by their observations of a 'saucer-shaped object.
 
Witness B tells of a similar experience to the Walker family on Windwhistle Hill in 1975, which happened to her mother and father (now deceased).

Witness C tells of a strange experience on Windwhistle Hill whilst driving a lorry either in 1976 or 1977. He claims that his lorry went out of control as though by some strange force. This took place over a distance of about 100 yards or so and then he seemed to recover normal control. He felt as though the lorry was hovering over the road whilst he was experiencing this.
 
Witness D. tells how she and her husband observed a very large unidentified object, silver and shaped like a humming top, near Windwhistle Hill in November 1959. They watched it as though 'hypnotised' from about 23.00 to 09.00 hrs the next morning and for some reason felt unable to tell anyone.

Witness E. was employed by Westland Helcopters at the time of Kate Walker's sightings and feels that the light she saw was probably a Sea King Helicopter, sporting a Nitesun beam, on trials.
 
Astronomical information would be speculative particularly since Kate cannot remember the date of the sighting just that it was late summer and probably September.

Another sighting of an unsual flying object was observed on 12th September 1977 as recorded by the Chard, Ilminster, Axminster Newspaper. This was described by the witness as an orange glow, fairly high in the sky and moving quite fast from West to South. This may or may not be important in establishing a date for the Walker family's sighting, as this sighting may not be related to their own observations but Kate is convinced that this would indeed have been the date of their sighting, particularly as her son Geoff remembers that this occurred a few days after his return to school following the summer holidays. In fact the 12th September sightings sounds like the one I investigated and the complete report was lost by BHUFORA along with others I forwarded.
 

BUFORA offered the possible explanation that power lines in the area created electromagnetic fields and these were responsible for the memories of this night "due to their effects upon the human brain as highlighted by Albert Budden's research. Could this interface be responsible for this family's
perceptions of these extraordinary experiences?"
 
John Heptonstall interviewed Kate and her son Jeff in 1997 and in his report he writes:

"This explanation cannot be ruled out if the transmitters were there in 1977. It could
certainly explain other strange experiences people have had locally. For example
Witness C's lorry being taken over and the very subtle effects an EMF event could
have on his brain activity as well as an effect on the motor and some types of ignition
systems being more susceptible to EMF events than others. I do not believe that EMF 
effects will explain most of the unusual events witnesses have recorded. For example, 
the Walker case would be more difficult to explain as EMF hallucination although not 
impossible".
 
 
BUFORA: "It is obviously becoming more and more apparent that we need to understand the
functions of memory and memory retrieval in a much more comprehensive way in
order to realise the fallibility of accurate memory retrieval specifically in relation to
an understanding of these inexplicable experiences.

"This is of course, significant and it is interesting that eighteen years later aspects of
the incident were specifically remembered in this way by Kate's eldest son, Geoff. At
the time of the incident Kate remembered only some odd things, such as the pub being
in darkness except for a light in an upstairs room. Geoff remembers this as being the
same colour as the orange light on the hill. Kate also remembers feeling something
was wrong and asking her husband to put his foot down. Furthermore, she feels that
there was something strange about the time involved in driving from Windwhistle to
their home in Chard. Kate's sister recalls vividly that Kate specifically commented to
their Mother about this incident remarking on the unusual orange light and the time
discrepancy. The younger brother, now in his twenties, did not wish to participate in
the interview with John Heptonstall as he only really remembered seeing the huge
orange light. Furthermore, he did not experience the same sensations about this
incident as Kate and Jeff."
 
BUFORA also notes that:

"Kate's vague recollections when discussed eighteen years on were not evident for her
immediately afterwards, but during their conversation Kate found she had vague
memories and a dreamlike recollection of:
 
The engine cutting out
Screaming at the boys to lock their car doors
Something looking through her side window
Five black figures walking up to the car from behind
Her husband lunging to grab her and to pull her back, and then nothing."

Kate told BUFORA that the car was not stopped in the remote area because far from suspecting an accident had taken place she knew something was wrong -hence the car being swerved to avoid the figures.

 
Two to three months after their discussion and with these recollections on her mind
Kate contacted BUFORA and telephoned BUFORA in the summer of 1996.
 
John Heptonstall conducted his interview with Kate and her eldest son in 1997 and
documented this interview in a subsequent report to BUFORA. It is unfortunate that
Kate and her family have had no contact with her ex husband so he certainly
is not aware that Kate has contacted BUFORA. Furthermore, this is a sensitive family
matter and therefore it is unlikely that a BUFORA investigator could talk with him at
any future date in order to obtain corroboration and his version of events. However,
Kate hopes that at some stage she may be able to talk with her ex-husband about the
events that night, which would possibly add some vital information and create some
further understanding of the Walker family's experiences during both nights. John
comments too that something happened which caused both fear and concern for the
family.
 
BUFORA seems to grasp at straws to try to find a "rational" explanation and the organisation appears to be far more "It's never aliens" since the late 1980s and although I adopt a sceptical approach it is still open minded and I've had no contact with BUFORA higher ups who believe in anything other than psychological, misperception etc as a solution. 

A sceptical open mind is what these reports require as well as a lot of time and patience to get at, as far as possible, what happened.
 



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