John Hanson's Haunted Skies series has turned up a few surprises and mainly because he has either spoken to witnesses and got facts directly from them (correcting what ufologists had written 2nd, 3rd or 4th hand) or they have spoken only to him about their encounter.
One such report came from a Mary Sinton. Details are as follows from the AOP B Entry:
UK June 1980 Torva, Cumbria
John Hanson Haunted Skies vol. 8 p. 103
Mary Sinton, owner of a B&B Farm, told Hanson about an encounter while on a camping holiday:
“I was with my boyfriend, Paul, at the time, and returning back to the campsite in our Hillman Imp car, along the A593, Ambleside to Coniston Road (Grid ref: Long 323, Lat 999/8, No. 7 English Lakes, SE area) As we turned a bend in the road, close to the campsite, I was astonished to see nine tall ‘figures’. Stood in a group of trees near the side of the road, caught in the glare of the spotlights fitted to the Hillman Imp I was travelling in.
“I estimated they were at least 7ft tall and identically dressed, wearing silver-white coloured helmets and body armour, carrying what looked like a rod, carried vertically in front of each of them –reminding me of a regiment of soldiers, stood to attention on the parade ground.
“As we drove past, I left it for a few seconds and then shouted out, in great excitement, ‘Did you see them, Paul?’ One look at his face confirmed he had, although, oddly, he had only seen one ‘figure’. When we arrived at the campsite, we felt very nervous and had trouble sleeping, wondering if anything else was going to happen.
“The next morning, we discussed what had happened and wondered whether we should let the police know but, on reflection, thought they would never believe us”.
Hanson spoke to Paul who confirmed the events given by Sinton. He told Hanson:
“It was the most unusual thing I have ever seen in my life. It defies explanation”.
Note that no UFO was sighted nor is there any suggestion that Mary or Paul thought "Aliens!" It is interesting that the behaviour of the duo after the sighting is not unusual in that neither could relax after what they had seen and were in fear of something else happening. I have heard the same thing from people who have observed "UFOs" close to -they are naturally nervous that something might happen as they may have seen something they were not supposed to.
Note also that the sighting was in 1980 and there had been similarly reported tall entities in silver outfits that went unpublicised.
There is no suggestion that these were 'ghosts' -I can't think of any reports of 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall ghosts. There is also the question of why Mary saw several yet Paul saw only one figure. It is possible that he only glimpsed one and that was enough -again, this is something noted in other shock situations -a person might just focus on one and state he/she saw one person in a criminal robbery yet 2-3 others report up to four gang members.
There is no indication of a time lapse as I called these reports before the term "missing time" became popular.
So what can we infer from this report? One person we could explain using any number of things. It is impossible to say Mary hallucinated and said nothing but that her hallucination caused Paul to hallucinate. Oh -owls? Not likely -not even luminous ones!
This is a perfect example of a one off sighting -of something "that happened and then you get on with your life":even if the memory sticks with you.
A pity there was no witness drawing of what was seen.
Haunted Skies is a highly recommended series well worth investing in
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