History of a Mystery: Fifty Years of the Warminster Thing

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As co-organiser of Weird ’09, he also praised the Athenaeum facilities but admitted that the town itself was ‘reticent’ about its UFO past. December 1980: A series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and objects in the sky, and the alleged landing of an extraterrestrial spacecraft occurred at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England on 26 December. It is perhaps the most famous UFO event to have happened in Britain, ranking amongst the best-known UFO events worldwide. [ citation needed] I have lived in Warminster all of my 22 years, and am yet to see anything - despite living pratically next door to cley hill!

January 1254: In St. Albans, England, a scribe wrote of a glowing floating light, thus recorded it, "...in serene sky and clear air, with stars shining and the Moon eight days old, there suddenly appeared in the sky a kind of large ship elegantly shaped, well equipped and of marvellous colour." [2] [ unreliable source?] May 1957: Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter – a USAF F-86D Sabre based at RAF Manston intercepted an object over East Anglia. [30]

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Some students of the Warminster enigma believe that Shuttlewood became so immersed in the whole concept, that logic went out of the window as far as he was concerned. Booth, Billy. "1974-Wales UFO Crash". About.com. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009 . Retrieved 29 October 2009. Arthur Shuttlewood reported in his book The Warminster Mystery: "The air was brazenly filled with a menacing sound. February 1994: a metallic disc-shaped object was filmed over Craigluscar Reservoir near Dunfermline in Scotland by Ian McPherson. [ citation needed]

From late spring (19 May) to early summer 1965: Many sightings of UFOs were seen in the Warminster area. Cley Hill, near to the town, has since been a place for frequent sightings. [34] [35] He said: “We are really proud of what we have achieved for the first event and we hope to make it a regular thing. August 1990 at around 21:00: a diamond object estimated to be 100 feet wide was seen and photographed by two men near Calvine, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was reported as hovering silently in place for 10 minutes before rising rapidly into the sky. [66] With mounting pressures on them and the local UFO researchers becoming more hostile towards the Fountain Centre, the publication of the Fountain Journal became more sporadic. Issue 11, dated only 1977, was the last to be published. But by the early 1970s, sightings of the Warminster “Thing” began to decline, and with them the number of curious visitors that had once swarmed the town. Even Shuttlewood, who had become a figurehead of the phenomenon, had retired from sky-watching due to ill health. With few sightings, no new books, and no one to guide would-be UFO spotters, interest in the Warminster “Thing” soon disappeared.January 2008: A large fleet of UFOs or "glowing Red Spheres" were seen over Liverpool heading east. [ citation needed] A photograph of a UFO over the area, taken by Gordon Faulkner in 1965, later turned out to be a hoax. Sightings and unexplained noises continued intermittently over the coming years, ranging from “a ball of crimson light” in the sky to a “terrible droning sound” that made the witness’s floor and bed shake. Interest in the mysterious phenomenon remained strong. In 1966, the BBC filmed Pie in the Sky, a documentary about the events. Shuttlewood penned several books on the subject, while a local UFO enthusiast named Ken Rogers began publishing The Warminster UFO newsletter.