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0:44

into the side of an Iron Age hill fort,

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and the ever mystical prehistoric monument

0:49

of Stonehenge, it can be hard to

0:51

stand out in Wiltsha. Back

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in nineteen sixty five, however, the

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town of Warminster gave it a could

0:57

try. Perhaps the lines

1:00

of it being an unusual place had always

1:02

been there. It is said that

1:04

Clay Hill, for example, a prominent

1:07

vantage point just to the west of the town,

1:09

was created by the devil after they

1:11

dug up a mound of earth to bury the nearby

1:14

town of Devizes. When

1:16

the devil decided in the end not to

1:18

bother, the mound was left behind.

1:22

Some also say the Golden Ram

1:24

of Satan, a supposed talisman

1:26

that once belonged to the devil, is

1:29

located inside, and that a triangular

1:31

network of tunnels built for an unknown

1:33

purpose lead from the cellar of

1:35

a nearby tavern directly into

1:37

the center of it. Once,

1:40

as writer Steve Dewey notes in his book

1:43

in Alien Heat, prominent

1:45

Warminster journalist Arthur Shuttlewood

1:47

wrote about the urban myth in a leading

1:49

paper, only for the owner of the pub

1:51

in question, the Royal Oak, to

1:53

then contact him with a peculiar

1:56

story of his own. There

1:58

was indeed a tunnel located under

2:00

the pub, he explained, but he'd

2:02

never given it much thought until then, when,

2:05

not long after the article was published, he

2:08

was apparently visited by a mysterious

2:10

stranger. When the tall,

2:12

thin man with fanatical dark

2:14

eyes, as he described him, asked

2:16

to see the tunnels, the landlord

2:19

kindly led him to the basement to inspect

2:21

them, at which point the man requested

2:23

permission to excavate behind a wall

2:25

that led to the tunnel. When the landlord

2:28

asked why, the man replied simply

2:30

that he needed access to Clay Hill to

2:32

reclaim the golden ram that was buried

2:35

underneath it. Upologist

2:39

John Cleary Baker had his own theory

2:41

about the hill, believing that somehow

2:43

an alien species had injected

2:45

a homing beacon into it so their

2:47

UFOs could be guided toward the area.

2:51

It was an idea borne out of the extraordinary

2:54

series of events that occurred in and

2:56

around Wominster in the mid nineteen sixties

3:00

that, without a doubt, for one of the most

3:02

bizarre and comprehensive UFO

3:04

flaps in British history. You're

3:07

listening to Unexplained, and

3:09

I am Richard McClean smith.

3:19

It had just gone six am on the morning

3:21

of December twenty fifth, nineteen sixty

3:23

five, when thirty three year old

3:26

Marjorie By stepped out of her front

3:28

door, her breath billowing

3:30

about her in the chilly morning air.

3:33

A boundless sea of stars glimmered

3:35

in the sky above as she pulled her

3:38

coat in and set off toward the

3:40

church, the heels of her shoes

3:42

echoing along the quiet, deserted streets

3:44

as she went. When

3:46

something caught her attention, like

3:49

a faint harm at first, it soon

3:51

morphed into an ominous crackling noise,

3:54

coming from somewhere in the distance, as

3:56

if a lorry were spreading grit nearby

3:59

only the one vehicles on the road. In

4:02

fact, Marjorie was completely alone

4:05

on those empty streets. But

4:08

as the sound drew nearer, she soon

4:10

realized it wasn't coming from down the road.

4:13

It was coming from somewhere above.

4:18

Marjorie looked up expectantly as

4:20

the sound moved closer, straining

4:22

for a glimpse of whatever was making the noise,

4:24

but saw only the stars above. Suddenly

4:28

gripped by fear, Marjorie could

4:30

only stand rooted to the spot as

4:33

the strange, menacing sound

4:35

passed right over her head, a

4:37

thunderous rattling, as if the very

4:39

air above her was being ripped apart,

4:42

until finally it was gone and

4:45

faded away into the night. With

4:48

her legs trembling, Marjorie

4:50

finally managed to place one foot in front

4:52

of the other and hurried on to the church

4:55

in desperate need of shelter. But

4:59

almost actly the same time, in

5:01

another part of the town, Roger

5:03

Rump, the town's postmaster, was

5:06

sat having breakfast in his kitchen when

5:08

he too became aware of a low hum.

5:12

Seconds later, he was cowering in his

5:14

own home when a terrifying clatter

5:16

rang out from somewhere above the house, sounding,

5:19

as he said later, as if the roof tiles

5:21

were being rattled about and plucked

5:23

off by some tremendous force. It

5:27

was followed moments later by a strange

5:29

scrambling sound, as if the same

5:31

tiles were then being hurriedly slammed

5:33

back into place. When

5:35

the disturbance was over, Roger

5:37

raced into the street, relieved to find

5:40

his house was still intact, but no

5:42

sign of whatever could have possibly caused

5:44

such a racket. And

5:46

there he stood in the quiet

5:48

of the early morning, scratching his

5:50

head, gazing up at the sky under

5:53

the soft light of all those many glimmering

5:56

stars. Over

6:04

the next few months, down at the offices

6:06

of the Warminster Journal on a market place,

6:09

the phone didn't stop ringing as

6:11

more and more residents called in to report

6:13

being terrorized by the strange, ominous

6:16

noise. Most calls

6:18

were directed to Arthur Shuttlewood, a

6:20

well known local journalist at the time. Though

6:23

originally from Essex, the forty

6:25

four year old Arthur had moved to Warminster

6:27

in nineteen forty to start work

6:29

at the Wiltshire Times. Arthur

6:32

moved to the Warminster Journal ten years later,

6:34

and having once served on the town's Urban

6:36

District Council, by nineteen sixty

6:38

five he was well established as a much

6:41

liked and trusted member of the community.

6:44

Arthur was immediately intrigued by the reports

6:47

and dedicated what time he could to collating

6:49

as much testimony as possible, but

6:51

as interesting as it all was, aside

6:53

from the frequency and similarity of the reports,

6:56

there was very little for him to sink his teeth

6:59

into. But all that was

7:01

about to change. At

7:04

some time around eleven p m. On the

7:06

night of March twenty eighth, local

7:08

resident Eric Payne left his girlfriend's

7:11

house in Sutton Veni, a small

7:13

village about a mile to the south of Warminster,

7:16

and set off on the short walk back to

7:18

town. Leaving the

7:20

pale sodium glow of the village street

7:22

lights, Eric stepped on

7:25

into the dark country lane ahead as

7:27

a thick fog began to roll in,

7:30

and before long it had completely

7:32

surrounded him, even blotting out

7:34

the sky above. As

7:37

Eric plowed on, he could just make

7:39

out the hazy lights of the next village

7:41

when he heard a whistling noise that steadily

7:44

grew into a loud buzzing like the

7:46

hum of electricity. Assuming

7:48

it was coming from a nearby telegraph pole,

7:51

Eric moved over to inspect it when

7:53

he sensed a dimming of the moonlight. Looking

7:56

up, he could just make out a small shadow

7:59

moved moving through the fog. Above him,

8:02

a vicious wind whipped across the road,

8:05

and then came the noise, like

8:08

nuts and bolts rattling around a tin can,

8:11

he later said, swirling all about

8:13

him. Eric

8:15

stood in terror as a strange sensation

8:18

of heat and pins and needles began

8:20

to build all over his body, followed

8:22

by a strange pressure from above. Unable

8:26

to resist it, Eric was horrified

8:28

to find himself being pushed to the ground

8:30

by an invisible force, onto his

8:32

hands and knees. With

8:34

the shrill whine of that hideous noise

8:37

buzzing in his ears, it was all he

8:39

could do to drag himself to the side of the

8:41

road and throw himself down

8:43

into the grass. And

8:45

then as quickly as it had begun, it

8:48

was gone. A deeply

8:51

shocked and rattled Eric dragged

8:53

himself to his feet and stood for

8:55

a moment in a daze, staring

8:57

in amusement at the trees by the side

8:59

of the road. Their tops

9:02

had been completely flattened. It

9:10

was Warminster resident Hilda Hebdage

9:13

who finally saw it first, a

9:16

cigar shaped object in the sky

9:18

over the forest of Long Leap, just to the

9:20

west of Warminster, that winked vivid

9:23

shades of gold and yellow. As

9:25

was recounted to Arthur Shuttlewood, Hilda

9:28

had apparently seen the object three times

9:30

before contacting a UFO group she

9:33

knew, who in turn passed on the information

9:35

to Arthur, each time hovering

9:37

for a moment, she said before shooting

9:40

off into the blue. It

9:42

was the beginning of Arthur's intense association

9:45

with the phenomenon, as he threw what weight

9:47

he had behind the reports. Then,

9:50

on June third, nineteen sixty six,

9:52

three separate sightings from completely

9:54

unrelated sources, the

9:57

Philips family in Haytesbury see a

9:59

brightly cigar shaped object

10:01

hanging in the sky, while Dora

10:04

and Harold Horlock, seeing it from their home

10:06

in Warminster, described it as

10:08

being like two red hot pokers

10:10

hanging downwards, one on top of the other,

10:13

with a black space in between them.

10:16

And At Sheer Water, a human made

10:18

lake about a mile south of Warminster,

10:21

resident Colinhampton was so distracted

10:24

by the bizarre object he saw that

10:26

he fell into the water. He

10:28

was just one of seventeen individuals

10:30

at the lake that day who claimed to

10:32

have seen it too. With

10:35

the number of sightings continuing to grow

10:37

throughout the summer, it was clear to

10:39

Arthur that something very peculiar indeed

10:42

was taking place in the area, with

10:44

what had first started out as an ominous,

10:46

unsettling sound now having

10:48

solidified into something else entirely.

10:52

The locals had a name for it too, the

10:54

Warminster Thing, and

10:57

perhaps with good reason, it was starting

11:00

to worry them. On the evening

11:02

of August seventeenth, David

11:04

Pinnell was at home on the Boreham Field

11:06

housing estate when a huge explosion

11:08

coming from the direction of Battlesbury to the

11:11

north sent him running from his property.

11:14

With the ground shaking beneath him.

11:16

Pinnell got out just in time to see

11:18

what he described as a monstrous

11:20

flame in the sky, shaped like

11:23

a light bulb, that bathed the hills

11:25

below in a soft orange light. Pinnell

11:28

had watched, mesmerized as this light

11:31

faded to reveal another yellow light,

11:33

surrounded by a huge ball of smoke that

11:36

floated down to the hills, cracking

11:38

and hissing as it came into contact with the

11:40

ground. Such

11:43

occurrences weren't entirely irregular,

11:45

since a British Army's school of infantry

11:48

was located only twenty miles away.

11:51

Pinnell was adamant, however, that not

11:53

only did this come from a completely different

11:55

direction, but it was unlike anything

11:57

he'd seen before. Keen

12:00

to investigate, Arthur Shuttlewood

12:02

got in touch with all military installations

12:04

within the vicinity, and all denied

12:07

it was anything to do with them.

12:16

By August nineteen sixty six, with

12:18

local nerves becoming increasingly frayed,

12:21

Emlyn Rees, chairman of Warminster

12:23

Urban District Council, took the extraordinary

12:26

move to call a town hall meeting in

12:28

the hope of getting to the bottom of it all. But

12:31

with news of the Warminster thing beginning

12:33

to spread far and wide, there was

12:35

no sign of the phenomenon abating anytime

12:38

soon. On the day

12:40

of the meeting, Reheese arrived at the

12:42

town hall staggered to find upwards

12:44

of three hundred people, many from

12:46

out of town, trying to cram inside

12:48

the building, with many spilling

12:50

out onto the streets. The

12:53

event was so oversubscribed that Reece

12:55

could barely get in himself. Inside,

12:59

onlookers bustled for space alongside

13:01

a dozen or so journalists, including

13:04

a TV crew from a national news agency,

13:06

as they all waited excitedly for the event

13:08

to begin. Finally,

13:11

with wreaths in place, he welcomed

13:13

up the first of six eyewitnesses

13:15

to give their accounts of what they'd seen. Among

13:19

them were Roger Rump, the town's postmaster,

13:22

and Rachel Atwell, another

13:24

Warminster resident, who only a few weeks

13:26

before had been stirred from sleep

13:28

in the early hours of the morning by a deep,

13:31

droning sound. When

13:33

she opened her eyes, she was shocked

13:35

to find the room was shaking. Following

13:38

the sound to the window, she looked

13:40

out to see a bright, dome shaped object

13:42

hanging in the sky about two hundred

13:45

yards away above a range of hills.

13:48

She watched it, she said, shaking

13:50

like a leaf for a good twenty five minutes

13:52

before it and the noise disappeared,

13:55

leaving her with the feeling of a tight band

13:57

of steel around her forehead and

14:00

a pounding in her ears. The

14:02

witnesses were joined by doctor John

14:04

Cleary Baker, evaluating officer

14:07

of the British UFO Research Association,

14:10

and doctor E. R. Dole, chairman

14:12

of the National UFO Association. Both

14:15

were quick to put the crowd at ease, imploring

14:18

that they should not feel afraid, but

14:20

rather privileged to be at the center of

14:22

such an extraordinary event. Both

14:25

men were convinced the town were dealing

14:27

with, as Cleary Baker put it, the

14:29

manifestation of an advanced technology,

14:32

undoubtedly piloted by alien beings.

14:36

At one point, Counselor Reese stopped

14:38

proceedings when he was given a telegram

14:40

to read out investigations

14:43

completed. Stop invasion

14:45

fears are unfounded. Stop. The

14:48

message had been sent by a doctor

14:50

who One

14:52

man who didn't attend the meeting was local

14:54

resident David Holton, an amateur

14:57

geologist. While carrying

14:59

out his own investigations along five

15:01

Ash Lane, a narrow road that

15:03

ran through a small patch of woodland just south

15:05

of Warminster, Halton discovered

15:08

a flock of dead pigeons scattered across

15:10

the road. The birds, according

15:12

to Halton, had died at the same time

15:14

as one of the occurrences of the terrifying noise

15:17

had been heard, causing him to speculate

15:19

but they'd been killed by the sonic interference.

15:23

Halton also claimed to have amassed evidence

15:25

of up to two hundred separate sightings

15:27

and accounts of the Warminster Thing, but

15:30

later burnt the dossier to preserve the

15:32

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15:35

ultimate hope was that his meeting might

15:37

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Arthur was in the offices at work when he received

17:12

the call. It was a young man

17:15

from Warminster in possession of an

17:17

incredible photograph. The

17:19

man, Gordon Faulkner, was

17:21

walking out of his house a few days previously

17:24

carrying a camera. He was planning to give to

17:26

his sister when he spotted it what

17:29

he first took to be a plane shooting

17:31

across the sky, but completely silent.

17:35

Without thinking, he grabbed a camera

17:37

and started to shoot. It

17:39

was only when the photo was developed, however,

17:42

that he saw clearly it was in fact

17:44

a sorcer shaped object. When

17:47

Arthur saw the picture for himself, he

17:49

was in no doubt as to what it was. Finally,

17:53

there was irrefutable proof. Without

17:56

delay, he traveled immediately to

17:58

the offices of national newspaper, The

18:00

Daily Mirror. They published

18:02

it the following day, along with Arthur's

18:05

supporting article, the biggest scoop

18:07

of his career, and

18:09

then four days later something

18:12

else. Around midnight,

18:15

on a quiet stretch of the A thirty eight

18:17

road, thirty two year old Kenneth

18:19

Kimberly is driving home from Bristol

18:22

when he spots a patch of mist up ahead,

18:25

approaching at speed. The moment

18:27

he enters it, the engine and light cut

18:29

out, suddenly bringing the car to

18:32

a quick stop by the side of the road.

18:35

Sitting alone in the pitch black of

18:38

amused, Kenneth tries the engine

18:40

again, unsuccessfully for the third

18:42

time. When the car is suddenly

18:44

bathed in light from above. Kenneth

18:48

is trying to see where the light is coming from

18:50

when he's bombarded by a terrifying,

18:52

shrill and guttural roar like

18:55

a jet engine. With

18:57

the back of the car now beginning to vibrate,

19:00

Kenneth pushes open the door and leaps

19:02

out, but no sooner. As he stepped

19:04

into the road, the lights and noise

19:07

completely disappear, leaving

19:09

him standing alone and trembling in

19:11

the dark, silent night. On

19:21

September twenty sixth, Arthur

19:23

Shuttlewood was at home when he received a phone

19:25

call from a mystery caller wanting

19:27

to discuss the sightings with him directly.

19:30

When Arthur suggested they meet at the office

19:32

of the Warminster Journal, the caller declined,

19:35

saying they needed to see him right away.

19:38

The caller's name, a Shuttlewoo would

19:40

later claim was carn and

19:43

they had come here from the planet Ainstria.

19:46

Assuming it, of course to be a hoax, Shuttlewood

19:49

joked that if they were really who they said they were,

19:52

he would like to meet them in person. So

19:54

it was with huge surprise when only moments

19:57

later there was a loud knock at the door

20:00

opening it, Arthur was greeted

20:02

by the apparent Khn, who,

20:04

although bearing a striking resemblance to a

20:06

human being, none the less,

20:09

had unusually small pupils and

20:11

oddly bluish cheeks and lips. As

20:14

Shuttlewood later wrote, the supposed

20:16

visitor came with a warning that he wished

20:19

Arthur to relay to the human race that

20:21

if humanity didn't change its ways immediately,

20:24

it would cause irreversible destruction

20:26

to itself and the planet. When

20:29

the visitor made their good byes after ten

20:31

minutes, Shuttlewood claimed he traced

20:34

the original call back to a location

20:36

near bore and Field, close to a

20:38

nearby army barracks. According

20:41

to Shuttlewood, he continued to

20:43

field calls from a number of representatives

20:45

of the planet of Ainstria throughout

20:47

September and October of nineteen sixty

20:49

five, never entirely sure if

20:51

it had been a hoax or not. But

20:54

what Shuttlewood wanted more than anything else

20:57

was to see the thing for himself, and

20:59

he wouldn't have long to wait. On

21:08

the afternoon of September eighteenth,

21:11

Arthur was at home finishing an article about

21:13

famed lion tamer Mary Chippenfield

21:16

when he went upstairs to grab a notebook

21:18

from his office. Stepping

21:20

into the room, he was distracted by

21:22

something outside the window, hovering under

21:24

the clouds, a white cigar

21:27

shaped object with a slight domed

21:29

protrusion the color of burned amber.

21:33

Arthur called down to his wife to bring up his

21:35

film camera, only to remember he

21:38

was alone in the house at the time. Returning

21:41

to the room moments later with camera in hand,

21:43

relieved to find the object was still there, he

21:46

quickly flipped off the lens cap and

21:48

proceeded to film it. But

21:51

as soon as he pressed record, as Arthur

21:53

would later recall, the camera

21:55

began stuttering and jumping about in his

21:57

hands. Then a sharp

21:59

pain gripped the entire left side

22:01

of his body, shooting up his arm

22:03

and face. When he was finally

22:05

able to try again, the object

22:08

had gone. Opening

22:10

the camera up, he found the film

22:12

uselessly coiled up inside, hoping

22:15

you might have caught something. Nonetheless, he

22:17

sent it away to be processed. Just

22:20

over twenty four feet of it was untouched,

22:22

while the other eight or so inches were

22:25

completely overexposed. In

22:28

the weeks following this apparent sighting, Shuttlewood

22:31

claimed he suffered from a partial paralysis

22:33

at the less side of his body and a weeping

22:36

eye that lasted two months. A

22:45

few miles away, on the night of October

22:47

seventh, Annabel Randall, a

22:49

confidential clerk for the War Department,

22:52

was driving with her fiance John Plowman,

22:54

towards Stockton from Warminster. It

22:57

had just gone eleven thirty pm.

22:59

A couple rounded the curve onto a railway

23:02

bridge when Annabel gasped at the

23:04

sight of what looked like a man slumped

23:06

against the pavement with his legs dangling

23:09

into the road. Pressing

23:11

hard on the brakes, Annabel brought

23:13

the car to a screeching halt as

23:15

she took a moment to collect herself. John

23:18

jumped out and sprinted back to the bridge,

23:21

only to find it completely deserted.

23:24

Having made a quick search of the area and

23:26

finding nothing untoward, a greatly

23:29

relieved John returned to the car

23:31

and the couple continued on their way, returning

23:35

later from the opposite direction. Annabell

23:37

was approaching the bridge for a second time that

23:40

night when she was distracted by

23:42

the glow of a large orange ball shaped

23:44

object to her right, moving close

23:46

to where the rail tracks trailed off. Just

23:49

then her car engine began to

23:52

sputter As the headlights flickered

23:54

and dimmed. With

23:56

the light growing brighter, Annabell

23:58

realized with horror that it was now

24:00

moving quickly toward her. Squinting

24:03

through the glare, she fought hard

24:06

to stop the car from careening off the road

24:08

when another object up ahead spun

24:10

suddenly into her path, But

24:12

as she braced for impact, the car's

24:15

engine cut out altogether, slowing

24:17

the car down just in time. Annabel

24:20

could only watch in complete disbelief as

24:23

the second object flew off quickly to

24:25

the right, shooting red and blue sparks

24:27

as it went, and leaving in its

24:29

wake what appeared to be two people

24:32

standing still in the middle of the road.

24:35

As she recounted later, they seemed

24:38

to be dressed in dark, tight fitting clothes

24:40

like scuba divers. Finding

24:43

her engine was then working properly again,

24:46

Annabel was just able to avoid hitting

24:48

the figures as she sped off back into

24:51

the night, relieved to put the bizarre

24:53

episode behind her. Over

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the next few years, Warminster's

25:04

reputation as a hotbed of UFO activity,

25:06

championed by the likes of Arthur Shuttlewood,

25:09

only continued to grow with no let

25:11

up in the rate of sightings. In

25:14

May nineteen sixty seven, Shuttlewood

25:16

published a book, The Warminster Mystery,

25:19

Astounding UFO Sightings, which

25:21

provided a comprehensive list of all known

25:23

sightings up to that point. By

25:25

then, the town had become inundated,

25:28

with skywatchers eager to catch a glimpse

25:30

of the thing, often camping out at

25:32

the top of Cradle and Clay Hills for days

25:34

on end. On one night

25:37

in nineteen sixty six, a team

25:39

of enthusiasts led by doctor John

25:41

Cleary Baker even attempted

25:43

to contact the apparent visitors using

25:45

storm lanterns in the shape of a triangle

25:47

in an effort to help guide them toward the area.

25:51

The sightings were so extensive that in nineteen

25:53

seventy one, local UFO

25:55

enthusiast Ken Rogers began

25:57

publishing Warminster's very own UFO

26:00

newsletter. This was followed

26:02

in late nineteen seventy five by the

26:04

opening of a dedicated UFO research

26:07

center run by wife and husband

26:09

team Jane and Peter Paget,

26:11

called the Fountain Center, which

26:13

also published its own newsletter. But

26:16

as the years went by, eventually

26:18

the sightings would start to dwindle, and

26:20

with them, so too did the town's enthusiasm

26:23

for any talk at the Warminster Thing, and

26:26

before long it was little more than

26:28

a bizarre footnote in the memories

26:30

of those who were there at the time. Shuttlewood

26:33

published two further books on the subject

26:36

and joined the editorial team of the Fountain

26:38

Center's newsletter for a short time in

26:40

nineteen seventy six, before leaving

26:42

shortly after. He died

26:45

in Warminster in nineteen ninety

26:47

six. Back

26:55

in nineteen sixty five, Roger

26:57

Houghton twenty three at the time was

26:59

a print worker employed by the same printing

27:02

press that published the Warminster Journal. Twenty

27:05

nine years later, in nineteen ninety

27:07

four, he finally came clean. The

27:10

apparent photo of the UFO, taken

27:12

by Gordon Faulkner, so heralded

27:15

by Arthur Shuttleworth and one that turned

27:17

a minor local story into intense

27:19

national news, was a fake.

27:23

He and his friend Gordon, who had made it as

27:25

a practical joke that too quickly got

27:27

out of hand after seeing

27:29

it published in a national newspaper. He

27:31

and Gordon had just been too scared at

27:33

the time to admit the truth. Then,

27:38

in two thousand and five, amateur

27:40

geologist David Holton also

27:42

came clean. His story about

27:44

pigeons mysteriously killed by sonic

27:46

interference had also been fabricated,

27:50

and yet there remained so many

27:53

events and sightings even before

27:55

Gordon Faulkner's photograph was published.

27:58

One individual who was there at the time, Kevin

28:01

Goodman, maintains a fantastic

28:03

archive relating to the period, which

28:05

you can find at UFO hyphen Warminster

28:08

dot co dot UK. As

28:10

you put it simply in a twenty ten article

28:12

on the subject, all I can say

28:15

is this something strange

28:17

did happen there? I know

28:20

for a time I was part of it.

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