From: | Doug Roberts |
Title: | SOMETHING DID HAPPEN THAT NIGHT |
Source: | TV Quick magazine |
Date: | January 13, 1996 |
was at the wheel, Rosemary Hawkins in the passenger seat and Val Walters in the
back. The woman had been on one of their regular nights out to Tiffany's
nightclub in Shrewsbury. They had a 12-mile trip home to Telford that would
take about 20 minutes.
"Oh, I'm tired," yawned Val. As they sped down the empty A5 through Shropshire,
Val began to doze. She woke and was dimly aware that they were approaching a
well known landmark, a hill called The Wrekin. But there was something else,
too. Bright lights, very bright and getting closer. She leaned forward. Viv and
Rosemary were staring, too. "What's that?" said Viv.
Ahead was an oval object, some 50 feet above the ground. Four blinding white
lights shone around it. Val could make out two red lights in the middle. The
car windows were open, but there was no noise.
"Keep up with it, Viv," Rosemary urged. "I want to get away from it..." said
Viv, terrified. She accelerated, but the car seemed to lose power. Then the
object seemed to jump to the side of the car.
Val blinked. She felt lost and disorientated as if everything was happening in
slow motion. She saw the object go up, then the lights dimmed. Seconds later,
it had gone.
The three woman sat in stunned silence. The car was still moving. Viv's hands
were trembling on the wheel. Finally, Val broke the silence: "Do you think we
should report it?" They looked at each other - who'd believe them? After a few
minutes discussion, they decided to drive onto Telford police station.
"I'll get the duty seargeant," a smirking constable said as he disappeared into
another room. The women heard gales of laughter. "We may as well go home," said
Rosemary glumly.
Back home, their families were sceptical. "Are you sure the three of you were
only drinking Coke?" asked Val's husband Steve.
The next day they met up. They were all convinced they'd seen a UFO. But
everyone they told took the mickey. A few months later, in desperation, Val
called the British UFO Research Association, which she'd read about in a
magazine.
The people there were very interested and sent an investigator. He asked them
to sit apart and draw what they had seen. All the drawings showed an ovel
shaped object, with lights on the bottom and what looked like windows around
the side.
As he questioned them, they realised it had taken them an hour to get from the
nightclub to the police station. It should have taken just 20 minutes. What had
happened during the lost time?
Someone suggested hypnosis might give them an answer and they agreed to give it
a try. The first session revealed very little but, two months later, they tried
again, this time with a different hypnotist. They were warned not to discuss
the events that night between sessions.
Rosemary described being in a room, alone. It was white and empty, apart from a
table. She described several robot like creatures looking at her. Her body was
bloated. She began to feel frightened.
Concerned because she was so distressed, the hypnotist brought her round.
Then it was Viv's turn. She described being taken into the UFO. Then she
started screaming. The aliens were holding her down and pulling at the bones
in her legs, she said. Viv was shaken and refused to have any more hypnosis.
Val and Rosemary returned, but Val was still unable to recall anything.
Desparate for answers she tried again on Christmas Eve 1982.
This time it was like reliving a dream. "I can see the lights," she murmured.
The car was stopping and the passenger door was open. There was no sign of
Rosemary, so Val got out to look for her. When she looked back, the car had
gone.
Suddenly something grabbed her. She had the feeling of being sucked into the
object hovering above. Then she was alone in a white room.
She heard shuffling. Two 'things' appeared by her side. They were about six
feet tall and looked quite human, with dark, shoulder length hair and piercing
blue eyes. They wore green robes.
They were looking at her clothes, feeling them, touching her skin. She felt
sheer terror...
The women all decided to stop the hypnotic regression. It was too scary. Their
story appeared in a national newspaper and they began to tire of the attention
- and the jokes. Viv refused to discuss it and Rosemary tried to put it all
behind her. But questions still nagged Val. And in November 1990 Val and
Rosemary tried again.
This time they were hypnotised together. As Rosemary told one part of the
story, Val continued it. Rosemary, now 40, still recalls everything she
experienced in the session.
"There was a black cloud," she says. "It smothered me. Val said that she got
out of the car to look for me. Then I had the same experience as before: my
body feeling bloated, the robots. I slid down a corridor."
"I know I passed where Viv was, but I couldn't turn my head. I heard her
scream. I was put on a bed and Val was next to me. Then these 'beings' stood
between us and communicated with us by holding the tops of our arms."
Val adds: "There was an overwhelming feeling of love when that happened. It was
like everything flowing into my mind, as though I knew everything at once."
"To start with, I was sceptical about the hypnosis. But the last session
changed my mind. What Rosemary said tied in with what I'd been saying. That
convinced me."
UFO researcher and lawyer Harry Harris says: "This is one of the best evidenced
abduction cases there is, because there were three witnesses. And the chances
of three people having the same fantasy is as likely as three people having the
same dream."
Whatever the woman saw that night, it changed their lives.
Viv Hayward now lives in Canada and has lost touch with the others. Val
Walters, a 39 year old mother of two, says: "Viv became quite eccentric and we
saw less and less of her. With me, the experience was a turning point. It
opened up my awareness."
Rosemary Hawkins, now a foster mother in Wales, says: "I don't know what
happened to us - whether it was a time slip, another dimension or something
from another planet. I just don't know. All I know is that something happened
to us that night."