SOMETHING DID HAPPEN THAT NIGHT

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From:Doug Roberts
Title:SOMETHING DID HAPPEN THAT NIGHT
Source:TV Quick magazine
Date:January 13, 1996


Outside the nightclub, the three friends piled into the little car. Viv Hayward

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."