I SAW LIGHTS AND LOST 15 MINUTES OF MY LIFE

Tuesday, 30th April, 1996 / posted May 12, 1996
Source: Daily Mail newspaper
When Elsie Oakenshaw saw brillient lights and a curious dumb-bell shaped object in the twighlight sky, she viewed it analytically. After all, Elsie was married to a Police Inspector. She knew he would demand a detailed description and dismiss it with a rational explanation.

Elsie saw the lights over the busy A5 towards Towcester on her familiar drive home from work.

On November 22, 1978 at 5.15pm, Elsie, then 49, drove with dipped lights from Daventry Teachers Centre, where she was head, to her home in the Northamptonshire village of Church Stowe. Then she saw two very bright lights: one red, one green, immediately above the A5 coming from an object in the sky unlike anything she had ever seen before. "It was grey and appeared to be made of very smooth plastic-type material", she said. "As I approached it I felt compelled to stop and find out more. I was completely intrigued."

Elsie recalls turning right into her village, putting her foot on the accelerator, and hearing no noise from the car engine. It seemed to be stopping.

She released the pedal again. Again the car faltered. Then, unaccountably, the engine burst into life and Elsie drove on for a further 100 yards, before stopping dead. And suddenly the half-light of dusk turned to absolute, impenetrable blackness. "Suddenly a brilliant white circle of light shone on the road. It lit up the road and I could see I had stopped beside a farm gate. Later I realised I had negotiated a right angle bend and travelled 100 yards without being in control of the car.

The light went off and the velvety blackness returned. Then another circle of light shone towards the left and went out. Lights continued to flash on and off in a semi circle. I counted 15, each light a pure white, perfect circle with no beams. Finally a last light shone in the garden of a cottage and went off. Again I sat in pitch blackness. Then, just as if someone had pressed a switch, the total blackness was replaced by the normal light of dusk. I did not turn the ignition key. I did not put the car into gear; I just found myself driving along normally. It was as if it had all happened by remote control."

When Elsie arrived home she realised her journey had taken double the usual time. What had happened during the 15 minutes she had lost - and why?

She can never know what happened during the lost minutes of her abduction, but says: "I feel it was a spiritual experience and I am very grateful. I feel privileged; singled out. Now it seems logical to me that we are not the only people within the universe." Elsie believes she developed a 'spiritual awareness' following her encounter and has discovered healing powers which she is convinced are related to it.

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