WILL WE EVER BE TOLD?
Wednesday, May 6th, 1996 / posted May 12, 1996
Source: Daily Mail newspaper
Letters Special
The Defence Ministry's denial that it has a section permanently
dedicated to studying UFO reports, and the Daily Mail's British
X-Files series, have tapped a rich source of experiences among those
who are aware of out-of-the-normal happenings all around us. Critical
readers may note that although these stories are more numerous than
one might think, they are also fairly homogenous and break down into
only a few recognisable types. Is this evidence of their human
reality, in the realm of the unconscious, or of their super-reality,
as aspects of another existence 'out there'?
Read on for some of the many stories you have sent to the Daily Mail:
Thirty years ago, as a ten year old boy living in Conisbrough South
Yorkshire, I saw a strange light in the twilight sky and felt a
strange tingling sensation go through my body. My parents and brother
saw it, too.
Several people in our street, including a family called Dainty, had
been watching the aerial spectacle for some time before from hills
above the town.
My parents told my elder brother Stephen to go into the house and
bring out the camera, a Kodak Instamatic, with the lens set for cloudy
conditions. Stephen took one photo but, strangely, not one object but
three appeared on the picture.
South Yorkshire has had its fair share of UFO sightings but that one
is its most famous, proven genuine by the top experts and Kodak
scientists, though there are many cover-ups and sceptics who have
caused our family much heartache and pain over the years.
This was a genuine UFO and it will always remain to me one of the best
British UFO sightings of the past 30 years.
Kevin Pratt,
Tamworth, Staffs.
Simply Powerless?
The Ministry of Defence would have been better advised to stick to the
habit of 50 years and keep its mouth shut rather than make an
'unprescedented statement' in RAF News that there's no evidence to
substantiate the existence of UFOs (Mail).
There's more evidence for their existence than would normally be
needed to convict a murderer in a court of law. My own experience
began in 1960 with a half-hour-long sighting of a glowing cigar shape
which hovered in the broad daylight of a March morning over the local
air weapons establishment, north of Portsmouth.
Two noisy RAF Meteor jets were scrambled from a nearby airbase,
whereon the object changed from horizontal to vertical and then
vanished, leaving the jets to stooge around vainly. In a quick phone
call to the airbase I was told I had seen neither the object nor the
jets.
This has remained the pattern throughout the succeeding years and has
failed to convince me that my experiences, about which there's nothing
vague, never happened. And there are thousands of similar reports from
people far more experiences than me. The lid is coming off this
phenomenon.
The things we've seen exposed lately which have caused an uproar and
threatened government stability are nothing to what's on the horizon.
The Ministry of Defence had representatives at the Bejing World
Conference on UFOs and space exploration not so long ago.
Can it be true that the U.S., UK and other world powers are
struggling to decide how to release the truth to the people, because
it would expose them as simply powerless?
Ernie Spears
Netley Abbey, Hants.
Red Alert
I served with the 2nd Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, as a
front-line soldier of the 51st Highland Division from January 1940 to
July 196. At that time I was to battle-hardened and trained in
observation to suffer from delusions.
We had been out of the line for a while, stationed in a small Belgian
village near Liege, when I saw a very strange object in the sky, about
the size of the setting sun.
I calculated it was about a quarter to half a mile away, fairly low
and travelling quiete slowly. I watched this red object for a few
minutes before it dissapeared from view behind some buildings. I
didn't know what it was and, to avoid ridicule from my fellow
soldiers, I kept quiet about it.
Many years later I was amazed to see references to to similar objects
in Harold F. Wilkin's book Flying Saucers On The Attack, which
detailed objects seen at the that time by British and American pilots.
They were christened 'FooFighters' and each of the opposing forces
thought they must be some secret enemy weapon.
P.McPhail,
Prestwick, Scotland.
Off My Guard
My story goes back to autumn 1943 when my battalion, the 2nd
Battalion the Somerset Light Infantry, the 13th of Foot, was
stationed on Gibralter.
That night, I was on guard duty on the drawbridge position, near
Europa Point, when over my shoulder I observed a bright light which
rose, steadied and moved again.
Helicopters were not unknown then, but no plane could move as this
did, suddenly changing direction, one second going left to right,
hovering and changing again, then making off or circling above the
rock as I stood there, completely transfixed.
I was so engrossed that I didn't think to call the guard. Suddenly the
thing, with it's bright light, took off southwest at a fantastic speed
and I called out my mates. No plane of the time was capable of
attaining that sort of speed, I would guess 2,000 or 3,000 miles per
hour.
By the time the guard came tumbling out of the wooden hut the flying
object was just a tiny bright blip in the sky over Africa. The rest of
the guard didn't believe me, but I know what I saw.
W.C. Fownes
Southampton, Hants
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