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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