SP 338 935

The events of November 26^th., 1980 started at approximately 6.45 p.m., and ended almost 45 minutes later at approximately 7.30 p.m. Julia R. was in the kitchen of her home, (situated at the front of the house), doing housework, and preparing a meal, when her husband Paul, who was sitting in the living room, started to complain about the poor quality of the television reception. Thinking that the interference was due to the broadcasting company, Julia paid little attention to it and continued with her work. After a lapse of about 10 minutes however, Paul’s insistent comments concerning the worsening T.V. picture brought Julia out of the kitchen and into the living room at the rear of the house. As the couple continued to look at the fluctuating picture quality, Julia noted that the disturbance took the form of huge peaks of light moving upwards from the picture bottom to its top.

After the disturbance had been on the T.V. for about 15 minutes, Julia became aware of a humming noise, apparently coming from the direction of the back garden. She felt a strong compulsion to go out into the back garden and proceeded to do so. After closing the rear door, she turned to face the area where she thought the noise radiated from. It was as she turned that she noticed the garages and tree at the bottom of the garden were bathed in white light. Looking up she saw a circular object, yellow in colour, with a darker band or flange across its middle. “It looked like drawings you see of Saturn.” (exact quote). The humming appeared to be coming from somewhere close to the object which was rotating anti-clockwise through 360 degrees on its vertical axis.

As Julia watched the object , it moved downwards to an angular elevation of approximately 15 degrees and ceased to rotate. She noticed that the humming sound had also stopped, and at this point called for her Husband to come outside, which he refused to do.

After the object stopped spinning it seemed to oscillate, swaying slowly from side to side “ like a pendulum on a clock” - (quote). The swaying motion continued for about one to one and a half minutes until the object rose vertically into the sky and vanished from sight with a “tremendous burst of speed” - (quote). Julia estimated that the total time elapsed while the object was in sight was four to five minutes, and that the object was approximately three and a half inches at arm’s length, also that the object’s radiance lit the front of the large tree situated at the front of the garden.

As soon as the object moved upwards and vanished from her sight, Julia went back into the house. Paul was still in front of the T.V. and the disturbance was still noticeable. Julia was very shaken by what she had just witnessed and went through the house to get a drink. Whilst in the kitchen, she puzzled over what to tell Paul, and decided not to tell him for the moment and instead began to prepare meals for her cats. As she banged their feeding bowls the cats started to make their way to the kitchen.

At this point both Julia and Paul heard the loud humming again and this seemed to start at the same time as the cats started behaving strangely. This was noticeable as a panic stricken rush into hiding, as opposed to the leisurely way that the cats had been acting before the humming noise returned. Eventually, the humming sound ceased and the cats were persuaded to come out from their respective hiding places. After this, the T.V. disturbance continued for a period of approximately ten minutes before normal picture quality returned.

Both Julia and Paul watched T.V. for the rest of the evening, without any further disturbance. During this period it was noted that no apologies concerning poor picture quality, were announced by the broadcasting company.

The reason for this is the repeated and firm assertions by the witness that the object’s apparent radiance lit up the top limbs and the front of the large tree situated at the foot of the witness’s garden. If that was the case then the sighting was in a very confined area, and it seems highly unlikely that a powered, controlled craft would place itself in such jeopardy, by apparently approaching buildings and trees at night.