A Hinckley family holidaying in the New Forest last week were shocked to read in a local paper about a Dorset family who had been abducted by a UFO in Hinckley. Mr. Paul Garner of Welwyn Road, Hinckley, picked up a copy of the Christchurch Advertiser, and the lead story featured a family who were at the M69 roundabout, in Hinckley, last October, (1993), when an “odd illuminated ball of mist, the size of a Transit van shot over the car from left to right”. The Dorset family were travelling to Nottingham when the close encounter happened. The family told the paper that they pulled onto the hard shoulder to watch the shape hovering over a pylon to their left. “Suddenly, at the edge, a bright white light came on, and other lights flicked on, forming a 100ft. circle that started to spin. Then, inside the mist, other lights flicked on, in a 40 ft. wide ring”, said the father of the un-named family. The man got out of his car to watch the object. As he turned to get back into his car, the object “whooshed” over 50 ft. Above the car and back again at phenomenal speed. According to the article, the object then began to follow his car and eventually left as they travelled around the roundabout. The family reported their sighting to Leicester Police, and their sighting was referred to a UFO ‘Expert’. (Unknown to LUFOIN). The paper goes on to report that both the man and his wife were later hypnotised, and said that they had been abducted by the UFO. The woman said ( under hypnosis), that she had seen “brown coloured humanoids, with large, hairless heads, big heads, big eyes, two holes instead of a nose and a slit for a mouth.”

Coincidentally, this report took place amid a week-long flurry of local Hinckley reports of a ‘gigantic twin circle of misty lights’ circling swiftly over the same area of sky during that particular time period, especially on Saturday nights. Local LUFOIN officers John Ratcliffe and Peter Oldham investigated the reports and identified the witnessed ‘UFOs’ as spotlight beams which were emanating from the rooftop of a nearby Hinckley nightclub.

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