Close
encounter with UFO near to RAF Cosford
Historically significant
sighting is revealed
By
Pat Regan, Southport author and researcher
Pat Regan, Southport author and researcher
I was recently contacted by a
lady called Judy Lugg. Judy had been reading my book, UFO:
The Search for Truth, and initially had not realised just how many
strange sightings there were. She went
on to present me with fascinating data regarding some historical British UFO
events.
Rather than put any opinions on
these sightings I shall simply report Judy’s words as they were given to me as
below. Over to Judy…
“My mother saw this and a more sane and honest person than she never lived. In about 1975 (not sure of the year exactly) she had taken the family dog, a medium sized bearded collie type, for her evening walk at 9pm. It was near midsummer being light until after 10pm. She nearly always followed the same route and did so that evening, down the avenue, turning left into the village road to walk under a railway bridge some 80 yards away, which leads straight up to the neighbouring village, having fields and a few houses on either side. These villages are in South Staffordshire. As she approached the bridge, the dog, Sally, sat down and began to tremble violently, started whining (something she never usually did), began to breathe and pant rapidly and absolutely refused to move in any direction - this was so unusual as Sally was the most biddable and gentle of dogs. My mother realised that there was something up ahead so dropped Sally's lead and went under the bridge, which was about 20 feet across, to see what was there. As she looked to the right, where there is a field, which is even now, almost always left fallow, she saw the most remarkable sight she had ever seen - the field is about 70 yards wide and probably goes back at least half a mile and in it, filling almost all of the width was what can only be described as an aluminium craft - it was circular, shaped like two dinner plates, the hollow sides meeting together with 'port-holes' at intervals around the centre. There appeared to be some form of light in these port-holes and the 'craft' seemed to be about 15 feet tall at its highest point. It was resting on what were described as 'struts'. There was no sound whatsoever and my mother stated that she was so absolutely amazed that she did not remember being frightened - just absolutely fascinated and what she could only describe as feeling privileged that she should see such a thing. She thought that she stood there for two or three minutes and as she stared, the craft began to revolve, at first slowly and then accelerated at enormous velocity, ascended and vanished towards the North East of Wolverhampton. It reflected the setting sun as it spun away. There was still no noise even when it accelerated. She did not go to look in the field at that time as she looked round and saw that Sally was still 'glued' to the spot and thought she had better take her home. Sally by this time was still in a very nervous state but allowed herself to be lead home at a very smart pace, obviously glad to leave the place. This is and was, at the time, a very quiet road and no traffic had used it during the relevant time. When my mother arrived home, my father commented that she had taken a long time for the walk that night and it was then realised that she may have been looking at this craft for a lot longer that she thought. The actual walk from the house to that spot takes about three minutes - she had been gone for almost forty-five minutes, whereas normally the walk would have been for about 25 minutes! The dog was rather 'nervy' when she reached the house and ever after would not go for a walk past that field. The next day my father and mother went to the field - there was no evidence whatsoever of anything unusual there - no marks on the ground indicating that a heavy object had been there- nothing at all; however, there were several reports of unusual objects being seen by various people in the Wolverhampton area on the night in question mentioned in the local media. I just wonder why Sally had not run away - could it have been that she did not want to leave her owner in danger? I just don't know - it's another of those intriguing, fascinating happenings which seem to be deemed to be forever a mystery. I have been told of other sightings in Staffordshire on that evening and at other times but have been unable to verify - however they were told to me by compos mentis folks who had no reasons to lie.”
“My mother saw this and a more sane and honest person than she never lived. In about 1975 (not sure of the year exactly) she had taken the family dog, a medium sized bearded collie type, for her evening walk at 9pm. It was near midsummer being light until after 10pm. She nearly always followed the same route and did so that evening, down the avenue, turning left into the village road to walk under a railway bridge some 80 yards away, which leads straight up to the neighbouring village, having fields and a few houses on either side. These villages are in South Staffordshire. As she approached the bridge, the dog, Sally, sat down and began to tremble violently, started whining (something she never usually did), began to breathe and pant rapidly and absolutely refused to move in any direction - this was so unusual as Sally was the most biddable and gentle of dogs. My mother realised that there was something up ahead so dropped Sally's lead and went under the bridge, which was about 20 feet across, to see what was there. As she looked to the right, where there is a field, which is even now, almost always left fallow, she saw the most remarkable sight she had ever seen - the field is about 70 yards wide and probably goes back at least half a mile and in it, filling almost all of the width was what can only be described as an aluminium craft - it was circular, shaped like two dinner plates, the hollow sides meeting together with 'port-holes' at intervals around the centre. There appeared to be some form of light in these port-holes and the 'craft' seemed to be about 15 feet tall at its highest point. It was resting on what were described as 'struts'. There was no sound whatsoever and my mother stated that she was so absolutely amazed that she did not remember being frightened - just absolutely fascinated and what she could only describe as feeling privileged that she should see such a thing. She thought that she stood there for two or three minutes and as she stared, the craft began to revolve, at first slowly and then accelerated at enormous velocity, ascended and vanished towards the North East of Wolverhampton. It reflected the setting sun as it spun away. There was still no noise even when it accelerated. She did not go to look in the field at that time as she looked round and saw that Sally was still 'glued' to the spot and thought she had better take her home. Sally by this time was still in a very nervous state but allowed herself to be lead home at a very smart pace, obviously glad to leave the place. This is and was, at the time, a very quiet road and no traffic had used it during the relevant time. When my mother arrived home, my father commented that she had taken a long time for the walk that night and it was then realised that she may have been looking at this craft for a lot longer that she thought. The actual walk from the house to that spot takes about three minutes - she had been gone for almost forty-five minutes, whereas normally the walk would have been for about 25 minutes! The dog was rather 'nervy' when she reached the house and ever after would not go for a walk past that field. The next day my father and mother went to the field - there was no evidence whatsoever of anything unusual there - no marks on the ground indicating that a heavy object had been there- nothing at all; however, there were several reports of unusual objects being seen by various people in the Wolverhampton area on the night in question mentioned in the local media. I just wonder why Sally had not run away - could it have been that she did not want to leave her owner in danger? I just don't know - it's another of those intriguing, fascinating happenings which seem to be deemed to be forever a mystery. I have been told of other sightings in Staffordshire on that evening and at other times but have been unable to verify - however they were told to me by compos mentis folks who had no reasons to lie.”
Judy later gave the exact location as… “Dam
Mill on the right-hand side of the Lane Green Road (going towards the
village of Bilbrook) just alongside the railway embankment. Post
code is WV8 near to Codsall, Staffordshire”
Interestingly, this location is not far away from
RAF Cosford. Could there be a connection?
Nick Pope, who had kindly presented the introduction for my
book, UFO: The Search for Truth has previously
reported on UFO activity at this UK military base.
“On 30 and 31 March 1993 there was a series of UFO sightings in
the UK involving over a hundred witnesses. Many of these were police
officers and military personnel. The UFO also flew directly over two RAF
bases”
RAF Cosford
‘The UFO was seen by a patrol of RAF Police based
at RAF Cosford. Their official police report (classified Police In
Confidence) stated that the UFO passed over the base "at great
velocity ... at an altitude of approximately 1000 feet". It described
two white lights with a faint red glow at the rear, with no engine noise being
heard. The RAF Police report also contained details of a number of
civilian UFO sightings that they had been made aware of in the course
of making enquiries with other military bases, civil airports and local
police.’
Although admittedly not quite at the RAF base, Judy’s UFO report was
somewhat earlier than Nick’s 1993 report, as she quoted hers from the mid-1970s.
Again, both UFOs were reported to fly off at great speed. Gut instinct tells me that this earlier
UFO report from Judy may be highly significant.
Judy continued with the following information…
Ball lightning – or something else entirely?
“This is a bit of a screed but has to be to explain what I saw on TWO occasions. I have looked everywhere on the web and in libraries etc., and have never been able to find anything about this whatsoever. I have been told that it was 'ball-lightning' BUT I have actually seen ball-lightning both in the UK and the USA where I lived for several years since the following occurrences and I can categorically say that it was NOT ball-lightning that I saw; on both the occasions in question; in any case, there was no stormy weather about and the weather was calm. In November 1972 at about 4pm I went into a back bedroom of my home, looked through the west facing window and noticed that it was calm clear late afternoon with the sun setting low in the sky. I turned away from the window towards my right and suddenly noticed, slowly revolving about to two feet above and about two feet in front of me a slowly revolving, brilliant sphere - it seemed to be a gold orb, about the size of a large orange; as it revolved it seemed to give off scintillating flashes as if it was covered in diamonds or other jewels. It was utterly silent and I just stood and looked at it as it was so astonishing and utterly beautiful; I was totally unafraid and had a distinct knowledge that whatever it was it would not hurt me - I just wondered what it was. I also was and still am, absolutely convinced that this 'phenomenon' was there to tell me something. As I stood watching it, after about two or three minutes, it just 'went' -that is the only thing I can say - one second it was there, the next it was gone! Exactly the same thing occurred in July 1978 but in a different house as we had moved by that time; it was about 7.50pm. and a calm fairly cloudy evening - I was looking through the north-east facing window of our living room and again noticed the object to my right about two feet above and two feet away from me. The same events occurred. On both occasions, I suffered no ill effects whatsoever, just been imbued with a great longing to know why it was there. I do also have to tell you, as I do not know if perhaps it may have some bearing on what you think, that I am psychic and have been since as far back as I can remember. Psychic in the way that I have often seen ‘dead’ people, have very accurate fore-knowledge of events sometimes and very often am able to tell people what they are thinking. I can also leave my body at will - I have always been able to do so and did not think anything of it until I was in my teens and read about 'psychic projection'. I hope you have heard of this before and can perhaps shed some light on it. I am still waiting for it to happen again as it was fascinating on both occasions. I’m now 72, so it had better get a move on! I have to say here that I know exactly what ball lightning looks like, having seen it several times in USA where I lived for a few years & also having our house struck by lightning in UK when I was 11 years old - actually this was a thunderbolt I think but I saw a huge glowing ball of white hot vapour follow the TV aerial into the back of the TV - didn't do that device much good, I have to say! I really do not think that it was ball lightning that I saw on these two occasions.”
Judy’s mention of a brilliant sphere that acted strangely is
one that sounded rather familiar to me. One example was the Skelmersdale
(Lancashire) UFO sighting. I explained at that time that it sounded
like reports I had heard of Ball lightning although this is a natural
phenomenon.
I also stated that the
actions described reminded me of the so-called ‘Foo Fights’ (strange balls of
light that whizzed around aircraft) of WW2 that frightened many pilots at that
time.
See this link for more details…
I wish to sincerely thank Judy for her amazing UFO accounts and I welcome any additional information from other witnesses.
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I lived in Cannock in the 1970's. It was there where I had a UFO experience that has stayed with me all of my life, in fact the older I get the more I think about it. I am fifty years old, and I was a child at the time.
ReplyDeleteIt happened , probably 1975 or 76. I had time to spare , so I walked over to the local green, to see if any of my friends were out playing. A main road ran Alongside of the green, the other side was the housing estate.
I recall that there were people about and noticed a couple on the other side of the road. I heard the man shout "what's that, can you see it?"
I looked up and saw an oval shaped craft in the sky, it seemed to hover momentarily and then moved silently and quickly towards me. It came really close,maybe 20 feet away. It's hard for me to say what size it was, maybe 30 feet vertical measurement.
I did not feel afraid, and I did not question, I just watched it !
After what must have been seconds, it flew away at a speed I cannot start to describe. It headed Northwards, in the direction of Hednesford Town.
It was a pewter grey colour, had a narrow slit running around its middle, could have been the windows!
I recall it had things sticking out from it, like probes or aerials, it's difficult for me to explain. What stuck out the most to me was the white symbols or characters, that were written on a part of the craft. They ran in a vertical arrangement.
It was so amazingly close and so tangible , the word UFO did not enter my head until it had disappeared.
I remember the couple across the road, shouting over to me, I recall a voice saying " what the fxxxx was that!"
If I were older I would have stayed around and spoken to the people who saw it with me, but I did not. Instead I ran home to mom and told her That a space ship had flown down to me, I described it and she said that it must have been one of those lol w flying Russian Satellites , I knew it was not.
It is so strange but I so wish I could see it again, I wish I could speak to the other people who saw it too, as I am sure people often listen in disbelief when I tell them of my experience.
I am aware now that there were U F O sightings at Cosford RAF base in the 1970's Cannock is approximately 15 - 20 miles away.
I moved to Hednesford in1977. My new friend on the estate said that her Dad had seen a UFO flying over the field to the back of the houses, and had reported it to the police. This may have corresponded with my UFO, as it flew towards that direction!
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Thanks very much for that UFO report.
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