Antonio asked via email "was 1973 a big year for Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind in England?"
Okay, I assume he meant UK ~England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland~ rather than just England? The answer, looking at my files, is no. There were a few unusual cases that year but the best may have been hypnagogic percipients so if you rule those cases as well as known hoaxes,etc out...it was a dull year.
The problem is that statistics for that year, as with other years, may have given an incorrect overview. There are hoaxes, psycholog ical cases, misidentifications and even natural phenomena all mixed up and that gives an impression of a massive UFO wave. In some cases investigators spent days or weeks looking into LITS (Lights In The Sky) yet ignored (I am not joking: I have the files) a multiple witness landing of a "UFO" on a US highway that also involved an entity.
For the UK 1977~1980 was the highest period of reports. Below is the file for that period.
Again, a lot of these can be explained but the odd gem pops through that you can only explain if you prefer to adopt the "let's ignore the facts" ~the Bob Taylor, Livingston, case is one such. Dismissing Forensic Science Services test results in that case shows how dim some investigators are...but let's call it "Venus", heh?
Some cases in this file will be going into my new book, by the way. Some have never been published before and some are so obscure they featured in a news letter or info sheet and that was it. Forgotten. But a little work and you can add some extra detail not available at the time.
Research is never over and I still find snippets top add to old cases.
Okay, I assume he meant UK ~England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland~ rather than just England? The answer, looking at my files, is no. There were a few unusual cases that year but the best may have been hypnagogic percipients so if you rule those cases as well as known hoaxes,etc out...it was a dull year.
The problem is that statistics for that year, as with other years, may have given an incorrect overview. There are hoaxes, psycholog ical cases, misidentifications and even natural phenomena all mixed up and that gives an impression of a massive UFO wave. In some cases investigators spent days or weeks looking into LITS (Lights In The Sky) yet ignored (I am not joking: I have the files) a multiple witness landing of a "UFO" on a US highway that also involved an entity.
For the UK 1977~1980 was the highest period of reports. Below is the file for that period.
Some cases in this file will be going into my new book, by the way. Some have never been published before and some are so obscure they featured in a news letter or info sheet and that was it. Forgotten. But a little work and you can add some extra detail not available at the time.
Research is never over and I still find snippets top add to old cases.
