BUFORA Bulletin2 No.09 Mar 1999

28 Pages·1999·8.3 MB·English

otirttal 0f lhe Drilish U[0 fusrarlr Assotialion
lsr Fhls Isswe:
The Daventry Event.
What happened at Leeds?
A quick guide te lFOs.
Sighting Statistics.
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BUFORA BULLETIN No. 9.
March 1999.
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Contents
Page
1996 BI'FORA UI.O STAIISTICS 3-4
5-6
TTFO NEI'S
IEE DAVENTRY EVENI; A PERSOIIAL PERSPECTM 7-13
I,ETTERS PAGE (S) 1{-15
TEE IiEmS IIICIDENI (Part 2) L6-22
A GT'IDE TO IFO9 23-26
SddE ITEMS OF IIIIIEREST.-. 21
EVENTS & 1999 A.G.M NOTICE 2A
BUFOEA SIGHNilG
'TATISNCS:
INTRODUCTION: Figures for 1996:
It has been quite a while since BUFORA l: to date, 95 sightings have been
has issued UFO report statistics. lndeed, il registered to date;
has become very rare for rny contemporary Breakdown:
UFO society to issue such tiguresl On an IFO'g: -
official level, both the USAF and the MoD lnsuff: TOol' (66) 87%'
issued yearly case stalistics, relating to 20% (1e)
number of sightinqs per annum, thek causes "lntarocting":1006 (r0) - lto/".
and the number of "unknowns". However,
neither agency releases such detailed figures ' Total Leaa "lnaufr roports: (i.o
anymore, and have not done so for almost adjulLd total ol 76 roports).
three decades!
2: The vast majority of sightings are
Therefore, it falls on the shoulders of explicable in terms of natural phenomena;
civilian researchers to collate such figures. lhe figure arrived at (70ih - adjusted to
Despite the lack of cunent interest in this 87% when "insufficient lntormation"
aspect ot ufology, it is nonelheless a very vital events removed) being very close to olher
part of this subject. There will alway! be a past data-samples.
need to know how many sightings were made
in a yea., and (more importantly) what caused 3: Main activity in this sample was during
the explicable ones. Furthermore, v're Sep-Dec, with an eadier peak in larch.
obviously need to know how many "true UFO"
events occu.red per annum, and also the ,l:
Most events occurred at around 19;00
trends exhibited by these "unknowns". and 20:00 hrs
leastA in b raesgica rcdosl latoti ounf oolof gsyu c-h cfaignu roensl y- baet 5of: IAFOirc reavfet ntytse rien t'h19e9 m6 ost common cause
regarded as a "snapshot" of the dataset, fo.
the time the various data-sets lvere
6: Laser Light displays were lhe 2nd most
assembled. Quite a few UFO reports are commonest cause of IFO events in 1996.
discovered retrospectively. and some get re-
evalualed over time. Some UFO .eports -
7: Astronomical bodies; stars, planets and
especially "high strangeness" events - can meteors we,e the third and foudh most
take many years to investigate.
common cause of IFO events resp€c-tively
(the second most common cause. When
With ihat in mind, lel us now look at one combined, Laser Displays then become
set of preliminary data covering the year the third most common case of IFO
1996. BUFORA'S Director of lnvestigations
evenls.
currently working on a more extensive set ot
data. which will be presented in the BUFORA 8: A notable number ot events (5 no.)
EULLETIN later this year. involved "bedroom visitof' experiences;
these are likely to be explicable in te,ms ot
hypnagogicJhypnapompic hallucinations.
9:
Of the 10 reports deemed "interesting"
50% were of "tlying triangles'. Discs &
other traditional shapes are nonetheless
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stillbeing reported. Discs remain the 1996 lFOs:
most common "non triangle" form Prob. +po.!. %
dr"edepistoeprrltaemcdie.n dAe"t itofht hise" rfs lttyoairgnmegs itotr ifa iUsnF gdOleiSfts,i c"o urhl taa vrteoe 1863 === ALSatisarecrr/ rPLaliagfnth.et sts. (((11984) )) 221731 22617/0o%/A.
tmtbhhaeaeimlnr emg. l yoTs reehb€n ee'.lri niaognn glsyl eet"h€n i nshgia ntph eacdto ncU aFunOn cSbt eiao tsnea iwndo il!ih s, 452111 =:=== MHMHBao€tialalseuxlcc/loSoa.urn osba(jnt?.eio cs)nt i.sv "e ((( (7532151)) 2) 107473...6 .555017743%o%%'h
1996: tlonlh of lightings: '1 = RMe-iexnetryd 1 1.52"1o
Jan: 2 Jul: 6 1 = Arrship 1 1.52'/o
Feb: 4 Aug: 4 = 152Vo
Mar: 9 Sep:14 Total = 66 100%
Apr. 2 Oct: 13
JMuany: 61 Nov: 13 ''Projecled" explanatonsi lull case examnation
Dec: 21 ne€dedi but mosl lrkely solulton bas€d on
antormaton to hand.
'1996: Timo (24 h. clock) :- "all "bedroom visilo/' exper€nces
01 13
023 3 1400 'l996 "lnteresting" RePortE.
030 15 Th€ term "interesling" is used lo show the
04 1620 "populataon" of polcntially anomalous reports
050 1 173 pre6€nt within lhis sample. A luller repo.t on
the rctual slalus ot these events will be
063 18
3 pr6sent6d in the AUFO'iA BULLETIN in due
o078 1 2109 9 course. Th€ events in queslion are
09 1 21 15 summarised belowi
4
10 01 223 1996 "lntereating" reports:
11 235 DATE NNE LOCATION FORT
12 1 002 4 Jan ? Clwyd,Wales 2 Gold dlscs
1
7 Mar 21 05 M5 Glos FT AC near
mrss
6l repo.6 had a listed tame; 16 Mar 01 00 Ktkhaven,
Plus, two other time-specification groups; W Yorks Darh form+l€hts
1: "nighf' stated 15 no. 21 Aug ? Sudbury.Sutfolk rumbled/hovered
2: l{o limo 19 no.
1 Nov Nght Pelerborough/
Wrsbech Tnangle
"lnt resting" cases (Pos8ible UFO9):
No. 3 Nov 01 00 Hallbank.Cumbna Gteen ball
Shape & entily"
4: "Flyrng Triangles".' 40olo 4 Dec 20 45 M54. Nr
2 = "DasC'. 200/0 Wolverhamplon Trlangle+plllai'
2=
"Unclear" 20%
= '13 D€c 2l l7 EdrnbLrrqh.Scotlnd Drscllrghls
2 "Globe" 200/0 erralrc mollon
t0 100"/" 16 Dec 20 10 A4ST.Abe.wyslwylh r,rangle.
'chased by
lornado a/cs
shape tao rt iaalncg tteig hitss , as oc osmotmdoo no itll ulhseosroy 26 Dec 20 30 ETyunllee y& E WyPeaars s Gdelfotnbeed relldge
couldba convantional aircranl
I
tt's'
Betty Cash Dies. APRO MICROFILM LOCATED
Betty Cash, one of three people injured Jan Aldrich
in a UFO close encounter near Huffman,
Texas, on December 29, 1980, died on the PROJECT 19,|7 announced in Dec€mber
29th December. 1998 in Birmingham, '1998 ihe recovery of a large portion ot the
Alabama, on the 18th anniversary oI this microtilmed files ol the Aerial Phenomena
event She had been in poo. health evet since Research Organisation (APRO), the first world-
lhe encounter. wide civilian UFO group to be organased.
Betty Cash, along with Vickio Landrum The APRO files have been inaccessible
and grandson Colby Landlum, encountered a lo researchers for over a decade since lhe
huge diamond-shaped UFO accompanied by demise ol the organisation following the
military helicopters on a dark road in the east deaths of founders Cotal Lorenzen in 1988
Texas Piney Woods. They were exposed to and Jim Lorenzen in 1986. The mictofilm was
radiation ftom the object, which caused localed lhrough the courtesy ot Brad Sparks'
extreme medical problems such as burns, eye long time UFO researchet and lormer APRO
damaqe, hair loss, diarrhoea' and vomiting. assistant ditec{ot of research.
Although they and others observed a large
numbei ol military helicopters along with the Founded in '1952 and already menlioned
UFO, the U.S. Governmenl refused to menacingly by the CIA Roberlson Panel in
acknowledge the event or assist them in any January i953, APRO collected UFO data from
all over the wotld during its neady four
decades of exisience.
After the encounter, Betty Cash was
hospitahsed and treated lor burns and the APRO had an extensive UFO
other maladies. The extent of the iniunes was invesligative network with tepresentatives in
so oreat. she was forced to close het more than 50 countries, especially in South
br-rsiiesses and never worked again Her life America. ln the 1970's with the aid ol a small
its
became a series of hospital stays, many of grant APRO began microlilming UFO
them in inlensive care. sighting files.
Eventually, she developed canaer' which As many as three separate microfilm
was successfully treated. ln November 1998' reels are thouqht to exist. The first microfilm
Mrs. Cash suffered a stroke. on December .oll contains reports from ancient times lo
29, during her recovery, an unusual turn of December 1956. The second microfilm
events claimed her life. conlains reports |tom December 1956 to 1962'
The third microlilm (thought to exist by a
Mrs. Cash was a hero in the light against number of p€ople but yet to be conlirmed)
oovernment UFO cover-ups and brought hope evidenily covered 1962 io 1966.
io other victrms of UFO rncidents She was
devoted to family and friends and never The APRO material has very litile overlap
allowed her illness to prevent her from helping or duolication with the UFO files of the old
others to cope wilh the trauma of UFO close National lnvestigations Committee on Aerial
encounters Phenomena (NICAP) and the Civilian Saucer
lntelliqence (CSl New York)' now incorporated
MUTUAL UFO NETWORK wrth lhe files of the Centre for IJFO Studies
December 30, 1998 (cuFos).
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ln regards to lhe microfilm, it contains engineer Mr. Juan A. FernAndez Peris from
more than 1,000 pages of repo.ts from Valencia (Spain) lor his outstanding report
ordinary citizens, pilots, the military and others. solving the mystery ot the November 11, 1979
tMhaen Ay PoRt Oth eBsuel leretipno ortrs t$h,ee teL on.eont zpeunbsl'i sbhoeodk sin. OUFnO l heantc oduantleet, o tvheer tchree wM eodfi taer raconmeamne rsceiaal
Southwest Microlilms of El Paso, Texas' ai.plane tlying en route from Majorca to
produced lhe APRO file mrcrolilm and Ten€rile sighied two strange lights in lhe sky
exercis€d great care to assure legibility ol the This event provoked an emeJgency landing in
maierial. A seatch for copiss of the othet the Manis€s airport, Valencia.
microfilm teels continues. Several former
AcoPnnReOct ioont fwicitiha ltsh eh saevaerc hb.een contacted in pesetTash eo r" UUnSiv e$rs 1ita,0s0"0 )F, ewllohwicshh iips (1p5a0r,li0a0ll0y
sponsored by the Washington, D C -based
This recovered APRO microfilm now iorns Fund lor UFO Roaearch, lvent to Mr. J M
a library of more than 400 microfilm rolls which Gonz6lez to compile and catalogue ihe
contain official and private material on UFO'S. massive, lifeiong letlet exchange legacy from
Proiect 1947 ate now zaroing in on the APRO Manuel Osuoa, piooeer Spanish ufologist.
microlilm frles lor 1957 to 1962. A long time
UFO researcher has promis€d it to us if his The "Cuadernos do Utologia" Award
eltorts to locale it bear fruit. wCaes ngtraroot edd eto MEr.s Ptueddrioo sR eldn6ten'r pplraenseidteanrito osf
(Barcelona), in recognition tor having devoted
Project t9a7 cont ct dotailE: lhree decades to the serious study ot
http Jrwww.iufog.orgrprojectl 947.
P- O. Bor 391, C.nterburv, CT 06331' USA unidentilied fl ying obiects.
The Anomaly Foundation is a not-for-
prolit organisation approved in 1997 by the
Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture lt
was established to promote mainstream
SPANISH ANOMALY scientific investigation of anomalous aerial
FOUNDATION AWARDS
phenomena or UFOS.
HESSDALEN PRO'ECT.
ANOIALY FOUNDATION' SP.in. Fo. 1999 (in addation to normal aclivities
at
of the Foundation aimed tracing and
The Board of Directors of the spanish managing archives, publishing the influential
Anomaly Found.lion has granted ll.. E ing journal Cuadttnos da Ufotogia, books, etc)'
Strand (Norway), directot of the Hessdalen ii has created a 100,000 pesetas Research
Proiect, the 1998 lnternational Zurrch Prize, Fund to provide aid to lield investigations of
sponsored by Zurlch lnsurance Company with UFO sightings. There will be 1999 editions for
250,000 peselas (US $1,670) Mr Strand lhe international Zurich prize and the
heads a scientilic tesearch team that has universitas fellowship as well.
developed high-tech equipment for the optical
recoading on real time and specttographic Amongst the research in Progtess
analysis ot unusual aerial phenomena presently promoted by the Foundalion' it is
occurring in the NoMegian tegion ot worth noting the assignment lo Mr Marti Flo,
Hessdalen. trom Barcelona University to develop a
computer database applied to bibliography
The "Ricardo Caruncho" Prize of citalions on UFO phenomena in the scientific
100,000 pesetas has been granted to literature-
THE DAVENTRY EVENT:
A PERSONAL PERSPEGTIVE
Elsie Oakensen.
lelt a tightening sensation around my head
lntroduction.
and thought I was going to faint. Now whal
The lollowing is the personal account ol was I to do? How embarrassing it would be if
E sie Oatenson, rclaling her (now well- I did. Summing up the situation I thought that
known) November 1978 "Close Encountef'. if this happened it would cause less fuss if it
lJnlike mosl othe( UFO w,ttesses, Elsie has happened in the restautant than if I fainted in
never been afraid to openly discuss her lhe slreet. So I sat still wondering whal had
experience (aither among Ulologists or the caused it and vrhether I had ealen something
generalpublic). which had disagreed with me.
Etsie Oakensen had been a lull-lime It was as if a band of material had been
teacher since 1948, and had lived in lhe put across my forehead and around my head
Church Stowe, Nodhamptonshi@ area since and was being pulled tighter and tighter. I'd
1973. At the time ot hor 1978 sighling her had many types ot headache before, I was
husband (John) was a Police lnspeclor . Mrs. used to them, but I had not experienced
Oakensen herself wo'i/.€d al a 'Teachefs anylhing like this. lt was certainly not a
Centre", where she was lBsponsibla for migraine, I knew that. This was all round my
afianging school courses. sha was also head and just above my eyes, a completely
invotved in helping young unemployed people new type to me. I did wonder if anyone else
conducl research inlo educalional subiects, was feeling as I did. I looked around but they
as pad of the (then) Govemment's Job wele all enioying their meal and lhe
Creation Scheme. we ioln Etsie Oakenren @nversation going with it, so I did not ask. I
on tha 22nd Novambe4 1978: the daY of was mainly woriod fot myself as I did not
har encounter axpsrisnca, want to be an embarrassmenl to anyone
there. Suddenly ii stopped as surprisingly as
THE ENCOU'{TER . PRELUDE: it had started.
1978O lnw tohev em omtnyin wg aoyt tthher o2u2gnhd aN ogvreomupb eorf The pain which had lasted lor only about
a minute had disappear€d completely and no
pTah.eeyn tws esrtea nwdaintgch oinugts tidhee itt hceh isldcrheono li ng atthee. odinsceo meflosret. sDeuerimnge dth itso ti mhea vthee nyootuicnegd m manY
playground before the school day began and had been in the cloaktoom, so I paid the bill
as I edged my way through io the Centre I and saad nothing to him. We returned to the
was sure lhat all was well with the wotld. The Centre in a happy and relaxed frame of mind,
wweaayt hteor wwoarsk tIin eh,a dth eta ksekyn bmluye caanrd i notno tthhee tfaolrk inthg ea bfuoutut rhei s- naewn dio tbh ean idn chidise nprto sinpe cthtse
garage lor a service. On arrival. I heard that restaurant slipped completely from my mird.
one young man had been successful in The.e was no way at that time that I could
obtaining a permanent posl. What more could possibly have known lhat it was to have a
I want? .elevance lo something which would happen
So completely unaware of what lay later that same day.
ahead, I suggested that at lunchtime hwiel Afier the day,s duties were complete I
should have a Chinese meal to celebrale but ohonJ-ru t u"i"'nO to t"tt ttir l was leaving.
good fortune. This was.most.enioyable, [Vf f,"O tfft" iv"i", whereby if he were not
as we were preparing to leave lhe restauranl I
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on duty that phone call indicated lhat lt was the windscreen.
time lo put the vegetables on to cook as my
lourney would take about fifteen minutes I knew that in the time I had belore I
During the day my car had been delivered to drove directly underneath it I would have to
me at the Centre and at 5.15 p.m. I was collect as much information as I could about
rsady lo leave. There were no in-seryrcg it. After all, I reasoned with myself, lwas
training cou6es fot teachets that day so I maried to a Police lnspector and they are
gathered up my belongings and locked lhe neve. satislied with only hall the facts. I would
p,emises, then walked to the car and checked have to give a very detailed description when
the lights. The lefr hand lront side-light was I recounted this particular incident.
not functioning. lt had been a lovely day and
wispy grey clouds wete jusl app€aring in lhe I looked hard at it ln the darkening sky
blue sky so, djiving on dipped hoadlights' I I could see a torm which I would describe as
started my journey home. a dumb-bell shaped aerial object with a
brilliant red light under the left sphere and an
THE ENCOUNTER : equally brilliant green light under lhe other' lt
The section along lhe A45 trom was grey in colour, blending in well with the
tDraafvtiecn ltirgyh tws aast Wqueieted ounn eI vtuernntefudl raignhdt oant tihhee gitr eayp pweisaprey dc ltoou dbse a mccaudmeu loatli nag vaebroyv es mit oaonthd
A5 to lravel towards Towcester. Ahead of me plastic-typs material.
I could see two very bright lights, one rd and
one green, immediately above the road along the rToahids. 'athnindg 'w waass ecsotnimsiadteerda bllya tewri dtoer hthaaven
which I was to Itavel.
been about ffty leet in length and a hundred
msouosnt M bzeoy oa im mve moryve eldoriwa mt-eiyy it nhhgoe uaagdirch. rlBa twut atw sthh ielchrhea w lw oteuhrlieds taoopp pearno inhagucsnh dearden dyi twa hIn edct oefu ilatlydn dfse eIe etf e anltbo oc owvmein pidteo llweAds sot orI
baunidld imnges aonnd eiat cshe esmideed o lfo twhe e rnooaudg hb ettow ecreans hat ssttoilpl isa)n da fvinedry obuut smy otrreu,n bku rto tahde. Alc5o wualds (haenadr
itnotldo tmheymse fa ntod pthuel nm lya nfodo ot nd otowpn ohla trhde o cna trh' eI dnroothvein gim umneudsiaulaell ya tu nthdaetln peaartthic uitla. r Htaimd eth aonsde
acc€leralor pedal. With a bit of luck I would two lights been over a lield to the right or left
gel under rt betore it ctashed and slill be alive of the A5 I doubt it I would have taken any
to tell th€ tale when I afiived home. But it was notice but they were directly above the road
of no use. There was a lol of traffic on the A5 just belote the lay-by at the bottom of Stowe
at that lime of day and strangely it sgemed as Hi[.
if everything had gone into slow motion. That
crash seemed inevitable but lor some Now, coming up to that point there were
speedy decisions to be made. Should I stop
inexplicable reason I knew I would be safe.
on that lay-by, get out of my car and look up
I was convinced the crash would happen leisurely at that thing'? ln the split second that
behind me. (ll was not until twelve years later I had to decide, I realised that if I did swerve
that someone pointed out that the landing suddenly out of the line of lraffic and stop,
lights on an aircraft are in the opposite other drivers (whom I fell cerlain must also
positions to those I could see, so that if it had have seen it and perhaps would be in a
been a plane it would actually have been shocked state like myself) would lhen be
travelling in the same direction as I was and I aadnd itaacocniadlley nst umrpirgishetd oactc mury. sSudod eI nd emcoivdee da ntdo
would have seen it fly over the crossroads as
I reached the traffic lights.). Suddenly I continue with the ,low of kaffic and stop in a
rseeaelmiseedd tthoa tb iel wstaatsa onnoalr ym aonvidn gI atrta vaelllle dlt mhuilcl hI s anfeere dpeladc et oat cthoell etocpt oelv tehrey opniceocmeln ogf
towards it with my nose ptactrcally pressed on information that I could That did seem to be
very important at the time, but not important background and curiosity came into focus.
enough to cause an accidenl. Was it some kind of siqnal, and if so what
was it signifying and to whom was it being
I drove past the lay-by and noticed that sent? Was it for me? It so, why? Whatever
the kaffic which I was meeting was not would something like that want with me?
slowing down. I had expected it to do so "Who am ,7' I asked myselt but couH only
because I thought that il would be impossible feel that lwas nobody special, iust an
to lravel along the toad in that di,ection ordinary person on her way home from work,
without noticing what was up lhere in the sky yet now my curiosity was really getting the
ahead of them. I looked into lhe inside mirror bener of me.
of the car but could see only lraffic behind
me. I passed the Clarke Bros. Gatage and Had the "pilot' noticed that I was
coniinued up the hill, bul still could see inierested in it because I had slopped to get a
nothing else whenever I looked back. I better view? Was it now coming to satisfy my
needed to know more and desperately hoped curiosity'? lcould not unde,stand why but I
that I would soon be in a posiiion to be able really did need to have answers to those
to do so. questions.
if
Perhaps I
To reach my had been mote
home in Church psychically awate
Stowe I had to turn at that time I could
off the A5 at lhe have underslood
top of the hill in this why it seemed to
hold such
section of the road
By then I was fascination fot me
completely but that was to
intrigued by the come later.
sighling ol such an
extraordinary craft. Church Siowe
After turning, the is a very small
hill continues and village high on a
ihere I was able to hill and iravelling
slop and look back. along lhe country
road towards it I was able
of the "Daventry UFO"
Here il was safe to to look back and observe
do so and I wanted to see those two lights which
whether it was still an the same position over remained in the same position. ln thal hall
lhe A5. I gave a sigh of relief. lt was - and at mile or so of road I looked back three times
that point I was about level with it, being and each time the green light was flashing but
rewarded wilh a side view then as well as the the red one was not.
one l'd had lrom undernealh. lsiood for a
momenl marvelling at its struclure and About haf a mile from the A5 I turned
noticing again the smoothness ol the outline. righl into the village and it was here lhat I
What was this strange craft? I knew what it tumed, as usual, in second gear, but when I
wasn'l but could in no way tind a word in my changed up to third gea, something mosl
vocabulary to desc.ibe what it wasl Then, as unusual happened. My foot was hard on the
iI to lurther atiract my attention, the green accelerator pedal which was then flat on the
liqht started to flash. 'Hotfl slrange', I lloor of the car. There was no sound from lhe
remember thinking as I started the engine of enqine at all. The car was slowing down and
lhe cat. "Why did ia do th8a7' thhaadt amlmomosetn rte tahceh esdtr athneg ep ooibnjte cotf wsthoipcphi nI gh aAdt
Wonder disaPPeared into the driven under on the A5 was the farthest thing
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lrom my mind. My only thoughts at that time again and I travelled happiry along the next
were far faom pol e and wingng thelr way 100 metres or so of road.
towards certain mechanics in a Daventry
garage who had that day serviced my car. ireesH aenred itt hwea sh ibgohtdeesrt ebdr aonnc hboetsh osild ethse sbey
lf it had been serviced properly, nothing formed a canopy above the road' one which
like that should have happened. The in autumn had beeo a blaze of coloua but by
sensation of an accelerator pedal actually then the leaves had Iallen Even so, the
touchinq the floor of the car whilst it was overhangrng blanches dalkened the area and
movrng was a new experience for me l gave the tmpression ol travelling through a
wasn'iknown for speeding. ln fact I had often tunnel.
had my leg pulled for doing exactly the
opposiG thi;g and this was an expedence I Well! I remember teaching the end of
could well have done without. I took my toot the trees. Then lhe next thing I knew was that
ofi the pedal and depressod it again. The the car was stationary, the natural light had
same thing happened and the car was disappeared and everylhing was in absolute
delinitely in the ptocess of stopping. blackness My engme bad stopped My lighls
were oul. Everything was black, dark, velvety
Now whal was I to do? lf it did come to a blackness. I knew I was sitting in the car, my
halt and would nol restad I wouH have to hands were on lhe steering wheel but I could
Danudsh a istk o Jno thon thtoe losoldke a ot fi tth He er ohaadd, bweaelnk hino mthee ntroete sse. eI thhea dc anr,o l hidee rao awd,h ethree bIu wildainsg as to ar lihl.e I
R.E.M.E. and worked as a mechanic before wondered where all the lights had gone and
ioining the Police. He would know what to do theoltw s tirta cngoeullyd chaalmve ahnadp puneanferadi ds, ot hseund dase nI lysa tl
wouldI tdhoo uitgshimt oilfa Jr ochintc uamnds tawnocnedse. reTdh ewnh aI th haed satcitllio In bweaoaunld tsoo roena lbisee ntheacet sssoamrye ioco urermsee doyf
what could only have been called an the situation, but what'? I fumbled around for
rnsoiration. lremembered how. $'hen after torch, but could not lind one
Silverstone race days he would always be
adsukty€d anwdh a€vte thyeth dlnidg wsheeenm heed wtoa sb eo nc otrmafnligc if soTmheeonn seu, dsdoemnley,w ahte trhea tw vaersy rmeoamdienngt , mays
to$rards him from all directions at the same thoughts, a brilliant white circle of lighl about
time. His confident and unruffled answet was a va;d m dBmeter shone on the road to the
alwavs the same; 'tou don t psnic l You lust le{i ol the car by the passenger door lt lrt up
stop eveMhrng, then beckon on the tralfic the road and I could see that the car was
from one direction at a ttme and eventually stationary beside the larm gate about lifty
all sorts itself out." vards lurlher on from the tree-coveled parl of
ihe road. and that I had also travelled round a
at thaTth avet rayt timtuodme esnete msoed I aloplpdr ompryiasteel l tnoor tm teo nfhghatt- ahngghlet dw beenntd o intl lahantd s elsclaloln lonf ldhaelk rnoeasds
panrc but to start lrom scratch and see what agarn This sequence was then lepealed in a
'nappened. I dd nol sw ch on the engrne (lhe semi circle in lhe opposlte direclion from
rei gnitron lights were nol on) l changed right to left back to where they started .
farcocmel etrhartrodr - gTeaor mloy lgirrseta ta snudr pdreisper easnsde dr ellhieef I was absolutely fascinated and sat
the ca, staried normally and I was able to watching as each one shone' taking into my
continue on my way. I otfered up a silent mind the completely circular shape ol each
prayer ol thanks. But how shortlived my light as it lit up the road, its whiteness and rts
qratrtude was lo be I dld nol realise The cal brilliance I could not recall ever havlng seen
was behaving very well as I changed from anv hght so pure, nol yet so cllculal rn shape
first to second gear. then up to thitd gear Then lhev repeated the roule fiom lett lo righl
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