New BUFORA Journal No 12 Autumn 2004

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New Bufora Journal
ISSN 1476-5314 Autumn 2004 Issue No- 12
In this issue
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Strange Encounters on Merseyside
What Happened at Scoriton -Part2
Mythology
Round and About
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Editorial
Paqe Conte'lts
1 EEiEariar
2 Strange Encounters
on Merseys ide
6 What did happen at
Scorlton? Part
- 2
15 Mythology
31 Round and About
34 nec-nt Signtings
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I 38 BUFORA Meetings
The events around Warminster throughout
the 1960s and into the 1970s probably
marked the high point of interest in LJFO
phenomena in the UK. This now leads us on to another question!
Frorn this era the events surrounding the
repo.ts made by Ernest Bryant around The interest in LJFOS in this country was
Scoriton are probably one of the few cases originally buiit, aparl frorn cases trom
which stick in peoples' memories ln the last abroad. on a few key evenls Apad from
issue of the Journal, Norman Oliver ou ined Bryants case, there were the Warminster
this case. He follows up in this issue with events lvlost famous of these was the
more information, highlighting some of the Faulkner photograph of the Warminster
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Norman's explanation might
be
controversial, but it does seem to fit the facts Then there is the UFO photograph taken
and Norman was one of the original near Sheffield by Alex Birch in 1962.
investigato.s. So it is not just some armchajr Originally, Birch denied it was a fake, then
theory. ten years later he said it was, and more
recently he seems to be saying again that it
The fact that Bryant died soon after the is not a fake. At best, it is unreliable
events - from a brain tumour - lessened the evidence.
statls of the case in many researcher,s
eyes. They reasoned that if he had a Many of the foundations of our subject
tumoirr, perhaps his judgement had been appear to be flaky. However, I remain
affected; or it was some form of convinced there is a genuine phenomena ui
hallucination. Other people considered that here, that will only be revealed by careful
Bryant's UFO experiences were completely investigation. Key to this witt be the study of
separate from and not affected by the areas of repeated reports and by studying
tumour. the more tangible parts of the phenomena,
such as vehicle interference cases,
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worrying aspect is the apparent collusion of UFOS interface with other paranormal
other senior investigators in the deception. phenomena.
What Norman's article also shows is that
careful and detailed investigation can, at the
end ofthe day, generally uncover the truth. Steve Gamble
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Strange Encounters on
Later, Karen was driving her new car out of
Merseyside
Liverpool along the M62 motorway and she
was heading for the exit onto the M6. lt was
Notes taken from the book getting quite late in the evening. Karen had
'A Different Sky' by Tony Eccles her sleeping baby daughter in ihe back of the
(2003, Bluecoat Press) car and her husband was in the old car in
front- The journey should have taken roughly
an hour and a half. They were approaching
Tony Eccles the Gemini Busjness and Shopping Park,
which was on the other side of the motorway.
The visiting extra-terrestrial exists, not Karen spotted a mysterious vertical brightly
entirely in fact, but in a cultural belief that illuminated white cigar-shaped object that was
has slowly developed over fifty years- ln this slowly hovering over the roofs of some nearby
modern age of science, where we have a houses. As it shone extremely bright in the
good understanding of why things happen, sky, Karen caught sight of the other motorists
science still has a problem of tackling the in front, who were also watching this
close encounter experience. lt appears to spectacle. Karen remembers seeing their
be the consensus that alien beings belong stunned faces. Karen watched the UFO for
either to the world of fairies - in other words. only a few mrnutes as rhe kaffic was movrng
the imagination - or that it is a psychological There were no lane closures, there werc no
problem where people are suffering from a accidents, and it was a straightfoMard
range of illnesses whose symptoms inctude journey home. However, when they got home
vivid hallucinations. This view is incorrect Karen got the shock of her life when she
and inaccurate. Almost all witnesses are noticed the time: it seemed like thek trip had
normal healthy individuals, so why does taken an erlra hour. The following day Karen
mainstream science take the stance that contacted a national daily newspaper and told
there is something wrong with them and not a journalist what had happened. She was told
the reality we live in? that several other people had tetephoned the
newspaper to repod a UFO that fitted the
The answer is simple; there is a lack of data exact description Karen had given. Karen was
and a hard body of evidence to work with. then told that Manchester Airport's only
This dilemma riles the scientist, for they comment was that their staff were completely
cannot study a phenomenon if there is little baffled by these sightings.
to observe, and this can also upset the
i
witness as they deem their experience to be find time loss extremely interesting. People
vital evidence, if not proof. can normally go through the day without
noticing any sense of time: a day can seem to
Consider the story of Karen from Aigburth. drag on, and sometimes it can pass as quick
Her first experience took place in November as a flash. lf we think about this carefully, it is
1996. Karen and her husband were visiting very easy for us to let our minds wander for
Liverpool to pick up a new car she had just what appears to be a brief while only to find
bought from a garage there. Before going out that a good length of time has flown by.
back to their home in Birmingham, they had People generally aren't very good time-
their evening meal with Karen's parents. As keepers. But what can account for an hour of
they said their goodbyes, Karen was asked missing time? lf you go on a regular journey,
to call her parents as soon as she got a person can normally judge how long it
home, just so they knew she had safely takes. An hour of time is quite substantial,
returned. This was nomal, as Karen often and losing one hour is very difflcult to explain.
travelled up from Birmingham to see her Karen must have encountered a delay of
family.
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some sort and this was not the only time Karen Another fascinating account of strange
had experienced time loss. encounters comes from a nurse who lives in
the Bootle area. Penny, a woman in her late
ln 1997, Karen was travelling with her daughter. thirties, told me of a number of incidents that
She was driving towards Liverpool heading had taken place at her home. penny lives
nodhbound on the M6. Karen was then living in with her husband, children and two dogs,
Maghull at this time but she had to go back to and the household have accepted these
Birmingham for the funeral of a close friend. strange occurrences as normal. She recalls
Karen lefl Birmingham at 7pm, and she was one night when all of her family had gone to
expecting to gel home at about 8.45pm. During bed and she clearly remembers being
the trip, Karen observed that the sky was a awake and aware that something else was
skange colour, it was bright orange and she in the bedroom with her. She felt a sudden
hadn't seen anything like this before, this didn't weight press down against her body and she
look like the normal colou. of a sunset and she was transfixed to the bed, totally paralysed.
felt mesmerised by it. Before long, Karen was Next to her lay her husband deep in
01 the lnal strelch of the M57: she was nearing slumber; Penny was unable to wake hjm, for
Switch lsland near Aintree. Karen's daughter she had much difflculty in trying to move.
suddenly woke up and asked her for the time.
Karen looked at the car clock and noticed that it The thing was at the end of her bed: it
was already 8.451 Karen found herself on the appeared to be very tiny. Penny was feeling
A59. the last leg of her journey, and she was extremely frightened, her heart was beating
only five minutes away from home. very quickly and her hands felt numb. As the
creature moved around the room, penny
Just as Karen was driving through Aintree, she caught sight of its pale white skin. The
came to a place where a tall church stood. creaturc was engaged at examining the
Karen s law dropped when she suddenly caught contents of the room. lts behaviour was
sight of a dark triangular craft hovering direcfly strikingly odd. Penny could see its face and
above the church. From the belly of the craft its eyes, which were large round btack pits;
shot three beams of bright cobalt blue light, and the light coming through the window
which shone down upon the church building reflected off their glass like surface.
itself. Karen abruptly applied the brakes as a
of the cars in front of her had completely It began to rummage through the clothes in
slowed down. The driver in front was leaning her drawers and then it moved quickly to the
out of the window to get a better look. The UFO side of the bed. lt was focused on
was no longer in view for it had simply something on the bedside cabinet. penny
disappeared. Uncertain of what to think, Karen was drawn to its actions. All she could hear
continled on her way. Karen was soon at home was its finger slowly dragging atong the
and she checked the clock in the ha way. lt bottom of the polpourri container. Then
was ten o'clock and it should have been only Penny could clearly see that the creature
nine. Karen's parents called her: they were was staring at her, Penny was almost in
worried, as she should have cailed them an tears, as she still could not move or scream.
hour ago. They thought that something bad had
happened to her. lndeed, somethjng quite The creature turned and was bent over
incredible had happened to her and Karen \tEg Penny's face and it appeared to be peering
realised that another hour of her life was deeply into Penny's eyes. lt raised one of its
missingl What made the experience all the hands; its fingers were long and pointed.
more real was the unexpected marking that Penny wondered about what was going to
appeared on her face. Staring at a mifior, happen to her. With one of its fingers the
Karen was quite unnerved by the large creature reached out and touched the
distinctive orange-red tinge that covered her middle of Penny's forehead. ln an instant
face I
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all of Penny's fears disappeared, she began solid objects! Although no words were heard,
to feel calm and relaxed, she felt like she Penny felt the creature was saying good bye
was a pet being stroked by its master. lt all to her and she sensed that one day this being
seemed like there was purpose to this would return to her.
encounter, as though this sort of event was
frequent. Penny felt that this creature had This case is interesting, as it obviously
the task of checking on her to see if she includes an account of sleep paralysis and the
was healthy. The woman felt quite peculiar, experienc€ continues when she is able to
as she was certain this creature was move about and out of bed. lt seems to imply
communicating with her through her mind! that the whole experience was happening
All of these thoughts seemed to be whilst Penny was in a hypnogogic state of
burrowing deep inside her mind. Penny also sleep. The visual imagery of the entity is
believed that this creature dld not want any typical of reported 'alien' encounters from the
fuss, it just wanted Penny to be compliant. last 25 years- Does this mean that the witness
was merely having a dream and that the entity
It was ihen that a bright light entered the belonged to the fantasy-prone part of her
room from the window. The sirange creature mind? Should we then discount the whole
left Penny and stood within this very bright experience because it took place in the sleep
illumination. ln an instant the creature was state?
gone and Penny was able to move. She got
up from her bed and went to the window. lt I haven't come across many close encounter
was through this that she received a fudher cases from the Merseyside / Cheshire area
shock. For there, hovering in the sky in front over the last ten years but here is one
of her house was the UFO account ihat was reported to me rn 2002 lt
was rhe 20'h September, al around midnrghl
Penny describes it as a huge clumsy- a woman by the name of Gene was leavrng
looking metallic ballwith only a single row of her friend's house in the Calvers area of
portholes: the craft resembled a World War Runcorn. lt was close to midnight. The
Two sea mine. Penny looked to see if she journey to he. house would only take five
could see anything within the UFO. minutes or so. As soon Gene reached her
Although uncertain, Penny believes she had car, she trembled with fear but there was no
watched someone walk past one of the rational explanation for this. However, once
portholes. The UFO did not look she got herself inside she locked all of the
spectacllar, it was not highly reflective and doors. She hadn't felt like this before. Gene
sleek, and to Penny it was a disappointing drove away slowly in the darkness of the
sight. night. The road descended slightly, and
ahead, there was a bend.
Yet, this object pulled Penny's curiosity as
she could see all of the nuts and bolts that As Gene turned into it she caught sight of a
were holding the craft together like some brilliantly illuminated stick that appeared to be
primitive form of engineering. How odd was upright by the side of the road. This unusual
this for what was supposed to be a marker attracted her attention and as she
technologically advanced spacecraft:) The drove towards the stick, Gene noticed that a
area around the window was lit up by sharp tall black-cloaked figure was standing behind
yellow light that emanated from a porthole of it. Standing upright at what she estimated to
the craft. Penny was very surprised to see be seven feet tall, the creature was looking
that the creature was floating outside the straight at the woman as the car strolled
window. lt slowly thrust one of its arms slowly by. lts head was strangely visible; it
through the glass of the window. There was was elongated and its forehead seemed quite
no breakage of glass and it appeared that long. lts skin was a marble greyish green, but
the creature had the ability to pass through what struck a further chord of fear within
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Gene was rts black prtted eyes: it was as if the fightrng evil I am guessing hete, but there
sockets lacked any eyes. but Gene felt she was are some clues in the testimony of the
being watched very carefully by this thing. tt witness's experience. lt should never be
had a very tiny nose and a slit for a mouth. but taken at face value; the belief of abductjng
it lacked any other type of feat!re_ aliens is a perfect example. I do not accept
that aliens are doing this; I do think that
Upon returning home, Gene had been quite another intelligence is trying to tell people
shaken up by this and she decided to call her about how real it is, although we know very
friend At flrsi the phone rang, and her friend little about it. lt is through these witnesses,
picked up the receiver and said hello. This was these modern day shamans,that we become
immediately followed by a strange voice which more alert about the world we are living in.
asked, 'can you please hold the line?' The line We are, in essence, waking up to the other
then went dead Later, Gene tried to reach her realities that lurk on the fringes of our own.
friend blt he had no rccollection of her calling For some reason. anolher intelligence is
him several mrnutes before, nor had he heard making itself known to us and maybe one
any skange voice on the phone. Ihe day we will gain some answers. As one
paranorma. il seems, may have fixed its witness put it to me, maybe we arc nol
attention on Gene. Not for the first time, as meant to understand, maybe we should just
Gene believes other things have happened to accept the reality of it and realise the
her - like the frightening chase she had with a significance that these 'aliens' may have
mysterious black car on Speke Road whilst more to do with us than we think. lt may
obsetuing a huge saucer-like craft that same have ie something to do with a profound
night. event, such as the evolution of the human
being, and that these 'enlities' are guiding us
Close encounter witnesses may also to ensure our futurc survival.
experience weird anomalies happening to
them, such as poltergeist activity in thei. homes_ At this moment in time, all I can say is that
Witnesses tend to be very normal people with the evidence does support the belief that
normal jobs - however, there is something there is another intelligence at work here.
important about them that makes them a focus That, for reasons not obvious to us. we are
for such unusual activity. These witnesses do being included in a major cosmic game.
not go looking for such events, nor do they wish
to have such encounters. So why do some lcan offer no more answers than that,
people have these encounters, and many of us except to say that we should pay slightly
don't? I think in our society people have more serious attention to the UFO witness.
different roles to play so that our society can These shamans who may be in contact with
function properly. We have our practical needs, our ancient gods, who may be conveying a
but we also have our emotional and spiritual serious message to us all, have been invjted
needs. I believe that these close encounter to look where few can look, to gaze into the
witnesses are fulfilling that role, they betong to depths of an alien world, indeed, a very
a movement of people who exist in many other different sky.
cultures around the world, and they may be
responsible for bringing us closer to our more
human selves.
I feel that these people act like modern day *** Tell ***
shamans: these are people who are in tune
wa€ ith athll eair peanrvt iroofn. mlte inst , thaensde thpeeo lpalned wschaop eh awvee * y*o n*r friends ab*o u*t *
been selected to see these beings, they have Bul'ora
been rnvited to take part in a huge cosmic
game, possibly the age-old belief of good
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What D/D happen at Scoriton'l as well as giving him a good character Major
Part II Boycott had said,'lt would be completely out
of charactet for Mr Bryant to staft a publicity
Normon OIiver stunt. He is a very level-headed and
.
intelligent man' However, Bryant had never
wanted his wife involved in the matter, and
The promised detailed report from neither had we app.oached previous
Scotty on the examination of the employers concerning his character.
'pieces' did not materialise and for
some reason that no-one could Bryant, incidentally, had never claimed any
further experlences other than one towards
quite fathom, Scotty began to be'at the end of February when he said that he'd
odds' with Eileen on matters not been out walkrng the dog' when he kept
directly associated with the Bryant hearing a fanl volce in the dstance which
affair I made further v.stts to h'm saonudnd hede a cso t!h donu gth artc wcaosu ncta lfliongr 'livta nM, alvyabne'
on one or two occasions, but more someone callng a doq. maybe not, but it was
of that in a moment. apparenty unuslel n his eyes He had. he
sard hs Cauohters oortable tape recorder
wrlh h m at the t me srice follow ng hearing of
Phrip Rodger's tape recordings lrefeffed to in
NAJ 9) he wondered if he .night be able to
receive any Apparently the 'lvan' was
recorded blt subsequenty wiped. Anyway,
I
decrded to do some probLng....
Frsty, on March 3'd.1967 I wrote to the
farmer, Mr. Webber, from whose field the
'pieces had been picked up and in one of
whose cottages Bryant had been living at the
time 8ryanl had sald previously that 'Mr
Webber was not too keen on being
interviewed and on all ard sundl exam aing
hrs frelo. ln thrs lerter I posed lhe queslion -
with reference to the 'sighting' claim: Do you
know of any natLrra phenornenon which could
have caused the rarkings, scorchiags,
withered branches elc. ln the field and on the
hedge and trees?' His reply dated l\,4arch 8rh
George Adamski 1967 ran as follows:
About a month before lhe Scoriton Mystery Deat Sit.
was due to be published, I read and re-read
through the various claims and the investi- Thank you for yau coufteous letter of the 3d.
gations into them, and it seemed to me that, instant, which as you say was somewhat of a
notwithstanding the 'matching-up' of the sufp/'/se, as I was hoping the incident you
pieces and the accuracy of the nention had now been foryatten.
psychometric readings, we had taken
Bryant's claims too much for granted The explanation of the matter is quite simply
because he had been given an excellent that the burning of the grass was caused by a
character reference by N4ajor Boycott, bonfire of hedge clippings and paings, which
landlord of The Tradesman's Arms, where also slightly bumt the hedge. The trce
he was now wo*ing - indeed, at one point,
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refeted ta has been dead far same yearc and accurate and would be extremely grateful
the blackening was most likety caused by t you could confim ot deny them. Should
lightning. they be true, I will ceftainly not mention your
It should be quite obvious to any sensible nunalmeses iyno uc oanllonwe cmtioen t aw ditoh sFoly. inSqho uStadu ctheersy
person that the suggestrb, tlhich has been pul be false, I would be obliged if yau made no
forward is the product af a fertite imaginatian, mention of my own enquiry to Mr. Bryant
as on an tnspection af the spat in question. the
reason fat lhe scorchtng ts quite apparent My concern is to obtain confimation ar
denial of Mr. Bryant's veracity in this
I sincercly hape the mattet is now closed. as I context...
an getting a little tired of peaple coming and
going an my prapefty as and when they feet Yours sincerely
i nclined withaul pe mi ssion. Noman Olivet
Yours failhfu y (signed) D.WEBBER A case of 'bent headlights' had been
repoded two years earlier near Bendigo,
Now. several times during our meetings with Australia and had been quoted ln the
Bryant he had referred to havlng been totd by BUFORA Journal, Summet 1966 and as
his docror when he consulted him on occasion, Bryant was then a BUFORA member. he
that he (the doctor) had had'Ftying Saucer would have seen this.
Expe ences', but that the doctor had brought
the subject up and Bryant had not referred to The doctor's reply, dated grh. March 1967
his own claims. I thought this wofth checking read as followsr-
out and accordingty on March 4rh. 1967 wrote to
the doctor in the followinq terms. . Deat ML Oliver,
Dear Dr.Y . Thank you for your letter of 4th. March. I
cannot recall for what medical rcason Mr.
...The natter concems MrE.A.Bryant of Bryant came fo see me /asf year ... I am
Scoriton (formerly ot Hawsan Farm Cottage) sure that he never mentioned to me he had
who, aver the last year has tald of same very spoken to the occupants of a flying saucet
tema*able occunences which he alleges and I an equally surc that he brought up the
happened to him in Apil and June 1965 ... tam subject of flying saucers.
writing to ask if you can confirm what he told
me. I realise, naturally, that you cannot divutge It is true I believe flying saucers may in fact
any medical details: however, briefly, this is exist as I have seen two very unusuat flyng
what Mr.Bryant said. objects in the last 10 years, but I have never
had the headlights of my car refracted or
Having seen a Flying Saucer, met and spoken bent, and n facl Mt. Bryanls stary 6
with the occupants in ANil 1966, he visited you completely inaccurate and I do not know
a few days later because of migraine and where he got all his facts from.
double vision and was surprised when you
introduced the subject, saying lhat you yourcelf My own experiences with flying saucers arc
had seen them (he le s me he had said nothing quite unrclated in time and place ... there
of his own expeience at the time). Recentty he may be morc to llying saucers than most
also added that you had been diving one people imagine.
evening when your car headlights suddenly
appeared refracted or bent - also at the time of As I have said beforc I feel that Mr Bryant's
a sighting. I am naturally concemed as to rcpot7s arc completely inaccurate and
whether Mr. Bryant's statements are
ll
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ceftainly sone of hrs slalemenls concerning It then transpired that Bryant had actually
my experiences arc completely untrue. I shall been employed by the doctor's partner for
be grateful if you wi ... not mention this to three days a week between the years 1961
Mr. Bryant. and 1963 as a gardener, working for the rest
of the week with a family who had then left
Yours sincercly the diskict. However, this conflicted with the
Dr.Y time he was supposedly working at Dartmoor
Prison. I had, though already also written to
the Prison Governor there, the relevant part
The letter was typewritten, but at the bottom of my letter reading:.-....
was a handwritten and signed'P.S' reading:
I undestand from Mr. Bryant, now resident
This is a note from DL Y's paftner who neat Buckfastleigh that he held the pasitian of
employed this man as a gatdener handyman prison officer at Daftmaor between the years
for same months - he is a natariausly bad 1954 to 1963 lhough n may nol have been
wtness ard can tell a tale (i.e. fabicate) qule a'long a perioo as lhrs. he a/so lers me
(Signed) Dt 'X' he was aI anather prison. but did not wish to
speak of this because of the Secrets Actsl
also, lhat while employed at Dattmoor he
At a fufther (recorded) rnteruiew with Bryant a resided at Ashbu!1on and teminated his
few days later. I questioned Bryant further emplayment because of housing difficulties
about the doctor (without referring to the
correspondence) and he again related that As it turned out. I should have written to the
the doctor had had the bent headlights Horne Office - the letter, which I had writlen
experience that the doctor had brought the in lvlarch had been foMarded to them from
subject up and fLlrlher said ihat lhe docior Danmoor a_d I received t_e 'ollowing
had told him he d had flying saucer information in a reply dated Ap.ll 24'^ 1967
experiences at Buckfastleigh and Sidmouth - from the Home Offlce in Marsham St. London
Bryant's veracity and reliability were sw1--
beginning to wear a bit thinl The next
morning lphoned the doctor and told him
what Bryant had said. playrng over the Deat Sir
relevant part of the recordifg to him. The Re: E.A.Bryant
doctor listened in astonishment, then laughed
his head off and said "Ihere's absolutely no Yau letter addressed lo the Governar of
truth in it other than I told you in my letter.". H.M.Prison, Daftmoor, has been passed to
this Depatlment for attention.
Mr Bryant was employed in this department
as a Prison Officer Under Training from 4-1A-
54 until2S-11-54 when he resigned. We have
no knowledge of his wotking in anothet
Prison pior to sevice at Daftmoor.
As you will see by the dates given above he
was only employed fot a shoft peiod.........
Yours faithfu y...
Bryant's prison service, then, amounted not
to seven years, but seven weeks!
Norman Oliver