I had an interesting experience a some months ago which I would like to
run past you:

I was driving home one evening, not too late, along the main road that joins
Oxford to Reading over here in the UK. About halfway home I noticed the
proverbial "lights in the sky" over one of the fields off to the side of the
road. This was odd as there are no airfields nearby. A couple of other
motorists had stopped in a nearby layby, and were stood watching over the fence
so I decided to join them. We all watched these "lights" for about 5 minutes,
dancing around in the sky above the field, and then the source of this display
came a little closer to the road and slowly flew over us to the field opposite,
and then carried on maneuvering. After another 3 or 4 minutes or so, it turned
south and set off at modest speed, climbing at the same time, until it was out
of sight. The whole experience was far from frightening. In fact it was quite
mesmerising watching this craft dance around a few tens of feet off the ground.
Nobody suffered any burns, distress, nausea or any weird shit, and we
all just shrugged it off as "another military toy" and went our own ways after
that.
Unfortunately, it didn't occur to me at the time to take anyone's names or
numbers. There must have been 8 or 9 people accumulated by the end of the
"display."

The Object.

I can best describe it's shape as similar to the A12 flying wing but with an
extension to the rear edge, and somewhat smaller. (see text-o-gram below) It
seemed unpainted except for two black patches, one on each of the rear two
corners, and some markings under what I assumed to be the engines. These were
slung underneath in a "pod" similar to the engines on the XB70 Valkyrie, the
same sort of shape too. There were no navigation lights that I could recognise,
instead just 3 bright yellowish white lights, one at each extreme of the craft.
These were steady lights, not blinking, pulsating or flashing or anything
dramatic like that. We never got a chance to see the top of it, obviously
because it was above us. There was very little noise from it, but what there
was was like that of a diesel generator that you might find in a large train,
but much quieter. As it passed over us, I could feel the displacement of the
air, and there was a slight warmth to the exhaust (if that's what it was) but
nothing like what you'd expect from a jet exhaust for example. When I could see
the back of it, there was a dark orange glow from the rear end of the engine
"pod".

Do you know if this type of thing might belong to "them" in Area 51? Or have
you perhaps heard of anything similar in the UK before?
BTW: This is an honest account


This is the best I can do given the limited graphics available to a text editor
:-)


  [FRONT]
     __
    /  \
   /    \
  /      \
 /  ____  \
/   |  |   \
|#__|__|__#|        #=dark patches
     ^^
engine "pod"


>From a curious believer who is, at the same time, mildly skeptical about the
whole thing.


P.S. Feel free to include this with my email address if you think it's a valid
contribution.


Chris Longhurst, Bristol, England
chrisl@division.co.uk

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From chrisl@division.co.uk  Tue Aug 29 13:43:25 1995