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One of the curiosities of the history of UFO’s is the clustering of UFO activity in which several incidents occur within a small locality only a few days apart. Sometimes the events are similar; sometimes - as in this pair of close encounters in South-East England - they appear to be linked only by place and time. But always there is a strange inconclusiveness about them, something that suggests that, if only we could find the missing link, we could understand what it is they are trying to tell us. Early one Sunday morning - 14th September 1965 - at about 1 o’clock, an engineer named Paul Green, aged 29, was riding his motorcycle southwards along the B1025 road, which runs between Colchester and West Mersea in Essex. He had been visiting his fiancée, and was on his way home. The motorcycle was going well, purring along at some 40 miles per hour. He had just passed through the village of Langenhoe, and was up to Pete Tye Common, when he overtook a rider on a motor scooter. A minute or so later he was approaching Langenhoe Hall when he heard a high-pitched humming noise away to his left - the East. As the noise became louder he looked up, expecting to see an approaching aeroplane, but saw only a small point of blue light about 5 miles away to the East, approximately over Brightlingsea. As Paul Green watched the light winking, then growing brighter and flashing, he realised it was moving in his direction. Rapidly it became larger, and at the same time the humming became louder. When the object was over Langenhoe Marsh he became uneasily aware that the motorbike engine was coughing and spluttering, and after it ‘missed’ several times, the engine stopped dead and the lights went off. At that point the flashing blue light was just over a mile away, to the East of the road. Watching intently Paul now saw, within the extreme brightness of the light, an enormous object that resembled the upper half of a large spinning top - ‘about as big as a gasometer’ - with a dome on the upper part. The fierce blue flashes came from within the dome. By now the object had stopped moving in his direction and, instead, was descending slowly, and at one stage tilting its underside towards him. The outer rim of this carried round objects spaced equidistant so that it gave the impression of a ‘luminous ball-race’. Paul Green dismounted and took a few involuntary steps towards the object, quickly coming to an unsteady halt. He later said, ‘I felt spellbound and unable to move or speak, just as if I had become paralysed. The flashing blue light became so intense that it was painful, and it appeared to fluctuate in rhythm with my heart beat against my chest. I felt myself tingling all over, rather like the electric shock one gets when handling an electrified cattle fence.’ At last the humming died down and the UFO descended towards the farmhouses at Wick. It was then that the scooter Paul had passed came coughing and spluttering to a halt. The rider, a young man in a leather jacket, dismounted and stood looking at the flashing light as if transfixed. But Paul had no time to speak to him. Paul reported: ‘My head began to throb, and felt as though there were a band tightening around it. With a great effort I made myself move, and I grasped the bike and tried to start it.’ in the end he managed to push it along, finally achieving a bump start, mounted and drove home as quickly as he could. After a short distance a line of tall hedges hid the ‘thing’ from him, but he could still see the blue glow in the sky. It was unfortunate that the witness was so terrified by his encounter and the painful psychological effects that he never thought of speaking to the young man on the scooter; it meant that a chance to obtain corroborated evidence was missed. Paul Green arrived home at about 2am, and too the unusual course of waking his invalid mother; he needed to tell someone of his experience. The next day his clothes were so charged with static electricity that he crackled when he moved. Two weeks after the sighting he was interviewed by Dr Bernard Finch for the Flying Saucer Review. Dr Finch was convinced that the case was true, and added that he described symptoms that can only be associated with a very strong magnetic field on the human body. There is an interesting postscript to the story. A few days later Paul was telling a friend about the experience, his friend said that about the time of the sighting, his dog had started to bark, and on opening the door found that the sky was lit up with a blue glow and large blue light passed overhead and out of sight, to the North-West. Six days later and about 20 miles from Langenhoe, another strange encounter was reported. It may have been a close encounter of the third kind. Geoffrey Maskey, aged 25 stopped his car in Felixstowe, on a lane known as Walton Avenue. Two friend were with him, Michael Johnson and Mavis Fordyce. It was 10.30pm when, without saying a word, Michael suddenly opened his door got out and disappeared into the night. The others had been waiting for him, when they heard a high-pitched humming noise. Mavis was alarmed and Geoff looked out the car to try and see what the source of the noise was; he saw a orange-coloured, oval shaped object some 6 feet in length, and about 100 feet above the lane. The glow lit up everything nearby. The object disappeared behind the trees, but with the hum still being heard. Geoff called out Michaels name and, when there was no response, reversed along the lane and called again. Suddenly Michael came stumbling through the hedge clutching at his eyes and neck; he staggered away from the car. The others thought he was having a game with them until he collapsed in the road. Geoff went over to him and found he was unconscious. They got him into the car and took him to Felixstowe Hospital. Michael regained consciousness but did not recognise anyone, and the doctors said that he was suffering from shock. There were burn marks on his back, and a lump on his head, and as a precaution was transferred to Ipswich Hospital. When Geoff was allowed to see him again, he reported that he was made to get out of the car by a strange force, and had saw a man bathed in fire pointing at him. But we will never know what it was or what made him get out of the car, was it compulsion or something else?
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Sources: Unexplained Mysteries |