The fact that Victor Goddard was an experienced aviator obviously adds weight to his testimony. His observations about the abrupt change in the weather conditions, the state of the airfield, the livery of the aircraft and the apparently anomalous uniforms of the ground crew are hard to dismiss and suggest that something weird may well have occurred. The fact that he observed monoplanes, rather than biplanes on the ground though, which is usually played up as the big woo factor of the whole story, is something of a red herring and easily explained.
And Goddard is connected to this famous case as well;
Ha ha! I had a similar experience of a pyramid-shaped tiled structure that suddenly appeared overnight in the far left view from my kitchen window. Had to be an alien spaceship or time-travellers using a cloaking device until I realised my new neighbours had cut back a tall bush and it was in fact just the roof of an oddly-shaped bungalow that has ben squeezed into a small plot. Damn!
Thank you so much, my favourite is 'i drove past myself; but I love all of these other than Pat Poole as I find her matter-of-fact, everyday time-slips a bit hard to swallow. The Versailles one is intriguing because of the parallels with the famous 1911 time-slip, so is this evidence of a new Versailles time-slip or a distant memory of her mother telling her about the 1911 event?
That is what I thought. Either his(?) mother was one of the ladies involved (although I don't think either of them married) or read about it and (s)he remembered it as it having happened to their mother.
I liked the one about the guy passing himself in the car which funny enough was on Uncanny Podcast but from Sunderland not Reading.
I think vivid remembered dreams are the answer to a LOT of paranormal sightings, to be honest. Some of them, as you say, just have that 'ring' to them. The human brain is very easily confused.
Except once again this doesn't explain multiple-witness experiences. In fact, i feel that would make for a great book, cases of Forteana experienced by two or kore people and therefore a lot harder to explain
It doesn't explain ALL multiple-witness experiences. But I know there are some where it wasn't, in fact, a multiple witness event, the actual event was witnessed by one person who subsequently managed to persuade others that they, too, saw what the first person saw. I think this was the case to a certain extent in the 'gnomes in cars in the park'.
On the subject of the mind recreating scenes this happened to me very recently. By a weird sequence of life events over a period of decades I've ended up spending most of my time only about half a mile from where I was born. As a pre 6 year old me and a few friends used to play at the end of the street, the last house, being on a corner, having for some reason a large advertising hoarding in the garden facing the main road. I passed this house recently and glancing across distinctly "saw" the hoarding ( long gone) and very small children playing outside (which of course would be impossible nowadays). A strange sensation.
True, if you take the Broad Haven UFO case (1977) then only a handful of the children saw a silver object in the field but by Monday morning EVERY child had seen a UFO that now had embellishments such as a ladder and some had seen Mr Spock, too!
Oh yes, as I said, it's not all multiple witness events that can be explained by the dominant character convincing others - sometimes there actually ARE multiple witnesses! It's just a word of caution not to believe that when everyone says they saw it, that they actually did.
There's always some Bastard wants to pull down your house.
A proper Blackadder-esque name:
Have to agree with @MorningAngel this is fiction, the narrative structure is a dead giveaway and way too much effort has been spent on the small details in an effort to cover all the bases. Also luxury cars such as the Rolls Royce had electric windows in the 1960s: To be honest, it is just to twee to be believable.
etc etc...
I just remembered the Deltic locomotive time-slip that was actually a short story in a trainspotter's magazine and I suspect the Jaguar story above has a similar origin
I wondered if the Jaguar story might have originated from our mate Tom Slemen. Seems not, but I found this totally believable tale of the time-slip juggernaut:
A 68-year-old man named Patrick was walking with his three work friends, Richard, Roy and Sid, all in their thirties, along Raby Mere Road (not far from the Wheatsheaf Inn) to visit a man who was selling a car that Patrick was interested in.
Patrick noticed the huge silvery grey juggernaut parked up on the lane adjacent to a field where horses were grazing.
The four men went to the mammoth vehicle and inspected it. At one point a door in the driver’s cab hissed open – and stayed open for some minutes.
His curiosity piqued, Patrick climbed into the vehicle and saw the interior was lit up with monitors and multicoloured lights with three padded seats.
The set-up looked more like a plane cockpit than a HGV cab. The four men were looking around the interior when the vehicle started up on its own.
Patrick got behind the wheel and steered the vehicle and noted it was an automatic. He saw there were no dials to read – the speedometer was on a screen and its limit was 300mph.
'What the blazes is this thing?' Patrick asked, and suggested pulling over and leaving it before he got into trouble but his three friends seemed excited and told him to ‘drive on for a bit’.
One of the men – Roy - opened a door that led into the back of the immense vehicle and saw it contained a long control room of some sort with more banks of screens and he found a plastic folder with rows of figures and unintelligible words written in it, and one of them read: Sunday, 12 June 2044.
Another entry in the folder described an attack on 'a group of robots'.
Roy thought it might be all some sci-fi film script and went back to the cab. By now the vehicle was being pulled over by two police cars.
Patrick got out with his friends, and a policeman asked him what type of vehicle it was.
Patrick said he didn’t know and that he’d been silly trying to drive it. He told them where he had found the ‘truck’. There was an argument with Patrick and an overzealous policeman who doubted his story when someone noticed that the futuristic vehicle had gone.
One shocked policeman said the vehicle had slowly faded away.
Unable to think outside the box and to get their heads around something that was inexplicable, the police eventually left, and Patrick looked at the huge tyre tracks in the soil that came to an abrupt end. He was as baffled as the police as to what that vehicle was.
https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/24109138.haunted-wirral-phantom-vehicles-roads/
I swear he is heading towards 'Peal Slemen' last which point he will implode under the weight of all his time-slip fiction....
