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UFO CASE No.1
Date: spring 1952.
Location: 5 Elms, Dagenham, Essex, UK.
Time: mid day.
Witness orientation: South to North.Object passing: WNW to ESE.
Sky: Cloudy bright with sun trying to break, approx. 75% cloud cover.
I returned from my usual shopping trip and this day my treat was a tin of bubble liquid. On arriving home I sat out in the back garden in my old cut down high chair. After a while my grandmother brought me a bowl of rice pudding for lunch as our main meal was in the evening. I finished my lunch and returned to blowing bubbles.
After a while I noticed a humming noise, similar to a humming top or generator. I looked around and in the western sky at approximately 10 o'clock I saw what I assumed to be an aeroplane. The plane was on course to pass nearly overhead. As it approached, I noticed it was not a plane after all and my interest grew. The object was a metallic-blue similar to the barrel of a toy Winchester rifle and resembled the shape of a Chinese Koolie hat.
As it came closer, I could see that the shape was in fact ovoid, like a limpet, with a short skirt extending the base by about 20%. Within the recess were red, yellow and white flashing lights around the perimeter. In the centre of the lights there was a deep yellow glow, the shape was also ovoid and in line with the perimeter. When the object was nearly passing overhead, I became nervous and tried to run inside to show my grandmother this strange sight. Try as I might, I was unable to move. (I have witnessed this shackled experience on two later occasions while a member of a spiritualist circle.) My arms and legs were held fast to the chair until the object had passed over me and was over the roof. At this point my limbs were free and I ran into the house shouting out to my grandmother. She was getting on in years, and it took her a few moments for me to get her to come outside the back of the house first, then the front, but the noise had stopped and there was no trace of anything in the sky, bird or plane.
I would like to point out that at the time of the sighting, my only knowledge of fictional space travel was of shell-shaped rockets with tail fins, or sausage-shaped blimps. I had no recollection of saucer-shaped craft till I saw the film
The Day The Earth Stood Still with my father, which was after this experience and was not ovoid. Naturally, when I tried to explain the sighting to anyone else I was not taken seriously. Two years later my teacher asked my class to make a model of anything that left a lasting impression. A birthday party, a trip to the seaside, a visit to the zoo or a picnic in the country, I chose to model the UFO. My teacher was not impressed and I was chastised with a ruler in front of the class. She categorically stated "There are no such things, you are telling lies!" she then screwed my work up and put it on show with a note: "David has wasted one and a half hours to make this mess and will be banned from the next art class". After this incident I was reluctant to speak of the sighting for the next 13 years.
There are several questions to be asked here. Was it an infant's over-vivid imagination? Why could I not move my arms and legs till the UFO had passed overhead? What sort of aeroplane was it that could have appeared in that form? Were there any other witnesses? There may have been one, Sir Alf Ramsey was living across the road at that time and I have contemplated including his biography with four other famous people from the same area. Unfortunately, the publishers were not interested, and alas, Sir Alf recently passed away, before I managed to contact him. It is strange how these types of incidents have unusual circumstances as soon as something is going to be made public! After this is puiblished, I sincerely hope the Men in Black do not visit me!
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