Flying Saucer Review September 1980 [antikvár]

As for the rest of our correspondent's letter, we are confident that any further "warnings-off" or suggestions of the "Divine Right of BUFORA investigators" of thekind made by the abrasive Mr. Campbell will be duly ignored by independent investigators.PHYSICAL ASSAULT BY UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS AT LIVINGSTON Part IIIMartin Keatman Andrew CollinsThis report has been specialiy prepared for UFOIN and Flying Saucer ReviewFORESTRY foreman Bob Taylor of the Livingston Development Corporation of West Lothian, Scotland, claimed that, on December 9, 1979, he encountered a domed object in a forest clearing. Two spheres with protruding "spikes" emerged from the object and struck him, one on each side. Full details of his experience were given in Part I of this article.In Part II, which appeared in FSR Vol. 26, No. 1, we described the on-site investigations, the involvement of the police in the case, forensic investigations, medical considerations and so on. We will continue with other reported events in the locality.Other sightingsWith a case that has gained so much publicity one can expect a dramatic increase in local sightings reported. We have been able to locate a number of incidents during this period, some of which are quite interesting in themselves.On November 8, 1979, at 17.20 hrs, a Mrs. Sarah Johnson, aged 43, of Ash Grove, Craigshill, Livingston, was on her way home from work when she caught sight of three lights motionless and silent in the sky. They looked like aircraft lights, and were in a straight line configuration of white, red, white. Eventually they were obscured from view as the witness passed beneath them.On November 9, at 10.00 hrs, at almost exactly the same time of Bob Taylor's encounter, a Mrs. Violet Connor and her sister Mrs. Lilian Black were driving from Bathgate to the small town of Armadale. Glancing skywards Mrs. Connor noticed a white cigar-shaped, or bar-shaped, light hanging motionless in the north-east. She pointed it out to Mrs. Black, and both watched it remain stationary in this position for over five minutes as they drove. Eventually it was lost to sight behind buildings on the outskirts of Armadale. No noise or effects were noted.At 17.50 hrs on the same day, Mrs. Josephine Quigley, aged 30, and four of her friends, observed a ring of lights rotating silently. No definite features could be made out as it was dark, but the lights appeared to be lower than normal aircraft height. The object remained in the same position throughout the sighting, and was lost to view when the witness had to move away and take her son home from school. The sighting lasted about two minutes.Two hours after Mrs. Quigley's sighting, Steven Little aged 14 and his brother Alan aged 17, from Bellsquarry, Livingston, watched a dome-shaped object suspended motionless over a main road some 400 metres behind their home. It was at a height estimated by the boys as about 150 metres. It was a glowing bright white dome, with a large red light on its left-hand side, and a similarly shaped blue light on the right. Both lights were pulsating simultaneously at one second intervals. After some eight minutes the white glow discontinued, leaving the two side lights. After a further two minutes both remaining lights also disappeared. No sound was heard, or effects noted.On October 10, 1979, a man and wife living in Dedridge, Livingston, had observed a strange object that caused physiological effects on the woman, a Mrs. Stewart. She had gone to bed at about 00.45 hrs, and as she went to close the bedroom curtains she heard an unusual noise like a "muffled helicopter." In the North-North-East she saw a large, greyish-coloured, dome-shaped object with six red lights that rotated in an anticlockwise direction. It seemed to "hover on the spot for about 20 or 30 seconds" while still making the muffled sound. After this the noise became like a high pitched "diesel engine" as the object rose upwards into the sky. It was eventually lost from view as it moved away, and the noise diminished with the increasing distance. Mrs. Stewart had a great thirst for about two weeks after the sighting, especially in the early hours of the morning. To quench this she drank a lot of tea and lemonade, the latter not normally to her liking. She also felt extremely tired and ". . .rather heavy all the time as if weighted." The last noticeable effect was that her weight seemed to go up from 7 St. 7 lbs. to 8 st. 3 lbs. After a short time it returned to normal as suddenly as it had risen. Mrs. Stewart had also had several psychic experiences, including pre-cognitive dreams and a bedroom sighting of her grandmother.On November 12 at 17.45 hrs, Mr. Barney Gallagher, father of the well-known golfer Bernard Gallagher of Bathgate, was out walking his dog when he caught sight of a circular shape a mere 60 metres above his head. This has red and white blinking lights. He rushed back to his home, and his wife Millie was also able to observe this aerial spectacle before it disappeared. Attempts to obtain further information on this sighting have proved fruitless.