UFO SIGHTING - OXFORD, ENGLAND
(Painting by Andrew Searle)
In 1987, just on the outskirts of Oxford, England, I had a very strange experience. It was about 11.30pm and I was driving along the Oxford ring road, which has nothing but fields to the left. Although it was dark, the sky was clear and I became aware of a bright light about 60 degrees up - almost in front of us and a little to the left. The road is long and slowly turns right, so although it was almost in front of me, it would have been over the fields, some distance away.
Now you must know that I am a fisherman and I have spent many nights, night fishing so I am familiar with planes, planets, satellites etc and how they can look very strange at night if looked at at certain angles. And I am interested in astronomy so I know the stars and planets. What caught my attention was that this light was very bright. A bit like Jupiter but ever brighter and more of a white light. Jupiter is quite yellowish. As we (my wife and me) got further along the ring road we seemed to be getting closer to the light. And now it did not seem to be just one light, there was more to it but I could not quite make it out. By now I was very intrigued, I did not think it was a plane coming head on with it's landing light on and UFOs was not even on my mind at that point.
We got to a roundabout and the light was way over to the left now, so I turned left which took us out into the country. As we got closer, more detail came into view. It did not seem that far away now and appeared not that high up either. We could see a white light but with red ones around it too. Not the flashing lights you get on planes.
There was no one else on the road and I pulled over to take a closer look. The light was not stationary but moving generally in our direction until it passed us and headed towards Oxford. To say how big it was or how high up was impossible because you had nothing to compare it with. We had never seen anything like it. It was what I now know as the classic black triangle. Black and triangular in shape with a red light underneath in the center and a white light on each point. Let's say if you were to see a bus in the sky you can tell how far away it is by it's size because you know exactly how big a bus is. With this it could have been massive and far away or quite small but close to you. It was something that came in useful when I started investigating UFOs as I understood how confusing it can be and what it does to your mind. You are looking at this thing but can't believe what you are seeing. It was silent too as I could tell, and did not seem that far away as it passed quite high over our heads. I knew then that it was not a plane or anything else. We turned round and followed it back to Oxford for a few miles but it was getting away from us, then it turned away from the city. Once I got into the traffic I could not follow it anymore.
The next day I reported it to the local UFO group. A few days later they told us many people had reported the lights and that it seemed to have followed the M40 towards London, before disappearing out of sight. Nobody could say what it was. The police also got a few phone calls from the public as well. It's nice to know we were not the only people to see it. I think one reason we saw it was because I was with my ex. She seems to attract things like that! She has had lots of strange things happen to her, I've told you about the poltergeists and things. In her childhood she has seen what I think were UFOs. She described them as orange globes hovering over trees.
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UFO painting above is by Andrew Searle, copyright 2009