THE WARMINSTER THING – The Truth is Out There
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The Warminster Thing
Sixty years since ‘UFO Town’ went global.
A decade of extensively witnessed and reported extra-terrestrial activity began in Heytesbury, Christmas 1964. An intense sonic disturbance first witnessed by UK military personnel at Knook Camp, Heytesbury, Salisbury Plain. Similar reports were recorded across the surrounding area and the nearby town of Warminster.
By October 1965 the first direct visual contact with ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ was seen by multiple witnesses over Heytesbury. The local vicar, his wife and family, all reported the same event which was later independently corroborated by additional witnesses.
Close encounters? The seemingly unremarkable rural English village of Heytesbury in the mid-1960s, ticked all the boxes on the checklist of full alien contact:
Close Encounter of the first kind (CE1)
Visual sightings of an unidentified flying object, seemingly less than 500 feet (150 m) away, that show an appreciable angular extension and considerable detail.
Close Encounter of the second kind (CE2)
A UFO event in which a physical effect is alleged; this can be interference in the functioning of a vehicle or electronic device, animals reacting, a physiological effect such as paralysis or heat and discomfort in the witness, or some physical trace like impressions in the ground, scorched or otherwise affected vegetation, or a chemical trace.
Close Encounter of the third kind (CE3)
UFO encounters in which an animated entity is present—these include humanoids, robots, and humans who seem to be occupants or pilots of a UFO.
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Heytesbury, Warminster, Wiltshire.
“Close Encounter of the Third Kind”
Warminster, Wiltshire, local town to Heytesbury was the global epicentre of UFO activity from Christmas Day 1964 until the mid-1970s.
The first ‘sighting’ was an overwhelming but ‘unknown’ sound disturbance at Knook army camp, Heytesbury. Christmas Day, 1964. “Soldiers reported hearing an intense sound described as a massive chimney being ripped apart and scattered; a droning sound accompanied the noise.”
“That same morning, five miles away in Warminster, a local woman was woken by the sound of giant hailstones battering her roof. The noise transitioned into a loud hum before fading to a faint whisper.”
“little men in balaclava helmets and glistening trousers”
For reasons unknown, the ‘skew’ railway bridge at Heytesbury (///otherwise.intruders.nearly) has featured repeatedly in alien sightings. In October 1965, midnight, not only did a local woman run over a figure in a black bodysuit on the bridge, who disappeared, but she then almost hit two more on her way back. And saw their mothership.
A close encounter of the third kind, complete with the car engine inexplicably cutting out and a blinding white light. The witness described the ‘aliens’ she directly encountered in the terms that she understood from the time, dressed as ‘frogmen’ in black skin tight bodysuits.
Location ///commented.alpha.data
The Warminster Thing Explored:
We are (still) not alone…
The classic description of a Warminster UAP event: “June 1965: a cigar shaped metallic object remained stationary for half hour over Heytesbury, near Warminster.”
Just as an anecdotal aside, I was recently discussing ghost stories with friends who had no knowledge of either this website, The Warminster Thing or my interest. We talked about tales of hauntings in Heytesbury and personal ghostly experiences.
One of them told his ghost story, as corroborated by his mother.
Mother and son, he was then in his early teens, had just left Heytesbury in the early morning to drive to Heathrow airport to catch a holiday flight. On the road (B390) between Knook Camp and the village of Chitterne on Salisbury Plain, just before they descended the hill into the village, something huge appeared to the left of them.
To use his words. It was massive, larger than the whole village, it looked like a ‘huge metallic silver cigar with what looked like a row of light sabres running across the middle’. Location: ///chatters.ghost.original
It seems as if, even as recently as fifteen years ago, Warminster was still very much. Not alone.
Heytesbury 1950s
Crop circles in Wiltshire were reported from the 1940s with the first recorded in the 1950s at Heytesbury, Wiltshire. From CERES and BUFORA archive.
Singles and a quintuplet crop circle formation in the pattern of a ‘five of dice’. Appeared at Devil’s Well, Heytesbury ///resources.remarked.selection
This very early report was significantly before crop circle phenomena commenced in earnest in Wiltshire in the late 1970s.
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The Mowing Devil
A 1678 English news pamphlet, The Mowing-Devil describes an early example circles mysteriously formed in cornfields. In 1686, further suggestions of rings caused by air flows from the sky, to the Victorian (1880) cyclonic wind action “…prostrate stalks with their heads arranged pretty evenly in a direction forming a circle round the centre, and outside there a circular wall of stalks which had not suffered”.
Personally, I vividly remember George Sassoon hanging out of a light aircraft window trying to film them in progress. Sensibly, he had tied some bailer twine around his waist as a nod to sensible precaution.
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