Jean says she ‘lost time’ travelling on the A5

A COUNTY adjacent to Hinckley is a hot spot for UFO sightings, according to the author of a new book on extra terrestrials.

Jean Herbert Bradley has published ‘People Must Know the Truth’, which charts many strange and unexplained extra terrestrial matters and UFO sightings, including many in her home town and throughout Warwickshire.

In People Must Know the Truth Jean even charts some of her own UFO experiences in Rugby and Warwickshire. Jean says she and her husband ‘lost time’ travelling on the A5 near Rugby, while on another occasion they had a close encounter with a large triangular UFO in Kilsby, Warwickshire.

In the introduction to her book Jean says: “I can testify that Rugby is definitely a hot spot of UFO sightings, as this book reveals.”

Jean charts some of the history of UFO sightings around the world, which somewhat surprisingly has only been going since 1947.

That was when Kenneth Saunders saw nine discs he described as “flying saucers” giving rise to a new expression and an entire new area of the paranormal. From the discovery of strange ‘alien’ skeletons and bodies in far-flung corners of the world to the fact former US President Jimmy Carter claimed to have seen a UFO, Jean’s book offers a fascinating insight into the history of UFO sightings and strange or unexplained alien phenomena.

However, it is her focus on Warwickshire which is of most interest – and in particular her own experiences. After writing about an incident in Crick in Northamptonshire in 1953, in which several villagers sighted a UFO, Jean moves on to one of her own experiences not far away.

She said: “Kilsby Lane runs between the villages of Kilsby and Crick not far from the border of Warwickshire. Travelling along this lane, enjoying the lush green landscape, my husband John and I witnessed something that we will never forget. All of a sudden the sky darkened and we were under a very large shadow.

“There was not a cloud in sight, but nonetheless a dark shadow covered the entire car. Looking up and in front of the car, we saw to our amazement an enormous black triangle not 100 metres above us moving slightly upwards at a steep angle.

“It was so wide that it almost touched the hedges on both sides of the road. No sound was emitted from the craft but a sort of vapour trail came from the back or under the triangular shape. I thought it was about to crash into the field on my left, but it hovered with the underside towards us. I saw on the triangle only a smooth surface. I cursed the fact that we did not have a camera with us to record this unusual incident. After a couple of seconds it shot almost vertically into the clear sky and as there were no clouds we could see it clearly as it shot away at an incredible speed. From hovering to disappearing took only seconds.”

Jean’s next encounter she described as “a living nightmare” and she believes something happened that she cannot remember – in all likelihood an alien abduction.

She writes: “On October 3 1994, just before John and I lost power to the engine of our car, the lights went out. On the A5 near to the New Inn, between Daventry, Buckby Wharf and Kilsby, travelling rather more slowly than the noisy heavy lor- ries, we had a very weird experience.”

Jean saw lights in a field to her left, that she assumed were of a tractor working late.

She continued: “Then suddenly our car lights went out. Huge lorries continued to dash past, and I thought we might be hit from behind. Then the radio went dead. Then the engine stopped.”

Fortunately the couple remained safe in the car, during a period when Liz said it felt as if time had stopped and, when they got back, she worked out 20 minutes had been added to their normal journey time, even though their strange episode did not last long.

Jean added: “Then suddenly, with no prompting whatsoever, the radio came into life, startling us, and then the engine started with no one touching any switches. As we gathered our senses and moved off I thought it strange that the tractor had disappeared.”

Liz has a theory that she may have been abducted, in the same way a woman called Elsie Oakensen claims she was outside the village of Stowe Nine Churches in Northamptonshire in November 1978. She feels she will only get the answers if she undergoes hypnosis.

And she says she shares a number of things in common with Elsie Oakensen, who wrote a book about it. Both of them subsequently developed artistic skills and an interest in spiritual things (including crystals and dowsing) and archaeology.

People Must Know the Truth is published by Stockwell and can be ordered at www.ahstockwell.co.uk or by calling 01271 862557.