AudioBlog: PART 3: A 1976 British UFO and Humanoid Encounter With Paranormal Overtones

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”Bowles
and PrattThis is the third part in a series looking at two separate
encounters in Winchester, England, with UFOs and humanoids reported
by two friends, 42-year-old Joyce Bowles and 58-year-old Ted Pratt.
They reported that as Bowles was driving with Pratt in the
passenger seat prior to their first encounter, Bowles’s Cooper Mini
Clubman travelled diagonally as if it was floating after the
steering wheel locked, and the car came to a rest on a strip of
grass (known as a “verge” in England) next to the road. They said
they then saw a craft hovering 18 inches above the ground with 3
humanoids behind a window or windows sitting lined up as if they
were on a bus. A creature left the craft, possibly by walking
through it, came up to the car, and seemed to have put its hand on
the roof as it looked in Bowles’s window. It was said to have been
wearing what looked like a silver “boiler suit” and to have had
long hair that curled up in the back, sideburns that came down to a
pointed beard, and brilliant red eyes with no pupils or irises.
They said that during their second encounter, they found themselves
standing next to Bowles’s car inside what they assumed was a
spaceship. The creatures spoke with them, said they weren’t there
to invade and that they’d be back. Their case got the interest of
researchers from various organizations and there is one article
examining it in the March/April 1977 BUFORA Journal and FOUR
articles in the February 1977, Vol. 22, No. 5 Flying Saucer Review.
In the course of the investigation, it came out that there were
after-effects and that Bowles had a history of reported paranormal
experiences and well as healing and psychic abilities. One of the
researchers, Lionel Beer, reported in his article in the BUFORA
Journal that Bowles’s history made him dubious, but he and the
others didn’t discount her claims, possibly due to the influence
the ideas of John Keel and Jacques Vallée were having on
researchers at the time. Leslie Harris makes a reference to
Vallée’s 1969 book “Passport to Magonia” in his article covering
the case in Flying Saucer Review. Read more