In the sparsely populated countryside of West Wiltshire, England, a two-hour drive from London, Warminster is located – a typical quiet and sleepy British countryside with picturesque streets and leisurely locals.
In such towns, as a rule, nothing unusual has been happening for decades, however, since the beginning of the 1960s, Warminster became the epicenter of a series of frightening events, starting with frequent UFO sightings and ending with completely incomprehensible incidents.
Photo: Mike Smith / geograph.org.uk
The UFO phenomenon in those years already spread all over the world and flying saucers were also seen over British cities. However, people were very excited when, in 1961, four Warminster residents immediately said they saw strange “flying cigars” in the sky. These “cigars” left a sheaf of sparks behind them and quickly moved across the sky in different directions.
Similar “cigars” were also seen in subsequent years, but in 1964, when the message about the “flying cigar” was not surprised by any of the local residents, everything went to a new level. At the end of 1964, right on Christmas Day, many Warminster residents were woken up early in the morning by a loud cacophony of strange and eerie sounds.
These sounds varied in description, depending on one or another eyewitness, however, one thing was common – they were very loud. According to one eyewitness, it was as if heavy branches or logs were being dragged along the roof of his house, according to another, it resembled loud knocks with a heavy object again on the roof of the house.
Another woman named Mildred Head said that the ceiling of her house seemed to be bombarded by huge gradients in half with a rattle, as if they were rubbing tile with a stiff brush. And a woman named Marjorie Bai found loud and scary sounds right on the street on the way to church, and the poor woman, from intense fear, entered a state of shock in which she could not move for some time.
At least 30 residents of the city heard loud sounds of unknown origin that came from somewhere above that no logical theory could ever determine the source of this sound.
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In 1965, the strange incidents in Warminster continued. Again, long cigar-shaped UFOs began to fly across the sky, but in the summer a completely different type of UFO began to be observed. On June 3, 1965, 17 city dwellers saw a bright shining object flying across the sky, looking like a “shining star”. The object made a strong humming noise.
On August 17, 1965, an even louder rumble spread throughout Warminster County, which scared a lot of people because it looked like a shock wave from a very powerful bomb explosion. Fears and rumors intensified after someone said that during this noise he saw in the sky “a monstrous orange flame that loudly hissed and crackled.”
In the next few days, several more eyewitness reports were received about a loud, incomprehensible hum, like a shock wave, and then people began to bump into flocks of dead pigeons and other birds lying around here on the ground. Worminster had never seen anything like it before, so there were theories that the very rumble killed the birds.
Then the first people began to appear, complaining of poor health due to a strong hum, as well as victims, who assured that a strong shock wave knocked them down to the ground and they received a lot of bruises.
In 1965, one of the inhabitants of Warminster photographed a typical “flying saucer”
There were also people who said that their cars were breaking from the same shock noise. They simply refused to start after this shock wave swept over them. There were also stories that shockwaves knocked out windows and even damaged the walls of houses.
People were so scared of a series of these phenomena. that on August 27, 1965, a large city meeting was held in the town hall, which was attended by so many people that “the apple had nowhere to fall.” True, instead of reaching a consensus, people after this meeting were even more scared.
The panic was mainly answered by a local resident by the name of David Holton, who said that he saw not only a lot of dead birds killed by a mysterious hum, but also a large number of dead rats that were terribly mutilated by someone or something.
At the same meeting was attended by journalist Arthur Shuttlewood, working for the local Warminster Journal. He became the one thanks to whom detailed records of eyewitnesses in Warminster have survived to this day and who, on the whole, have collected the most materials on this case, which later became known as “The Warminster Thing”.
According to Shuttlewood, he personally interviewed dozens of people who claimed to have seen UFOs, dead birds, and other strange phenomena with their own eyes in the past few years. And after the Shuttlewood published these stories in his newspaper, he began to receive bundles of letters with new and new stories from Warminster. In the end, over a thousand eyewitness accounts were collected, which are now carefully stored in the Shuttlewood personal archive.
Arthur Shuttlewood
Reading these stories, the Shuttle more and more plunged headlong into the world of mysterious phenomena and soon became almost obsessed with this topic. And on September 25, 1965, he said, he received a mysterious phone call from the man who said. that his name is Karn and that he came to Earth from the planet Aestsa (Aestsa).
Even as a UFO believer now, Shuttlewood doubted nonetheless that the caller was an alien. The caller said to this that he could prove it, and at that very moment there was a loud knock now at the door of the Shuttlewood apartment. When the journalist opened the door, on the threshold stood a humanoid humanoid with spotted skin and twitching eyes, in which there were no pupils at all.
The shocked Shuttlewood let the stranger in and for the next couple of hours they had a conversation in which the stranger warned the journalist about the impending catastrophic war in the world and said that humanity was on the shortest path to its death.
The conversation came to an end when the alien began to experience breathing problems, after which he looked at the device on his wrist, probably a watch, and said that it was time for him to leave. He left the apartment, turned left into the corridor, and when Shattwood immediately rushed after him, then there was no one in the corridor. He never met this stranger again.
In the following years, Arthur Shuttlewood devoted his life to mysterious incidents at Warminster, including the release of two books about it. He also assured that he had meetings with several other aliens, but he spoke about this very vaguely and incomprehensibly, which made many suspect him of dishonesty.
Shuttlewood died in 1996 and until his death he continued to be obsessed with ufology.
As for the oddities in Warminster, they abruptly declined after 1965. In 1970, the famous crop circles began to appear there, but this phenomenon soon ceased. Today, Worminster residents continue to report flying saucers from time to time, but this is very rare.
