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Lots of coverage in oie 2 " é cr re rery FN aru eee tn) Sie al Pe at MR Cc ee Re ere and Steve Johnson and lots more... world for two lucky readers. See page 53a) el Bal) Ar eur ‘There are overlaps between UFO experiences and apparitional experi- ences. According to reports, UFOs can suddenly appear and disappear, change shape, split into different parts, or join up with one another. ‘They seemingly come in a variety of shapes and sizes; and not all UFOs display clearly defined edges. Alien entities allegedly exhibit strange characteristics, too, such as an ability to appear, uninvited, in people's bed- rooms. Ghosts and apparitions also take a variety of forms and can appear and disappear capriciously, as in the following case, which was reported to me by Jim, a retired civil engineer, ‘The incident occurred in 1994. At the time, Jim was working in the Middle East and staying in a hotel. He awoke one night, sensing a presence. The atmosphere felt cold. He switched on the bedside light and saw a man of Indian appearance standing at the end of his bed, looking in his direc- tion. The figure appeared quite sol but it turned round and walked through the wall forming the gable end of the building! About a year later, another engineer, sleeping in a bedroom adjacent to the suite that Jim had occupied, awoke to see a man of Indian appearance standing at the end of his bed. ‘The figure turned and walked Bes de through the wall separating the bed- room from the suite that Jim had used, ‘There are reports of inanimate objects, such as ears and aircraft, appearing in apparitional form,’ The following case was brought to my attention a few years ago and I dis cussed it with one of the witnesses (the woman referred to below). The incident occurred in the Scottish Highlands in late 1945. A naval offi- cer and his wife were being driven from Aultbea to Inverness. The offi- cer's wife was sitting beside the driv- er. They were on a long stretch of road, with moorland on either side, when a large vehicle with big, blazing headlights was seen approaching But it was then obscured by a small S-bend, with rocky outcrops on both sides. The driver of the Inverness- bound vehicle pulled into a passing place and waited for a while, but nothing happened, so he pulled out cautiously and negotiated the bend. Along, straight road lay ahead, with no sign of the oncoming vehicle. Unlike his wife and their driver, the naval officer hadn't seen the oncom- ing vehicle. At the time, he was lean- ing forward, talking to the other two. Was he unable to see the vehicle, or had he simply not noticed it? ‘There are also cases in which poten- tial witnesses seem to have been, 3 unaware of a UFO in their vicinity. Ron Halliday describes an experience that befell a man called ‘Tom Coventry in Glasgow in December, 1983. Having set out for work around 6.25 a.m., Coventry was wait- ing at a bus stop when he noticed a distant, aerial object coming towards him at a low altitude. Initially, he took it to be an aireraft moving in a wide arc. Then he noticed spurts of flame issuing from its rear. As the object got near, he realized it wasn't a plane. Things began to go quiet around him. The UFO had come directly above him and was hovering no more than 20 feet away. It was srey, shaped like a railway carriage and had a curved roof. Crackling and humming sounds came from it. It had three windows at the front, shaped like port-holes, through which Coventry saw yellow smoke swirling inside. Ambient sounds returned when the object started moving off slowly towards a nearby railway bridge. After stopping there for a second, the UFO shot up verti- cally. Then it headed across the city and disappeared in the distance. The object was still visible when a bus arrived, but no one else seemed to notice the UFO. 2 Of course, a sceptic might surmise that these incidents involved faulty observation or misinterpretation. Regarding the incident in the Highlands, for example, it might be suggested that the oncoming vehicle had made a 180-degree turn and had then driven away unnoticed, so that it was out of sight by the time the Inverness-bound party emerged from the S-bend. And regarding the strange object seen over Glasgow, a debunker might suggest that the wit- ness had misperceived a helicopter! Hallucinations and Collective Hallucinations Another possibility is that the ghostly man seen in the hotel, the appari- tional vehicle seen in the Highlands, and the unusual aerial object seen in Glasgow, were hallucinations. That idea certainly has some appeal. For example, if Tom Coventry was hallu- cinating, there's no mystery about the fact that no one else seemed to notice the UFO. And if the ghost seen in the hotel was hallucinatory,