At approximately 11.30pm I left Alton Barnes, driving towards Honey Street. The weather was wet but not raining.
As I reached Honey Street, I could see some bends in the road ahead, shown by the light from my headlamps. As I neared them, I saw an approaching bright white glow from further down the road, beyond the bends. I assumed this was a car approaching from the opposite direction and slowed down in preparation.
As I neared the bends, a single, bright headlamp raced around the corner in the centre of the road travelling at approx 50-60 mph. I thought it was a motor cycle, although the light seemed lower to the ground than a headlamp. Perhaps a foot to 18inches above the road surface.
Seeing the excessive speed the object was travelling, I actually stopped to allow it to pass me, still assuming it was a motor cycle.
As it became only 10-20 feet in front of me, instead of swerving to go around me, the object suddenly changed direction at a tangent to the ground and flew up and over the roof of my car. As the object flew (approx 10 feet above the roof) so the car stalled. This was not caused by my error as I had stopped and the engine was idling. The car has never stalled in this situation before. Although the engine stalled, presumably due to electrical failure, I did notice that my headlamps remained on during the experience and that I did not notice the brightness drop. As soon as I was aware of what had happened, approx 5-10 seconds after the object flew over the roof, I wound down the window and opened the sunroof to look behind me. The object had totally disappeared. As the object flew over the car, I noticed that, unlike a headlamp which shines light from one side, this object seemed to be emitting light from all angles, although the light was so bright I couldn't make out the shape of the object due to the glow surrounding it.
I then drove back towards Alton Barnes to see if I could see where the object went to, but I did not see it again.
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Dear Paul, I have always been a 100% CC sceptic, i.e., I assume people make them. 21st July 2008, as a diverting amusement returning to London with a hitch-hiker who, fortunately, was a keen video-maker, I stopped at a crop-circle near Alton Barnes and have never really been the same since. At the time I contacted CC people found online, M Glickman was one, and received no response other than links to photographs. I got the impression they didn’t want to hear anything which fell outside the parameters of their experience and expectations. Which I found highly disappointing. People who might be considered nutters perhaps considered I was a nutter. Quite a refreshing experience.
So, would you like to hear what I have to say? I am in fact going to give it as a talk to the annual conference for the International Association for the Study of Dreams, so it touches only very tangentially upon crop circles. I’ve only met 3 in my life on 2 occasions. I am still a total sceptic as to the origin of CCs, although I do think something quite hi-tec might be involved, yet there is no way, in our ordinary understanding, that conscious human choice could account for my experience. Yet I would invoke nothing else. My conclusion is that human beings massively underestimate the power of their being. I do not think other beings are needed, simply other dimensionality of ourselves. And I may be wrong. Almost certain to be. Which is what is so refreshing about being human. Tony Hawkins
I would like to read the Tony Hawkins story...
Hey Paul, your UFO sighting is pretty much like that spielberg's movie: Close Encounters... are you sure that your engine stoped? How did you drove back to London? ;-)
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Dear Paul,
I am a Chinese and I support your work wholeheartedly! I once lost control of my consciousness gradually for the duration of a few days and became crazy and mad and was sent to a hospital. When I recovered from what people thought I was suffered from a mental illness, I told them I had actually had an encounter of the third kind with the holy spirit but people, including my family members, friends and doctors just refused to believe and they laughed me off in a defying manner. And now I understand that even those people believe that there is God, they just ignore Him whenever and wherever they do not need Him. I am not a Christian, I have no religion believe, but I believe and I understand what the real meanings of lessons Jesus had taught in the Bible. There is a Creator of this universe we human beings live in and we are walking on the brink of destruction and desolation now. There are serious warnings given in the Bible but people just do not take heed of them. We human beings are hopeless. It’s really a pity!