2/25/2023 0 Comments Porthole pub![]() ![]() He recalls no sound or movement, and cannot remember what happened to them, although he says he did not report them and carried on with his holiday. He climbs a mound to get a better view and walks towards them, noticing one of the lights getting brighter “as if it had seen him”. The next days pass without incident, but early in the morning of the 20th, at around 5.30am when he is making a cup of tea, Terry reports seeing three lights on or near the ground in the field in front of him. At that point his account hints at previous UFO sightings, as he says he thought what he saw might be “one of the objects I had previously seen at Warminster”. He tells how on April 17, which was Good Friday, he arrived in a field near the sea at Budleigh Salterton, and set up camp near an old hut where he made a fire.Īt 10pm, he reports hearing a loud ‘bang’ and rushes out of the tent, then sees what he describes as a white light moving slowly across the fields and sea. The magazine article explains that Terry was on a five-day solo camping holiday in Devon in the spring of 1981 when his apparent close encounter happened. Read more: Researchers find possible new link between Dartmoor and Stonehenge He sent it to a series of UFO study groups, and it was eventually picked up to be investigated by the Plymouth UFO Investigation Centre which handled cases in Devon and Cornwall. The central figure in the case, given the name Terry to protect his identity, produced a 4,500 word account of his experience. ![]() The 22-page magazine contains a series of features, including an exhaustive study of crop circles, and an account of a ‘UFO car chase’ through the Wiltshire countryside.Īnd under the label ‘Case Closed’, it gives a detailed account of the Budleigh Salterton incident and what happened afterwards. The article appears in the October 1983 edition of Probe Report, the Journal of UFO Investigation, which is marked as the final issue due to the closure of the organisation. Now more details have come to light with the discovery of an account of the case in a UFO investigation magazine published two years later. The long-forgotten story of the sighting, and a series of strange happenings that followed, was retold on Devon Live in the summer, more than 40 years after the reported events near the Devon coast in the spring of 1981. The mysterious case of a reported encounter with a UFO in a field near Budleigh Salterton, which turned out not to be what it seemed, has shed light on the twilight world of the dedicated band of UFO investigators. ![]()
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