Mine and my Dad's UFO experiences.

I wanted to offer up some details about the separate UFO experiences that myself and my Dad had.

I have briefly mentioned these experiences when being interviewed about my book - The Mars Migration - but you don’t really have enough time during some of these interviews to think on the spot and get everything out there that you want to say. So I thought I might use this platform to say a bit more than I can in interviews, so here goes.

Growing up, my Dad mentioned his UFO experience, he didn’t go on and on about it, but it did come up from time to time. We (myself, my brother and friends) might say things on hearing the story, something like “Yeah, yeah.” Or “Honestly, did this actually happen?” Obviously we were young, and you took certain things with a pinch of salt when you were younger. Or may not have fully appreciated someone's experience. 

Believe this or not, I can categorically say without any doubt, that anyone that knew my Dad, would say highest amongst his endearing qualities, was that he was an honest, genuine man. Something that I try my utmost to live up to in my older years.

His experience would have been before myself and my younger Brother came along, we’re talking around 1976/1977 here. (I was born in 1979)

I won’t try to simulate his experience with a drawing, it would be a total guess and that's not fair on you. I will just present you with the facts that I have. Unfortunately my Dad is no longer with us, so I can’t elaborate or check on anything now.

The story goes, he had left my Nan’s house early on the morning, where he and my Mom had been living until they were able to purchase their own house. My Nan’s house was on Alumwell Road, not far from junction ten of the M6 motorway, Walsall. So, he was standing, waiting for his morning lift to work, when he says that a saucer shaped craft appeared. This craft was wider than the street he was standing on. It went from rooftop on one side of the road, to the rooftops on the other side. I have google mapped the spot that based on the information, would have put it about here:

I am certain this is the spot, the reasons being, that my Nan’s house is just up on the left, a couple of houses down, and on the right, are some retirement flats, where he said that an older lady came out, either taking her rubbish out or collecting her milk, or something like that, and also saw the craft.

As you can see, the street is quite a wide one, imagine this thing from the rooftops on the left, across to the rooftops of the flats on the right. This thing was massive.

He says that different, but recognisable colours, circled the edge of the saucer, “came down onto the road, and then bounced back up to the craft”

He describes wanting to run back to the house to tell my Mom, who would have still been in bed, but being unable to move. He also says that the old lady across the road, also looked frozen to the spot.

My Mom says that in the days following, there had been other people that had seen it. (obviously being as big as it was, I would have hoped that other people had seen it) And that there was lots of discussion about it in their local pub - The Belle Vue, on Moat Road by the Manor Hospital.

As for my Dad’s experience, you now know as much as me.

Fast forward to around (I’m sorry, I was young, so can only guess at this) 1989, it could have been anytime between 1989 and 1991, I’m guessing this as I was with my brother, and my best friend Dean. Unfortunately as me and Dean went to different secondary schools, it was around this time that we started to drift apart. That being said, around the ages of 9 to 11, we used to love just hanging around at the back of some flats on the Wolverhampton Road.

I have done another Google map image below, to show where my UFO experience was (In Red) compared to where my Dad’s experience was (In Green). Close weren’t they?

It sounds random — to be hanging around at the back of some flats — it was nothing dodgy, don’t worry, but surrounding these flats were concrete and grass slopes, so we used to love to ride our bmx/mountain bikes behind here.

I remember, it was late in the evening, we would be starting to make our way home soon. My memory is a bit sketchy here, but anyway this is how I remember it. One of us looked up and saw something in the sky. Dismissed at first as possibly just a plane, but as it stayed there for a while, it drew our attention a little more. It remained there for a good couple of minutes — enough time to ask each other if any of us knew what it was, strangely my younger Brother now says that he didn’t see it, but remembers me and Dean staring up at something. After we had decided that we couldn’t match it to anything that we knew of, myself and Dean put our right hand across our chest and started to sing “God save the Queen.”

This is what it looked like: (Not a photo, just a mock up, that I made on paint)

If you look towards the top right, you can see what I remember seeing. I describe it as looking like a double decker bus high up in the sky. Just white lights in two rows. Because it was just white lights against the dark sky, I couldn’t see in any further detail, what they belonged to.

So, it hovered there for a while, but then it seemed to tilt slightly so that its left hand side dipped down a little, its right hand side went up, and then it shot off, diagonally upward, visible for only the first half a second or so — if that, then it was gone.

Again, there was some corroboration the next day. It must have been during the school holidays, and on Wednesday, as on a Thursday, my Nan and Grandad would take me and my brother on the bus to Bilston Market. Then we would jump back on the bus and go to my Auntie Margaret’s house, on Hill Road, Willenhall. Near the Grapes pub. After excitedly telling her about my experience, she explained that one of her local friends had been telling her, that she had also seen something that night.

So, there you have it. Mine and my Dad’s UFO experiences, I would love to hear about yours, if you have one. People have already started sending me video's on Instagram - I love that.

Also, if you are local, and saw, or have any memories of one of mine or my Dad’s suspected UFO’s (or UAP’s as they are now) Please do get in touch.

I would say that these experiences helped influence my book, my interest in UFO’s and what else is out there has always been there. But I would say my main influences for the book would have been the amazing science fiction films that I grew up watching. Things like: The Thing, Aliens, 2001: A Space odyssey, Close encounters of the third kind, E.T, Star Wars and Back to the Future.

Thank you for reading, and don’t forget to look up.

Wayne.

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