Modern Britain's First Alien Abduction

The first publicised alien abduction story was that of Antônio Villas Boas, who was abducted on October 16, 1957 - and he was shortly followed by Betty and Barney Hill on September 19, 1961 - whose account kickstarted the modern interest in alien abduction stories. However, if the claims of one British man are to be believed, then it was neither North America nor Brazil that played host to the first ever modern alien abduction incident. No, instead it was a small island in the North Atlantic Ocean by the name of Great Britain.

## The Secret Weapon

It was September of 1942, and Albert Lancashire was posted at a wartime sentry box at the secret Cresswell Radar Station in its namesake parish on the Northumberland Coast. It was late one Summer evening, and he was standing guard in his box when he suddenly felt '*a strange impulse*' that compelled him to look up at the sky. As he looked up at the clouds, he could see something strange floating over the North Sea. It was a glowing light, surrounded by a dark mist of some description. His mind immediately leapt to this being a new German weapon of some horrible variety - and he was just about to raise the alarm to this effect when a beam of yellow light shot out from the cloud-like object. A floating sensation came over him - and then his next conscious memory was being back at the sentry box, lying on the ground and in a confused state.

According to Jenny Randles - who spoke to the witness - there was '*no obvious time loss involved*'. Throughout the next few decades, Albert started to gain psychic abilities. He would become aware of extrasensory perception, and would see some nondescript apparitions. Trying to rationalise what had happened to him in 1942, he eventually assigned religious connotations to the bizarre event. He would sometimes tell friends about his experience, presumably much to their curiosity and bemusement.

October, 1967. Britain was in the midst of a wave of UFO sightings - and it seems that whoever or whatever was behind Albert's unearthly 1942 experience decided to pay him a visit as part of this flap. Albert now worked as a signalman for the railways of Ashton-Under-Lyne, and his signal-box was buzzed by white lights in the sky. This seemed only to further awaken whatever it was that was taking root in Albert's life, seeing as poltergeist activity commenced at his home - and he started to have strange dreams which he would later realise probably constituted memories of what had happened after he had been hit by the yellow beam in his 1942 encounter. He could remember waking up in a strange room with a '*couch or bed*' and a female entity resembling an Asian woman. There were also dwarfish beings he referred to as '*pygmy men*' and human-sized creatures wearing white suits. He could also recall being examined on the bed he had seen before by a being wearing a surgical mask. Unfortunately, as he told Jenny Randles, this is all that he can remember of the experience. Perhaps a hypnosis session would have been helpful? The full story of this event will unfortunately likely never be recovered.

## Source

*Early 20th Century UFO Encounters* on www.wunderkabinett.co.uk

 'The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions' by Jenny Randles