UFO Landings in the United Kingdom with Philip Mantle

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A forestry worker in Scotland was attacked by spiked balls from a UFO, leading to the only official forensic police investigation in the UK.

The story starts with a private document, not a public claim. After the Covid lockdown ended, a visitor brought the guest memoirs written by his wife's father, a mining engineer from a coal mining area. The papers had barely gone anywhere. About ten copies were made for family, which makes the account feel tucked away rather than sold. Most of the memoir covered normal life. One section looked back at childhood. Another covered mining engineering, which the family contact admitted was dreadfully boring unless technical detail was your thing. Then came the chapter called "the encounter." It was the biggest chapter in the memoir, and it described something the writer said happened when he was nine years old, in 1911. He and a friend were walking to a local park when they reached a clearing. On the ground, according to the memoir, was a cigar-shaped thing. It opened as they came closer. Inside were humanoid beings, described in a way the speaker says might now be called Asian, with colored clothing and headgear like a turban. The children talked with them. Then the beings left. The boy told his parents later, and they apparently did nothing. That quiet aftermath is part of the oddness. The host sounds plainly surprised. The guest treats the memoir as a strange, unresolved piece of the trail. No one forces a verdict. The case stays close, but not close enough to grab.

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A private 1911 encounter gives a family memoir the charge of an unresolved UFO case.

Philip's interview is strongest when it stays close to the family record at its center: a privately printed memoir by his wife's father, a mining engineer recalling a childhood encounter in 1911.

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You get a 1911 UFO encounter preserved in a rare family memoir, with almost no public trace beyond the story itself.

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