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Speaker 1: Ferries from a Ufo by UFO history buff and author

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Charles Lear. In nineteen sixty nine, Passport to Magonia by

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Jacques Valet was published. Its central thesis is that there

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may be a link between folklore, particularly stories of the fayfolk,

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and Ufo lore. In the volume twenty five, number six, issue,

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page twenty five of the PDF of Flying Saucer Review,

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there is an article by Eileen Morris headlined the Winged

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Beings of Bluestone Walk, covering a case that certainly seems

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to support Valet's ideas, according to Morris. A necessarily brief

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version of the story told by Jeane Hingley, first appeared

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in the January twelfth, nineteen seventy nine edition of the

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Dudley Herald. She says she met Hingley and her husband

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a number of times, both at their residence and at

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her own, and describes them as honest, hardworking people. She

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took notes and used them to type up Hingley's version

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of events, and then had Hingley read it. Hingley was

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satisfied that it is accurate. According to the account, written

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as if Hingley was telling it in the first person,

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she lived in a small council house in Bluestone Walk, Rowley, Regis,

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near Birmingham, with her husband, Cyril, and their alsatian Hobo

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on January fourth, nineteen seventy nine. It was a cold,

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dark morning and there was snow on the ground as

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she saw her husband off to his job at a

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cement works. She worked at a company that made soundproofing

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for cars. She was at the back door of the

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house that opened out to the road, and as her

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husband drove off, she noticed a light from the area

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of the garden. Thinking her husband had left the light

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on in the car port on the other side of

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the garden, she walked over to it with the dog

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to check and saw that the light was off. She

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turned to go back to the house and saw an

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orange light over the garden that turned white and lit

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up the whole area. She went into the house through

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the back door and there was a sound like z

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z z as three beings floated through the door and

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went past her. The creatures were between three and four

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feet tall, glowed brilliantly, had wonderful wit, and were about

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a foot above the floor. Hingley was terrified and grabbed

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onto the steel sink in the kitchen. She was frozen

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with her mouth wide open and unable to speak. The

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dog went over to his water bowl, swaying from side

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to side. His hair was sticking out like a hedgehog's,

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and he seemed as if he was drugged. He then

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lay down on the floor, stiff, with his eyes open.

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After a while, the fear seemed to go away, and

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Hingley felt as if she was lifted up. She felt

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like a different person, as if she was in heaven,

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and seemed to float into the lounge. She was warm,

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even though the doors were wide open. She was blinded

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by a bright light and covered her eyes. It seemed

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to her that the creatures were reading her mind. It

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was like a light or an X ray penetrating my mind.

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She could hear their artificial Christmas tree shaking. She took

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her hand from her eyes and could see the creatures

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shaking the tree. The light surrounding them was dimmer, as

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if they had turned it down. They were slim men

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and were wearing silvery green tunics and silver waistcoats with

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silver buttons or press studs. They had pointed hands and

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feet covered with the same silvery green, and wore pointed caps,

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also of that color, with something like a lamp on top.

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Covering their heads were transparent helmets. Their faces were waxy

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white and corpse like, and they had black diamond eyes

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and thin mouths. Their wings were large and oval shaped,

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glowed with rainbow colors, and were covered with dots Hingely

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describes as being like rail dots. The creatures floated around

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and touched everything in the lounge. Hingeley was finally able

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to speak and said, three of you and one of me,

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what are you going to do? What do you want

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with me? The creatures all touched the buttons on their chests,

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and their voices then seemed to come from there. They

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all spoke together and said we shall not harm you.

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And when Hineley asked where they came from, they said,

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we come from the sky. The creatures shook the tree

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again and the little fairy fell from the top. Hingeley

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wanted to pick it up, but wasn't able to move.

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She explained about the tree, Christmas and Jesus, and the

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creatures said they knew who Jesus was. Hingely saw the

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creatures looking at the honor list in the Sunday paper

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on the table. She explained that the people listed had

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been made lords, and the creatures replied, there is only

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one lord. Hingeley then told them she was just a

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working woman and suggested that they should go see the

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queen or a real lady. They said, you are a lady.

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The creatures then sat on the couch and bounced like children,

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causing Hingeley to say in a sharp tone, be careful

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of the furniture. They put the light up, and she

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became concerned that they had the power to hurt her,

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and she felt she should be friendly. She said, I

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can't call you creature, so I shall call you gentlemen.

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She started to say nice to see you. Nice. They replied,

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saying nice. The creatures floated around the room with their

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wings fluttering gently and made no sound. They went through

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a door and folded their wings behind their backs like

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pleated fans, went upstairs and then came back. They picked

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up some tapes, looked at cigarette packs, whiskey and sherry

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on the sideboard, and Hingeley asked, do you want to drink?

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They replied saying water three times. Hingeley went and filled

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four glasses so she could drink with them and show

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that the water wasn't poison. When she brought the glasses

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in on a tray. It felt as though the tray

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was magnetized towards them. They took the glasses, seemed about

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to lift their helmets, and then put the power light on,

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so she wasn't able to see them drink. When they

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put the glasses back, they were empty. A long discussion

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then followed, in which the creatures told Hingeley they'd been

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to Australia and New Zealand to talk to people there,

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and no one seemed to be interested. Hingeley asked if

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she should tell people on Earth about it, and they

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said yes. They told Hingeley that everyone goes to heaven

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and it's a man world, and Hineley said she hadn't

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been to Chapel for a year or two. They said

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there was no need to worship in synagogues, and Hingeley

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tells the reader that she didn't know the word for

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the Jewish place of worship until her husband told her.

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Hingeley then offered the creatures some mince pies, and they

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each lifted a mince pie from the plate as though

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their hands were magnetic. Hingeley saw they were looking at

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the cigarettes again, and she decided to demonstrate how people

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smoke them. When she lit one with a match, the

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creatures leapt back as if they were scared, and then

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floated out the door. Hingeley put out the cigarette and

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ran after them, asking them to come back outside. She

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saw them, still holding the mince pies, get into an

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orange cigar shaped craft that was eight to ten feet

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long and about four feet high. It seemed to be

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covered with shiny plastic, had portholes, a scorpion tail on

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the back, and a kind of wheel on top. Once

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inside the ship, they flashed the lights twice and took off,

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heading towards Oldbury. In the aftermath, Hingeley found that the

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tapes the creatures had touched were ruined by distortion. She

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was left with sore eyes for a week and had

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to wear dark glasses. She felt ill and had to

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take a leave from work. As strange as the story is,

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Morris assures the reader that Hingeley told it to people

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from the following organizations who went to her house, the

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Oldbury Police, the West Bromwich Police, and the UFO Studies

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Investigation Services. The case is mentioned in Northern UFO News

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number fifty seven, page four of the PDF, and the

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reader is told that the case is being investigated by

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UFO s I S and U f O R A

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under the supervision of Mark Pritchard and Martin Keatman, and

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that landing marks in the snow were seen and photographed.

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Charles Lear is the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators

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on Amazon dot com.