| ID | #1636459873 |
| Added | Tue, 09/11/2021 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Status | Research
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It was a quiet morning in the early summer of 1978. The sun had just set over the horizon, and the clouds of coastal fog began to slowly turn into a soft haze, foreshadowing a hot day.
As on any other summer morning, Gill Wilson [alias] woke up early. Knowing that she would not fall asleep again, she thought she would enjoy a cigarette in the silence of the morning scene around her Grandes Rocques house.
She opened the bedroom window so as not to disturb her sleeping and non-smoking husband.
"I looked at the sky," she says. "There were no clouds around, and I saw that today would be a wonderful day."
The image of what she saw then has remained with her to this day, to such an extent that she is afraid to go out in the early morning.
"In the air, quite far away, I saw a bright golden light. He was flying from north to south from Grand Rock, very slowly. It was lower than Aurigny's plane."
The round object was in her field of vision for about 20 minutes before it disappeared from her field of vision, which allowed Mrs. Wilson to get a good look at it.
"He stopped quite often and just hung in the air. When he stopped, he was releasing some material. It wasn't smoke or steam. It was thick and gray, and "churned". I couldn't make out where it all came from. It wasn't from the front or the back, so I assumed it came from the sides. There was noise, but it was very high and barely audible - a bit like a generator, but audible from afar."
Watching this, she wondered what kind of strange object it was. A balloon? A helicopter? A plane? Every time she asked herself a question, she gave herself the same answer: "No."
She did not have a camera at hand, and she was so fascinated by this subject that she did not even think to wake her sleeping husband. She just sat and watched and thought.
When the object passed by her house, she had a good look at its back side.
"I saw that the object had no edges, but its back was glowing bright red, with three black circles in the middle. I was tempted to go outside so he could see me, to see what would happen, but I was scared, so I didn't. I watched him until he disappeared, over the top of the Mare Forest."
She notes that all the "flying saucers" we read about are described as moving "flat side down", but it was more like a saucer on the edge.
After the UFO disappeared, a strange blue-gray substance remained in the sky. It was still there when Mrs. Wilson returned to bed, but disappeared when she got up later.
"I'd like to see it again," she says, "but I know I'd be scared."
She kept her strange experience mostly to herself, trusting only those she trusted. One of them was a close friend to whom she told about her appearance a few months later.
Her friend also had something to tell. Early one morning, she and her husband were in a boat going fishing from L'ancress. Both of them saw a red disk in the sky, slowly moving in the direction of Grand Rock.
It didn't take long for both women to realize that their observations occurred at about the same time, on the same day.
Original news
Source: Mark Ogier, Guernsey Evening Press (Guernsey, England), Jan. 12, 1993
'Gill,' like her UFO, was on edge!
IT WAS a quiet morning in early summer, 1978. The sun had just crept above the horizon, and puffs of coastal mist had begun their slow transformation into the mellow haze that foretold a hot day.
As on many other summer mornings, Gill Wilson [not her real name] was awake early. Knowing that she would not get back to sleep, she thought she would enjoy a cigarette in the peace of the early morning scene around her Grandes Rocques home.
She opened her bedroom window to avoid disturbing her sleeping - and non-smoking - husband. "I looked up at the sky," she says. "There were no clouds about, and I could see it was going to be a lovely day."
by Mark Ogier
The image of what she then saw has remained with her to this day, to the extent that she is wary of going out in the early morning.
"In the air, quite a way away, I saw a bright golden light. It was travelling north to south from Grandes Rocques, going very slowly. It was lower than a Aurigny plane."
The circular object was in her view for around 20 minutes before it vanished from her sight, allowing Mrs Wilson to get a good look at it.
"It stopped quite often, and just hung in the air. As it stopped, it let out some stuff. It wasn't smoke, nor steam. It was thick and grey, and "fluffed out". I couldn't make out where this stuff was coming from."
"It wasn't from the front, or the back, so I presumed it came from the sides. There was a noise, but it was very high pitched and only just audible - a bit like a generator but heard from a distance."
As she watched, she speculated as to what the odd object might be. A balloon? A helicopter? A plane? Each time she asked herself the question, the answer she gave herself was the same: "No way."
She had no camera handy, and was so entranced by the object that she did not think to wake her slumbering husband. She simply sat and watched and pondered.
As the object passed by her home, she got a good look at its rear side. "I could see the object had no edges, but the back of it was brightly glowing red, with three black circles in the middle."
"I was tempted to go outside so it could see me, to see what would happen, but I got scared so I didn't. I watched it until it disappeared, over the top of the Mare woods."
She notes that all the 'flying saucers' one reads about are described as travelling 'flat side down', but this looked more like a saucer on its edge.
After the UFO disappeared, the odd blue/grey substance remained in the sky. It was still there when Mrs Wilson returned to bed, but had vanished when she rose later on.
"I would love to see it again," she says, "But I know I would be frightened."
She kept her odd experience mostly to herself, confiding only in people she trusted. One of these was a close friend, whom she told about her sighting, some months later.
Her friend had a tale to tell, too. Early one morning she and her husband had been in their boat, setting out from L'Ancresse on a fishing trip. Both of them saw a red disc in the sky, moving slowly in the direction of Grandes Rocques.
It did not take the two women long to realise that their sightings had occurred at roughly the same time, on the same day.
Jill Wilson's drawing of a mysterious object that she and a friend saw in the early summer morning a few years ago. (Source: Guernsey Evening Press)
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