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‘There are overlaps between UFO
experiences and apparitional experi-
ences. According to reports, UFOs
can suddenly appear and disappear,
change shape, split into different
parts, or join up with one another.
‘They seemingly come in a variety of
shapes and sizes; and not all UFOs
display clearly defined edges. Alien
entities allegedly exhibit strange
characteristics, too, such as an ability
to appear, uninvited, in people's bed-
rooms. Ghosts and apparitions also
take a variety of forms and can
appear and disappear capriciously, as
in the following case, which was
reported to me by Jim, a retired civil
engineer,
‘The incident occurred in 1994. At the
time, Jim was working in the Middle
East and staying in a hotel. He awoke
one night, sensing a presence. The
atmosphere felt cold. He switched on
the bedside light and saw a man of
Indian appearance standing at the
end of his bed, looking in his direc-
tion. The figure appeared quite sol
but it turned round and walked
through the wall forming the gable
end of the building! About a year
later, another engineer, sleeping in a
bedroom adjacent to the suite that
Jim had occupied, awoke to see a
man of Indian appearance standing
at the end of his bed.
‘The figure turned and walked
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through the wall separating the bed-
room from the suite that Jim had
used,
‘There are reports of inanimate
objects, such as ears and aircraft,
appearing in apparitional form,’ The
following case was brought to my
attention a few years ago and I dis
cussed it with one of the witnesses
(the woman referred to below).
The incident occurred in the Scottish
Highlands in late 1945. A naval offi-
cer and his wife were being driven
from Aultbea to Inverness. The offi-
cer's wife was sitting beside the driv-
er. They were on a long stretch of
road, with moorland on either side,
when a large vehicle with big, blazing
headlights was seen approaching
But it was then obscured by a small
S-bend, with rocky outcrops on both
sides. The driver of the Inverness-
bound vehicle pulled into a passing
place and waited for a while, but
nothing happened, so he pulled out
cautiously and negotiated the bend.
Along, straight road lay ahead, with
no sign of the oncoming vehicle.
Unlike his wife and their driver, the
naval officer hadn't seen the oncom-
ing vehicle. At the time, he was lean-
ing forward, talking to the other two.
Was he unable to see the vehicle, or
had he simply not noticed it?
‘There are also cases in which poten-
tial witnesses seem to have been,
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unaware of a UFO in their vicinity.
Ron Halliday describes an experience
that befell a man called ‘Tom
Coventry in Glasgow in December,
1983. Having set out for work
around 6.25 a.m., Coventry was wait-
ing at a bus stop when he noticed a
distant, aerial object coming towards
him at a low altitude. Initially, he
took it to be an aireraft moving in a
wide arc. Then he noticed spurts of
flame issuing from its rear. As the
object got near, he realized it wasn't
a plane. Things began to go quiet
around him. The UFO had come
directly above him and was hovering
no more than 20 feet away. It was
srey, shaped like a railway carriage
and had a curved roof. Crackling and
humming sounds came from it. It
had three windows at the front,
shaped like port-holes, through
which Coventry saw yellow smoke
swirling inside. Ambient sounds
returned when the object started
moving off slowly towards a nearby
railway bridge. After stopping there
for a second, the UFO shot up verti-
cally. Then it headed across the city
and disappeared in the distance. The
object was still visible when a bus
arrived, but no one else seemed to
notice the UFO. 2
Of course, a sceptic might surmise
that these incidents involved faulty
observation or misinterpretation.
Regarding the incident in the
Highlands, for example, it might be
suggested that the oncoming vehicle
had made a 180-degree turn and had
then driven away unnoticed, so that
it was out of sight by the time the
Inverness-bound party emerged from
the S-bend. And regarding the
strange object seen over Glasgow, a
debunker might suggest that the wit-
ness had misperceived a helicopter!
Hallucinations and Collective
Hallucinations
Another possibility is that the ghostly
man seen in the hotel, the appari-
tional vehicle seen in the Highlands,
and the unusual aerial object seen in
Glasgow, were hallucinations. That
idea certainly has some appeal. For
example, if Tom Coventry was hallu-
cinating, there's no mystery about
the fact that no one else seemed to
notice the UFO. And if the ghost
seen in the hotel was hallucinatory,