An alien encounter in Phear Park.

[brainpanhandler]

"My dog started to growl when what I can only describe as a white shape came towards us... It was about four-feet high and seemed to be translucent..."


Roy’s picture of the ‘white shape’ that approached him


I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. If I had to draw a picture of what I saw it would be identical in outline form to what Roy drew.

I was somewhere between the age of 5 and 7. When I was this age I had a stagecoach bunkbed. It really was a miniature stagecoach with windows, steps and a door. I slept inside the stagecoach on the bottom bunk which was completely enclosed. I don't recall waking up or why I woke up, but when I awoke this figure was inside the stagecoach with me hovering over me at the foot of the bed. I would describe it as white, vaguely humanoid shaped and variably translucent. I recognized it as an entity. It had a presence as an entity of some sort. I would also describe it as feminine. Not because it had any visibly identifiable feminine features, but somehow I sensed it as feminine. I think it had to do with the way it communicated with me. It was soothing and maternal. I remember being terrified, paralyzed with fear; one of two vivid incidences of sleep paralysis I've had in my life, although niether time was I asleep. I don't recall actually hearing any audible words spoken nor do I recall what was communicated to me, but I do recall that this entity recognized my terror and wanted to lessen it by reassuring me. I don't recall falling asleep or how the encounter ended.

I remembered having this experience when I awoke the next day. I don't think I recalled any more detail then than I do now, but I remember this was a very powerful and vivid experience for me. It was unlike anything else I had ever experienced. I told my mother about it the next day. She does not recall me telling her, but I know I did. I think she just passed it off as a nightmare, which is sensible enough, but if I was dreaming then in my dream I was very vividly awake. I did have lots of recurring nightmares as a kid and I was terrified of the dark and that something was under my bed and in my closet. I mean I certainly had an imagination. And I was prone to sleepwalking. My parents found me in the backyard, sleeping on a lawn chair more than a few times. This experience though was categorically different than anything else I had experienced before or in fact since.

[Simulist]

That's a really interesting account, Brainpanhandler, especially the gender and sense of presence you perceived from it, and the way it communicated with you.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

‘UFO’ over town
devon.editorial@archant.co.uk
10 July 2009

AN EXMOUTH man claims to have seen a UFO - the second spotting in three months and follows a similar sighting in Sidbury two weeks ago.

Plane-spotter Milos Balvim, of Maer Road, was 'amazed' when he saw an object, with clusters of orange lights, travelling towards the town at around 11.20pm, last Thursday. He said it appeared to have moved from the Dawlish area and headed towards Exmouth, flying at one point as low as 150 metres above the ground. The 61-year-old explained he had read reports of an object hovering in the skies over Sandy Bay beach in May, filmed from Devon Cliffs Holiday Park and posted on the internet site You Tube. The sighting was rumoured to be an alien aircraft but was later dismissed as being a Chinese lantern.

Mr Balvim, however, said: "It was definitely not a lantern. I am quite sceptical about those sorts of things because I am an ex-military officer. I am very curious, though, as to what it actually was. At first I thought it may have been a kite. I then thought it could have been a glider but then, on reflection, I dismissed that because they don't tend to fly so close late at night. It was crossing over my house, travelling at the speed of a helicopter. The shape was quite like a Rubik's cube and there was an array of light beaming out. We have just moved to the property we are in at the moment, so, unfortunately, everything is still in boxes and I couldn't get to a camera in time. The fact that it was silent was strange. I am very fond of aviation so I look to the skies a lot, trying to spot planes. I know for a fact, therefore, that it was not a normal aircraft."

As well as Milos, Kim Garbett, 66, from Sidbury, also spotted unusual activity. The retired teacher was with two friends in her garden when she noticed a bright object moving towards her. She said the orange and red light passed by around 11.15pm on Saturday, June 27. She added: "It was travelling about roof height, not terribly fast at first. "It was silent and there was a solid bright light with rays. It looked like a very big star.

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"Phear Park" has just a tinge of the Trickster about it. Lot's of skeptics in Exmouth it seems. Probably couldn't impress any other way.

Thanks for sharing that BPH. I had my own bunkbed encounter at around the same age back in 1967. I think we've talked about that before. Although in my case, I distinctly remember a "little blue doctor". And again, like you, the memory is unlike anything else and something you just never forget.

[Canadian_watcher]

From my perspective as an artist I am intrigued by these 'sketches' and would like to see the originals to determine if any post production touch ups either deliberate or due to image reproduction have occurred.

They aren't really sketches at all (unlike the other image on this thread, which definitely IS a sketch). What Roy Shaw has produced are thoughtful, careful paintings of what he saw. Note the reflection of the coloured lights from the ship onto the ground, the brown outward shadows against SOME of the black lines, and the use of whites in the centres of main objects. Not typical sketching.

I'm not even sure what I'm getting at here but I sense there's more to Mr. Shaw's description of himself as a skeptic than he's letting on. I know few artists who are die-hard rationalists.

[Sepka]

The figure and craft are vaguely reminiscent to me of the Old Saybrook case from 1957. http://www.temporaldoorway.com/mufonct/ ... 571215.htm There too you had a cigar-shaped craft with flashing lights around the rim, although smaller. The figures seen at Old Saybrook were short and blocky, although yellow instead of white. They were also apparently solid, instead of translucent. The Old Saybrook entities also had that weird upraised right arm, which is missing here. (Note that the drawing shows two arms, but the witness only spoke of them having a right arm.)

There's also a case from Georgia, in the mid 60s (and I cannot for the life of me find the reference) that featured a white thing that struck the witness as a robot, with a single pointy 'arm' mounted on the right side. It had a blocky body, with a featureless hump for a head, and was about that same size. The sketch of it (which I can't find ) is almost exactly the shape of this thing, apart from the arm. It also hummed or buzzed, if memory serves, but was definitely solid.

It's worth noting also that southwest England (including Devon) is having a lot of ongoing UFO activity since last May or so.

[MacCruiskeen]

This "my my" thing: would that have been more like "mmmmmmmaaiii mmmmmmmmaaiiii"? In which case, it was a buzzing noise, of the kind often associated with these cases.

Jeff has written about this, but I can't remember in which post[s] exactly.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

This "my my" thing: would that have been more like "mmmmmmmaaiii mmmmmmmmaaiiii"? In which case, it was a buzzing noise, of the kind often associated with these cases.

Jeff has written about this, but I can't remember in which post[s] exactly.

I remember that post and recall that some of it was based on the Darklore essay by Greg Taylor. Worth digging for.

Her Sweet Murmur - Exploring The Aural Phenomenology of Border Experiences (.pdf)

[Crow]

This photo is obviously a cheesy recreation, but the humanoid beings in the Rendlesham Forest case were also reported to be translucent.

[barracuda]

From my perspective as an artist I am intrigued by these 'sketches' and would like to see the originals to determine if any post production touch ups either deliberate or due to image reproduction have occurred.

Yes, it looks as if they are rendered on toothed watercolor paper with washes over the linework.

Some other pictures that put me in the mind of the white shape:

The Solway Firth photograph, 1964



Val Camonica petraglyph, c.10,000 BC

[jingofever]

A similar experience is described here:

1975: Catskill Mts, NY--Two guys decide to get their stresses off their backs for a while with a little heavy beer drinking at a camping ground in the Catskills [this was a "regular" affair for them--nothing like the great outdoors and a six-pack]. They were awakened by a bright light that illuminated even the inside of the tent. Going out to investigate, everything went pitch black. [not THAT again!] Soon they saw a dull glowing object up on the hillside [no roads up there]. Then, what we all love, ghostly-phosphorescent shining entities floating down the hill towards them. A siege mentality arose, with the heroes panicking and lighting fires in the nearby covered picnic area, and generally going nuts. The "ghosts" would come nearer, then retreat for a while. [the picture for this is my drawing above]. During a more "away" period, one guy ran for the car. [he was going to get something to defend themselves]. Ultimately, they decided that all that was foolish [how do you fight ghosts?] and both of them made it to the car and drove home as fast as the bad conditions allowed. This case was used by a researcher as an example of a "missing time" abduction. I have read the transcriptions of the case notes and find NO evidence of any missing time at all. In fact there is nothing about the case that says, necessarily, "UFO". We make a lot of mistakes in my opinion cramming things into ready-made hypotheses, and it gets us into all manner of trouble [in the field and out].

In his drawing, Michael Swords describes the entities as, "greenish-phosphor tinged ghost like creatures." Is that a yellowish-greenish aura surrounding the Phark Park entities in the drawing above?

[MacCruiskeen]

Barracuda, thanks for the reminder of the Solway Firth incident. That photo is really uncanny (the size, proportions and angle of the figure, more than anything else), and I've yet to hear a remotely plausible explanation of it. The photographer Jim Templeton also strikes me as honest and trustworthy. Here's a brief TV interview with him, 44 years on:



At the end, the camera crew revisits the spot where he photographed his daughter. The place is so flat, open, empty and treeless that I just cannot imagine the "spaceman" was a passer-by who wandered, unnoticed, into the shot.